Write a paragraph of 80-100 words on the importance of the information revolution in university studies.
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Universities are generally stable institutions but they are buffeted by new developments, such as rankings exercises and the 'world class university' concept that have grabbed the attention of academics, politicians and the media. Other new realities are a massive growth in research output and a digital revolution that is changing higher education's relationship to information and knowledge, says Dr Jan Sadlak, Director of Unesco's Bucharest-based European Centre for Higher Education.
"One aspect of this relationship is the amount of information generated and the speed with which it now circulates," he told the conference at Babeş-Bolyai University which was co-hosted by Unesco-CEPES and the Council of Europe.
"Modern telecommunication and information technologies, symbolised by the internet, have made distance almost meaningless for the movement of information. Consequently the rules for the collection and dissemination of knowledge and information relevant to research and teaching have radically changed," Sadlak stated.
He gave the example of the Chemical Abstracts Service produced by the American Chemical Society, which has more than 1,900 pages in each of its two volumes with some 80 thematic sections and around 10,000 entries. "But that is not the whole story. This respected source of research productivity in chemistry is published on a weekly basis."