Not-so-Modest Proposals: What do we want our system of scholarly communication to look like in 2010?

kairosnews.org pointed the way to Not-so-Modest Proposals: What do we want our system of scholarly communication to look like in 2010?, a paper given by John M. Unsworth at the CIC Summit on Scholarly Communication.

They propose that “digital by default” is the future of scholarly communication: almost all scholarship is already born digital, no matter how it is eventually published. Moreover, a decade from now, they say, it’s quite reasonable to assume that computational methods will have penetrated the humanities and social sciences to the point that there will be many research projects that require electronic dissemination.