The paper reports the changes taking place in the traditional scholarly communication system owing to technological changes in the information and communication technologies, particularly the Internet. It describes the importance and impact of e-journals on academic publishing and the need for universities to adopt ‘open access’ initiatives and create institutional repositories. It discusses th...

Abstract Christoph Chesher joined publishing in 1984 as a sales rep at Blackwell Science (BSP) and built up team ground the UK abroad including India – he had an instant connection with country its vibrant books market. In 1993 OUP came to Routledge/T&F 1997, where took key decision set liaison office, which has since gone from strength strength, expanding full-scale publisher. Large wholes...

Publishing academic work has been recognized as a key indicator for measuring scholars’ scientific productivity and having crucial impact on their future career. However, little has been known about how the majority of researchers progress in publishing papers across disciplines. In this work, using a collection consisting of over five millions academic publications across 15 disciplines, we st...