Daniel Smith,
head of academic publishing at the IET, explains: «Inspec is as much to do with the quality of content, from journal articles, conference proceedings, books and video, as the quantity of its records.
BERLIN — In a third - floor conference room here overlooking the famous Potsdamer Platz, once bisected by the Berlin Wall, the
future of academic publishing is being negotiated.
There's also the newly formed Author's Alliance, although their noble cause of furthering open access is more appropriate for non-fiction
authors of academic publishing.
«Our mission is to help college students improve their writing, research, and critical thinking,» its website said, but it has been used for a wide
range of academic publishing.
The
core of academic publishing is in textbooks, monographs (detailed written studies, either long or short, of a specific subject) and books intended for an audience mainly outside academia.
Ahead of an Insights Seminar at London Book Fair, SAGE Publishing's Kiren Shoman talks with Copyright Clearance Center's Christopher Kenneally about factors in a digital
transformtion of academic publishing.
However, it's not simply the ebook files that have students and educators clamoring for digital solutions, so much so that Simba Research predicts digital textbooks will make up 14 %
of the academic publishing market by next year.
Apart from a shift of only working from PDF files of ebooks, the market focus of Red Shelf has also shifted to incorporate
more of an academic publishing and sales model.
The number of
cases of academics publishing popular novels rather than scholarly works is small, and most people who do publish fiction publish it pseudonymously....
Jane has worked in a variety of roles within the company, including
Director of Academic Publishing, Editor of The Self Publishing Magazine and Marketing Manager, before becoming the Operations Director in 2013.
Now, McGraw - Hill Education's highly - innovative LearnSmart platform is addressing one of the key obstacles plaguing both professors and students, namely, the proprietary nature
of academic publishing companies.
In «considering the hard - won
lessons of the academic publishing journey,» our FutureBook 2015 programme this month was organised by Bookseller editor Philip Jones to place... Read more
[/ note] In fact, the
pattern of academic publishing rather better supports the contrary view, that perhaps, very widespread academic discussion of adaptation may have supported and enabled climate deniers and vested interests to resist effective mitigation policy in the US and many other countries.
But, I have concerns about the notion that blogging will soon become the choice method of academic communication, or, worse yet, the notion that blogging ought to replace traditional
forms of academic publishing.
The Bitcoin community is sensitive to the possibility of price manipulation because a
team of academics published an article in early January suggesting that the price of Bitcoin was artificially inflated in 2013 by a single player operating on the largest exchange at the time, Mt. Gox.
Discover the ins and
outs of academic publishing in a conversation with Marcel van Aken, Editor of International Journal of Behavioral Development, in our inaugural ISSBD vodcast.
The
world of academic publishing is no stranger to controversy, especially with the requirement from many schools that professors «get published or get out.»