On May 27, 2021, the nationwide scientific conference "Communication in science. Communication of knowledge. The role of scientific societies ” was held. The conference was organized by the Council of Scientific Societies operating at the Presidium of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and its substantive partners were the Committee for Social Communication and Media Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Council for the Dissemination of Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
Over 100 participants took part in the virtual symposium, including 10 panelists who delivered seven papers. The event was divided into two parts: in the first - the participants of the meeting got acquainted with the basic theoretical distinctions and the problematic issues of scientific communication; in the second - detailed issues concerning discourse analysis, indexation of research works, and real communication practices undertaken by Polish scientific societies were discussed.