Table of Contents
Chapter 2: Changing knowledge ecologies and the transformation of the scholarly journal
Forces of epistemic disruption
Breaking point 1: how knowledge is made available
Breaking point 2: designing knowledge credibly
Breaking point 3: evaluating knowledge, once designed
Chapter 3: Sustaining the ‘Great Conversation’: the future of scholarly and scientific journals
Introduction: the ‘Great Conversation’ of science
Going digital, and its consequences: the rise of non-commercial electronic journals
Chapter 4: Academic journals in a context of distributed knowledge
Institutional and subject-based repositories
From linguistic and disciplinary monopoly to the pluralism of languages and cultures
The Popperian model of knowledge
Journals as innovation in assembly
Chapter 5: Business models in journals publishing
The characteristics of the journals business
Chapter 6: The growth of journals publishing
Recent growth in the number of titles
Changes in the number of articles and length of articles
The growth of electronic journals
Chapter 7: The post-Gutenberg open access journal
Publishing for income vs. publishing for impact
Reprint requests and author give-aways
Access barriers and impact barriers
Open access (and almost open access)
Universal green open access may eventually make subscriptions unsustainable
Would pay-to-publish lower peer-review standards?
Improving the efficiency of peer review while lowering its price
Peer feedback after posting instead of peer filtering before publishing?
The post-Gutenberg journal: optimal and inevitable for research and researchers
Chapter 8: How the rise of open access is altering journal publishing
How the rise of open access is altering journal publishing
The independent origins of open access
Open access journal publishing
Open access independent journal publishing
Open access scholarly society journal publishing
Commercial publishers’ open access
Chapter 9: Gold open access: the future of the academic journal?*
The mega and cascade journal concepts
Chapter 10: The future of copyright: what are the pressures on the present system?
Introduction: the history and politics of copyright
Why it takes a long time to change copyright law
What are the other influences on the future of copyright?
Territorial rights in the Internet age
What will be the key influences on the future of copyright?
Chapter 11: Journals ranking and impact factors: how the performance of journals is measured
Conventional measurement types
Author behaviour and journal strategies
Combination peer review and quantitative evaluation
Chapter 12: The role of repositories in the future of the journal
The current repository landscape
Repositories and open access to the published literature
Further impact of repositories
Chapter 13: The role of the academic library
Journal provision in UK academic libraries
Researcher behaviours and library use
Chapter 14: Doing medical journals differently: Open Medicine, open access and academic freedom
The violation of editorial independence at the CMAJ
A brief history of editorial interference in medical journal publishing
Open Medicine as an independent medical research journal
Academic freedom and open access
The first five years at Open Medicine
The path to financial sustainability
Chapter 15: The Elsevier Article of the Future project: a novel experience of online reading
Redesign of the article presentation
Three-pane-based content exploration
Comparing the Article of the Future with traditional publications
Chapter 16: The future of Latin American academic journals
Open access and the expansion of higher education in LAC
Regional bibliographic indexes and catalogues
Other important regional initiatives
National agencies and experiences
What is ahead for LAC journals?
Chapter 17: The status and future of the African journal
The current publishing environment within Africa
Chapter 18: Academic journals in China: past, present and future
A brief history of Chinese academic journals
The development of academic journals in today’s China