The digital revolution is creating unprecedented opportunities for scientific discovery and innovation. New paradigms of knowledge creation and diffusion are emerging in public research based on distributed, volunteer, and open collaboration using global digital networks. The means and modes of production in all spheres of human endeavor are being re-engineered from the mechanistic Industrial Age approaches to post-industrial, Information Age processes. The new paradigms are making the production and exploitation of scientific information faster, cheaper, and better. Perhaps most significant, they are enabling the direct and immediate integration of researchers and research from developing countries into the global science system. This presentation will review recent developments in the changing production and dissemination of scientific information and discuss some of their far-reaching implications.