The future of the academic journal / edited by Bill Cope and Angu s Phillips. - Oxford : Chandos Pub., 2009. - xxiv, 391 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Chandos publishing series . - Publishing series. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Signs of epistemic disruption: transformations in the knowledge syst em of the academic journal / Argu ments for an open model of e-science / Business models in journals publishing / The growth of journals publishing / The post-Gutenberg open access journal / Publishing journals under a hybrid subscription and op en access model / The future of copyright: what are the pressures on the present system? / Journals ranking and impact factors: how the performance of journals is measured / 'Cannot predict now': the role of repositories in the futur e of the journal / Libraries and the future of the journal: dodging the crossfire in the e-revolution, or leading t he charge? / Academic publishing and the politi cal economy of education journals / Doing me dical journals differently: Open Medicine, open access and academic fre edom / The status and future of the African journal / The future of the journal in Asia: an information ethnographer's no tes / The future of the academic journal in China / Effects of the internet lifecycle on product dev elopment / Beyond the static text: multimedia interactivity in academic journal publishing in the humanities and social sciences (not) / 'The tiger in the corner': will journals matter to tomorrow's scholars? / Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis -- Josâe Luis Gonzâalez Quirâos and Karim Gherab -- Angu s Phillips -- Carol Tenopir a nd Donald W. King -- Ste van Harnad -- Claire Bird and Martin Richardson -- Joss Saunders and Simon Smith -- Iain D. Craig and Liz Fer guson -- Sarah L. Shreeves -- J. Eric Davies -- Michael A. Peters -- John Willinsky, Sally Murray, Claire Kendall and Anita Palepu -- Pippa Smart -- David Hakken -- Kang Tchou -- Michiel van der Heyden and Ale de Vries -- Andrew Jakubowicz -- Sally Morris.

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