| Description |
1 online resource (242 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction / Albert N. Greco -- Scribble, scribble, toil and trouble : forced productivity in the modern university / William W. Savage, Jr. -- Conflicting agendas for scholars, publishers, and institutions / Cass T. Miller and Julianna C. Harris -- Scholarship and silence / Lindsay Waters -- The futures of scholarly publishing / Cathy N. Davidson -- The changing market for university press books in the United States : 1997-2002 / Albert N. Greco, Robert M. Wharton, and Hooman Estelami -- A university press publishing consortium for Africa : lessons from academic libraries / Kwasi Darko-Ampem -- The publishing experiences of historians / Margaret Stieg Dalton -- Electronic publishing in archaeology / Jingfeng Xia -- The value of knowledge created by individual scientists and research groups / Chen-Chi Chang -- Exploring the willingness of scholars to accept open access : a grounded theory approach / Ji-Hong Park and Jian Qin -- Fair use in theory and practice : reflections on its history and the Google case / Sanford G. Thatcher -- A cooperative publishing model for sustainable scholarship / Robert Schroeder and Gretta E. Siegel |
| Summary |
"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."--Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Originally published in 2009 by Transaction Publishers |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Scholarly publishing.
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Scholarly publishing -- United States
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University presses.
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Scholarly electronic publishing.
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Communication in learning and scholarship -- Technological innovations
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Communication in learning and scholarship -- Technological innovations
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Scholarly electronic publishing
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Scholarly publishing
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University presses
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United States
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Greco, Albert N., 1945- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781351473378 |
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1351473379 |
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1315135175 |
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9781315135175 |
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