Decoupling the academic book

The emergence of open access (OA) publishing has altered incentives and opportunities for academic stakeholders and publishers. These changes have yielded a variety of new economic and academic niches, including journals with questionable peer‐review systems and business models, commonly dubbed “predatory publishing.” Empirical analysis of Cabellʼs Journal Blacklist reveals substantial diversity in types and degrees of predatory publishing. While some blacklisted publishers produce journals with many severe violations of academic norms, “gray” journals and publishers occupy borderline or ambiguous niches between predation and legitimacy. Predation in academic publishing is not a simple binary phenomenon and should instead be perceived as a spectrum with varying types and degrees of illegitimacy. Conceptions of predation are based on overlapping evaluations of academic and economic legitimacy. High institutional status benefits publishers by reducing conflicts between—if not aligning—professional and market institutional logics, which are more likely to conflict and create illegitimacy concerns in downmarket niches. High rejection rates imbue high‐status journals with value and pricing power, while low‐status OA journals face “predatory” incentives to optimize revenue via low selectivity. Status influences the social acceptability of profit‐seeking in academic publishing, rendering lower‐status publishers vulnerable to being perceived and stigmatized as illegitimate.

This article reviews aspects of academic and scientific publishing, primarily in the context of IEEE publications and policies. The intent is to provide a brief tutorial for those new to academic publishing. The material on publication ethics and the IEEE's associated policies should be useful to all, including those experienced with academic publishing. The types of IEEE publications and what they publish are reviewed. The importance of a publication's scope is explained, and publication and author metrics are examined. The steps in the publication process are described in detail, along with the roles of the Editor-in-Chief (EiC), associate editors, reviewers, and authors. Ethical issues and the principles of scholarly publishing are examined, including authorship and the responsibilities of authors, duplicate submission and publication, and plagiarism.

The idea of conflict economies is a broad concept encompassing several research angles. Definitions differ according to these focuses. Some of the main uses of the concept are to understand: • economic analysis of the motives for and likelihood of war • financing of state and non-state belligerents • how the continuation of conflicts can be explained by rational motives including economic ones • how conflict affects economic activity, and how conflict parties and citizens adapt Some distinctive characteristics of war economies are (Ballentine & Nitzschke, 2005, p. 12): • They involve the destruction or circumvention of the formal economy and the growth of informal and black markets, • Pillage, predation, extortion, and deliberate violence against civilians is used by combatants to acquire control over lucrative assets, capture trade networks and diaspora remittances, and exploit labour; • War economies are highly decentralised and privatised, both in the means of coercion and in the means of production and exchange; • Combatants increasingly rely on the licit or illicit exploitation of / trade in lucrative natural resources • They thrive on cross-border trading networks, regional kin and ethnic groups, arms traffickers, and mercenaries, as well as legally operating commercial entities, each of which may have a vested interest in the continuation of conflict and instability. The first section of this rapid review outlines the evolution of the term and key definitions. Most of this discussion occurs in the academic literature around the early 2000s. The second looks at key characteristics of conflict economies identified in the literature, with examples where possible from both academic and grey literature. The third section briefly identifies methodologies used to measure and monitor conflict economies, as well as some current research and programmes on conflict economies, from academic literature as well as NGOs and other sources. The findings have been derived via a literature search and advice from experts in the field. Given time constraints, the report is not comprehensive. The review is gender- and disability blind.

Dating from 1665, the scholarly journal has served the research community well for over 300 years. In the past few decades, however, the subscription model it utilises has created a couple of apparently intractable problems-what we will call the affordability and accessibility problems.

