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The future of the academic journal
Title
The future of the academic journal / edited by Bill Cope and Angus Phillips.
ISBN
130695844X
9781306958448
9781780634647
1780634641
1843347830
9781843347835
9781843347835
Edition
2nd ed.
Published
Oxford, UK : Elsevier/Chandos Pub., 2014.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xxviii, 449 pages).
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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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Elsevier ScienceDirect All Books. OCLC KB.
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Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 17, 2018
Series
Chandos information professional series
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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
Conclusion
Acknowledgement
Notes
References
9: Gold open access: the future of the academic journal?
Growth of OA
The mega and cascade journal concepts
Government intervention
Funders
Is the hybrid journal dying?
Consolidation
SCOAP
Conclusion
Notes
10: The future of copyright: what are the pressures on the present system?
Introduction: the history and politics of copyright
Why it takes a long time to change copyright law
What are the other influences on the future of copyright?
Territorial rights in the Internet age
What will be the key influences on the future of copyright?
Notes
11: Journals ranking and impact factors: how the performance of journals is measured
Why rank journals?
Conventional measurement types
Journal Citation Reports.
Author behaviour and journal strategies
Alternative sources
Alternative metrics
Download statistics
Peer-review panel judgements
Combination peer review and quantitative evaluation
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Notes
References
12: The role of repositories in the future of the journal
The current repository landscape
Repositories and open access to the published literature
Further impact of repositories
Notes
References
13: The role of the academic library
Introduction
Journal provision in UK academic libraries
International perspectives
Libraries and open access
Researcher behaviours and library use
Conclusion
Notes
International data sources
References
14: Doing medical journals differently: open access and academic freedom
The violation of editorial independence at the
A brief history of editorial interference in medical journal publishing
Open Medicine as an independent medical research journal
The open access model
Academic freedom and open access
The opening ahead
The first five years at
The path to financial sustainability
The next five years
Acknowledgements
Notes
References
15: The Elsevier Article of the Future project: a novel experience of online reading
Introduction
Redesign of the article presentation
Three-pane-based content exploration
Comparing the Article of the Future with traditional publications
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
16: The future of Latin American academic journals
Introduction
The growth of journals in LAC
LAC and open access
Open access and the expansion of higher education in LAC
Regional bibliographic indexes and catalogues
Other important regional initiatives
National agencies and experiences
What is ahead for LAC journals?
Conclusion
Notes.
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