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The Future of the Academic Journal

Edited by Bill Cope, University of Illinois and Common Ground Publishing, USA and Angus Phillips, Oxford Brookes University, UK

Definitely a worthy addition to every academic librarian's personal collection.
Library Management Journal

I highly recommend this book as I can see myself coming back to it again and again, whether to check figures or follow through the links in the substantial bibliographies provided. Definitely a worthy addition to every academic librarian's personal collection.
Library Management Journal

 - looks at a fast moving and vital area for academics and publishers
 - contains contributions from leading international figures from universities and publishers

Examines current issues in journals publishing and reviews how the industry will develop over the next few years. With contributions from leading academics and industry professionals, the book provides an authoritative and balanced view of this fast-changing area. There are a variety of views surrounding the future of journals and these are covered using a range of contributors. Online access is now taken for granted - 90 per cent of journals published are now available online, an increase from 75 per cent in 2003.

ISBN 1 84334 416 5
ISBN-13: 978 1 84334 416 2
June 2009
416 pages  234 x 156mm  paperback  
£57.75 / US$100.00 / €70.00

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About the editors

Dr Bill Cope is Research Professor in the Department of Educational Policy Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA and Director of Common Ground Publishing. He is the co-author or editor of a number of books, including, with Angus Phillips, The Future of the Book in the Digital Age, also published by Chandos, in 2006. Angus Phillips is Director of the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies and Head of the Publishing Department at Oxford Brookes University. He worked for a number of years as a non-fiction editor at Oxford University Press and now acts as a consultant to publishing companies in the UK and internationally.

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Contents

PART 1 KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS
PART 2 THE JOURNALS BUSINESS
PART 3 ACADEMIC PRACTICES
PART 4 THE JOURNAL INTERNATIONALLY
PART 5 DIGITAL TRANSFORMATIONS
PART 6 CODA

Introduction
Bill Cope and Angus Phillips

PART 1 KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS

Signs of epistemic disruption: transformations in the knowledge system of the academic journal
Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis

Arguments for an open model of e-science
José Luis González Quirós and Karim Gherab

PART 2 THE JOURNALS BUSINESS

Business models in journals publishing
Angus Phillips

The growth of journals publishing
Carol Tenopir and Donald W. King

The post-Gutenberg open access journal
Stevan Harnad

Publishing journals under a hybrid subscription and open access model
Claire Bird and Martin Richardson

The future of copyright: what are the pressures on the present system?
Joss Saunders and Simon Smith

Journals ranking and impact factors: how the performance of journals is measured
Iain D. Craig and Liz Ferguson

PART 3 ACADEMIC PRACTICES

‘Cannot predict now’: the role of repositories in the future of the journal
Sarah L. Shreeves

Libraries and the future of the journal: dodging the crossfire in the e-revolution, or leading the charge?
J. Eric Davies

Academic publishing and the political economy of education journals
Michael A. Peters

Doing medical journals differently: Open Medicine, open access and academic freedom
John Willinsky, Sally Murray, Claire Kendall and Anita Palepu

PART 4 THE JOURNAL INTERNATIONALLY

The status and future of the African journal
Pippa Smart

The future of the journal in Asia: an information ethnographer’s notes
David Hakken

The future of the academic journal in China
Kang Tchou

PART 5 DIGITAL TRANSFORMATIONS

Effects of the internet lifecycle on product development
Michiel van der Heyden and Ale de Vries

Beyond the static text: multimedia interactivity in academic journal publishing in the humanities and social sciences (not)
Andrew Jakubowicz

PART 6 CODA

‘The tiger in the corner’: will journals matter to tomorrow’s scholars?
Sally Morris