The Future of the Academic Journal

The world of the academic journal continues to be one of radical change. A follow-up volume to the first edition of The Future of the Academic Journal, this book is a significant contribution to the debates around the future of journals publishing. The book takes an international perspective and looks ahead at how the industry will continue to develop over the next few years. With contributions from leading academics and industry professionals, the book provides a reliable and impartial view of this fast-changing area. The book includes various discussions on the future of journals, including the influence of business models and the growth of journals publishing, open access and academic libraries, as well as journals published in Asia, Africa and South America.

looks at a fast moving and vital area for academics and publishers

contains contributions from leading international figures from universities and publishers

1. Introduction 2. Changing knowledge ecologies and the transformation of the scholarly journal 3. Sustaining the ‘Great Conversation’: the future of scholarly and scientific journals 4. Academic journals in a context of distributed knowledge 5. Business models in journals publishing 6. The growth of journals publishing 7. The post-Gutenberg open access journal 8. How the rise of open access is altering journal publishing 9. Gold open access: the future of the academic journal 10. The future of copyright: what are the pressures on the present system? 11. Journals ranking and impact factors: how the performance of journals is measured 12. The role of repositories in the future of the journal 13. The role of the academic library 14. Doing medical journals differently: Open Medicine, open access and academic freedom 15. The Elsevier Article of the Future project: a novel experience of online reading 16. The future of Latin American academic journals 17. The status and future of the African journal 18. Academic journals in China: past, present and future