Scholarly communication : what everyone needs to know / Rick Anderson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anderson, Rick, 1965- author.

Series:

What everyone needs to know.

What everyone needs to know

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Scholarly publishing.

Academic writing.

Authors and publishers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2020.

Summary:

The internet has transformed the ways in which scholars and scientists share their findings with each other and the world, creating a scholarly communication environment that is both radically more complex and tremendously more effective than was the case just a few years ago. 'Scholarly Communication' offers an accessible overview of the current landscape, examining the state of affairs in the worlds of journal and book publishing, copyright law, emerging access models, digital archiving, university presses, metadata and much more.

Contents:

Definitions and history

Who are the scholars and why do they communicate?

What does the scholarly communication marketplace look like?

What is scholarly publication and what does it look like?

What is the role of copyright?

The role(s) of the library

The role of the university press

Google books and Hathitrust

Needs and practices in STEM and HSS

Metrics and altmetrics

Metadata and why it matters

Open access challenges and opportunities

Problems and controversies

The future of scholarly communication

Conclusion.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-063947-4

0-19-756939-0

0-19-063946-6

OCLC:

1004981802