Self-help for learned journals: Scientific societies and the commerce of publishing in the 1950s.
Self-help for learned journals: Scientific societies and the commerce of publishing in the 1950s.
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DOI：
10.1177/0073275321999901
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发表时间：
2022-06
影响因子：
0.5
通讯作者：
Fyfe, Aileen
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作者：
Fyfe, Aileen
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在第二次世界大战后的几十年里，学术团体出版商努力科普科学研究产出的不断扩大和商业出版商越来越多地参与出版研究期刊的业务。学会期刊能在战后的世界经济上生存下来吗？或者，与传统的补贴期刊出版模式相比，以销售为基础的商业出版模式的出现，是改变学术团体往往脆弱的财政状况的机会？但也存在一个生存威胁：如果商业公司可以成功地出版科学期刊，那么学术团体出版商就不再需要了吗？本文通过对伦敦皇家学会和纳菲尔德基金会组织的活动的调查，研究了英国学术团体出版商如何适应战后世界的新经济现实，最终在1963年的报告《学术期刊的自助》中达到高潮。它揭示了战后几十年的时间，科学研究成为商品化和出售给图书馆的东西，而不是作为学术使命的一部分传播。对于所有致力于学术出版--包括学术团体出版--再次摆脱以销售为基础的模式的人来说，这将是必不可少的阅读。
In the decades after the Second World War, learned society publishers struggled to cope with the expanding output of scientific research and the increased involvement of commercial publishers in the business of publishing research journals. Could learned society journals survive economically in the postwar world, against this competition? Or was the emergence of a sales-based commercial model of publishing – in contrast to the traditional model of subsidized journal publishing – an opportunity to transform the often-fragile finances of learned societies? But there was also an existential threat: if commercial firms could successfully publish scientific journals, were learned society publishers no longer needed? This paper investigates how British learned society publishers adjusted to the new economic realities of the postwar world, through an investigation of the activities organized by the Royal Society of London and the Nuffield Foundation, culminating in the 1963 report Self-Help for Learned Journals. It reveals the postwar decades as the time when scientific research became something to be commodified and sold to libraries, rather than circulated as part of a scholarly mission. It will be essential reading for all those campaigning to transition academic publishing – including learned society publishing – away from the sales-based model once again.
影响因子：
1.7
作者：
GEIGER, SR
通讯作者：
GEIGER, SR
影响因子：
1.2
作者：
Fyfe, Aileen
通讯作者：
Fyfe, Aileen
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作者：
Haines, RB
通讯作者：
Haines, RB