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This study examines Western-language, particularly English-language, monographs on Asian published in the United States, Canada, England, Australia, and other countries from 2000 through 2005. The study provides a landscape view of the scope and trends of publications for both scholars and librarians in Asian studies. The data for this study were collected from the YBP's GOBI (Global Online Bibliographic Information) database, covering publications profiled by YBP from January 1, 2000, through December 31, 2005. The results of data analysis shed light on scholarly currents and publishing trends in Asian over that six-year period. ********** Scholars and librarians in Asian often wonder how research productivity and publishing trends evolve in the field. Which publishers are active in this field? What subject areas have been covered prolifically or meagerly, and what does the publishing landscape look like? Traditionally, the areas of Asian literature, history, and philosophy have been strongly represented. Is this still so? Have traditional trends experienced any shifts? Which publishers are the major players in the field? Do university presses publish in different areas from commercial publishers? Some fifty years ago, Frederick Mote (1922-2005), a leading professor of history and culture at Princeton University, raised similar questions. He surveyed important academic publishers and their major publications, introducing new publishing developments in in the Republic of China on Taiwan to the Journal of Asian Studies audience. (1) He wrote, Although the Journal has on several occasions during the last five or six years reported briefly on publication there, now there is perhaps some value in reporting more comprehensively on recent developments, both because the phenomenon itself is of interest, and because many recently published items will be desired by scholars and by research libraries. (2) The authors of this article share his rationale in the examination of recent scholarly currents and publishing trends. The purpose of Mote's survey was not to list all of the worthwhile books recently published, for that would be an obvious impossibility, but to make the general outlines and character of recent publication activities known, and to inform the reader of names and addresses of publishers from whom more detailed information can be obtained. (3) Today, however, improved technology can be utilized to achieve the goal of a fairly complete survey. Technologically, all worthwhile books recently published can be listed and analyzed. The authors used YBP'S Global Online Bibliographical Information (GOBI) database in hopes of providing a comprehensive analysis of nearly all publications profiled. The analysis helped reveal characteristics of these publications and Asian publishing trends. This study's purpose was to evaluate the scope of, and trends in, Asian research and publications. In the study, the authors use the term East Asian studies to refer to on China, Japan, and Korea; Chinese studies includes People's Republic of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao, and Tibet. Within Korean studies, both North Korea and South Korea are covered. In this study, the focus is on print books. The scope includes English-language monographs on Asian published in the United States, Canada, England, Australia, and other countries between 2000 and 2005. The data were collected from GOBI, covering publications profiled by YBP from January 1, 2000, through December 31, 2005. Research and publishing trends are of interest to publishers, though largely from the perspective of sales. The Association of American Publishers Industry Statistics Annual Report registers data based on publishers' responses to questionnaires, collecting data on the sale of books in the category of Professional and Scholarly Publishing, which covers categories of technical, scientific, law, business, humanities, and medical materials. …

The World's energy consumption has increased drastically over the past several decades, particularly driven by increasing population and economic activities as well as rising living standards with technological advancements. Since the industrial revolution, fossil fuels have been the major source of energy productions, which is today shown as the primary cause of the ongoing climate change and associated environmental challenges in threatening the existence of many living species and human life and comfort. According to the statistics provided by International Energy Agency (IEA),1 the global energy supply was 14 282 Mtoe in 2018 that is 115% higher than that of the value for 1973. Fossil fuels, such as natural gas, coal and oil are still playing a critical role and covering more than 80% of global energy demands. The concerns associated with global warming and depletion of energy sources have been directing the attention to renewable and environmentally-benign energy solutions. However, efficient, affordable, and nature-friendly energy storage systems are the key to using renewable energy sources effectively. In this study, a comprehensive literature search is conducted to study and bibliografically evalute Canada's energy storage research and development activities over the last five decades. The present study intends to present the cumulative picture on energy storage reseach and development efforts and assess how universities, research institutes and funding agencies have contributed to this particular field. The literature search compiles a total of fifty-year data on energy storage-related research and development activities conducted in Canada. The number of conducted studies associated with energy storage regarding research articles, books, research projects, dissertations, and patents is presented in the period from 1971 to 2021. Furthermore, the Canadian institutes are ranked based on their scholarly ouputs and publications to indicate the most productive ones in the field of energy storage based on the data presented in the literature sources. Energy storage is described as the capture of harvested energy for later use to maintain the balance fluctuations between energy demand and supply. As the world moves towards a low-carbon economy, energy storage systems are exepcted to even play