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- The Future of Scholarly Publishing: Open Access and the Economics of Digitisation
- Book
- 2017
- Published by: African Minds
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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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.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. i-ii
- Part 2. Framing conditions
- Part 3. Visions
- 10. A Vision of Scientific Communication
- pp. 247-254
Additional Information
ISBN
9781928331551
Related ISBN(s)
9781928331537
MARC Record
OCLC
1019652453
Pages
288
Launched on MUSE
2018-01-18
Language
English
Open Access
Yes
Creative Commons
CC-BY