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The future of the academic journal /

Examines current issues in journals publishing and reviews how the industry will develop over the next few years. The book provides an authoritative and balanced view of this fast-changing area.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Cope, Bill, Phillips, Angus
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford [England] : Chandos Publishing, 2009.
Colección:Chandos series in publishing.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Part 1 Knowledge systems: Signs of epistemic disruption: transformations in the knowledge system of the academic journal
  • Arguments for an open model of e-science. Part 2 The journals business: Business models in journals publishing
  • The growth of journals publishing
  • The post-Gutenberg open access journal
  • Publishing journals under a hybrid subscription and open access model
  • The future of copyright: what are the pressures on the present system? Journals ranking and impact factors: how the performance of journals is measured.
  • Part 3 Academic practices: 'Cannot predict now': the role of repositories in the future of the journal
  • Libraries and the future of the journal: dodging the crossfire in the e-revolution, or leading the charge? Academic publishing and the political economy of education journals
  • Doing medical journals differently: open Medicine, open access and academic freedom
  • Part 4 The journal internationally: The status and future of the African journal
  • The future of the journal in Asia: an information ethnographer's notes
  • The future of the academic journal in China. Part 5 Digital transformations: Effects of the internet lifecycle on product development
  • Beyond the static text: multimedia interactivity in academic journal publishing in the humanities and social sciences (not)
  • Part 6 Coda: 'The tiger in the corner': will journals matter to tomorrow's scholars?