The Future of the Academic Journal.

The Future of the Academic Journal.

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 loo...

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Main Author: Cope, Bill
Other Authors: Phillips, Angus
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Burlington : Elsevier Science, 2014.
Subjects:
Journalism.
journalism.
Journalism
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Table of 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 journalsIntroduction: 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 publishingThe 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 impactTrade 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 researchersReferences; 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.

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