Library science

World Wide Web

Engineering

Scientific communication

Scholarly communication

The Internet

Computer science

Mechanical engineering

Digital era

Publication

Scientific publishing

Political science

Work (physics)

Peer review

Electronic publishing

Publishing

Open Science Journal

In the digital era in which over 4 billion people regularly access the internet, the conventional process of publishing scientific articles in academic journals following peer review is undergoing profound changes. Following physics and mathematics scholars who started to publish their work on the freely accessible arXiv server in the early 1990s, researchers of all disciplines increasingly publish scientific articles in the form of freely accessible and fully citeable preprints before or in parallel to conventional submission to academic journals for peer review. The full transition to open science, I argue in this study, requires to expand the education of students and young researchers to include scholarly communication in the digital era.

Publishing scientific articles in the digital era