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The Future of the Academic Journal (Paperback, 2nd edition): Bill Cope, Angus Phillips

The Future of the Academic Journal (Paperback, 2nd edition)

Bill Cope, Angus Phillips

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Summary: The world of the academic journal continues to be one of radical change. A followup 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. About the Editors: Bill Cope is Professor in the Department of Educational Policy Studies, Organization and Leadership at the University of Illinois, USA and Director of Common Ground Publishing. From 2010-2013 he was Chair of the Journals Publication Committee of the American Educational Research Association. He is the author of a number of books, including, with Mary Kalantzis and Liam Magee, Towards a Semantic Web: Connecting Knowledge in Academic Research, also published by Chandos, in 2011, and with Mary Kalantzis, Literacies, 2012. Angus Phillips is Director of the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies at Oxford Brookes University. He has degrees from Oxford and Warwick universities and before joining Oxford Brookes he ran a trade and reference list at Oxford University Press. His books include Turning the Page: The evolution of the book, hich examines the effects of digital and other developments on the book itself. He is also the author, with Giles Clark, of Inside Book Publishing. He is the editor of the premier publishing jounal, Logos. Table of Contents: Introduction; Changing knowledge ecologies and the transformation of the scholarly journal; Sustaining the 'Great Conversation' the future of scholarly and scientific journals; Academic journals in a context of distributed knowledge; Business models in journals publishing; The growth of journals publishing; The post-Gutenberg open access journal; How the rise of open access is altering journal publishing; Gold open access: the future of the academic journal?; The future of copyright: what are the pressures on the present system?Journals ranking and impact factors: how the performance of journals is measured; The role of repositories in the future of the journal; The role of the academic library; Doing medical journals differently: Open Medicine, open access and academic freedom; The Elsevier Article of the Future project: a novel experience of online reading; The future of Latin American academic journals; The status and future of the African journal; Academic journals in China: past, present and future.

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Imprint: Chandos Publishing (Oxford) Ltd
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: June 2014
First published: June 2014
Editors: Bill Cope • Angus Phillips
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 478
Edition: 2nd edition
ISBN-13: 978-1-84334-783-5
Categories: Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Library & information sciences > General
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LSN: 1-84334-783-0
Barcode: 9781843347835

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