Now available at Journal of Scholarly Publishing Online

 

Journal of Scholarly Publishing Volume 42, Number 1 / October 2010 is now available at http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/l25130850825/.

 

This issue contains:

 

The Market Demand for University Press Books

Albert N. Greco, Robert M. Wharton

Abstract: This article analyzes important US university press net publishers' revenue and net publishers' unit datasets and e-book revenues for 2008–9. Data for net publishers' revenues, net publishers' units, and digital e-book revenues for higher education textbooks, professional and scholarly books, and consumer e-books were also evaluated covering the years 2008–9.

Drawing on important economic data projections and the publicly available competitive print and digital strategies crafted by competitors in the consumer, higher education, and professional and scholarly sectors, the authors develop net publishers' revenue and unit projections for all of these book categories for 2010–15.

The university press data sets reveal unsettling declines in revenues and units for 2008–2015. Addressing these declines, the authors conclude with a brief series of recommendations, including the rapid adoption of a digital ‘e-book’ business model in order to reposition the presses in what is becoming a digital book marketplace.

 

http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/cq3nr5271r466g6l/?p=c12434b31b0b4c99b8425ff89702bf56&pi=0

DOI: 10.3138/jsp.42.1.1

 

Blog to the Future?

Angus Phillips

Abstract: A variety of current developments are creating questions over present models of publishing and scholarly communication. Will new journals continue to be launched? Will open-access developments such as subject or institutional repositories reach a tipping point at which libraries will start to cancel journal subscriptions? Is the journal article too static a mechanism, by comparison to the ways in which scholars are able to interact using blogs and wikis? Steadily emerging is a new future for the journal as part of an overall network of knowledge creation and scholarly communication. We are moving away from a world in which a few producers generate content to transmit to a set of users. Instead, the world of knowledge creation has a variety of routes through which research can be disseminated and feedback mechanisms facilitated by a range of collaborative tools.

 

http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/c59l03j5g6420780/?p=c12434b31b0b4c99b8425ff89702bf56&pi=1

DOI: 10.3138/jsp.42.1.16

 

Where Will the Next Generation of Publishers Come From?

Alison Baverstock

Abstract: This essay considers how publishing (the concept and the associated industry) is understood within society and how to spread understanding of both the processes involved and the job opportunities available. It examines traditional publishing recruitment practices and the skills and competencies sought. It considers the role of publishing within the academy, its arrival and reception, and how this is changing as more sector-specific research is published. It looks at course content on an international basis, how this matches the skills likely to be needed by future publishers, and the role of the work placement. Finally, it examines the process of widening and diversifying recruitment, as well as the practical measures being taken to assist in this process. The author makes a series of recommendations on how to spread understanding of the publishing industry and present it as an attractive option to the future workforce; promote a move to meet the needs of a wider cross-section of society through encouraging more people to read and gain the quantified benefits thereof; prioritize excellence in information management and dissemination; and spread the habit of buying published resources beyond traditional markets.

 

http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/vlj95265524g7071/?p=c12434b31b0b4c99b8425ff89702bf56&pi=2

DOI: 10.3138/jsp.42.1.31

 

 

 

Journal Identity in the Digital Age

Bonnie Wheeler

 

http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/m78202759205xn42/?p=c12434b31b0b4c99b8425ff89702bf56&pi=3

DOI: 10.3138/jsp.42.1.45

 

Reviews

http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/67730873056nn301/?p=c12434b31b0b4c99b8425ff89702bf56&pi=4

DOI: 10.3138/jsp.42.1.89

 

 

 

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