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This study examines the extent of concentration in the journal publishing industry. A number of aspects are considered: publishers, journal impacts, countries, and languages. For journals indexed in JCR from 1997 to 2009, just 0.2% of publishers produce 50% of journals and articles, and 0.3% of publishers account for the top 50% of citations, impact factors and immediacy indices. More than a half of publishers in JCR are from four countries: USA, UK, Germany and Japan. In addition, more than a half of journals come from the USA and UK. Examining the publishers' interactions in terms of buying and selling journals shows the extent of change by acquisition, and the acquisition links between publishers. The findings confirm that the international market of journal publishing is essentially dominated by a few publishers. 相似文献
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Studies from 1977 through 2001 demonstrate that scientists continue to read widely from scholarly journals. Reading of scholarly articles has increased to approximately 120–130 articles per person per year, with engineers reading fewer journal articles on the average and medical faculty reading more. A growing proportion of these readings come from e-prints and other separate copies. Most scientists in a discipline now use electronic journals at least part of the time, with considerable variations among disciplines. Evidence suggests that scientists are reading from a broader range of journals than in the past, influenced by timely electronic publishing and by growth in bibliographic searching and interpersonal communication as means of identifying and locating articles. Although the scholarly journals system has changed dramatically in the past few decades, it is evident that the value scientists place on the information found in scholarly journal articles, whether electronic or print, remains high. 相似文献
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Leo Walford 《Learned Publishing》2000,13(1):49-52
The Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) plays a major part in academic life in the UK. One of its chief measures of ‘research performance’ relates to the publication of articles in refereed scholarly journals. This paper examines the effect of the RAE on the journal publishing system, looking at the communities of authors, editors, and publishers. 相似文献
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Matthew HOWELLS Ashleigh BELL Nicholas EVERITT Jennifer McMILLAN 《Learned Publishing》2009,22(2):109-112
There are enormous quantities of information available to researchers on the Internet, of varying levels of quality. Now, more than ever, it is important that academic publishers make best use of their journals and provide their readers with access to this high‐value content, in a form that can be easily found and used. To that end, Taylor & Francis have taken up the challenge of satisfying researchers' need to have all relevant content available at their fingertips, by digitizing their older journal content, creating subject‐based collections of backfiles and putting them online. This article provides an insight into the ‘why’ and ‘how’ of the process of digitization of Taylor & Francis's journal archives. The fact that these online backfiles are being requested, purchased, and used demonstrates the added value that publishers may hold in their archives. 相似文献
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This study examines the role of learned societies as publishers in Finland based on bibliographic information from two Finnish databases. We studied the share of learned societies' peer‐reviewed publication channels (serials with ISSNs and book publishers with distinct ISBN roots) and outputs (journal articles, conference articles, book articles, and monographs) in Finland. We also studied the share of learned societies' open access (OA) publications. In 2018, there were 402 peer‐reviewed publication channels in Finland. In 2011–2017, the number of peer‐reviewed publications from scholars working in Finnish universities and published in Finland was 17,724. Learned societies publish around 70% of these channels and publications, mostly in the fields of humanities and social sciences. Learned societies in Finland focus on journal publishing, whereas university presses and commercial publishers focus on book publishing. In 2016–2017, 38.4% of the learned societies' outputs were OA. This study concludes that Finnish learned societies play an integral part in national scholarly publishing. They play an especially important role in journal publishing, as commercial publishers produce only 2.6% of Finnish journals and book series, and only 1.4% of the journal articles from scholars working in Finnish universities. 相似文献
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《Slavic & East European Information Resources》2013,14(2-3):159-183
Abstract Albanian-language publishing in Kosova during the 1990-1999 period was very much affected first by Serbian censorship and persecution, then by the war. The situation has improved since the fighting stopped in the summer of 1999, with most of the seven main publishers having reopened. The author reviews major newspapers, news magazines and other periodicals from Kosova, then lists books by important authors brought out by various publishers. The Internet has proven an important means of communicating news and culture, especially during the recent disruptions; several sites are listed. A section follows showing some significant library collections of Kosovar Albanian material. The author suggests acquiring such publications directly from their publishers and gives contact information. Finally, there is an English-language bibliography of recommended reading about Kosova in general. 相似文献
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Carl Lennertz 《Publishing Research Quarterly》2012,28(1):27-40
World Book Night US has been launched following the successful World Book Night in the UK in March of 2011. Both countries
