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111. Getting Published in the Changing World of Academic Communication

Fri, March 17, 3:00 to 5:00pm, Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel, Floor: 2nd Floor, Dominion Ballroom North

Session Submission Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

Over the past two decades the number of scholarly articles added each year to the major citation indexes has more than doubled. Growth has been particularly strong in Asia. Scholars in China published around fourteen times as many articles in 2015 as in 1996, and scholars in India increased their annual output more than five-fold over the same period.

During the same period, academic communication has undergone a number of major changes. In many fields, scholars have come under intense pressure to place articles in highly regarded academic journals, and journal articles are more important than monographs. Scholars now access journals almost exclusively in digital form, and many university libraries now specify a preference for e-books rather than print publications. Finally, since 2013, open access mandates imposed by major funding agencies have upset established ways of processing and distributing scholarly research.

What are the implications of these changes for books and journals, and for the manuscripts that editors accept for publication? In this roundtable two experienced academic publishers and two journal editors will discuss considerations that lead to the success or failure of submissions, current trends in disseminating academic research, and the significance of current trends for scholars preparing manuscripts for submission to scholarly journals and academic presses. An experienced academic librarian will act as commentator.

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