The State of Scholarly Publishing

Challenges and Opportunities

Harold Laski, Albert N. Greco

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• ISBN:
  9781351473378
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Business General
• Index: Business

For decades, university presses and other scholarly and professional publishers in the United States played a pivotal role in the transmission of scholarly knowledge. Their books and journals became the "gold standard" in many academic fields for tenure, promotion, and merit pay. Their basic business model was successful, since this diverse collection of presses had a unique value proposition. They dominated the scholarly publishing field with preeminent sales in three major markets or channels of distribution: libraries and institutions; college and graduate school adoptions; and general readers (i.e., sales to general retailers).Yet this insulated world changed abruptly in the late 1990s. What happened? This book contains a superb series of articles originally published in The Journal of Scholarly Publishing, by some of the best experts on scholarly communication in the western hemisphere, Europe, Asia, and Africa. These authors analyze in depth the diverse and exciting challenges and opportunities scholars, universities, and publishers face in what is a period of unusual turbulence in scholarly publishing.The topics given attention include: copyrights, the transformation of scholarly publishing from a print format to a digital one, open access, scholarly publishing in emerging nations, problems confronting journals, and information on how certain academic disciplines are coping with the transformation of scholarly publishing. This book is a must read for anyone interested in the scholarly publishing industry's past, its current focus, or future plans and developments.

Index

academic associations and societies, 13-14, 39-41

academic publishing, see scholarly publishing

Adesanoye, F.A, 87

African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS), 98-99

African Consortium of University Presses (A-CUP), 99-101

African Network of Scientific and Technological Institutions (ANSTI), 97-98, 99

African Publishers Network (APNET), 98-99

African University Press (AUP) publishers, 85-102

Ahmed, Abdel Moneim, 50

Aksne, Ernest, 50-51

Albritton, Rogers, 31-32

Allen, Barbara, 93

Al-Mudimigh, Abdullah, 50

Alonso, Carlos, 39-40

Amazon.com, 65-68

American Association of University Presses, 40-41

American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), 35, 39-41

American Geophysical Union v. Texaco, Inc., see Texaco case

Amin, Mayur, 18

Archaeological Data Archive Project (ADAP), 151, 157-158

archaeology,

digital projects, 151-152

electronic publishing, 149, 153-154

web portals, 152

Archaeology Data Service (ADS), 150

Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO), 154

Association of African Universities (AAU), 40, 42, 85, 100-101

Association of American University Presses (AAUP), 83, 97

Association of Research Libraries (ARL), 17, 18, 20

authors,

copyright ownership, 184

cost for Open Access (OA), 182-183

journal article submission process, 11-12, 167

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Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half title
• Title Page
• Copyright
• fmchapter
• Scribble, Scribble Toil and Trouble: Forced Productivity in the Modern University
• Conflicting Agendas for Scholars, Publishers, and Institutions
• Scholarship and Silence1
• The Futures of Scholarly Publishing1
• The Changing Market for University Press Books in the United States: 1997–2002
• A University Press Publishing Consortium for Africa: Lessons from Academic Libraries
• The Publishing Experiences of Historians1
• Electronic Publishing in Archaeology
• The Value of Knowledge Created by Individual Scientists and Research Groups
• Exploring the Willingness of Scholars to Accept Open Access: A Grounded Theory Approach
• Fair Use in Theory and Practice: Reflections on Its History and the Google Case
• A Cooperative Publishing Model for Sustainable Scholarship
• Selected Bibliography
• Index