will now hold the annual event on April 23, 2012, and the hopes are that it will be taken up by other countries as well. Its
main goal is to foster literacy by enlisting volunteers to go into the community in search of non- or light readers, with
free, not-for-resale special paperback editions of 25–30 different titles. A million books in all. As part of the effort,
all the attendant publicity is intended to shine a light on the value of reading in general. In both countries, every book
constituency has come together in support of the campaign: publishers, authors, booksellers, librarians and others. Both the
UK and US organizations are non-profit charities, with funding from publishers, booksellers and foundations; very corporate
and individual donations are being sought. Each organization has an executive director, a board of directors or trustees,
and then all-volunteer advisory, marketing, website and publicity groups. The million book production is coordinated by the
director and a production committee, and a distributor gets the books to bookstore or library drop points, accomplishing the
third goal, which is a reminder of the value of bookstores and libraries in the community and culture. 相似文献
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《The Reference Librarian》2013,54(27-28):347-366
During the past 15 years academic libraries have experienced an epidemic of thefts of journal articles and issues. Since 1975, the SUNY Stony Brook Library Periodicals Reading Room has operated a "Ripoff File" of copies of articles that readers have reported missing from the bound volumes of periodicals in the bookstacks where books and serials in general subjects, humanities and social sciences are housed. Analysis of records kept 1978-87 shows that 9 percent of the current journal titles appear in the file; that humanities articles are less used than the social science materials and that within the social science psychology journals are the most ripped off and the most wanted subsequently. Ripoff rates and subsequent usage are predictable from previous trends and, in the social sciences, are positively associated with the number of students enrolled in related programs. 相似文献
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The development of the publishing industry for children and young adults is very recent in Morocco. Indeed it was in the 1980s
that people became aware of its importance for future generations. The first national publications were mainly in Arabic language,
stories were very short, books were of paperback format and the subjects were very much dominated by moral, social and religious
didacticism. In the late 1990s, publishers started being more and more concerned with the appearance of the book (size, cover,
illustrations, topic, etc.) and there are nowadays two publishers specialized only in children’s books—Yanbow al Kitab and
Yomad—who produce books that respond to international norms. They are both very active in promoting reading and especially
allowing children from disadvantaged social backgrounds to have access to books, price being a main constraint for those children.
But there is still a lack of publishers specialized in children’s books in Morocco (two publishers for the whole country),
not enough pleasant reading spaces and no real government policy to allow mass access by making books cheaper. 相似文献
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Tony Kidd 《Learned Publishing》1999,12(3):201-207
This paper examines different influences on the journal cancellation and selection policies of university libraries in the UK. Changing funding arrangements are outlined, followed by a discussion of varied criteria that are used during journal cancellation exercises, and how publishers can influence this process. The paper then considers changes consequent upon the advent of the electronic journal, and suggests that this, together with budget devolution and greater library liaison with academic staff, is increasing the influence of library staff in journal selection. As a result of these various trends, direct contacts between publishers and library staff are increasing. 相似文献
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Although scholarly articles play an important role in the work life of academics, specific patterns of seeking and reading scholarly articles vary. Subject discipline of the reader influences many patterns, including amount of reading, format of reading, and average time spent per reading. Faculty members in different disciplines exhibit quite distinct patterns of reading. Medical/health faculty read more than others and mainly for current awareness purposes, while engineering faculty spend more time on average per article reading, and they also read more for research. Other factors that influence some reading patterns include work responsibilities (weighted towards more teaching or more research), age (young faculty are more likely to read on-screen from the open Web) and productivity of the reader, and purpose of the reading (readings for research and writing are more likely to be from a library collection). The ability to predict scholarly article seeking and reading patterns will assist journal editors, publishers, and librarians design better, more targeted journal systems and services. 相似文献
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Paula T. Kaufman 《Publishing Research Quarterly》1988,4(4):22-31
Economic and technological changes converge on the connection between publishers and libraries. Arguing that the current library
budget crisis is clearly different from previous crises, Paula Kaufman describes changes in university environments and in
libraries’ strategies for coping with higher prices and strained budgets. Shifts in spending patterns from books to serials,
gaining access to materials by means other than purchasing them, overpublishing, technological transformations, and the entry
of new players into the scholarly publishing arena will all affect the ways that publishers publish and libraries acquire.
