Scientific publishing in HSS facing the digital and the Internet: A challenge for France

The ongoing revolutions in the media and practices employed by both writing and reading, together with the development of digitalization and the growth in Internet applications present a profound challenge to the activities of all actors involved in traditional publishing, and this includes libraries. These revolutions have a particular impact on the Human and Social Sciences (HSS), which are thereby offered what were heretofore practically inaccessible social prospects. Hence the importance for researchers in the HSS -- in particular in France -- of the stakes presently playing out around the policies conducted in this area. [Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications Ltd., copyright holder.]