The National Enquiry Into Scholarly Communication—Twenty years after

Abstract

The National Enquiry into Scholarly Communication was organized under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies and funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Its report was published by Johns Hopkins University Press after three years of research, 1n 1979. Why was it undertaken, who was involved, what did it recommend, and what was the result?