Does journal publishing have a future?
Michael Mabe
Abstract:
The demise of the peer-reviewed journal has been often predicted especially since the advent of digital publishing. This chapter examines what forces might impinge on journal publishing to precipitate such a collapse and whether they might succeed.
Key words
Journals
journal functions
author and reader needs
communication ecology
open access
business models
digital transition
Introduction
Publishing and information science conferences over the last four decades have regularly debated whether the journal has a future. Originally these speculative sessions were predicated on the imminence of the electronic transition. With this rapidly receding into history, the speculation ...
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