THIRTY-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF OPERA SLAVICA (CZECHIA) – SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATION, FUTURE AND DEVELOPMENT

The text presents the journal Opera Slavica published by the Faculty of Arts of the Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic, which is a specialized philological journal that publishes articles, reviews and academic materials in the field of linguistics and literary Slavonic studies. The article also deals with the issue of the academic philological journals, their current state and the challenges they may face in the future emphasizing that the further development of information exchange in the field of digitized periodicals will focus on the provision of a wider range of services for the end user. The modern opportunities and further development of the Internet are a prerequisite for reassessment of the ideas of communication in the academic community, for the dissemination of scientific knowledge and for the place of specialized journals in the context of this academic communication. In this context of virtual scientific communication the presence of academic periodicals in the digital libraries will be of great importance. In the future academic communication, in particular in the field of philology, significant specialization of electronic archives with a focus on a particular scientific field is expected. The text also outlines some problems in contemporary academic exchange, especially peer reviewing, predatory journals, online communication, etc.