The future of scholarly publishing

Open access and the economics of digitisation

Peter Weingart, Niels Taubert (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2017
African Minds (Verlag)
978-1-928331-39-1 (ISBN)

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The formal scientific communication system is currently undergoing significant change. This is due to four developments: the digitisation of formal science communication; the economisation of academic publishing as profit drives many academic publishers and other providers of information; an increase in the self-observation of science by means of publication, citation and utility-based indicators; and the medialisation of science as its observation by the mass media intensifies. Previously, these developments have only been dealt with individually in the literature and by science-policy actors. The Future of Scholarly Publishing documents the materials and results of an interdisciplinary working group commissioned by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) to analyse the future of scholarly publishing and to make recommendations on how to respond to the challenges posed by these developments. As per the working group’s intention, the focus was mainly on the sciences and humanities in Germany. However, in the course of the work it became clear that the issues discussed by the group are equally relevant for academic publishing in other countries. As such, this book will contribute to the transfer of ideas and perspectives, and allow for mutual learning about the current and future state of scientific publishing in different settings.

Contents; List of Abbreviations; Foreword to the English Edition; Introduction; 1 Changes in Scientific Publishing: A Heuristic for Analysis; Part One: The Changing Scholarly Publishing System; 2 Different from Discipline to Discipline: Diversity in the Scholarly Publication System; 3 Recent Processes of Change from the Perspective of Academic Publishers; 4 On the Situation and Development of Academic Libraries; 5 A Participatory Experiment in Science Policy: Results and Evaluation of the ‘Publication System’ Online Consultation; Part Two: Framing Conditions; 6 Recommendations, Statements, Declarations and Activities of Science Policy Actors on Shaping the Scholarly Communication System; 7 Open Access: Effects on Publishing Behaviour of Scientists, Peer Review and Interrelations with Performance Measures; 8 Copyright and Changing Systems of Scientific Communication; Part Three: Visions Concerning the Future of Publishing in Science; 9 Electronic Publishing, Open Access, Open Science and Other Dreams; 10 A Vision of Scientific Communication; 11 Methodological Optimism Regarding the Digital Future: Critical Remarks on the Recommendations on the Future of the Scholarly Communication System; 12 Trust, Quality Assurance and Open Access: Predatory Journals and the Future of the Scholarly Publication System; 13 Publishing in German Sociology in the Year 2030.

Erscheinungsdatum	03.01.2017
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Gewicht	773 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Unterrichtsvorbereitung ► Unterrichts-Handreichungen
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10	1-928331-39-4 / 1928331394
ISBN-13	978-1-928331-39-1 / 9781928331391
Zustand	Neuware