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Title
The Future of the Academic Journal.
Edition
Second edition.
Item Type
Book
Description
1 online resource (479 pages)
ISBN
9781780634647 electronic book
Summary
The world of the academic journal continues to be one of radical change. A follow-up volume to the first edition of The Future of the Academic Journal, this book is a significant contribution to the debates around the future of journals publishing. The book takes an international perspective and looks ahead at how the industry will continue to develop over the next few years. With contributions from leading academics and industry professionals, the book provides a reliable and impartial view of this fast-changing area. The book includes various discussions on the future of journals, including the influence of business models and the growth of journals publishing, open access and academic libraries, as well as journals published in Asia, Africa and South America. looks at a fast moving and vital area for academics and publishers contains contributions from leading international figures from universities and publishers.
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Description based upon print version of record.
The world of the academic journal continues to be one of radical change. A follow-up volume to the first edition of The Future of the Academic Journal, this book is a significant contribution to the debates around the future of journals publishing. The book takes an international perspective and looks ahead at how the industry will continue to develop over the next few years. With contributions from leading academics and industry professionals, the book provides a reliable and impartial view of this fast-changing area. The book includes various discussions on the future of journals, including the influence of business models and the growth of journals publishing, open access and academic libraries, as well as journals published in Asia, Africa and South America. looks at a fast moving and vital area for academics and publishers contains contributions from leading international figures from universities and publishers.
The world of the academic journal continues to be one of radical change. A follow-up volume to the first edition of The Future of the Academic Journal, this book is a significant contribution to the debates around the future of journals publishing. The book takes an international perspective and looks ahead at how the industry will continue to develop over the next few years. With contributions from leading academics and industry professionals, the book provides a reliable and impartial view of this fast-changing area. The book includes various discussions on the future of journals, including the influence of business models and the growth of journals publishing, open access and academic libraries, as well as journals published in Asia, Africa and South America. looks at a fast moving and vital area for academics and publishers contains contributions from leading international figures from universities and publishers.
Formatted Contents Note
Cover
The Future of the Academic Journal
Copyright
Contents
List of figures and tables
Figures
Tables
About the editors
About the contributors
1: Introduction
The journal online
Open access
Scholarly communication
References
2: Changing knowledge ecologies and the transformation of the scholarly journal
The knowledge business
Forces of epistemic disruption
Breaking point 1: how knowledge is made available
Breaking point 2: designing knowledge credibly
Breaking point 3: evaluating knowledge, once designed
Framing knowledge futures.
Concluding questions
References
3: Sustaining the 'Great Conversation': the future of scholarly and scientific journals
Introduction: the 'Great Conversation' of science
A bit of history
Going digital, and its consequences: the rise of non-commercial electronic journals
Peering into the future
Conclusion
Notes
4: Academic journals in a context of distributed knowledge
Introduction
Institutional and subject-based repositories
From linguistic and disciplinary monopoly to the pluralism of languages and cultures
The Popperian model of knowledge.
Journals as innovation in assembly
Conclusion
Notes
References
5: Business models in journals publishing
The characteristics of the journals business
The life cycle of a journal
Pricing
Cost structure
Subscription model
Alternative business models
Open access
Future of business models
References
6: The growth of journals publishing
Introduction
A historical perspective
Recent growth in the number of titles
Changes in the number of articles and length of articles
Online journals
The growth of electronic journals.
Predictions for the future
Acknowledgements
References
7: The post-Gutenberg open access journal
The classical learned journal
Publishing for income vs. publishing for impact
Trade publishing
Gutenberg toll-access
Reprint requests and author give-aways
Access barriers and impact barriers
The post-Gutenberg galaxy
Open access (and almost open access)
Universal green open access may eventually make subscriptions unsustainable
Gold open access publishing
Would pay-to-publish lower peer-review standards?.
Improving the efficiency of peer review while lowering its price
Peer feedback after posting instead of peer filtering before publishing?
The post-Gutenberg journal: optimal and inevitable for research and researchers
References
8: How the rise of open access is altering journal publishing
How the rise of open access is altering journal publishing
The independent origins of open access
Self-archiving open access
Open access journal publishing
Open access independent journal publishing
Open access scholarly society journal publishing.
Commercial publishers' open access.
The Future of the Academic Journal
Copyright
Contents
List of figures and tables
Figures
Tables
About the editors
About the contributors
1: Introduction
The journal online
Open access
Scholarly communication
References
2: Changing knowledge ecologies and the transformation of the scholarly journal
The knowledge business
Forces of epistemic disruption
Breaking point 1: how knowledge is made available
Breaking point 2: designing knowledge credibly
Breaking point 3: evaluating knowledge, once designed
Framing knowledge futures.
Concluding questions
References
3: Sustaining the 'Great Conversation': the future of scholarly and scientific journals
Introduction: the 'Great Conversation' of science
A bit of history
Going digital, and its consequences: the rise of non-commercial electronic journals
Peering into the future
Conclusion
Notes
4: Academic journals in a context of distributed knowledge
Introduction
Institutional and subject-based repositories
From linguistic and disciplinary monopoly to the pluralism of languages and cultures
The Popperian model of knowledge.
Journals as innovation in assembly
Conclusion
Notes
References
5: Business models in journals publishing
The characteristics of the journals business
The life cycle of a journal
Pricing
Cost structure
Subscription model
Alternative business models
Open access
Future of business models
References
6: The growth of journals publishing
Introduction
A historical perspective
Recent growth in the number of titles
Changes in the number of articles and length of articles
Online journals
The growth of electronic journals.
Predictions for the future
Acknowledgements
References
7: The post-Gutenberg open access journal
The classical learned journal
Publishing for income vs. publishing for impact
Trade publishing
Gutenberg toll-access
Reprint requests and author give-aways
Access barriers and impact barriers
The post-Gutenberg galaxy
Open access (and almost open access)
Universal green open access may eventually make subscriptions unsustainable
Gold open access publishing
Would pay-to-publish lower peer-review standards?.
Improving the efficiency of peer review while lowering its price
Peer feedback after posting instead of peer filtering before publishing?
The post-Gutenberg journal: optimal and inevitable for research and researchers
References
8: How the rise of open access is altering journal publishing
How the rise of open access is altering journal publishing
The independent origins of open access
Self-archiving open access
Open access journal publishing
Open access independent journal publishing
Open access scholarly society journal publishing.
Commercial publishers' open access.
Available in Other Form
Print version: Cope, Bill The Future of the Academic Journal Cambridge : Elsevier Science,c2014
Published
Cambridge : Elsevier Science, 2014.
Language
English
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