Publishing Perspectives reporting:
2012 was certainly an eventful, some would even say turbulent, year
in the unpredictable world of academic publishing. A crescendo of calls
for a complete re-imagination of traditional pay-for-access models,
the ‘Academic Spring’ campaign, the high profile
Cost of Knowledge Elsevier protest,
and the launch of a plethora of new initiatives aimed at directly
challenging the role of publishers, capped a tempestuous, transitional
year. So what can we expect from 2013?
Here are five predictions of what are likely to be the prominent
academic publishing trends and developments in the year to come:
1. R.I.P. Impact Factor? The academic and research community has long bemoaned the monopoly that the Impact Factor has had over the scholarly ecosystem.
4. The Inexorable Rise of MobileAfter news that smartphones had reached 50% market penetration in the
US last month, and recent Pew Research Center’s latest research
indicated that 25% of American consumers now own a tablet, it’s
increasingly difficult to argue that the future of computing is not
mobile. The trend is even more stark when we look to emerging economies.
In India, for example, the mobile web has already surpassed use of
desktop internet.
5. The Future is DataDynamic data, or the ability to publish and commercialize data so
that users can manipulate and interact with it, is by no means a new
concept, but certainly something that NGOs and journal publishers in
particular are exploring with increasing vigour. Instead of simply
supplying complicated raw data that can only be interpreted by the most
judicious of statisticians, publishers are now creating interfaces with
formatting templates, filters and tools that can generate customised
reports. This new form of data provision opens up a publisher’s data to
wider audiences, so that economists, for example, can delve deeper into
economic trends and market analysis.
No comments:
Post a Comment