Introduction
1. Changes in scientific publishing : a heuristic for analysis / Niels Taubert & Peter Weingart
part one. The changing scholarly publishing system
2. Different from discipline to discipline : diversity in the scholarly publication system / Konstanze Rosenbaum
3. Recent processes of change from the perspective of academic publishers / Niels Taubert
4. On the situation and development of academic libraries / Peter Weingart
5. A participatory experiment in science policy : results and evaluation of the 'publication system' online consultation / Niels Taubert & Kevin Schön
part two. Framing conditions
6. Recommendations, statements, declarations and activities of science policy actors on shaping the scholarly communication system / Ulrich Herb
7. Open access : effects on publishing behaviour of scientists, peer review and interrelations with performance measures / David Ball
8. Copyright and changing systems of scientific communication / Alexander Peukert & Marcus Sonnenberg
part three. Visions : visions concerning the future of publishing in science
9. Electronic publishing, open access, open science and other dreams / Martin Grötschel
10. A vision of scientific communication / Reinhold Kliegl
11. Methodological optimism regarding the digital future : critical remarks on the recommendations on the future of the scholarly communication system / Volker Gerhardt
12. Trust, quality assurance and open access : predatory journals and the future of the scholarly publication system / Peter Weingart
13. Publishing in German sociology in the year 2030 / Niels Taubert.