Now available at Journal of Scholarly Publishing Online
Journal of Scholarly Publishing Volume 41, Number 2 / January 2010 is now
available at http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/n82724057467/.
This issue contains:
Publishing as <http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/p023jg46v27l13r3/>
a Vocation
Irving Louis Horowitz
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Abstract: ‘Publishing as a Vocation’ relates a series of policy decisions
and episodes that exemplify the politics of publishing. The emphasis is on
case studies that confront scholarly publishers with the political,
community, and ideological forces that each must confront in quotidian ways.
The essay, written in the spirit of Max Weber's ‘Science as a Vocation,’ is
non-judgemental, but making it clear that manuscript decisions extend far
beyond the quality of the works accepted, rejected, or cancelled in a
volatile academic and intellectual setting. It is hoped for, rather than
argued, that once these extrinsic parameters are confronted, the nature of
the service to the professional worlds being served can be understood, and
perhaps significantly improved in a new publishing context.
Judging <http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/076807036544p52u/>
Journal Prices
Colin Day
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Abstract: Journal prices have long been a matter of controversy. Lacking has
been any objective information on costs that could be used to judge whether
price increases have been justified by rising costs. Using a rare, publicly
available set of data for the American Economic Review, the premier journal
in economics, this article normalizes costs for number of issues per annum,
number of pages per issue, and print quantities per issue to construct an
index for the costs of producing this journal. It shows that costs have in
fact increased more slowly than the general rate of inflation and argues
that the cost experience of this journal provides a reference point for
academic journals generally.
Launching a <http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/g1582g7m42018711/>
New Academic Journal: Twenty Years Later
Charles C. Fischer
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Abstract: This article is a retrospective, examining two decades of my
tenure as editor-in-chief of a prominent management journal—my successes,
failures, and lessons learned. The article offers insights and suggestions
for those launching a new journal and those new to editing a journal. Some
of the ideas presented may also be of interest to the experienced editor,
such as the use of an administrative fee instead of a submission fee and a
new twist on page fees. The guiding theme is that of the editor as a servant
leader.
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Search Engine Optimization (
Jöran Beel, Bela Gipp, Erik Eilde
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Abstract: This article introduces and discusses the concept of academic
search engine optimization (ASEO). Based on three recently conducted
studies, guidelines are provided on how to optimize scholarly literature for
academic search engines in general, and for Google Scholar in particular. In
addition, we briefly discuss the risk of researchers' illegitimately
‘over-optimizing’ their articles.
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and Looming Tsunami
Philippe C. Baveye
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Abstract: Recession is currently causing a resurgence of the academic
serials crisis. Profit-mongering by commercial publishers is once again
denounced as the key driver of the crisis. However, a critical analysis of
institutional and bibliometric data does not reveal excessive corporate
greed in recent years; instead, it suggests that the present hurdles stem
largely from years of inadequate budget allocations to academic libraries
and from a publishing frenzy fuelled by simplistic methods of evaluating
faculty productivity. To prevent what is likely to be the publishing
equivalent of a tsunami in the next few years, universities and research
institutions urgently need to re-emphasize quality over quantity in the
publishing process, and they must find ways to include peer-reviewing
efficiency among their criteria for productivity and impact. Achieving these
goals will require concerted efforts by researchers, librarians, and
publishers.
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on an Emergent Specialization
Jean-Pierre V.M. Hérubel
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Abstract: The historical profession and its attendant scholarship are
composed of different specializations and sub-disciplines. Among these,
political, economic, and social history are well known. Recently, historical
research has encompassed such fields as environmental, gender, and ethnic
history to complement such diverse specialties as history of science,
history of technology, and history of exploration. In the past twenty years,
cultural history has emerged in France, with characteristics that have
engaged newly honed orientations toward the historical examination of
cultural production and cultural objects, if not processes. Informed by
philosophical and historiographic analysis, as well as by interdisciplinary
interventions in historical research and scholarship, contemporary French
cultural history focuses on the history of publishing, scholarship, mass
media and spectacles, libraries, and museums, as well as opera and music.
Not confined to these, contemporary French cultural history privileges
specialization in nineteenth- and twentieth-century French phenomena, in the
main, but its historiographic innovation and publication extend to an
international audience. This cursory and exploratory essay attempts to
situate contemporary French cultural history as a specialization and as a
vector in the contemporary historiographic landscape.
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William W. Savage, Jr.
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Reviews <http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/3672536727187087/>
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