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UCL Press is delighted to announce the publication of The Academic Book of the Future. This is an output of the AHRC/British Library project, Academic Book of the Future and is likely to be of interest to members of this list. View it online for free at https://goo.gl/8293Pg.

 

This dynamic, innovative, evolving and open platform publishes contributions connected to the AHRC/British Library project, The Academic Book of the Future, which has been investigating key aspects of scholarly publishing for the last two years, led by a team of academics from UCL and Kings College London. The platform, which presents the content in the form of a BOOC (Books as Open Online Content), will grow as more content is created, and will allow different ways to explore and share the ideas and discussions.

 

Authors from all areas of the academic, publishing, bookselling and library communities discuss aspects of scholarly books and their possible futures: for example, the role of the editor, peer review, academic bookshops and libraries, open access, digital publishing and technology. The content – in a range of peer-reviewed formats including videos, blogs, chapters and reports – presents a fascinating variety of insights into the constantly evolving contexts of the academic book and will be of interest to anyone working in the HE sector and the publishing industry, and, indeed, to anyone interested in how ideas are disseminated to a wider general audience.

 

Content now available includes:

·         Introduction to Academic Book of the Future

Samantha J. Rayner

·         Open Access Book Publishing and the Prisoner’s Dilemma: A Theoretical Approach to a Description of the slow scalability of Open Access Book Publishing

Marcel Knöchelmann

·         The Academic Book of the Future and Its Readers: Issues and Opportunities of Onscreen Reading

Silvia Pirola

·         Academic Book Discovery, Evaluation and Access: A Report

Anna Faherty

·         The Academic Book in the South: Conference Report

Stephanie Kitchen

·         The (Open) Academic Book of the Future

Sarah Lippincott

·         American Mathematical Society: Publishing Maths in the USA

Robert Harrington

·         What is the Point of the Academic Book? Part One

Rebecca Lyons

·         What is the Point of the Academic Book? Part Two

Mari Shullaw

·         What is the Future for the Academic Book?

Sussex Research Hive

·         The Future of the Academic Book in the USA

Amy Brand, Anne Brackenbury, Robert Harington, Sarah Lippincott and moderated by Sheila Bond

·         My Acts of Reading

Andrew Prescott

·         Students and the Digital Edition: A Polemic

Stephen Gregg

·         Open Access and Academic Publishing

Ian Lovecy

·         Open Access: A Personal Take

Alastair Horne

·         Towards an Ethics of Circulation: A Manifesto in Tweets

Haidy Geismar

·         Creative Writing Theses: Discoverability and Open Access

Rebecca Lyons

·         What is the Future for the Academic Book? BSECS 2016 Storify

·         Github notes on What is the Future for the Academic Book?

James Baker

·         The Academic Book in the South (Storify)

·         What is the Point of the Academic Book? BSECS Panel Storify

·         Lincoln’s [Im]Possible Constellations

Paul Moore

·         Lincoln’s [Im]Possible Constellations

Catherine Grant

·         Lincoln’s [Im]Possible Constellations

Karen Savage

·         Lincoln’s [Im]Possible Constellations

Mikey Murray

·         Publishers Address the Academic Book of the Future

Amy Brand, Anne Brackenbury, Robert Harington, Sarah Lippincott and moderated by Sheila Bond

·         What is the Future for the Academic Book? – Video recording of a panel

Caroline Basset, Kiren Shoman, Martin Eve

·         Academic Publishing in the South: The Ghanaian Experience

Akoss Ofori-Mensah

·         New Directions, New Models

Abhijit Gupta and Padmini Ray Murray

·         Panel Discussion: Academic Authorship and Knowledge Production

Stephanie Kitchen, Insa Nolte & Padmini Ray Murray

·         Panel Discussion: The Role of Libraries and Archives

Gillian Evison, Francis Gotto & James Lowry

·         Final Panel Discussion & Concluding Comments

Ola Uduku

·         Panel: The Role of Libraries and Archives

Nureldin Satti

·         The Academic Book of the Future Project Film

·         Panel: Academic Authorship and Knowledge Production

Sari Hanafi

 

More content will become available in the coming months.

 

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