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The Scientific Journal - Authorship and the Politics of Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century (Paperback)
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The Scientific Journal - Authorship and the Politics of Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century (Paperback)
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Not since the printing press has a media object been as celebrated
for its role in the advancement of knowledge as the scientific
journal. From open communication to peer review, the scientific
journal has long been central both to the identity of academic
scientists and to the public legitimacy of scientific knowledge.
But that was not always the case. At the dawn of the nineteenth
century, academies and societies dominated elite study of the
natural world. Journals were a relatively marginal feature of this
world, and sometimes even an object of outright suspicion. The
Scientific Journal tells the story of how that changed. Alex
Csiszar takes readers deep into nineteenth-century London and
Paris, where savants struggled to reshape scientific life in the
light of rapidly changing political mores and the growing
importance of the press in public life. The scientific journal did
not arise as a natural solution to the problem of communicating
scientific discoveries. Rather, as Csiszar shows, its dominance was
a hard-won compromise born of political exigencies, shifting
epistemic values, intellectual property debates, and the demands of
commerce. Many of the tensions and problems that plague scholarly
publishing today are rooted in these tangled beginnings. As we seek
to make sense of our own moment of intense experimentation in
publishing platforms, peer review, and information curation,
Csiszar argues powerfully that a better understanding of the
journal's past will be crucial to imagining future forms for the
expression and organization of knowledge.
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