Exploring The Costs And Benefits Of The Journals Model Scholarly Communication System

In scientific development process the scholarly communication system is the main form and important way to deliver scientific research, knowledge utilization. In order to maximize the benefits for publishers to improve the subscription costs of academic journals caused crisis, researchers and other stakeholders have realized that sustainable development of scholarly communication is imperative. And as a special material products academic journals recording, disseminating and accumulating current knowledge, is the core of scholarly communication activities. This paper is based on a variation of the academic journals, refined scholarly communication process of the main activities of the project, established life cycle model of journals model scholarly communication, and analyzed the costs-benefits.By studying the current situation of the domestic and foreign journals model scholarly communication system and costs-benefits analysis, summarized the definition research contents, and other areas of research of domestic and international journals model scholarly communication system and costs-benefits, further description the necessity of costs-benefits analysis of journals model scholarly communication system.Through a detailed study of published in the form of changes in academic journals, widely refer to scholarly communication system, further the activities of the life cycle of the journal model scholarly communication in detail discussion of extended the process of the journal model scholarly communication, and laid a theoretical basis to study of costs-benefits analysis.On the basis of detailed analysis of major players costs-benefits of various elements in journal model scholarly communication process, discussed in detail the major sources of cost and revenue model in journal publishing of scholarly communication process and other content,the next step provide sufficient information to establish costs-benefits formula. In order to make more accurate costs-benefits formulas simple and available, introduced a large number of parameters in the formula statements, the costs-benefits for journal model scholarly communication process with a lot of text and formulas, modeling process model on journal model scholarly communication process, at the same time clarifying the costs-benefits described by the formula.