The term “Science 2.0” denotes ideas, phenomena and trends resulting from the application of new media in the academic world. This is a multi-dimensional and complex issue related not only to ongoing changes in scholarly communication but also to their deeper consequences, i.e. the evolution of both social functioning of science and even the nature of scholarly knowledge and research. This paper focuses on a “surface-level” question: how and to what extent the Open Access and Web 2.0 contents and tools influence the contemporary scholarly communication. Other, more subtle Science 2.0 problems are left for future study and publications
