Research Catalog

Title

The academic book of the future / [selected and edited by] Rebecca E. Lyons, Research Associate, University College London, UK ; Samantha J. Rayner, Senior Lecturer in Publishing, University College London, UK.

Publication

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Lyons, Rebecca E., 1986-
• Rayner, Samantha J.

Description

120 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"What makes a book 'academic'? What spaces, physical and digital, can they be found in? How are they made, bought and read? These questions are tackled by a cross-section of 13 experts from the fields of bookselling, publishing, university libraries and academic research in this volume of essays, which was produced in conjunction with the team from the AHRC/British Library Academic Book of the Future Project as an accelerated publishing challenge for the first ever Academic Book Week. The topics include campus bookshops and bookselling, the role of national libraries, Open Access, the Research Excellence Framework and publishing innovation. The approaches explore the realities of the present and venture all the way through to possible futures. There is something here for everyone who is connected to academic books - however these are defined, and whatever shape they take"--Back cover.

Series Statement

Palgrave pivot

Uniform Title

Palgrave pivot.

Subjects

• Open access publishing
• Academic writing
• Scholarly publishing
• Textbooks > Authorship

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The academic book as a socially-embedded media artefact / Tom Mole -- Wearable books / Michael Pidd -- The impossible constellation : practice as research as a viable alternative / Sarah Barrow -- The academic book of the future and the need to break boundaries / Jenny McCall and Amy Bourke-Waite -- The academic "book" of the future and its function / Frances Pinter -- The university press and the academic book of the future / Anthony Conod -- National libraries and academic books of the future / Maja Maricevic -- Strategic engagement and librarians / Neil Smyth -- Academic libraries and academic books : vessels of cultural continuity, agents of cultural change / Kate Price -- Selling words : an economic history of bookselling / Jaki Hawker -- The future of the academic book : the role of booksellers / Peter Lake -- Back to the future : the role of the campus bookshop / Craig Dadds.

Call Number

JFD 16-379

ISBN

• 9781137595768 (hardback)
• 1137595760 (hardback)
• 9781137595782 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781137595775 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2015037749

OCLC

922697631

Title

The academic book of the future / [selected and edited by] Rebecca E. Lyons, Research Associate, University College London, UK ; Samantha J. Rayner, Senior Lecturer in Publishing, University College London, UK.

Publisher

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Palgrave pivot

Palgrave pivot.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Lyons, Rebecca E., 1986- editor.

Rayner, Samantha J., editor.

Research Call Number

JFD 16-379