Academic publishing: New brooms galore

Academic publishing is electronic publishing

Derk Haank began by saying that he wanted to keep his presentation simple and would make only a few statements. The first of these was to say that, although it might be stating the obvious, academic publishing is electronic publishing. It has been remarkable how quickly things have progressed since the invention of the Web, and an EC study recently recognised that the revolution in electronic p...

The FIGARO project: a new approach towards academic publishing

The current difficulties of scholarly publishing are set out and a response to them based upon publishing by the institutions of the authors involved is described. An account of the role of the FIGARO Project in facilitating such a response is then given. Learned Publishing (2003)16, 183–188 Bas Savenije The FIGARO project: a new approach towards academic publishing 183 L E A R N E D P U B L I ...

The deconstructed journal - a new model for academic publishing

The limitations of existing proposed and operational publishing models intended to replace the academic journal are briefly reviewed. Three ‘insights’ are described, the first is into the ‘means/end’ confusion of much current net-based publishing activity, the second is that it is the purpose, not the form, that is the important aspect of the traditional academic journal model, and the third is...

Great Impressions in Academic Publishing

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What academic publishing can do for science?