Scholarly Communication: A Long View

Teaching the Library to Students of Higher Education

“…In effect, the course design observes the case made by advocates of enhanced digital texts, particularly what they can offer in hypermedia resources. And the course reflects the "long view" of the subject (Mabe, 2010). Such an approach was named too as essential to how we see the scientific and scholarly "threshold" to the future:…”

Communicating science in international English: scholarly journals, publication praxis, language domain loss and benefits

“…Journals' count raised along the years so that by 1996 about 165,000 periodicals of different types (that is un-refereed and refereed) were printed. 250,000 periodicals were said to be published in 2005, with an additional figure of 4,300 open access journals (van Dalen & Klamer, 2005;Larsen & von Ins, 2010;Mabe andAmin, 2001 &2002;Ware & Mabe, 2009 The bulk of research published in online-only journals and in self-archiving repositories is predicted to grow not only because it is encouraged by digitalization procedures but also because a different attitude on the researchers' part is evident (Swan & Brown, 2005). In recent surveys on the impact of open access journals (Björk, Welling et al, 2010) and on the role played by English (Ferguson, 2007;Ferguson et al, 2011), researchers showed that in some disciplines, e.g.…”

Understanding end‐users in academic book publishing

“…These range from background studies of the scholarly 'ecosystem' within which researchers operate to more detailed studies of researcher behaviour and attitudes. [15][16][17] Major studies of researcher behaviour include those conducted by CIBER Research Limited, the Research Information Network (RIN), and the Publishing Research Consortium in collaboration with publishers such as Elsevier. [18][19][20][21][22][23] These studies, for example, analyse typical research workflows 24 and findings have recently been reviewed in van Baren.…”