Research and Web 2.0

2019 ◽  
pp. 855-869 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diego Ponte ◽  
Stefan Klein
Keyword(s):  
Publishing Industry ◽  
Service Innovation ◽  
Academic Publishing ◽  
Scientific Journals ◽  
Pricing Models ◽  
Citation Indexes ◽  
Disruptive Innovations ◽  
Publishing Houses ◽  
Social Media Tools ◽  
Lasting Influence

The scientific publishing industry has witnessed a plethora of innovations across the life cycle of writing, publishing and archiving of scientific journals. Open access is only the visible tip of an iceberg that contains new players and new services and modes of publishing—which span from new review processes, online citation indexes and social media tools—that have become available over the past 20 years. One might have the impression that disruptive innovations are underway and that many of the well-established themes of digital transformation, such as business model and service innovation, disintermediation, ProSuming and new pricing models, have had a profound impact on the market of scientific journals. Nonetheless, the commercial academic publishing houses (the incumbents) so far have not only successfully defended but even extended their market position. By categorizing the innovations underway and relating them to the constellation of actors in this market, the authors reflect on and try to explain the lasting influence of traditional publishers in the market.

Research and Web 2.0

2017 ◽  
pp. 17-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diego Ponte ◽  
Stefan Klein
Keyword(s):  
Publishing Industry ◽  
Service Innovation ◽  
Academic Publishing ◽  
Scientific Journals ◽  
Pricing Models ◽  
Citation Indexes ◽  
Disruptive Innovations ◽  
Publishing Houses ◽  
Social Media Tools ◽  
Lasting Influence

The scientific publishing industry has witnessed a plethora of innovations across the life cycle of writing, publishing and archiving of scientific journals. Open access is only the visible tip of an iceberg that contains new players and new services and modes of publishing—which span from new review processes, online citation indexes and social media tools—that have become available over the past 20 years. One might have the impression that disruptive innovations are underway and that many of the well-established themes of digital transformation, such as business model and service innovation, disintermediation, ProSuming and new pricing models, have had a profound impact on the market of scientific journals. Nonetheless, the commercial academic publishing houses (the incumbents) so far have not only successfully defended but even extended their market position. By categorizing the innovations underway and relating them to the constellation of actors in this market, the authors reflect on and try to explain the lasting influence of traditional publishers in the market.

scholarly journals Scientific Publishing: Education as the Key Enabler for the Transition to Open Science

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario Pagliaro
Keyword(s):  
Publishing Industry ◽  
Scientific Communication ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Academic Publishing ◽  
Scientific Journals ◽  
Scholarly Journals ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Internet Education ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
Publishing Education

Scholarly journals today are the products of a large industry comprised of for-profit and not-for-profit organizations, whose annual income exceeds $25 billion. Originally created for facilitating scientific communication, the World Wide Web in principle makes scientific journals no longer necessary. Yet, in an almost opposite fashion to what happened in retail publishing, the academic publishing industry has further flourished following the advent of the internet. Education of today’s students and young researchers, we argue in this study, is the key enabler for the transition to open science.

scholarly journals A Primavera Acadêmica e o custo do conhecimento │Academic spring and the cost of knowledge

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Moreno Albuquerque de Barros
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Publishing Industry ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Academic Publishing ◽  
Scientific Journals ◽  
Publishing Process ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Business Interests ◽  
The Cost

Resumo A Primavera Acadêmica se refere aos recentes movimentos entre acadêmicos e cientistas em favor do acesso livre e contra as políticas das editoras comerciais acadêmicas. O artigo apresenta um panorama dos custos envolvidos na editoração comercial de periódicos científicos, bem como as justificativas de editores e acadêmicos que sustentam ou rejeitam o processo de publicação com fins lucrativos da literatura acadêmica. Defende a formulação de alternativas de comunicação científica e consolidação do movimento de acesso aberto, alheio às interferências de grandes conglomerados comerciais.Palavras-chave Primavera acadêmica; Periódicos acadêmicos; Elsevier; Acesso livre; Comunicação científicaAbstract The Academic Spring refers to the recent movements among scholars and scientists in favor of open access and against the policies of the academic publishing industry. This article presents an overview of the costs involved in the publishing of commercial journals as well as the justifications by publishers and academics who support or reject the for-profit publishing process of academic literature. Advocates the formulation of alternative scholarly communication and the consolidation of the open access movement, oblivious to the interference of business interests. Keywords: Academic Spring; Scientific journals; Elsevier; Open access; Scholarly communication

scholarly journals Surplus and Indicator

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katie Vann
Keyword(s):  
Publishing Industry ◽  
Content Management ◽  
Academic Publishing ◽  
Publishing Process ◽  
Academic Evaluation ◽  
Academic Communities ◽  
Professional Recognition ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
Publishing Houses ◽  
Digital Objects

