Academic Knowledge Management Infrastructure: Information Systems Cybrarium

In what ways are advances in information technology likely to affect the processes of scientific research and publication? To study the issues we have developed a web-based knowledge management infrastructure which supports the creation, synthesis and application of scientific knowledge. The purpose of this paper is to present this infrastructure, which we call "Cybrarium", and to highlight core issues such as approaches for the organization of scientific knowledge and likely changes to established publishing processes in an electronic