The Future of Academic Journals |
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| Authors: | Kate Gyllensvard |
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| Institution: | 1. Rotch Library for Architecture and Planning at MIT , Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA kag@mit.edu |
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| Abstract: | Academic journals have traditionally provided disciplinary forums for scholarly communication (i.e., vetting, legitimating, and disseminating new ideas). Digitization is affecting scholarly communication and academic journals. Two effects are the bundling of journals by publishers and the growing variety of formats that open up new avenues of dissemination. Both effects have disrupted the traditional roles and relationships of scholars and their institutions, publishers and libraries in the processes of scholarly communication, including the significance of academic journals as a format. |
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| Keywords: | academic journals scholarly communication digitization dissemination bundling |
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