a more critical role in extracting more energy from renewable resources.10 The intermittent characteristic of renewable resources, specifically solar and wind, is one of the major challenges ahead of a reliable and steady renewable energy supply. This can be avoided by storing excess energy to re-use when the renewable resources are not sufficient or unavailable. Energy storage systems can be categorized in different ways in regards to the form of converted and stored energy. Figure 1 presents an overview of energy storage system categories which are considered in this study. It is important to note that chemical energy storage allows to storage and transportation of large amounts of energy for long distances with minimal self-discharge rates, which is crucial for the distribution and effective use of renewable energy resources. Figure 2 presents the energy density of various chemical fuels and batteries. Despite possessing high energy density, environmental concerns associated with the production and consumption of fossil-based chemical fuels, e.g. diesel, gasoline or natural gas, should be adrressed. In regards to nature-friendly chemical energy storage, particularly power-to-gas chemical storage, hydrogen is attracting favorable attention nowadays. In this regard, hydrogen appears to be the lightest and most abundant chemical element in the universe, but is not available freely (by itself). However, it occurs naturally within a compound such as water (H2O); therefore, it is an intermediate energy form. Excess electricity from renewables can be utilized in hydrogen production processes, i.e. electrolysis of water, to store energy in chemical form. Power-to-hydrogen chemical energy storage is a unique and clean method, and it can be compatible with electrochemical storage since hydrogen possesses much greater energy content. One of the major challenges with hydrogen is the low calorific value per unit of volume (MJ/m3) due to its low density. This can be avoided by deploying alternative hydrogen carriers, such as ammonia. Liquefaction at atmospheric conditions, high hydrogen atom content and high energy density characteristics make ammonia a favorable medium for storage and transportation of energy. It is further to note that batteries and capacitors are devices allowing electrochemical storage of electricity. The potential energy is stored in chemical form in batteries, while capacitors are expected to store their potential energy in the form of an electric field.14 Batteries are thus most commonly used and matured options that propose high energy densities and voltages. Lithium-ion (Li-ion), sodium-sulphur (NaS), nickel-cadmium (NiCd), lead acid (Pb-acid), lead-carbon batteries, zebra batteries (Na-NiCl2) and flow batteries are the existing battery types used in various applications. Due to their high specific energy (per unit weight) and high specific energy (per unit volume), lithium batteries attract considerable attention in electrical energy storage. Capacitors can be classified as electrostatic capacitors, electrolytic capacitors, and electrochemical capacitors, among which electrochemical, so-called supercapacitors, promote the highest capacitance per unit of volume owing to a porous structure 15. As a mechanical energy storage method, pumped hydro accounts for more than 95% of the global installed energy storage capacity.15 The main advantage of mechanical energy storage is to readily deliver energy. The method is easy to adapt for conversion and storage of energy from various sourcessuch as water current, wave, or tidal. Pumped hydro, compressed air, and flywheel are the commonly practiced mechanical energy storage methods. Pumped hydro and compressed air are bound to specific geographical characteristics, which is the main restriction for the implementation of these energy storage methods. A flywheel stores the energy obtained from a rotor mass spinning at very high speeds as kinetic energy. The stored kinetic energy can be later used to produce electricity by altering the angular velocity of the flywheel through a decelerating torque and using an electric motor in reverse 16. Despite of being non-suitable for long-term energy storage, flywheels offer favorable advantages, that is, long-life spin, high energy densities and low maintenance costs, and fast charging.17 Thermal energy storage (TES) systems are effective systems to store heat in a reservoir for a period of time (defined or undefined) for later use, that is, space heating and cooling, electricity production, hot water. If the reservoir temperature is kept under the atmospheric temperature, the storage process is called cold thermal energy storage.18 Operating temperature range, capacity requirements, charging and discharging requirements are some of important parameters when choosing an appropriate TES system for a desired application. Since the major proportion of produced and consumed energy is heat around the world, TES systems carries a significant weight regarding the development of effective energy systems . Furthermore, energy losses from the systems commonly occur in the form of heat. Decreasing losses via further utilizing from waste energy is one of many way to mitigate environmental impacts, which can be accomplished by implementing TES systems in a cost effective manner. In the current study, an overview of Canada's energy storage related studies from 1971 to 2021 is presented. The scope of this study is to present the contributions of Canadian universities, research institutes and funders to energy storage research and development efforts over the last five decades. The keywords and methodology that are used for the literature search are depicted in Figure 3. The collected and compiled data for the corresponding fields are presented in figures, and results are discussed in the following sections. In this study, an online literature search is conducted on Canada's energy storage related studies over the last five decades. The current section presents collected and compiled data in charts. The findings of the conducted study are discussed in detail. The most productive institutes of Canada regarding conducting or sponsoring energy storage-related studies are presented. The documents associated with energy storage in all subject areas are presented in Figure 4. In this