Discuss the changes in the models of formal and informal communication provoked by communication and information technologies and, in particular, the concept in evolution of virtual colleges, presented many times as substitutes of invisible colleges. Reviews the role of internet in the new scene, as much as communication channel as a repository of information, and presents elements for a debate on the new model of scientific communication regarding the debates on free access of electronic journals. Concludes certifying the resurrection of the scientific communication, its new tools and interactive or interaction possibilities, as a complex field of research, which demands new studies with the purpose of verify where and how the new confluences happens.
Scientific communication; Virtual colleges; Invisible colleges