The article presents an analysis of W. Garvey’s and B. Griffith’s (1971, 1972, 1979), UNISIST (1971, 2003), F. W. Lankaster’s (1978), T. M. Aitchison’s (1988), J. Hurd’s (2000), J. M. Makenzie Owen’s (2000, 2007), Bo-C. Bjork’s (2007) and other theoretical models of scientific communication. The analysis of traditional formal scientific communication in these models indicated typical science communication subjects and functions in scientific communication. In the traditional formal scientific communication model, the process of scientific communication is perceived as an information chain. The analysis showed that the theoretical basis of these models is the concept of process communication.
Information and communication technologies have been applied to scientific communication. Due to these technologies, paradigm of scientific communication has changed.
This paper presents the new scientific communication model regarding internal and external, formal and informal communication.
