five emerging issues in scholarly book publishing | infoliterati

"In my last post, I discussed flux and change in scholarly book publishing, highlighting the Book Industry Collaborative Council (BICC)’s identification of the distribution of scholarly book publishing as a key area for industry reform in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The Council of Australian University Library (CAUL) has brought the academic library perspective to the discussion in their response to a “request for comment” made by the BICC’s Expert Reference Group. The five main issues the authors raise in their report include looking at developments in open access, emerging business models, changing research output formats, as well as issues around community access, measurement of research impact, and data ..."