This essay offers a perspective on journal impact factor (JIF) centrism in academic evaluation from the vantage point of academic publishing in an increasingly data-driven scholarly environment.  The political implications and orientations to the JIF are thought through with respect both to commercial publishing industry consolidation and to the reliance of public-sector scholarly communities on (oligopolistic) commercial academic publishing houses.  The author proposes that centrism to the JIF as a legitimizing indicator and incentivizing norm leads to two diametrically opposed forms of “surplus”: for academic communities, surplus emerges in the form of layers of scholarly knowledge effects/impact and labor, which, because they remain foreclosed to formal professional recognition, are inadvertently reconstructed as dispensable (waste); for private sector publishing companies––whose contribution to the publishing process consists foremost in providing scalable content management/distribution platforms and in transforming unique manuscript content into standardized digital objects that are amenable to indexing, aggregation, and comparative calculation––surplus emerges in the form of monetary surplus (profit).  The essay describes the inner workings of these phenomena.

scholarly journals SPARC Landscape Analysis: The Changing Academic Publishing Industry – Implications for Academic Institutions

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudio Aspesi ◽  
Nicole Starr Allen ◽  
Raym Crow ◽  
Shawn Daugherty ◽  
Heather Joseph ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Publishing Industry ◽  
Critical Infrastructure ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Landscape Analysis ◽  
Academic Publishing ◽  
Academic Institutions ◽  
Strategic Responses ◽  
Critical Juncture ◽  
Research And Education ◽  
Education Process

This landscape analysis was produced by SPARC in response to the growing trend of commercial acquisition of critical infrastructure in our institutions. It is intended to provide a comprehensive look at the current players in this arena, their strategies and potential actions, and the implications of these on the operations of our libraries and home institutions. It also outlines suggestions for an initial set of strategic responses for the community to evaluate in order to ensure it controls both this infrastructure and the data generated by/resident on it. We are at a critical juncture where there is a pressing need for the academic community – individually and collectively – to make thoughtful and deliberate decisions about what and whom to support – and under what terms and conditions. These decisions will determine who ultimately controls the research and education process; and whether we meaningfully address inequities created by legacy players or simply recreate them in new ways. These decisions will shape libraries’ role in the scholarly enterprise, now and for the future.

Dynamic Electronic Textbooks

2019 ◽  
pp. 660-680
Author(s):  
Amir Manzoor
Keyword(s):  
Information Seeking ◽  
Publishing Industry ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Digital Content ◽  
Academic Publishing ◽  
Design Features ◽  
Electronic Textbooks ◽  
Education Theory ◽  
Textbook Design ◽  
Contemporary Education

“The digital age has spawned an e-publishing revolution and cultivated the growing prevalence of e-books” (Carreiro, 2010, p. 232). Breakthroughs in technology allow e-books to be downloaded, customized, printed, or sent instantly anywhere. A rapidly evolving culture of information-seeking students have embraced these new technologies as they increasingly expect the immediacy and familiarity of digital content. The academic publishing industry must respond to this growing demand. “How individuals access digital content will depend largely on how academic publishers adapt to the new digital environment” (Janke, 2011, p. 153). This chapter examines how contemporary education theory could be used to support certain e-textbook design features, enhancing the student's learning and fostering educational growth.

From The Book Review Editor

2005 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 305-305
Author(s):  
Edward Ziter
Keyword(s):  
Performance Studies ◽  
Limited Resources ◽  
Academic Publishing ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Relative Term ◽  
Review Editor ◽  
Theatre Studies ◽  
Publishing Houses ◽  
And Performance

