迎接數位時代的來臨，大學圖書館需重新審視學術傳播的改變及因應之道。本文首先由相關研究報告勾勒大學圖書館未來發展趨勢，其次探討學術傳播的定義與功能、學術傳播的變遷與相關議題以及學術傳播的新模式，再闡述美國大學圖書館如何擬定學術傳播計畫的宣導策略，最後建議大學圖書館在學術傳播體系可以扮演的角色。

With the existence of the digital age, academic libraries need to respond to the challenges of scholarly communications. This paper begins with research reports which foreboded future trends of development, and then follows the definitions, functions,evolution, issues and new models of scholarly communications. Promotion and advocacy for the concept of scholarly communications by famous academic libraries in the United
States have been examined, and recommendations of possible roles for academic libraries with a scholarly communication system are being proposed.