A Journal is a Club: A New Economic Model for Scholarly Publishing

Potts, Jason; Hartley, John; Montgomery, Lucy; Neylon, Cameron; Rennie, Ellie

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“…Indeed, scholarly journals connect members of academic communities (Potts, Hartley, Montgomery, Neylon, and Rennie 2017). Editorial boards of journals constitute a first layer of such a community.…”

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“…A second social community gathered around scholarly journals is constituted by the authors of the published articles. While many studies exist about authorship and co-authorship, only a few are focused on the communities of authors of specific journals (Potts, Hartley, Montgomery, Neylon, and Rennie 2017). In turn, it is possible to work analogously to the IE network by considering the journal network generated by the scholars authoring papers in different journals.…”

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Intellectual and social similarity among scholarly journals: An exploratory comparison of the networks of editors, authors and co-citations

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This paper explores, by using suitable quantitative techniques, to what extent the intellectual proximity among scholarly journals is also a proximity in terms of social communities gathered around the journals. Three fields are considered: statistics, economics and information and library sciences. Co-citation networks (CC) represent the intellectual proximity among journals.The academic communities around the journals are represented by considering the networks of journals generated by authors writing in more than one journal (interlocking authorship: IA), and the networks generated by scholars sitting in the editorial board of more than one journal (interlocking editorship: IE). For comparing the whole structure of the networks, the dissimilarity matrices are considered. The CC, IE and IA networks appear to be correlated for the three fields. The strongest correlations is between CC and IA for the three fields. Lower and similar correlations are obtained for CC and IE, and for IE and IA. The CC, IE and IA networks are then partitioned in communities. Information and library sciences is the field where communities are more easily detectable, while the most difficult field is economics. The degrees of association among the detected communities show that they are not independent. For all the fields, the strongest association is between CC and IA networks; the minimum level of association is between IE and CC. Overall, these results indicate that the intellectual proximity is also a proximity among authors and among editors of the journals. Thus, the three maps of editorial power, intellectual proximity and authors communities tell similar stories.

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Intellectual and social similarity among scholarly journals: An exploratory comparison of the networks of editors, authors and co-citations

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“…They even compete on the basis of journal prestige, reputation and Impact Factor (Solomon, 2014), albeit with a heavier emphasis on soundness and number of publications (that is, capacity) rather than exclusivity and "excellence". Even when the criteria for inclusion is only soundness, membership in the club of authors still provides a prestige benefit: that the doors of the club are more open does not necessarily mean that there is no benefit to membership (Potts et al, 2016).…”

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“Excellence R Us”: university research and the fetishisation of excellence

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The rhetoric of "excellence" is pervasive across the academy. It is used to refer to research outputs as well as researchers, theory and education, individuals and organizations, from art history to zoology. But does "excellence" actually mean anything? Does this pervasive narrative of "excellence" do any good? Drawing on a range of sources we interrogate "excellence" as a concept and find that it has no intrinsic meaning in academia. Rather it functions as a linguistic interchange mechanism. To investigate whether this linguistic function is useful we examine how the rhetoric of excellence combines with narratives of scarcity and competition to show that the hyper-competition that arises from the performance of "excellence" is completely at odds with the qualities of good research. We trace the roots of issues in reproducibility, fraud, and homophily to this rhetoric. But we also show that this rhetoric is an internal, and not primarily an external, imposition. We conclude by proposing an alternative rhetoric based on soundness and capacity-building. In the final analysis, it turns out that that "excellence" is not excellent. Used in its current unqualified form it is a pernicious and dangerous rhetoric that undermines the very foundations of good research and scholarship. This article is published as part of a collection on the future of research assessment.

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“…Since their inception in the 17th century, scholarly societies and associations (learned societies) have published research results and related news for the purpose of advancing knowledge in the covered disciplines (Potts, Hartley, Montgomery, Neylon, & Rennie, 2016;Spier, 2002). Society publications are distributed as a benefit of membership or in exchange for subscription fees.…”

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“…Scholarly societies "are in a unique position to effectively disseminate research to policy makers, educators and the public as part of a cohesive message, something rarely done by independent publishers because it is not part of their mission" (Schloss et al, 2017, p. 4). In contrast, commercial publishers return very little revenue to the source of the content they publish, the scholarly community (Morgan, 2016;Potts, et al, 2016). Society publications advance knowledge in their respective disciplines, and society funds are reinvested into the discipline through research, education, and advocacy.…”

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A Team Approach: Library Publishing Partnerships with Scholarly Societies

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2019

Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication

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INTRODUCTION The journal publishing service at the University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries is structured to use a team-based approach that integrates subject specialists across the library. DESCRIPTION OF PROGRAM Since 2012, the UF Libraries have worked in partnership with a number of scholarly societies to publish their research. The focus, to date, of academic library publishing on institutional publications belies potential partnerships with scholarly societies and organizations external to the library’s institution. Services provided, challenges faced, and examples of successful publishing partnerships with UF Libraries are described. The team approach enables the library to be innovative and nimble in response to publishing opportunities. Scholarly societies most interested in entering publishing contracts with the Libraries publishing program are those that share aspects of the library mission such as accessibility and innovation. NEXT STEPS Academic library publishing offers unique partnership opportunities for scholarly societies and external organizations that are mutually beneficial and that complement library publishing of institutional material.

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A Journal is a Club: A New Economic Model for Scholarly Publishing

Cited by 11 publications

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Intellectual and social similarity among scholarly journals: An exploratory comparison of the networks of editors, authors and co-citations

Intellectual and social similarity among scholarly journals: An exploratory comparison of the networks of editors, authors and co-citations

“Excellence R Us”: university research and the fetishisation of excellence

A Team Approach: Library Publishing Partnerships with Scholarly Societies

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