Postmodern information science and its “journal”

For 50 years JASIS has reflected the modern information era when scholars sought tenure by publishing in paper journals, and universities paid twice for scholarly products (once as academic salaries, and again as subscriptions to academic serials). The Internet has placed JASIS in the cross hairs of tumultuous technical and social change. In the twenty‐first century, scholars will, I predict, abandon print in favor of more immediate and multidimensional venues. In the postmodern information era, scholars will be publishers, academic review will be instantaneous with publication, and universities will seek to maximize their assets and vend a product. We may be witnessing the last days of the paper‐based scholarly journal. This essay suggests that JASISWeb should become the more appropriate postmodern information science “journal.”