Legislative Developments in Scholarly Publishing

2021 ◽  
pp. 53-71
Author(s):  
Carlo Scollo Lavizzari
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Publishing Industry ◽  
Scholarly Publishing ◽  
Scholarly Journal ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Journal Publishing ◽  
The 1960S

The legal developments in scholarly publishing began back at the time of the Guttenberg press. The scholarly journal publishing industry evolved over the centuries. The 1960s through the launch of the internet saw the industry explode with growth. With the advent and development of the digital journal, open access, and other clandestine illegal databases, it is essential that the industry work to protect its interests. This chapter will provide a history, overview, and developments that will be required to ensure the ongoing concerns of the industry.

scholarly journals Liberation through Cooperation: How Library Publishing Can Save Scholarly Journals from Neoliberalism

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dave S. Ghamandi
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Publishing Industry ◽  
Scholarly Journal ◽  
Economic Aspects ◽  
Scholarly Journals ◽  
Journal Publishing ◽  
Article Processing Charges ◽  
Systems Of Domination ◽  
Fair Deal

This commentary examines political and economic aspects of open access (OA) and scholarly journal publishing. Through a discourse of critique, neoliberalism is analyzed as an ideology causing many problems in the scholarly journal publishing industry, including the serials crisis. Two major efforts in the open access movement that promote an increase in OA funded by article-processing charges (APC) —the Open Access 2020 (OA2020) and Pay It Forward (PIF) initiatives—are critiqued as neoliberal frameworks that would perpetuate existing systems of domination and exploitation. In a discourse of possibility, ways of building a post-neoliberal system of journal publishing using new tactics and strategies, merging theory and praxis, and grounding in solidarity and cooperation are presented. This includes organizing journal publishing democratically using cooperatives, which could decommodify knowledge and provide greater open access. The article concludes with a vision for a New Fair Deal, which would revolutionize the system of scholarly journal publishing by transitioning journals to library publishing cooperatives.

Medknow Publications: a success model in the digital era

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (8) ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Rojers Puthur Joseph
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Publishing Industry ◽  
Society Journal ◽  
Disruptive Innovation ◽  
Scholarly Journal ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Journal Publishing ◽  
For Profit

Subject area Innovation Strategy/Entrepreneurship. Study level/applicability The case can be used in an MBA/postgraduate management program for a course on Innovations Strategy with a focus on disruptive innovation, specifically in relation to disruption in the value chain with the adoption of new technologies or for a course on Entrepreneurship focusing on the opportunities created by the Internet-based technologies for start-up businesses. Alternatively, it can be used in a course on e-commerce strategies, particularly to demonstrate the efficiency of online distribution vis-à-vis physical channels. Case overview The case illustrates how Medknow Publications created a profitable e-commerce model out of a struggling conventional business, namely, the learned society journal publishing. It also provides a useful ground to discuss the challenges faced by the conventional scholarly journal publishing models, the current crisis in scholarly journal publishing and how Medknow, a disruptive business model innovation, would address these issues. Besides, the case illustrates how Medknow created a sustainable “for-profit” alternative to the prevailing not-for-profit models of open access publishing. Expected learning outcomes After the analysis and discussion of this case, students will be able to: appreciate how technological innovation can disrupt existing business models; understand how digitization helps improve the efficiency of value chain in the content industry, particularly the scholarly journal publishing industry; and appreciate that the flexibility of digitized content and the global reach of the Internet have the potential to transform the scholarly journal publishing industry for good. Supplementary materials Teaching notes are available for educators only. Please contact your library to gain login details or email [email protected] to request teaching notes.

Publishing as Pedagogy

2020 ◽  
pp. 57-82
Author(s):  
Lauren Halcomb-Smith ◽  
Alison Crump ◽  
Mela Sarkar
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Scholarly Publishing ◽  
Scholarly Journal ◽  
Learning Space ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Journal Publishing ◽  
Innovative Model ◽  
Personal Reflections ◽  
Publishing Practices

This chapter explores innovating in scholarly journal publishing through the lens of publishing as pedagogy, an approach where scholarly publishing practices are intentionally designed for learning. Scholarly publishing is described as a learning space with significant scope for innovating, with respect to both the scholarly publishing culture and its practices. Innovating in scholarly publishing is defined as a social, creative, disruptive, and intentional process. The critical intersections to innovating in scholarly publishing are considered and an example of what innovating in scholarly publishing can look like, in practice, is provided—by sharing personal reflections and experiences of conceptualizing, designing, and managing J-BILD, a scholarly journal. In exploring these intersections and the notion of innovating, an innovative model of publishing founded on the principles of open access, transparency, and collaboration is described. This chapter concludes with possibilities for future directions with respect to innovating in scholarly publishing.

