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