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The Future of the Academic Journal

  • Published: June 2009
  • Region: World
  • 416 Pages
  • Woodhead Publishing Ltd

The report:

- looks at a fast moving and vital area for academics and publishers
- contains contributions from leading international figures from universities and publishers

Examines current issues in journals publishing and look to how the industry will develop over the next few years. With contributions from leading academics and industry professionals, the book provides an authoritative and balanced view of this fast-changing area. There are a variety of views surrounding the future of journals and these are covered using a range of contributors. Online access is now taken for granted - 90 per cent of journals published are now available online, an increase from 75 per cent in 2003. This book looks at a range of key topics that are of vital importance to academics and publishers alike. Will the journals business continue to grow? Open Access initiatives still form a relatively small part of journals publishing, but will they become the norm? How do librarians, publishers and academics see the future for journals? Will other forms of access to knowledge become more important? How will this part of publishing be affected by public policy, changes in copyright law, and the views of learned societies and research bodies?

Introduction
- Bill Cope and Angus Phillips

PART 1 KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS

Signs of epistemic disruption: transformations in the knowledge system of the academic journal
- Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis

Arguments for an open model of e-science
- José Luis González Quirós and Karim Gherab

PART 2 THE JOURNALS BUSINESS

Business models in journals publishing
- Angus Phillips

The growth of journals publishing
- Carol Tenopir and Donald W. King

The post-Gutenberg open access journal
- Stevan Harnad

Publishing journals under a hybrid subscription and open access model
- Claire Bird and Martin Richardson

The future of copyright: what are the pressures on the present system?
- Joss Saunders and Simon Smith

Journals ranking and impact factors: how the performance of journals is measured
- Iain D. Craig and Liz Ferguson

PART 3 ACADEMIC PRACTICES

‘Cannot predict now’: the role of repositories in the future of the journal
- Sarah L. Shreeves

Libraries and the future of the journal: dodging the crossfire in the e-revolution, or leading the charge?
- J. Eric Davies

Academic publishing and the political economy of education journals
- Michael A. Peters

Doing medical journals differently: Open Medicine, open access and academic freedom
- John Willinsky, Sally Murray, Claire Kendall and Anita Palepu

PART 4 THE JOURNAL INTERNATIONALLY

The status and future of the African journal
- Pippa Smart

The future of the journal in Asia: an information ethnographer’s notes
- David Hakken

The future of the academic journal in China
- Kang Tchou

PART 5 DIGITAL TRANSFORMATIONS

Effects of the internet lifecycle on product development
- Michiel van der Heyden and Ale de Vries

Beyond the static text: multimedia interactivity in academic journal publishing in the humanities and social sciences (not)
- Andrew Jakubowicz

PART 6 CODA
‘The tiger in the corner’: will journals matter to tomorrow’s scholars?
- Sally Morris

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.

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