The Secondary Experience of an Information System Enabling Scientific Communication

Literature discussing scientific communication considers two types of communities that communicate around scientific output: primary and secondary communities. Primary communities encompass scientists, researchers, and scholars Secondary communities involve practitioners from public, private, and non- governmental organizations. This paper gives an overview of different theoretical models of scientific communication systems starting from the UNISIST model the UN developed in the 1970s up to the most recent models that address scientific communication from the socio- technical or information system perspectives. Additionally, we extend these theoretical frameworks by integrating recent concepts such as Science 2.0, Research 2.0, and Coordination 2.0, synthesizing them into a new model. The proposed conceptual model is part of our ongoing research concerning communication between scientific communities and public, private, and NGO organizations. The main research inquiry is how to build an information system that can intelligently adapt, according to usage, communication and cooperation activities around published scientific papers. The Secondary Experience of an Information System Enabling Scientific Communication.