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Modern scientific research has changed so much since Isaac Newton's day: it is more professional, collaborative and international, with more complicated equipment and a more diverse community of researchers. Yet the use of scientific journals to report, share and store results is a thread that runs through the history of science from Newton's day to ours. Scientific journals are now central to academic research and careers. Their editorial and peer-review processes act as a check on new claims and findings, and researchers build their careers on the list of journal articles they have published. The journal that reported Newton's optical experiments still exists. First published in 1665, and now fully digital, the Philosophical Transactions has carried papers by Charles Darwin, Dorothy Hodgkin and Stephen Hawking. It is now one of eleven journals published by the Royal Society of London. Unrivalled insights from the Royal Society's comprehensive archives have enabled the authors to investigate more than 350 years of scientific journal publishing. The editorial management, business practices and financial difficulties of the Philosophical Transactions and its sibling Proceedings reveal the meaning and purpose of journals in a changing scientific community. At a time when we are surrounded by calls to reform the academic publishing system, it has never been more urgent that we understand its history.

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Compared with other industries, scientific publishing has a centuries-old tradition. However, it is currently the development of digital information and communication technologies in probably the biggest upheaval since the invention of the printing press. Björn Ortelbach deals with the impact of technological development in the scientific publishing industry from a business point of view. In the first part of the book he analyzes how value added cost structures and business models of publishers change. The second part of the book deals with the impact of these changes on the control of these companies. Based on the previously worked out specifics of the industry design proposals for the use of controlling mechanisms are developed. Im Vergleich mit anderen Wirtschaftszweigen kann die wissenschaftliche Verlagsbranche auf eine mehrere Jahrhunderte alte Tradition zurückblicken. Jedoch befindet sie sich gegenwärtig durch die Entwicklung digitaler Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien im wohl größten Umbruch seit der Erfindung des Buchdrucks. Björn Ortelbach befasst sich mit den Auswirkungen der technologischen Entwicklung auf die wissenschaftliche Verlagsbranche aus betriebswirtschaftlicher Sicht. Im ersten Teil des Buches wird analysiert, wie sich Wertschöpfung, Kostenstrukturen und Geschäftsmodelle von Verlagen wandeln. Der zweite Teil des Buchs befasst sich mit den Auswirkungen dieser Veränderungen auf die Steuerung dieser Unternehmen. Auf Basis der zuvor herausgearbeiteten Spezifika der Branche werden Gestaltungsvorschläge für den Einsatz von Controllinginstrumenten entwickelt.

Science publishing --- Internet publishing --- Electronic publishing --- Management.

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Modern scientific research has changed so much since Isaac Newton's day: it is more professional, collaborative and international, with more complicated equipment and a more diverse community of researchers. Yet the use of scientific journals to report, share and store results is a thread that runs through the history of science from Newton's day to ours. Scientific journals are now central to academic research and careers. Their editorial and peer-review processes act as a check on new claims and findings, and researchers build their careers on the list of journal articles they have published. The journal that reported Newton's optical experiments still exists. First published in 1665, and now fully digital, the Philosophical Transactions has carried papers by Charles Darwin, Dorothy Hodgkin and Stephen Hawking. It is now one of eleven journals published by the Royal Society of London. Unrivalled insights from the Royal Society's comprehensive archives have enabled the authors to investigate more than 350 years of scientific journal publishing. The editorial management, business practices and financial difficulties of the Philosophical Transactions and its sibling Proceedings reveal the meaning and purpose of journals in a changing scientific community. At a time when we are surrounded by calls to reform the academic publishing system, it has never been more urgent that we understand its history.

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Clinical medicine --- Medical publishing. --- Clinical Medicine. --- Research. --- Medicine, Clinical --- Medical literature --- Life science publishing --- Publishing

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editing --- publishing --- academia --- scientific publishing --- scholarly editing --- Science publishing --- Publishers and publishing --- Publishers and publishing. --- Science publishing. --- Europe. --- Scientific literature --- Book publishing --- Books --- Book industries and trade --- Booksellers and bookselling --- Science --- Publishing --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia