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The Scholarly Monograph Unbound
Author(s) -
Fyfe Paul
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
literature compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.158
H-Index - 4
ISSN - 1741-4113
DOI - 10.1111/lic3.12075
Subject(s) - affordance , scholarship , futures contract , publishing , prestige , scholarly communication , sociology , social science , media studies , psychology , political science , philosophy , law , linguistics , economics , cognitive psychology , financial economics
Particularly in humanities disciplines, the scholarly monograph has held a privileged place within an ecology of prestige. But systemic changes in the economics of academic publishing and the technical affordances of digital, networked scholarship raise many questions about the “book” and its futures. This essay enters debates about the future of the book to illustrate the institutional pressures, technological shifts, and intellectual opportunities that are reshaping the scholarly monograph.