Book details of 'Scholarly Publishing: The Electronic Frontier'

Title	Scholarly Publishing: The Electronic Frontier
Author(s)	Robin P. Peek, Gregory B. Newby, James E. Rush
ISBN	0262161575
Language	English
Publisher	MIT Press

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Reviewer Rob Slade wrote:
This book looks at the advantages, disadvantages, likelihood, and ramifications of the electronic publication of academic papers. In a series of essays, it examines a wide variety of related issues. Points addressed include the impact of electronic publishing on scholarly life, different forms, affect on traditional journals, peer review, economics, integrity, libraries, politics, management, citation, and copyright. Some articles deal in more depth than others, but all raise serious issues. A number of times pieces echo each other, but this repetition serves to indicate what agreement does exist on the major topics. copyright Robert M. Slade, 1997
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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. From Current Cities Magazine, Volume 7, No. 4, April 1996