Scholarly Publishing: The Electronic Frontier(The MIT Press)

Scholarly publishing is changing and the changes will have an impact on all members of the academic community and on how they will go about creating and maintaining scholarship. Scholarly Publishing: The Electronic Frontier examines the critical issues facing universities, academics, libraries, and scholarly presses in the turbulent time when publishing is likely moving from a print to an electronic paradigm. The essays by all of the major participants in this "electronic revolution" explore the technical, social, and organizational impact of computer-mediated communication. They examine both ends of the continuum and everything in between—from how the system might be completely overhauled to a gradual retrenching where much remains the same but paper is no longer the communication medium. Some of the subjects, implicit in the various possible futures for scholarly publishing and covered here, include the role of the library with respect to electronic publications, protection of intellectual and economic property, and plagiarism.

Table of Contents:
Scholarly publishing, the new frontiers, Robin Peek; how genres of analysis shape the character of alternate visions for electronic publishing and digital libraries, Rob Kling and Roberta Lamb; the impact of electronic publishing on the academic community, Robert Silverman; the seminar, the encyclopedia, and the eco museum as the future forms of scholarly electronic publishing, Jean-Claude Guedon; tragic loss or good riddance? the impending demise of traditional scholarly journals, Andrew Odlyzko; the role of sky-writing in scholarly communication, Stevan Harnad; the economic quandary of the network publisher, Brian Hayes; the integrity of digital information, Clifford A. Lynch; the university press in the electronic future, Lisa Freeman; synopsis of a study prepared for the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation - university libraries and scholarly communication, Ann Okerson; a consortium for refereed electronic journals, Larry Hurtado; revolutionary or regressive - the politics of managing electronic information, Marlene Manoff; electronic publishers and electronic journals, Janet Fisher; the challenges of electronic text in the library - bibliographic control and access, Rebecca Guenther; scholarly communication in the network environment, Brian Kahin; where electronic publications and television programmes are really computer programmes, Patrice Lyons; teleread - a virtual central database without "big brother", David H. Rothman.