Paula T. Kaufman is dean of libraries at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and a member of the board of the Society
of Scholarly Publishing. 相似文献
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Frances Pinter 《Publishing Research Quarterly》2012,28(3):183-191
Over the past two decades, sales of monographs have shrunk by 90?% causing prices to rise dramatically as fewer copies are sold. University libraries struggle to assemble adequate collections, and students and scholars are deprived access, especially in the developing world. Open access can play an important role in ensuring both access to knowledge and encouraging the growth of new markets for scholarly books. This article argues that by facilitating a truly global approach to funding the up-front costs of publishing and open access, there is a sustainable future for the specialist academic ??long form publication??. Knowledge Unlatched is a new initiative that is creating an international library consortium through which publishers will be able to recover their fixed costs while at the same time reducing prices for libraries. 相似文献
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Growing cooperation between Chinese journals and international publishers invites an investigation of the effect of this cooperation, based on an analysis of journal IF changes. Data from 23 Chinese academic journals were chosen from about 50 English-language academic journals indexed by SCI or SCIE and with a long history of cooperation. The data do not suggest that cooperation has improved the journals’ IF thus far. It appears that cooperation is generally limited to international distribution, and this has a weak influence on the quality of the journal and its IF, even though the papers can be accessed by worldwide users through publishers’ international distribution networks. Cooperation with international publishers is one step, but actively working on the quality of the journals is a more important step. 相似文献
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OBJECTIVES: Patterns of use of electronic versions of journals supplied by an academic health sciences library were examined to determine whether they differed from patterns of use among corresponding print titles and to relate the applicability of print collection development practices to an electronic environment. METHODS: Use data supplied by three major vendors of electronic journals were compared to reshelving data for corresponding print titles, impact factors, and presence on Brandon/Hill Lists. RESULTS: In collections where one-click access from a database record to the full text of articles was possible, electronic use correlated with print use across journal pairs. In both versions, Brandon/Hill titles were used more frequently than non-Brandon/Hill titles, use had modest correlations with journals' impact factors, and clinical use appeared to be higher than research use. Titles that had not been selected for the library's print collections, but which were bundled into publishers' packages, received little use compared to electronic titles also selected in print. CONCLUSIONS: Collection development practices based on quality and user needs can be applied with confidence to the electronic environment. Facilitating direct connections between citation databases and the corresponding journal articles regardless of platform or publisher will support scholarship and quality health care. 相似文献
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开放获取运动的发展使网络上出现了很多免费的全文学术资源。英文图书和期刊论文又是科研工作者最需要和最常用的两种文献类型。论文结合文献传递工作的经验,介绍了网络免费电子书及期刊论文的获取方法。 相似文献
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[目的/意义] 探讨用户在“豆瓣读书”发布短评的动机,尝试判断短评作为图书影响力的评估指标是否有效,以期为中文学术图书评价的Altmetrics指标建构提供参考。[方法/过程] 以CBKCI统计报告公布的被引前十的古籍类中文学术图书为样本,采用扎根理论对样本图书在“豆瓣读书”网的1 142条“短评”进行分析,探究短评的产生动机及相应短评数据的可用性。[结果/结论] 用户产生短评的动机包括讨论、分享、消遣娱乐、外界压力、情感宣泄和资料获取6个主范畴。其中,“讨论”动机是最主要的动机,其两个子动机“表达与图书有关的个人经验或想法”和“表达对图书的见解或个人解释”占所有短评数据的四成以上,表明用户不是仅复制图书部分句子或章节,而是试图找到并传播图书最有价值的部分,此类短评数据可用以评价中文学术图书价值;而“分享” “消遣娱乐” “外界压力” “情感宣泄”和“资料获取”等动机相对来说难以较好地反映用户对图书的态度和认知,不宜纳入中文学术图书Altmetrics评价指标中。 相似文献