From: Diego Ponte <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 11:06:49 +0100
- Apologies for cross-postings -
Dear colleagues,
We would like to remind you about our call for papers for the special issue
on "Transformation of the academic publishing market".
The submission deadline is February 29, 2016. The detailed CfP is copied
below.
We cordially invite original research contributions to the special issue or
to general research on electronic markets and networked business from all
potential authors. Please note that general research articles can be
submitted anytime whereas special issue articles need to be submitted by the
deadline shown in the CfP.
The CfP is also available on our website at:
<http://www.electronicmarkets.org/call-for-papers/single-view-for-cfp/datum/
2016/02/29/cfp-special-issue-on-transformation-of-the-academic-publishing-ma
rket/>
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Electronic Markets - The International Journal on Networked Business
Call for Papers for Special Issue on "Transformation of the academic
publishing market"
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Guest Editors
* Diego Ponte, Trento University, Italy [corresponding guest editor],
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* Bozena Mierzejewska, Fordham University, US,
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* Stefan Klein, University of Muenster, Germany,
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Theme
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While the publishing market is in the midst of a dramatic transformation
(from newspapers to book publishers), the segment of academic publishing
(the incumbents) on the surface appears to be still relatively stable.
Yet we have witnessed a plethora of innovations across the life cycle of
publishing and archiving. SSRN, Google scholar, ResearchGate, Academia.edu,
Mendeley, Open Access journals are only the visible tip of the iceberg of
new players and indeed new services and modes of publishing. These few
examples convey the impression that disruptive innovations are under way and
many of the established themes of digital transformation - business model
and service innovation, disintermediation, cybermediation, ProSuming, new
pricing models - become discernible in distinct ways in this industry.
The change and disruption have become visible across numerous dimensions:
1) the search of scientific knowledge has become more interactive and web
based. Search of knowledge is nowadays based on topics, names of authors,
visibility while in the past was based on journals;
2) the publication process is not anymore under the control by scientific
publishers. The shift to the web disrupted many of the physical barriers
intrinsic of a paper based market;
3) the publication infrastructure has become less monolithic and more
fragmented with many services provided under a multitude of business models
(among others, there is a number of free (quality) services offered by an
increasing number of stakeholders: Google Scholar, Mendeley, ResearchGate
etc.);
4) new internet-based reputation mechanisms were born and are being
explored;
5) transparency of scientific data and the results is increasingly required
for publishing work;
6) growth of "massively collaborative science" and "citizen science"
impacting organization of research.
In light of these developments, we are inviting submission for a special
issue of Electronic Markets to take stock of the transformation, identify
and articulate distinctive patterns of change in this market, but also
foresight studies or thought pieces.
The special issue will provide a link across different levels of analysis:
- industry and infrastructure
- firm and network strategy
- authors, readers and changing practices of content production and
consumption
Central topics
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Possible topics of submissions include, but are not limited to:
- Industry view
--- Scholarly communication stakeholders / ecosystem (author, reader,
reviewer, editor, publisher, libraries, universities, state ...)
--- Transformation of competition in the academic publishing market: new
entrants, shifting market power, increasing transparency
--- Competitive strategies
--- Dis-, re-, cybermediation in the academic publishing market
--- The economics of rankings: quality metric, performance metric, market
signal
- Content production view
--- The transformation of the production chain: new roles and linkages among
the members of the ecosystem
--- The transformation of academic knowledge production and publishing based
on digital infrastructures
--- Prosuming authors: the multiple roles of authors ...
- Service design and innovation
-- Components of the digital production chain
--- The role and transformation of rankings, impact factors etc.
- Transformation of existing (incumbents') business models
--- Pricing models (status, trends)
--- Value propositions of publishers/ intermediaries
- Disruptive innovation
--- Open content/ open access as disruptor
--- New formats and genre of academic publications
We encourage contributions with a broad range of methodological approaches,
including conceptual pieces, case studies, empirical studies, literature
reviews. If you are interested in opinion pieces (position papers), please
contact the guest editors. We would also like to welcome authors publishing
on the topic of academic publishing with reference to electronic markets and
networked businesses.
We further welcome contributions addressing related topics not listed above
(please contact the special issue editors in that case to discuss the fit
prior to submission).
All papers will be peer reviewed and should conform to Electronic Markets
publication standards. Electronic Markets is a SSCI-listed journal and
supports methodological and theoretical pluralism, i.e. empirical or
theoretical work, qualitative research and design science are all welcome by
the journal. If you would like to discuss any aspect of the special issue,
please contact the guest editors
Submission
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All papers must be original, not published or under review elsewhere. Papers
must be submitted via our electronic submission system at
<http://elma.edmgr.com>
Instructions, templates and general information are available at
<http://www.electronicmarkets.org/authors>
Please note the preferred article length must be in a range of 3,500 to
6,500 words.
Important deadline
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* Submission Deadline: February 29, 2016
The CfP is also available on our website at
<http://www.electronicmarkets.org/call-for-papers/single-view-for-cfp/datum/
2016/02/29/cfp-special-issue-on-transformation-of-the-academic-publishing-ma
rket/>
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Electronic Markets - The International Journal on Networked Business
Editors-in-Chief: Rainer Alt, Leipzig University and Hans-Dieter Zimmermann,
FHS St. Gallen, University of Applied Sciences, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Executive Editor: Carsta Militzer-Horstmann, Leipzig University
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