The Future of the Academic Journal
2nd Edition
Published on 19. June 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
478 pages
978-1-84334-783-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
"...a good collection of works by experts on various topics concerning the future of academic journals."--Annals of Library and Information Studies, December 2014 ".an extremely rich reservoir of information.a complex strategic situation analysis of the scientific journal.This book helps to understand, anticipate and act."--ADBS,November 20,2014More details
Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Witney
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Woodhead Publishing Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Academics in the fields of information science, library studies, and publishing studies. Professionals from libraries, publishing, and research bodies. Policy-makers around the world concerned with the issues that surround information and research.
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
670 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84334-783-5 (9781843347835)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Bill Cope | Angus Phillips
The Future of the Academic Journal
E-Book
07/2014
2nd Edition
Chandos Publishing
€65.95
Available for download
Persons
Dr Bill Cope is Research Professor in the Department of Educational Policy Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA and Director of Common Ground Publishing. He is the co-author or editor of a number of books, including, with Angus Phillips, The Future of the Book in the Digital Age, also published by Chandos, in 2006. Angus Phillips is Director of the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies and Head of the Publishing Department at Oxford Brookes University. He worked for a number of years as a non-fiction editor at Oxford University Press and now acts as a consultant to publishing companies in the UK and internationally.
Content
1. Introduction
2. Changing knowledge ecologies and the transformation of the scholarly journal
3. Sustaining the 'Great Conversation': the future of scholarly and scientific journals
4. Academic journals in a context of distributed knowledge
5. Business models in journals publishing
6. The growth of journals publishing
7. The post-Gutenberg open access journal
8. How the rise of open access is altering journal publishing
9. Gold open access: the future of the academic journal
10. The future of copyright: what are the pressures on the present system?
11. Journals ranking and impact factors: how the performance of journals is measured
12. The role of repositories in the future of the journal
13. The role of the academic library
14. Doing medical journals differently: Open Medicine, open access and academic freedom
15. The Elsevier Article of the Future project: a novel experience of online reading
16. The future of Latin American academic journals
17. The status and future of the African journal
18. Academic journals in China: past, present and future
2. Changing knowledge ecologies and the transformation of the scholarly journal
3. Sustaining the 'Great Conversation': the future of scholarly and scientific journals
4. Academic journals in a context of distributed knowledge
5. Business models in journals publishing
6. The growth of journals publishing
7. The post-Gutenberg open access journal
8. How the rise of open access is altering journal publishing
9. Gold open access: the future of the academic journal
10. The future of copyright: what are the pressures on the present system?
11. Journals ranking and impact factors: how the performance of journals is measured
12. The role of repositories in the future of the journal
13. The role of the academic library
14. Doing medical journals differently: Open Medicine, open access and academic freedom
15. The Elsevier Article of the Future project: a novel experience of online reading
16. The future of Latin American academic journals
17. The status and future of the African journal
18. Academic journals in China: past, present and future