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Alternative futures for academic and professional publishing
Author(s) -
Dryburgh Alastair
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
learned publishing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.06
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1741-4857
pISSN - 0953-1513
DOI - 10.1087/095315103322422008
Subject(s) - publishing , futures contract , sociology , computer science , public relations , management , political science , business , economics , law , finance
The article examines the future of academic and professional publishing by proposing four generic models which, possibly in combination with each other, represent any possible publishing activity. It examines the factors encouraging or impeding development of each model and the ways in which publishers could make transitions from one to another.