This dynamic, innovative, evolving and open platform will publish contributions connected to the AHRC/British Library project, The Academic Book of the Future, which has been investigating key aspects of scholarly publishing for the last two years, led by a team of academics from UCL and Kings College London. The platform, which presents the content in the form of a BOOC (Books as Open Online Content), will grow during 2017/18 as more content is created, and will allow different ways to explore and share the ideas and discussions.
Authors from all areas of the academic, publishing, bookselling and library communities discuss aspects of scholarly books and their possible futures: for example, the role of the editor, peer review, academic bookshops and libraries, open access, digital publishing and technology. The content – in a range of peer-reviewed formats including videos, blogs, chapters and reports – presents a fascinating variety of insights into the constantly evolving contexts of the academic book and will be of interest to anyone working in the HE sector and the publishing industry, and, indeed, to anyone interested in how ideas are disseminated to a wider general audience.
Praise for Academic Book of the Future
'[A] rich new source ...For collection development specialists, interested in how our users access and learn about our resources, and what we might be thinking of trying to improve upon, this resource is something I would keep reading, since it will only improve over time. What it offers now is a variety of interesting research in areas we work in.'
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Samantha J. Rayner is Director, Centre for Publishing, and Reader in Publishing at UCL. She was Principal Investigator on the AHRC/British Library Academic Book of the Future Project. Rebecca Lyons is a Teaching Associate at the University of Bristol. Between 2015 and 2017, she was a Research Associate on the AHRC/ British Library Academic Book of the Future Project.
Introduction to Academic Book of the Future (https://goo.gl/uLPLwm)
Samantha J. Rayner
Open Access Book Publishing and the Prisoner’s Dilemma: A Theoretical Approach to a Description of the slow scalability of Open Access Book Publishing (https://goo.gl/L9gQJ5)
Marcel Knöchelmann
The Academic Book of the Future and Its Readers: Issues and Opportunities of Onscreen Reading (https://goo.gl/fXqSh9)
Silvia Pirola
Academic Book Discovery, Evaluation and Access: A Report (https://goo.gl/isiB1N)
Anna Faherty
The Academic Book in the South: Conference Report (https://goo.gl/JLNY9C)
Stephanie Kitchen
The (Open) Academic Book of the Future (https://goo.gl/kKZB7z)
Sarah Lippincott
American Mathematical Society: Publishing Maths in the USA (https://goo.gl/nEaAG9)
Robert Harrington
What is the Point of the Academic Book? Part One (https://goo.gl/4gx1rD)
Rebecca Lyons
What is the Point of the Academic Book? Part Two (https://goo.gl/3zYPv5)
Mari Shullaw
What is the Future for the Academic Book? (https://goo.gl/DeAYjQ)
Sussex Research Hive
The Future of the Academic Book in the USA (https://goo.gl/jwKZk7)
Amy Brand, Anne Brackenbury, Robert Harington, Sarah Lippincott and moderated by Sheila Bond
My Acts of Reading (https://goo.gl/7njduA)
Andrew Prescott
Students and the Digital Edition: A Polemic (https://goo.gl/YLFQAs)
Stephen Gregg
Open Access and Academic Publishing (https://goo.gl/39dU2p)
Ian Lovecy
Open Access: A Personal Take (https://goo.gl/TKvo6r)
Alastair Horne
Towards an Ethics of Circulation: A Manifesto in Tweets (https://goo.gl/cYyAtQ)
Haidy Geismar
Creative Writing Theses: Discoverability and Open Access (https://goo.gl/8UCTD5)
Rebecca Lyons
What is the Future for the Academic Book? BSECS 2016 Storify (https://goo.gl/LPyJmP)
Github notes on What is the Future for the Academic Book? (https://goo.gl/iXREKK)
James Baker
The Academic Book in the South (Storify) (https://goo.gl/RUoixE)
What is the Point of the Academic Book? BSECS Panel Storify (https://goo.gl/8sucUW)
Lincoln’s [Im]Possible Constellations (https://goo.gl/g6BexR)
Paul Moore
Lincoln’s [Im]Possible Constellations (https://goo.gl/TwSvPT)
Catherine Grant
Lincoln’s [Im]Possible Constellations(https://goo.gl/MxhqXv)
Karen Savage
Lincoln’s [Im]Possible Constellations (https://goo.gl/ZcvmGP)
Mikey Murray
Publishers Address the Academic Book of the Future (https://goo.gl/uD2ghy)
Amy Brand, Anne Brackenbury, Robert Harington, Sarah Lippincott and moderated by Sheila Bond
What is the Future for the Academic Book? – Video recording of a panel (https://goo.gl/7wksqf)
Caroline Basset, Kiren Shoman, Martin Eve
Academic Publishing in the South: The Ghanaian Experience (https://goo.gl/58Udjz)
Akoss Ofori-Mensah
New Directions, New Models (https://goo.gl/E2hjPa)
Abhijit Gupta and Padmini Ray Murray
Panel Discussion: Academic Authorship and Knowledge Production (https://goo.gl/2qHtjp)
Stephanie Kitchen, Insa Nolte & Padmini Ray Murray
Panel Discussion: The Role of Libraries and Archives (https://goo.gl/TvMQoD)
Gillian Evison, Francis Gotto & James Lowry
Final Panel Discussion & Concluding Comments (https://goo.gl/qHhSPw)
Ola Uduku
Panel: The Role of Libraries and Archives (https://goo.gl/onTQgq)
Nureldin Satti
The Academic Book of the Future Project Film https://goo.gl/gp9kce
Panel: Academic Authorship and Knowledge Production (https://goo.gl/UokVb9)
Sari Hanafi
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Format: Open Access HTML
ISBN: 9781911307679
Publication: June 22, 2017