Berlin 2005 – wissenschaftliches Programm

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AKI: Information

AKI 1: Wissenschaftliches Publizieren und Kommunizieren

AKI 1.1: Hauptvortrag

Samstag, 5. März 2005, 10:30–11:15, TU MA141

Scientific publication since Einstein: developments and challenges — •Martin Blume — Editor-in-Chief, American Physical Society,Ridge, NY 11961

Einstein’s famous 1905 articles on relativity, Brownian motion, and the photoeffect were published in Annalen der Physik, one of a long line of print journals going back to the 1665 Philosophical Transactions and extending to the present day. Until a decade ago the print journal was the only medium in which scientific results were communicated, and while the physics in the journals of the last decade would have astonished the first readers of Einstein’s papers they would have been comfortable with the print medium still in use. The past ten years have, however, seen a revolution in the distribution of scientific results that could hardly have been imagined earlier. This electronic revolution, which required the world wide web and the desktop computer is still underway, and the end is not yet in full sight. In this presentation examples will be given of some of the developments that are changing the landscape of scientific discourse. Many challenges, such as the sustainability of peer review in the face of the growth of the literature and the readability of the electronic literature in the future will also be considered.