[Web4lib] The State of Scholarly Publishing: Challenges and Opportunities

[McKiernan, Gerard [LIB]]

Colleagues/

 

A Most Timely And Must-Read  New Book: The State of Scholarly Publishing

 

/Gerry 

 

The State of Scholarly Publishing:  Challenges and Opportunities /
Albert N. Greco, Editor / $34.95 / ISBN: 978-1-4128-1058-6 / Pages: 292
/ Publication Date: 06/30/09 / Binding: Paper / Transaction Publishers.

 

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. 

 

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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.

 

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Partial Table Of Contents

 

Scribble, scribble, toil and trouble : forced productivity in the modern
university / William W. Savage, Jr -- Scholarly journal publication :
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 U.S., 1997-2002 /
Albert N. Greco, Robert M. Wharton, and Hooman Estelami --  [more]

 

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Happy Monday !!!

 

/Gerry 

 

Gerry McKiernan

Associate Professor

Science and Technology Librarian

Iowa State University Library

Ames IA 50011

 

gerrymck at iastate.edu        

 

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