Scholarly Publishing Books, Journals, Publishers, and Libraries in the Twentieth Century,9780471219293

Scholarly Publishing Books, Journals, Publishers, and Libraries in the Twentieth Century

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780471219293
ISBN10: 0471219290
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-11-16
Publisher(s): Wiley
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Summary

This book offers readers a well-rounded and accurate account of the amazing and unpredictable sequence of inter-related events experienced by the field of scholarly publishing in the 20th century. Examining the related worlds of book, journal, and electronic publishing; information technology; and library advances, this is the first work to record the trends of the modern history of the information/knowledge transfer process. Using an analysis of the past 100 years, it also makes predications regarding future trends and the roles of the publishing and library communities in tomorrow's information marketplace

Author Biography

Richard E. Abel and Lyman W. Newlin are the authors of Scholarly Publishing: Books, Journals, Publishers, and Libraries in the Twentieth Century, published by Wiley.

Table of Contents

Foreword (P. Wiley).
Preface (R. Abel and L. Newlin).
Acknowledgments.
1. The Growth of Printed Literature in the Twentieth Century (A. Henderson).
2. Introduction: The Change of Book and Journal Infrastructure: Two Publishers, Consolidation, and Niche Publishers (R. Abel).
3. Growth and Change in Trade Publishing: What I Learned at the Library (S. Vaughan).
4. Growth and Change in Trade Book Publishing: What I Learned From the Numbers (S. Oda).
5. Textbook Publishing (R. Follett).
6. University Press Publishing in the United States (P. Givler).
7. The Creative Role of the Professional or STM Publisher (J. Dill).
8. Diversity and the Growth of Serious/Scholarly/Scientific Journals (A. Henderson).
9. From BibliothFque to OmnithFque (A. Veaner).
10. Development of Public Libraries (B. Dean).
11. The Growth of Scholarly and Scientific Libraries (H. Edelman).
12. Appearance and Growth of Computer and Electronic Products in Libraries (R. Shoffner).
13. The Economic Crisis in Libraries: Causes and Effects (M. Gorman).
14. The Impact of the Library Budget Crisis on Scholarly Publishing (J. Goellner).
15. The Place of Scholarly and Scientific Libraries in an Increasingly and More Widespread Competitive Information Knowledge Marketplace (C. Hamaker).
Conclusion (R. Abel and L. Newlin).
Coda (K. Strauch and B. Strauch).
Index.
Contributors.

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