scholarly journals Message from the Grassroots

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Camille Nous
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Scholarly Journal ◽  
Academic Publishing ◽  
Journal Publishing ◽  
Use Of Knowledge

Librarians have responded to the decades-long “serials crisis” with a common narrative and a range of responses that have failed to challenge the ideology and structures that caused it. Using Walter Rodney’s theory of a guerilla intellectual, we critically examine the dominant understanding of this so-called crisis and emphasize the role that capital plays within it. The imperial nature of scholarly journal publishing and some of its many contradictions are discussed. “Transformative” agreements receive special attention as a hyper-capitalist manifestation of these contradictions at the heart of commercial publishing.The politics of refusal are one response to the commercialism, prestige, and power imbalances that drive the academic publishing system. Highlighting the differences between refusal and reform, this paper explores the protagonistic role that librarians can play in a protracted struggle within and beyond the confines of our profession. Select open access efforts are identified at the end as examples of different forms of refusal. This paper is intended to move beyond the traditional discourse of laying blame solely at the feet of the academic publishing oligopoly and also expounds on the bourgeois academy’s use of knowledge production for capital accumulation.

scholarly journals The Writing’s on the Firewall: Assessing the Promise of Open Access Journal Publishing for a Public Sociology of Sport

2013 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 359-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gavin Weedon
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Publishing Industry ◽  
Open Access Journal ◽  
Public Sociology ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
Sociology Of Sport ◽  
Journal Publishing ◽  
The Past ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Absolute Transition

The process of digitization has transformed the ways in which content is reproduced and circulated online, rupturing long held distinctions between production and consumption in the (virtual) public sphere. In accordance with these developments over the past fifteen years, proponents for open access publishing in higher education have argued that the (not yet absolute) transition from physical to digital modes of journal production opens up unprecedented opportunities for redressing the restrictive terms of ownership and access currently perpetuated within an increasingly untenable journal publishing industry. Through this article, I advocate that the sociology of sport community hastens to question, challenge and reimagine its position within this industry in anticipation of a reformed publishing landscape. The impetus for the paper is to ask not whether sociologists of sport should or should not publish open access, but rather as open access publishing inevitably comes to pass in some form, what say will the field’s associations, societies and members have in these changes, and how might they help invigorate a public sociology of sport?

scholarly journals Celebrating 20 Years of Open Access and Innovation at JMIR Publications

10.2196/17578 ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (12) ◽  
pp. e17578 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gunther Eysenbach
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Health Research ◽  
Digital Health ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Scholarly Publishing ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Theme Issue ◽  
Publishing World ◽  
20Th Anniversary ◽  
Access Model

In this 20th anniversary theme issue, we are celebrating how JMIR Publications, an innovative publisher deeply rooted in academia and created by scientists for scientists, pioneered the open access model, is advancing digital health research, is disrupting the scholarly publishing world, and is helping to empower patients. All this has been made possible by the disintermediating power of the internet. And we are not done innovating: Our new series of “superjournals,” called JMIRx, will provide a glimpse into what we see as the future and end goal in scholarly publishing: open science. In this model, the vast majority of papers will be published on preprint servers first, with “overlay” journals then competing to peer review and publish peer-reviewed “versions of record” of the best papers.

scholarly journals The Two-Way Street of Open Access Journal Publishing: Flip It and Reverse It

Publications ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Matthias ◽  
Najko Jahn ◽  
Mikael Laakso
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Open Access Journal ◽  
Scholarly Publishing ◽  
Common Pattern ◽  
Finish Line ◽  
Journal Publishing ◽  
Access Mode ◽  
Citation Metrics

As Open access (OA) is often perceived as the end goal of scholarly publishing, much research has focused on flipping subscription journals to an OA model. Focusing on what can happen after the presumed finish line, this study identifies journals that have converted from OA to a subscription model, and places these “reverse flips” within the greater context of scholarly publishing. In particular, we examine specific journal descriptors, such as access mode, publisher, subject area, society affiliation, article volume, and citation metrics, to deepen our understanding of reverse flips. Our results show that at least 152 actively publishing journals have reverse-flipped since 2005, suggesting that this phenomenon does not constitute merely a few marginal outliers, but instead a common pattern within scholarly publishing. Notably, we found that 62% of reverse flips (N = 95) had not been born-OA journals, but had been founded as subscription journals, and hence have experienced a three-stage transformation from closed to open to closed. We argue that reverse flips present a unique perspective on OA, and that further research would greatly benefit from enhanced data and tools for identifying such cases.

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