Rowly Lorimer's dream
of a scholarly publishing cooperative is, as I write, not yet a reality.
Let's begin with recent moves by Elsevier, the largest
of scholarly publishing corporations with over 2,000 journals, and the American Chemical Society, among the richest of the non-profit societies.
The traditional system
of scholarly publishing is broken and no longer supportable; and hence, the «open access» movement for the publishing of scholarly works.
For my part, I would be both surprised and disappointed to see any significant diminution in the volume of legal publishing that is undertaken but I would be surprised if the pace of change in formats and methods of communication, perhaps with, to some extent, a reduction in the amount
of scholarly publishing, are not likely outcomes.
A former editor - in - chief
of the scholarly publishing company AMS Press, he holds degrees from Indiana University, Ohio University, and Antioch College.
«It was a really small bill with a potentially really big impact,» said panelist Heather Joseph, executive director
of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), an international coalition of academic and research libraries.
I've been writing about e-books since the early 1990s and am the author of the TeleRead chapter
of Scholarly Publishing: The Electronic Frontier (MIT / ASIS), where I call for a well - stocked national digital library system carefully integrated with schools and libraries --- and the popularization of book - friendly hardware.
A. I think this is the nature
of scholarly publishing!
Now, a new paper in the Journal
of Scholarly Publishing reports the problem may be even more widespread.
Most critically, it doesn't adequately address the reuse rights needed for the public to do more than simply read individual articles,» says Heather Joseph, executive director
of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC).
«I'm disappointed,» says Heather Joseph, executive director
of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), a Washington, D.C. — based group which represents academic libraries.
«The new language fixes a major problem,» the 24 - month embargo, said Heather Joseph, executive director
of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition in Washington, D.C., in a statement today.
One panel member, YoungSuk Chi, vice-chairman and managing director of global academic and customer relations for Amsterdam - based Elsevier, dissented from the report, saying that it supports «an overly expansive role of government and advocates approaches to the business
of scholarly publishing that I believe are overly prescriptive.»
But to a few it is a discouraging sign that open access is not about to take over the world
of scholarly publishing.
But even as the major functions
of scholarly publishing march on, scholars, publishers and librarians start to ask, «What does the future of the scholarly journal look like?»
Not exact matches
A study
published in Proceedings
of the National Academy
of Sciences found that, when asked to rate junior scientists based on
scholarly accomplishments and job interview performance, academics in the traditionally male - dominated STEM fields rated female candidates as being more hireable than their equally qualified male applicants.
Published every two months, the online edition
of the publication includes links to all
of the
scholarly articles within.
To learn the ins and outs
of hospitality, he went to the Cornell Hospitality Quarterly, a
scholarly journal
published by the Cornell University School
of Hotel Administration.
A typical Netflix user may lose interest unless something interesting is found within 60 seconds, two employees
of the Los Gatos, California - based company wrote in a paper
published in a
scholarly journal last year.
He has
published articles in leading
scholarly journals, including Journal
of Economic Behavior & Organization, Economic Inquiry, Public Choice, and Quarterly Review
of Economics and Finance.
Now we have them in a fresh translation,
published as volumes X and XV
of Kierkegaard's Writings, a major project under the direction
of Howard V. and Edna H. Hong
of St. Olaf College and an International Advisory Board to bring out «a definitive, systematically translated,
scholarly edition»
of Søren Kierkegaard's works.
At his request, I would send him various recently
published scholarly works on Shakespeare and in return he'd send me eighteenth - century Russian woodcuts, one
of which hangs in my apartment to this day.
Today we see a much less appealing professorial personality at large: someone who dresses up ill - informed political diatribes in the finery
of «discourse analysis» and
publishes them in what were formerly thought
of as
scholarly journals.
His
published works include hundreds
of scholarly articles and more than 30 books, most recently The Arab Christian and Palestine: The Prize and Price
of Zion.
And keep your eyes open: I'll be
publishing another list
of fiction favourites to empower women, a list for empowering young girls, and another one for the more
scholarly / theological / academic folks among us in the next week or two!
Despite the timeliness
of the abortion question, and the relevance and potency
of Hartshorne's views, no
scholarly work has been
published on this area
of his thought.
the evidences cited above are all from a
scholarly book
published in 1975 — and all
of which speak directly to the contrary
of the supposed «absence»
of evidence necessary to generate this «headline.»
In light
of Lewis's long and distinguished career, encompassing so many contributions to process philosophy, many readers may have forgotten that Ford began his intellectual career as a Tillichian, writing his dissertation at Yale over thirty - five years ago on «The Ontological Foundation
of Paul Tillich's Theory
of Religious Symbol,» and
publishing his first several
scholarly articles in the early 1960s in distinguished journals like the Journal
of the History
of Philosophy and the Journal
of Religion on aspects
of Tillich's thought.
