Includes bibliographical references and index.

Signs of epistemic disruption: transformations in the knowledge syst em of the academic journal / Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis -- Argu ments for an open model of e-science / Josâe Luis Gonzâalez Quirâos and Karim Gherab -- Business models in journals publishing / Angu s Phillips -- The growth of journals publishing / Carol Tenopir a nd Donald W. King -- The post-Gutenberg open access journal / Ste van Harnad -- Publishing journals under a hybrid subscription and op en 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 Fer guson -- 'Cannot predict now': the role of repositories in the futur e of the journal / Sarah L. Shreeves -- Libraries and the future of the journal: dodging the crossfire in the e-revolution, or leading t he charge? / J. Eric Davies -- Academic publishing and the politi cal economy of education journals / Michael A. Peters -- Doing me dical journals differently: Open Medicine, open access and academic fre edom / John Willinsky, Sally Murray, Claire Kendall and Anita Palepu -- The status and future of the African journal / Pippa Smart -- The future of the journal in Asia: an information ethnographer's no tes / David Hakken -- The future of the academic journal in China / Kang Tchou -- Effects of the internet lifecycle on product dev elopment / 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 -- 'The tiger in the corner': will journals matter to tomorrow's scholars? / Sally Morris.