...Wolfram Elsner; Frederic S. Lee; Peter E. Earl Purpose This paper aims to examine the role that academic publishers have historically played and how this is being undermined by the revolution in information and communications technology. A central issue here is that of copyright. Although...

... The paper provides an overview and summary of the contributions in the special issue. Findings It is argued that heterodoxies had gained a considerable and growing influence on research orientations, methodologies, and critical reflections, also on the mainstream publishing practices, even...

...Beronda L. Montgomery Publishing Higher education Academic staff Colleges Universities “Enemies of Promise” is certainly no whisper. On the contrary it is a strong, at times biting, statement that inspires considerable contemplation of the interplay between the “publish or perish...

...Boria Sax; R.J. Clougherty, Jr Purpose The paper seeks to illustrate the way in which internet and hyper‐text practices reflect ancient and classical literary practice, both of which differ from linear published manuscripts. Design/methodology approach The essay traces the shifts...

... in the disciplinary literature and general literature on scholarly publishing. Retrospective bibliographic reviews by Anne C. Weller and Bruce W. Speck capture a substantial portion of this corpus. The Journal of Scholarly Publishing and Learned Publishing among others capture the continual...

... and that much that is/was published in the academic literature might be considered trivial at best and, perhaps, irrelevant. They target the date of realization at the turn of the new century. A more active response happened in France in 2000 when the graduate students in economics rebelled for similar...

...Tom P. Abeles; David Pearce Snyder Purpose To introduce this “all review” issue, comprising a diverse mix of volumes reviewed by a broad spectrum of individuals. Design/methodology/approach This article calls into question the future viability of conventional print publishing...

...Tom P. Abeles The high cost of academic journals has led researchers to seek alternative venues for both publishing and accessing scholarly research. The Internet will provide an appropriate vehicle once there is a model which is not a simple mapping of brick space into click space...

...Richard C. Flagan; Anne M. Buck In recent years, scholars and academic librarians have begun to consider alternatives to the print‐based model for research publishing. Fortuitously, two significant trends emerged almost simultaneously. While libraries faced canceling subscriptions in response...

...Tom P. Abeles On the Horizon was born in the mind of our current Editor Emeritus, Jim Morrison, as an environmental scanning journal. Published for a number of years by Jossey‐Bass, On the Horizon was acquired by a small, selective, house in the UK, Camford. Today we are pleased to announce...