The Ecology of Academic Journals

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-84334-571-8
Verlag: Woodhead Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten

Reihe: Chandos Information Professional Series

The fate of academic journals is highly contested. Pessimistic pundits predict their imminent demise while others envisage a new era of participatory knowledge creation and web only publications, with yet others advocating increased involvement of scholars and libraries in developing a "fair" system of scholarly publishing. The book is written against the backdrop of the complete transformation of scholarly communication. It considers the multifaceted nature of academic journals in a systematic investigation of the journal's eco-system - a metaphor indicating the importance of relationships between all involved stakeholders, their environments and their functioning as a unit.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mierzejewska, Bozena I

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft Verlagswesen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The system of academic publishing; The role of academic journals in the knowledge system; Trends in journal publishing and scholarly communication; Contexts of journal's eco-system; Ecological dynamics.

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Bozena I. Mierzejewska is Research Fellow at the Jönköping International Business School in Sweden and post-doc researcher at the University of St. Gallen Switzerland. Her research concentrates on media management, publishing industry and scholarly communication. She is a co-editor of JMM - The International Journal on Media Management.