{"id":4305,"date":"2009-12-07T03:34:11","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T03:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=4305"},"modified":"2009-12-07T03:34:11","modified_gmt":"2009-12-07T03:34:11","slug":"evolving-academic-publishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2009\/12\/07\/evolving-academic-publishing\/","title":{"rendered":"Evolving academic publishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kyle Grayson <a href=\"http:\/\/www.martincoward.net\/2009\/12\/the-future-of-academic-journals-in-a-digital-age\/\">summarises his thinking<\/a> as&#8230; &#8220;part of an ad hoc working group with colleagues from Newcastle and Durham Universities that has been exploring the future of academic publishing&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;in the social sciences and humanities, low citation rates and impact factors &mdash; even for leading journals &mdash; that in part reflect the inability to capture a broad audience within an academic discipline, let alone establish a readership with practitioners and\/or the general public&#8221; [&#8230;] &#8220;our research findings on the broader trends in media publishing in general, and scholarly publishing in particular, demonstrate that there are problems emerging over the horizon&#8221; [&#8230;] &#8220;staying the course&#8221; &mdash; in terms of content, public interface, and revenue models &mdash; will lead to negative outcomes within a decade&#8217;s time.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He suggests certain immediate remedies&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>* implementing <strong>a dynamic journal website<\/strong> &#8230; where content is regularly updated * <strong>audio and video recordings<\/strong> of keynote speeches, lectures, interviews, or discussions * <strong>on-line book reviews<\/strong> [&#8230;] invite contributions from the wider readership * <strong>blogs<\/strong> run by the editorial team and\/or other members at large * <strong>alerting potential users<\/strong> of content [<em>with<\/em>] updates through social networking tools like email, Twitter, Facebook, and RSS feeds<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To which I might add things like&#8230; * a collaborative subject-specific Custom Search Engine * simple &#8220;plain english&#8221; summaries of all articles (not the same thing as abstracts) * a curated &#8220;overlay&#8221; ejournal, linking to free repository content * Amazon pages for all monographs * translate all abstracts into Chinese, Japanese, and Spanish * a concerted campaign to get backlinks to your website * consider purchasing a good $50 template for the journal (it&#8217;s not just about the frequency of updating, but about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/swish-templates\/15447.html\">how stylish it feels<\/a>) * really good photography of the participants<\/p>\n<p>Backlinks are particularly important.  For instance, the journal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.library.vanderbilt.edu\/Quaderno\/\">Quaderno<\/a> which I found yesterday.  It&#8217;s six full issues of a free academic journal from a reputable university, on interesting aspects of early American history, in a country that&#8217;s teeming with re-enactors and amateur historians.  Yet, according to Google, it has not a <em>single<\/em> inbound link &mdash; not even from other academic sites. It&#8217;s been online since 2004.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyle Grayson summarises his thinking as&#8230; &#8220;part of an ad hoc working group with colleagues from Newcastle and Durham Universities &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2009\/12\/07\/evolving-academic-publishing\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotted-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}