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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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford, UK :
Elsevier/Chandos Pub
2014.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed |
| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Chandos information professional series. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b40529599*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
