In the past few five years, academic presses are publishing books advocating decriminalization of prostitution, policy prescription buttressed by attempts to minimize harm sex trade industry as well sex-trafficking. This review essay explores presses’ eager embracing this approach, reasons for it, and effects their publications on violence against women. These include silencing survivors’ voice...

This study contributes to the existing literature on impact of conference presentations career progression by quantifying predictive power conferences for publication success. Examining outcomes more than 4000 papers presented at three leading economics over 2006–2012 period, we find a positive link between and publishing probability in high-quality journals. is most profound prominent authors ...

Despite the fact the hypermedia has long been discussed as a suitable format for academic research publications, the academic community has made little progress toward realizing hypermedia publishing. In this paper, we provide an initial framework for considering the problems facing any system designed for publishing academic hypertexts, and propose some first steps our community can take towar...

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...

This article presents an in-depth analysis of past and present publishing practices in academic computer science to suggest the establishment of a more consistent publishing standard. Historical precedent for academic publishing in computer science is established through the study of anecdotes as well as statistics collected from databases of published computer science papers. After examining t...

The belief norm of academic publishing states that researchers should believe certain claims they publish. purpose this paper is to defend the publishing. In its defense, advantages and disadvantages are evaluated for research publication system. It concluded while does not come without costs, systemically benefits from it be counted among those sustain practice