Academic publications and pedagogy have been deeply reconfigured by the emergence of a new kind of knowledge produced by multimodal literacies (text, image and sound together). Academic publishing needs a digital multimedia editing platform, that can be carefully edited and quoted in details, in the same way that printed sources are. Consequently, the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (Vital-IT...

the article reviews ways that commissioning editors in academic book publishing can better understand the end users of their products. It discusses issues in resourcing market research in publishing companies, before going on to look at some of the existing internal and external sources that commissioning editors can draw on. It then considers both qualitative and quantitative ways of testing a...

Recent industry reports assure the rise of web robots which comprise more than half of the total web trac. Œey not only threaten the security, privacy and eciency of the web but they also distort analytics and metrics, doubting the veracity of the information being promoted. In the academic publishing domain, this can cause articles to be faulty presented as prominent and inƒuential. In this ...

Academic publishing faces major challenges such as increasing costs and a reduced subscription base. Electronic publishing promises benefits and solutions to these and other challenges. This study examines six cases of academic electronic journals and the management practices used by their editorial boards. The cases indicate that many of the anticipated benefits of e-journals can be achieved g...

JOURNAL PUBLISHING BEGAN IN THE LATE 17TH century, when the Royal Society and the Académie de France both began publishing the proceedings of their regular members’ meetings, to serve as a physical record of what went on in the meetings and also to communicate the same to members who were unable to attend. Both publications were intended as profit-making enterprises. This traditional model of p...

Most, if not all, academic librarians are by now familiar with the term “predatory publishing.” Beall in 2012 defined predatory publishers as “those that unprofessionally exploit the gold open-access model for their own profit,” often taking advantage of junior faculty and graduate students [1]. This problem has grown at an almost exponential rate. Whereas Beall identified 23 suspected predator...

This paper questions the validity of the so-called “publishing studies” as an academic discipline, while trying to situate them within the field of social sciences and to contextualize their success. It argues that a more appropriate frame could be adopted to describe what people studying the transformations of book publishing do – or should do – both at a theoretical and methodological level. ...