Well-written reviews counteract the inertia that can afflict any field, given the pressures on the professorate and the limited resources of academic publishing houses. Between the demands of teaching, publication, production, and university service many theatre professors struggle to keep up with the literature related to their own research interests, let alone read broadly in the field. In such a context, no book—not even an excellent book—is assured an audience. Books that are not easily categorized, that do not fit comfortably in a given discipline, or that address underresearched topics are even less likely to reach a broad audience (and “broad” in terms of academic publishing is clearly a relative term). Reviews create audiences for books that might otherwise sit unnoticed in the margins of a field. Every review implicitly charts important directions for the field; reviews identify central conversations in the academy and indicate how theatre studies can engage these conversations. Reviews help us to be eclectic readers, and we must be such readers if we hope to speak beyond the circle that shares our individual research interests. It is in the spirit of eclecticism that Theatre Survey has instituted the column “What Are You Reading?” asking innovative scholars to share and reflect on the texts that feed their thinking. It is in the same spirit that Theatre Survey reviews a broad spectrum of the books received and invites both junior and senior scholars to propose reviews of books that the journal has not received but that should come to the attention of scholars of theatre and performance studies. Reviews help shape the field. Theatre Survey looks for reviews that cultivate new performance-centered historiographic study, reflecting a diverse range of methodological and critical perspectives.

scholarly journals China’s Scientific Journals in a Transforming Period: Present Situation and Developing Strategies

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shengli Ren ◽  
Adrian Thomas Stanley ◽  
Hong Yang ◽  
Phillippa J. Benson ◽  
Weiguo Xu
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Publishing Industry ◽  
Scientific Journal ◽  
Present Situation ◽  
Scientific Journals ◽  
Academic Impact ◽  
Production Methods ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
Digital Production ◽  
Rapid Transformation

Based on a detailed analysis of the global academic impact of China’s scientific journals, as well as of the publishing strategies and communication media used by their publishers, we conclude that the Science, Technology, and Medicine (STM) journal publishing industry in China is going through very rapid transformation. Journals are attempting to become more broadly international, and doing so by adopting new digital production methods and commercial models. In light of these efforts, we discuss the current challenges to the development of China’s scientific journal industry and suggest strategies that may be useful for reaching key goals.

scholarly journals The Open Access Interviews: Sir Timothy Gowers and Clifford Lynch

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Poynder
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Publishing Industry ◽  
Academic Publishing ◽  
Institutional Repository ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Print Version ◽  
The Past ◽  
Discrete Analysis ◽  
Scholarly Publisher ◽  
First Interview

This is a print version of two interviews I posted on my blog in 2016 as part of a series entitled The Open Access Interviews. The first interview is with Cambridge mathematician Sir Timothy Gowers. In 2012 Gowers called for a boycott of the scholarly publisher Elsevier, and in 2106 he started an overlay journal called Discrete Analysis to demonstrate that a high-quality mathematics journal could be inexpensively produced outside of the traditional academic publishing industry. The second interview is with Clifford Lynch, the director of the Washington-based Coalition for Networked Information (CNI). This interview covers the past, present and possible futures of the Institutional Repository (IR). Both interviews are preceded with a lengthy introduction. I have also included in this booklet my response to some of the comments the interview with Clifford Lynch sparked.

scholarly journals Editorial - Open Access and accessing openness

Seminar.net ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yngve Nordkvelle
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Electronic Publishing ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Academic Publishing ◽  
Research Assessment ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
International Publishing ◽  
Publishing Houses ◽  
The Uk ◽  
National Languages

Seminar.net enters it’s fourth year, and has reached a state of maturity in a number of meanings: it receives manuscripts from all continents, the articles are read from 134 countries, of which India represents the highest number of readers, a number of articles have been read by more than 10 000 interested persons, and the frequency of issues is now three per year, and will reach four by next year. Interested parties now approach us in order to learn about our policies and practices.It takes time to become established and influential in the sense that articles are cited and referred to in prestigious publications. Still, the most prestigious publications are on paper. Many countries now embark on a policy that rewards researchers that publish in international journals, preferably in English. National languages are rendered less significant. In the UK, the research assessment exercise (RAE), and several other countries with a publication or citation based reward system in research, tend to favour quantitative dimensions at the expense of the quality of the publication. International publishing houses are huge profit-making companies that over years have increased their profit rates, charging increasingly economically pressured higher education institution with high subscription rates. With the advent of electronic publishing their position is severely challenged. It has been noted that the most significant publication of the last couple of decades was an electronic publication: Tim Berners Lee published the protocol for the World Wide Web in 1990. It was never refereed, nor was controlled by appointed gatekeepers of the “establishment”. The number of Open Access publications is rising every day, and the number of e-journals for academic publishing is reaching higher and higher numbers. In a recent case The Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University decided, that Harvard employees must publish all their material simultaneously on the electronic archive in their home institution. This means they should avoid publishing in articles that refuse parallel publishing. This is one of many encouraging events that might pave the way for more Open Access journals. In this issue of Seminar.net, we present four articles and a book review.

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