Overview

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.

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Author:   Peter Weingart ,  Niels Taubert
Publisher:   Compress
Imprint:   African Minds
Weight:   0.773kg
ISBN:  

9781928331391

ISBN 10:   1928331394
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   01 October 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents; List of Abbreviations; Foreword to the English Edition; Introduction; 1 Changes in Scientific Publishing: A Heuristic for Analysis; Part One: The Changing Scholarly Publishing System; 2 Different from Discipline to Discipline: Diversity in the Scholarly Publication System; 3 Recent Processes of Change from the Perspective of Academic Publishers; 4 On the Situation and Development of Academic Libraries; 5 A Participatory Experiment in Science Policy: Results and Evaluation of the ‘Publication System’ Online Consultation; Part Two: Framing Conditions; 6 Recommendations, Statements, Declarations and Activities of Science Policy Actors on Shaping the Scholarly Communication System; 7 Open Access: Effects on Publishing Behaviour of Scientists, Peer Review and Interrelations with Performance Measures; 8 Copyright and Changing Systems of Scientific Communication; Part Three: Visions Concerning the Future of Publishing in Science; 9 Electronic Publishing, Open Access, Open Science and Other Dreams; 10 A Vision of Scientific Communication; 11 Methodological Optimism Regarding the Digital Future: Critical Remarks on the Recommendations on the Future of the Scholarly Communication System; 12 Trust, Quality Assurance and Open Access: Predatory Journals and the Future of the Scholarly Publication System; 13 Publishing in German Sociology in the Year 2030.

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"Dr Susanne Koch is a researcher at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in Germany and a research associate at the Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology (CREST) at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. After graduating in journalism and social sciences, she joined Bielefeld University's ""(Scientific) Experts in Developing Democracies"" project, and, in 2015, completed her award-winning PhD as part of that project. Since 2016, she has been working as a research assistant and lecturer at the TUM Chair of Forest and Environmental Policy. Her current research interests include science policy interaction and the uptake of knowledge in developing countries as well as the impacts of foreign aid and international forest and environmental regimes, particularly on the African continent. Prof. Peter Weingart is the South African Research Chair in Science Communication at the Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology (CREST) at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. He is Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Science Policy at Bielefeld University in Germany and former director of the Institute for Science and Technology Studies as well as of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) at that university. He is a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences as well as the German Academy of Engineering Sciences (acatech). Current research interests include science advice to politicians, science-media interrelations, and science communication. He assumed the editorship of MINERVA in 2007 and is managing editor of the Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook. He has published numerous monographs and articles on the sociology of science, on science policy, and on science, media and the public."

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