Subjects

Table of Contents “...Publishing challenges in the new century -- Technological rabbits and communication turtles -- Tripartite nature of university presses -- Limits of standardization in scholarship -- Publishing, property, and information structures -- Specialization in the electronic world -- Social science and scholarly communication -- Open access and closed minds -- Professional ambitions and public interests -- Formatting ideology through tabloid politics -- Scholarly pornography -- Publishing programs and political dilemmas -- Political periodicals in policy formation -- Monopolization of publishing and crisis in education -- Publishing responses to economic crisis -- Publishing as a vocation: the necessity of independence....”