http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/transitions/2007/09/06/scholarly-publishing-out-of-step-with-the-academy/ Scholarly Communication News for the UI Community Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:17:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/transitions/2007/09/06/scholarly-publishing-out-of-step-with-the-academy/#comment-1699 estetik Thu, 06 Dec 2007 19:13:12 +0000 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/transitions/2007/09/06/scholarly-publishing-out-of-step-with-the-academy/#comment-1699 Scholarly publishing may now appear on the Web, in an institutional repository, as well as in a traditional peer-reviewed journal or monograph. While some scholars have been quick to adapt to this rapid transformation, administrators are giving little attention to the changing environment. The report suggests that the scholarly publishing industry may be out of step with the values of the academy. The report calls universities to task for their failures to recognize the ways that digital modes of communication are reshaping the ways that scholarly communication takes place, resulting in, as they say, “a scholarly publishing industry that many in the university community find to be increasingly out of step with the important values of the academy.” Scholarly publishing may now appear on the Web, in an institutional repository, as well as in a traditional peer-reviewed journal or monograph. While some scholars have been quick to adapt to this rapid transformation, administrators are giving little attention to the changing environment. The report suggests that the scholarly publishing industry may be out of step with the values of the academy. The report calls universities to task for their failures to recognize the ways that digital modes of communication are reshaping the ways that scholarly communication takes place, resulting in, as they say, “a scholarly publishing industry that many in the university community find to be increasingly out of step with the important values of the academy.”

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