Presents a humanities and social science researcher's perspective on changes in scholarly communication as a result of new information and communication technologies. Discusses communication and community, interdisciplinarity, scholarly information, and competition versus cooperation, and argues that researchers and intermediaries need to find a…

International cooperation in Distance Education which is a very popular phenomenon today can be explained by the rise of social constructivism in social sciences, namely Education and International Relations, for the purpose of this paper. Social constructive approach in International Relations with its emphasis on building social bridges via…