Scholarly Communications: A History from Content as King to Content as Kingmaker

295 Pages·2015·1.703 MB·English

by  John J. Regazzi

Scholarly Communications

Scholarly Communications
A History from Content as King to
Content as Kingmaker
John J. Regazzi
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Contents
ListofFigures ix
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xv
1 ScholarlyCommunications:TheIntersectionofResearchand
Commerce 1
2 TheScientificJournal:AHistoricalPerspectivetoModernTimes 19
3 TheScholarlyBook:ItsHardTimesandRiseAgain 47
4 SecondaryPublishing:FromAbstractingandIndexingto
AccessandInformation 77
5 TheRiseandFalloftheCD-ROMTechnology 105
6 TheBirthofOnline:TheInternetandtheWebChange
ScholarlyCommunication 119
7 TraditionalEconomicsofAcademicPublishing 167
8 InstitutionalBuyers,Scholars,andOpenAccess:AContinuing
Story 181
9 BigData,BigScience,andSocialAcademicNetworks 209
10 TheRiseofWorkFlowSystems 223
Bibliography 247
Index 263
AbouttheAuthor 277
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List of Figures
Fig.1.1 ResearchCycle 3
Fig.1.2 ResearchCyclewithInformalCommunication 4
Fig.1.3 ScholarlyCommunicationResearch 9
Fig.2.1 JournalPublicationProcess 23
Fig.2.2 MultistageOpen-Peer-ReviewandPublication
Process 32
Fig.2.3 JournalArticleFormat 41
Fig.3.1 TotalScholarlyU.S.BookProductionbyYear,
2002–2011 67
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