I have retraced and reviewed these conversations, and attempted to assess their contribution to our contemporary understanding
of process metaphysics, in a number
of other works (e.g., The Rehabilitation
of Whitehead, «The Compositional History
of Whitehead's Writings,» «Outside the Camp: Recent Work in Whitehead's Philosophy»), which help contextualize historically the many contributions Ford has made in over 100
scholarly articles
published during the past three decades.
Such
scholarly journals as the Restoration Quarterly are
publishing a number
of articles whose historical and theological concerns extend far beyond the old rubrics
of biblical exegesis and the history
of the restoration movement.
Neither
of us, I think, was quite certain just what contribution I might be making to the enterprise, but I was a reasonably educated and reasonably pious» though hardly properly observant» Jew who had worked for many years as an editor, and since Religion and Public Life had recently begun
publishing First Things, I suppose it was thought that I was qualified to add some, albeit hardly
scholarly, expertise to the enterprise.
The only new angle here is the decision to
publish a complete edition
of the gospels that seeks to represent schematically a
scholarly consensus about the authenticity
of each individual sentence attributed to Jesus.
Its author, Joel Roache, teaches English at the University
of Maryland and has
published a book and a number
of scholarly articles.
She found great resistance to
publishing her findings in peer reviewed journals, with only the one
scholarly reference in a journal (18) and the rest
of her findings
published in a chapter
of a book and her own book.
Coontz perpetuates the false dichotomy
of «working» v. «at - home mothers,» contradicts her own writing from just two years ago, and ignores evidence
published in
scholarly journals.
NHERI executes, evaluates, and disseminates studies and information (e.g., statistics, facts, data) on homeschooling (i.e., home schooling, home - based education, home education, home school, home - schooling, unschooling, deschooling, a form
of alternative education),
publishes reports and the peer - reviewed
scholarly journal Home School Researcher, and serves in consulting, academic achievement tests, and expert witness (in courts and legislatures).
• The government official (who spoke to me off the record) who publicly and vociferously advocates for vaccines and has
published peer - reviewed
scholarly articles about the benefits
of childhood vaccination but who privately chose not to vaccinate his youngest child.
His
scholarly write - ups have been
published in international journals such as Human Rights Quarterly (US), Journal
of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics (UK), African Affairs (UK), and Review
of Human Factor Studies (Canada).
[6] In academic fields the day
of the amateur author gave way to the research professor who
published in the new
scholarly journals and presses.
July 21, 2011:
Scholarly Journal
Publishes Article on How California Would be Changed if it Used Proportional Representation July 21, 2011: Utah Republican Party Vice-Chair Testifies in Favor
of Instant Runoff Voting
July 21, 2011:
Scholarly Journal
Publishes Article on How California Would be Changed if it Used Proportional Representation July 21, 2011: Sacramento Bee Runs Op - Ed Advocating Proportional Voting Systems July 21, 2011: Utah Republican Party Vice-Chair Testifies in Favor
of Instant Runoff Voting
As associate professor and first - author Johan Bollen writes in an e-mail to Science Careers, they wanted their new system to «enable scientists to set their own priorities, fund scientists... not projects, avoid proposal writing and reviewing, avoid administrative burdens, encourage all scientists to participate collectively in the definition
of scientific priorities, encourage innovation, reward scientists that make significant contributions to data, software, methods, and systems, avoid funding death spirals (no funding - > no research - > no funding) but still reward high levels
of productivity, create the proper incentives for
scholarly communication (
publishing to communicate, not to improve bibliometrics), enable funding
of daring and risky research, and so on.»
Evidence
of the foreign scientist?s authorship
of scholarly books or articles
published by
scholarly journals with an international circulation in the academic field.
The agencies together receive about US$ 60 billion in federal research dollars each year, with about half going to the NIH, so the number
of papers available annually could double under the proposal, says Heather Joseph, another petition leader and executive director
of the pro-open access
Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, based in Washington DC.
This picture
of growing distance between
scholarly «haves» and «have nots» emerges from a study by Ajay K. Agrawal
of the University
of Toronto (U
of T), John McHale
of Queen's University, and Alexander Oettl
of the Georgia Institute
of Technology, which examined decades
of research output by everyone
publishing in a particular scientific field.
Scholarly scientific
publishing has a lot
of traditions that are not transparent to the reader such as peer review or the non-payment
of authors.
With a Ph.D. in mathematics and as a former professor
of statistics at the university where he now holds a full professorship in computer science, he is one
of very few technology experts to have contributed a long, invited
scholarly article to a law journal
published by a leading law school.
The foursome thus includes deep expertise and insight into the inner workings
of the research enterprise, including laboratory management, university administration, scientific
publishing,
scholarly associations, and major funding agencies.
Open Access: In
scholarly publishing (including peer - reviewed scientific journals), the practice
of making all journal articles available free.
In 2008 Chinese scientists were
publishing almost six times as many
scholarly articles as they did in 1996; today about 10 percent
of the world's articles come out
of China.