Planned obsolescence : publishing, technology, and the future of the academy / Kathleen Fitzpatrick.

"Academic institutions are facing a crisis in scholarly publishing at multiple levels: presses are stressed as never before, library budgets are squeezed, faculty are having difficulty publishing their work, and promotion and tenure committees are facing a range of new ways of working without a...

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Main Author: Fitzpatrick, Kathleen, 1967-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2011]
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Table of Contents:
  • Peer review. Traditional peer review and its defenses ; The history of peer review ; The future of peer review ; Anonymity ; Credentialing ; The reputation economy ; Community-based filtering ; MediaCommons and peer-to-peer review ; Credentialing, revisited
  • Authorship. The rise of the author ; The death of the author ; From product to process ; From individual to collaborative ; From originality to remix ; From intellectual property to the gift economy ; From text to ... something more
  • Texts. Documents, e-books, pages ; Hypertext ; Database-driven scholarship ; Reading and the communications circuit ; CommentPress
  • Preservation. Standards ; Metadata ; Access ; Cost
  • The university. Publishing, not for profit ; New collaborations ; Publishing and the university mission ; The history of the university press ; The press as university publisher ; Sustainability
  • Conclusion.