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Journal of Scholarly Publishing 

Volume 44, Number 1, October 2012 

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This issue contains: 

 

University Press Forum 2012

Rebecca Ann Bartlett 

 

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Choice's Compilation of Significant University Press Titles for
Undergraduates, 2011–2012

Tom Radko     

 

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The Church and Peer Review: Was ‘Peer’ Review Fairer, More Honest Then Than
Now?

Thomas H. P. Gould   

 

The traditional thought regarding peer review tends to be that it started
with the establishment of the academy, sometime around 1650. It is a
reasonable presumption that to have peer review one needs first to have
peers. However, the actual review of works certainly occurred long before
1650. Of some importance is the nature of that review that took place prior
to the appearance of universities in Bologna and Paris. The standard (and
misapplied) logic is that the Church wielded a heavy hand on all publishing,
acting as a restraint on inappropriate works prior to their publication.
This is not wholly true, however. The Church is best known for its
suppression of works post-publication. In a way, it acted as a critic,
offering its advice to authors who it found proposed errant ideas and
suggesting they might wish to recant and return to good standing. This is
interesting when cast in today's peer-review environment. The author
suggests that much can be learned from the Church's method of dealing with
scholarship, especially in a world of e-reserves. Should we ditch the
traditional peer-review method and go back to a publish-then-evaluate system
used by the Holy See? In large part, the author argues that unless the
academy is willing to cure the perceived ills of peer review and do so soon,
the question will be answered in the affirmative, with or without our
agreement.

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Editing Academic Books in the Humanities and Social Sciences: Maximizing
Impact for Effort

Louise Edwards          

 

This article explores the difficulties commonly experienced by academics
seeking to edit multi-chapter, multi-contributor edited volumes. Edited
volumes play important intellectual and community-building roles in the
Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) sector. Yet these significant positive
contributions are not always apparent to or valued by tenure and promotion
committees. The article identifies several key problems editors face in the
formulation and execution of their volumes. It aims to assist prospective
editors in ensuring that the time spent editing or co-editing a book remains
proportional to the likely return for effort. The article concludes with the
argument that the recent emergence of Google Scholar Citations will enable
HSS-sector academics to break free of the hegemony of the science-based
model for quality assurance that privileges Institute for Scientific
Information (ISI) journal articles and will reveal the considerable impact
of edited volumes and therefore increase their value as markers of quality
scholarship.

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British Scholarly Journals on Film Studies: Study and Evaluation of Their
Internationality

Susana Torrado Morales, Elea Giménez Toledo       

 

In the United Kingdom, the journal Screen has since the 1950s been the main
bibliographic source for the theorists of cinema. At the moment, there are
other journals in this area which are making room for themselves in the
global arena of film publications. This article studies the
internationality—nowadays a key factor in the process of scientific
evaluation—of sixteen British film journals as part of an ongoing research
project on the evolution of criteria used to measure the quality of
scientific journals in the period 2008–2012. In order to measure their level
of internationality, four indicators are studied: presence in national and
international databases, internationality of both editorial and scientific
boards, internationality of contributions, and, finally, the existence of
peer-review evaluation in the selection process of the manuscripts.

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Book Reviews

 

Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the
Future of the Academy, reviewed by Sanford G. Thatcher

 

Jeffrey Kahan, Getting Published in the Humanities: What to Know, Where to
Aim, How to Succeed, reviewed by Steven E. Gump

 

Darcy Cullen, Editors, Scholars, and the Social Text, reviewed by Willis
Regier

 

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Letter to the Editor

Stephen K. Donovan  

 

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