This useful work illustrates the complex and unpredictable scholarly communications environment in which librarians, publishers, scholars, funding agencies, and authors operate. Primarily of interest to academic libraries, the volume addresses issues concerning these populations, primarily from a European frame of reference. Contributors frequently focus on a particular situation and then generalize to the broader picture.

Part 1 focuses on changing researcher behavior; several chapters address challenges to presenting data for evaluation and reuse. Wood in particular provides a good overview of “data deluge” concerns, such as developing common standards and protocols for interoperability and training the next generation of researchers to enable holistic, cross-disciplinary research, using researchers who themselves have been raised in a system that is neither particularly holistic nor cross-disciplinary. He calls for a “new discipline of data science” to educate data scientists who can operate as peers with domain experts, guiding data archiving to make data accessible, understandable, and usable for almost any purpose imaginable.

Other chapters in part 1 explore the changing attitudes and behaviors of researchers. Most interesting is Collins’ chapter on social media and scholarly communication, which reports on research suggesting that librarians, publishers, and academics use social media to reinforce or imitate established behavior such as information exchange or discovery, ratherthan to branch out in new directions or question traditional modes of scholarly communication.

Part 2 focuses on other players. More unique are chapters that touch on universities’ and funding agencies’ needs to maximize returns on research and the potential impact of scholarly communication on learned societies. Perhaps the most interesting read is McGrath’s view of the journal editor’s changing role. He argues that publishers, who for many years have increased access to academic literature, now serve as a brake on access via digital rights management and copyright law. He predicts that the scientific journal market populated by Elsevier, Wiley, and Springer will not survive in the face of open access, post-publication review, and prevalent discovery.