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Journal of Scholarly Publishing 

Volume 43, Number 1, October 2011 

now available at http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/p2r53406n422/

This issue contains: 

 

University Press Forum 2011

Rebecca Ann Bartlett 

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Choice's Compilation of Significant University Press Titles for
Undergraduates, 2010–2011

Tom Radko     

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What I've Learned about Revising a Dissertation

James Mulholland       

 

The structural changes in higher education and scholarly publishing have
raised new questions about the usefulness of the dissertation as precursor
to scholarly publication. This essay reconsiders the process of turning a
dissertation into a book manuscript. Recent manuals about dissertation
writing like From Dissertation to Book and Revising Your Dissertation are
helpful but often provide overly broad conceptualizations about how to
assess a dissertation and revise it into a book. Likewise, academics tend to
describe the revision process in conceptual terms by focusing on too
impressionistic ways of distinguishing the difference between a dissertation
and a book. In addition, they spend surprisingly little time discussing the
methods and techniques of writing and revision that authors actually use.
Drawing from my own recent experience as an example, I offer practical
advice as well as theoretical reflections on the research and writing
process by which dissertations can become book manuscripts.

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The Scholarly Book Review in the Humanities

John W. East  

 

This article examines the status of the book review as a form of scholarly
publication in the humanities, looking at the role and characteristics of
humanities book reviews and at who writes them and why. It examines evidence
for the influence and impact of book reviews in the humanities and makes
suggestions for the future of the scholarly book review in an online
information environment.

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Journal des Savants

Claude H. Potts           

 

As more books, journals, and newspapers make the inevitable transition to
the electronic format, academics get the sense that the only scholarly
materials one really needs can be found in the digital realm. Through the
imagined voice of the Journal des Savants—the world's oldest scholarly
journal still active today—this article brings to the surface valid concerns
about print scarcity, familiar terrain for not only Europeanists but for
anyone who works in area studies. It objects to conventional metrics for
determining scholarly value and reconfirms known perils of relying solely on
the mass-digitization efforts of Google Books. Most importantly, the article
questions an over-reliance on digital preservation repositories such as
LOCKSS, CLOCKSS, Portico, and HathiTrust—key players in the so-called Cloud
Library, or external network of trusted digital library collection and
service providers. The push toward cloud-sourced collections comes at a time
when research libraries are hastily embarking on ambitious cooperative
regional initiatives to systematically de-duplicate their costly,
problematic, redundant, and very much terrestrial print collections.

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Exploring How Library Publishing Services Facilitate Scholarly Communication

Ji-Hong Park, Jiyoung Shim  

 

Scholarly publishing plays a critical role in promotion, tenure, scholarly
recognition, and certification of research quality at academic institutions.
Given the importance of scholarly publishing, several libraries have
launched library publishing services to support formal and informal
scholarly communication. Despite the growing popularity and the benefits of
library publishing services, few studies have explored the relationship
between library publishing services and scholarly communication. This study
aims to identify and examine the factors of library publishing services that
facilitate scholarly communication. Based on Roosendaal and Geurts's (1997)
four functions of scholarly communication, this study analyses and
categorizes the library publishing services of eight research university
libraries in North America. The registration function is reflected in
publishing, intellectual property, and licensing services. The archiving
function is reflected in digitization and repository services. The
certification function is reflected in expert review and research support
services. The awareness function is reflected in knowledge-sharing-platform
and search aid services.

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Appraising Internationality in Spanish Communication Journals

David Fernández-Quijada       

 

This article explores how journals published in a language other than
English achieve a degree of internationality and can increase our knowledge
of scientific publication patterns. This author offers a case study focused
on Spanish communication journals from a sample of 1182 articles published
from 2007 to 2009. The article examines three variables in this sample: the
number of non-Spanish scholars, the use of languages other than Spanish, and
how often non-Spanish journals are referred to. The results show that (a)
these journals find it difficult to attract foreign scholars, (b)
open-language policies have had a limited effect, and (c) internationality
is constrained to the Spanish geolinguistic region.

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Making the Journal Abstract More Concrete

James Hartley            

 

This article describes how the author, when compiling sets of abstracts for
psychology teachers, began to realize that such abstracts needed to be made
more concrete if they were to be more helpful for their readers. Three
examples are provided.

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Reviews

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Letter to the Editor

Robert Hauptman       

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