regard, the highest number of energy storage-related studies were conducted in the subject area of engineering in Canada from 1971 to 2021. The fields of energy and chemistry appear as the other two major subject areas in which high number of energy storage research was conducted. While compiling data, attention has been paid to any potential field conflicts concerning the multi attribution of interdisciplinary publications. Therefore, it should be noticed that chemistry may have an impact on the subject areas of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. The same impact of engineering could be seen on the subject area of energy. The data collected and analysed for comparative evaluation reveals that the Canadian institutes have produced 37 386 energy storage-related academic research publications over the last 50-year period. In this regard, Figure 5A presents the breakdown of energy storage-related publications affiliated to Canada in the corresponding material types in accordance with the publication years. Figure 5A shows that studies in this field consistently increases every year. Consequently, the year 2020 appears as the most productive one in this regard as of April 2021. In the light of this trendline, predicting that the year 2021 will be more productive than 2020 would not be wrong. Figure 5B has been prepared as a heat map to show Canada's provinces where energy storage-related studies were conducted over the last 50 years. In this regard, Ontario appears as the most productive province of Canada in terms of scholarly publications. However, one has to keep in mind that Ontario has the highest number of contributing institutes/universities compared to the rest of the provinces in Canada. Figure 6 presents the breakdown of the number of energy storage-related books, book chapters, and editorials in accordance with publication years in Canada. The year 2018 was the most productive year of Canada by producing 200 documents in the corresponding classification. The other important point that should be pinned in the figure is the year 2005. Compared to the previous year, almost five times more energy storage-related books were published in 2005. Compared to 2019, the number of published books decreased almost by half in 2020. The impact of COVID-19 is recognized as one of numerous reasons behind this result. The number of energy storage-related dissertations completed in Canada over the last five decades is primarily searched through and collected from Library and Archives Canada. The search results are, in this regard, presented in Figure 7. It can be noted that the data presented in Figure 7 is based on the number of energy storage-related theses available in the library; and thus, the results are subject to change in accordance with instantaneous new data entry to the library. As of April 2021, there are 626 energy storage-related MSc and PhD theses/dissertations entered in the online system of Library and Archives Canada. The highest number of theses/dissertations was recorded in the year of 2013 with a value of 62. Based on data collected from the website of Canadian Intellectual Property Office, the number of energy storage-related patents of Canada is 11 719 for the last 50 years. The corresponding results are presented Figure 8. According to this, the year of 2018 appeared to be the Canada's most productive year in terms of patents registered under the title of energy storage. Canada is blessed with institutions that have been supporting energy storage-related research and developments by providing funds. Over the evaluated period of 50 years, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) appears as the major funding agency for Canada's energy storage related research, development, partnership, strategic innovation and commercialization efforts and has supported more than 8500 projects in the field of energy storage. A total number of projects that have been funded by Canadian institutes have become 18021 from 1971 to 2021. It is most likely to observe a major increase in the number of projects by the impact of the recent hydrogen strategic plan of Canada. Being an excellent energy storage medium is one of many advantages of hydrogen. Therefore, there is a significant correlation in between hydrogen and energy storage research efforts. The subject matter report is already named as call-to-action for green hydrogen transition for the energy sector. In the report, the importance of dedicating more domestic resources to green hydrogen efforts to achieve the targets by 2050 is emphasized clearly (Figure 9). The development and implementation efforts of effective, affordable, and nature-friendly energy storage systems are recognized as a key requirement in achieving a green energy transition. In this regard, Canada intends to be the country leading and inspiring many others. Figure 10 shows the a number of Canadian institutes/universities that have produced more than 100 scholarly publications on energy storage under the subject area of energy. According to this, the total number of such scholarly publications has been 9125 over the past five decades. The results clearly show that there are two universities, such as University of Waterloo with 809 publications and Ontario Tech. University (formerly University of Ontario Institute of Technology) with 697 publications, leading in this particular area. University of Waterloo appears as the most productive Canadian university with a total number of 809 publications while Ontario Tech. University, which is one of the Canada's youngest universities, follows with a total number of 697 publications. The specific affiliations in the publications show that the researchers working in the productive environment of Clean Energy Research Laboratory (CERL) at Ontario Tech. have played a major role in this achievement. The data that support the findings of this study are available in Scopus, Library and Archives Canada and Canadian Intellectual Property Office with the reference number of [17], [18], and [19], respectively. These data were derived from the following resources available in the public domain: https://www.scopus.com/search/form.uri?display=basic&zone=header&origin, https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/services/theses/Pages/search.aspx, https://www.ic.gc.ca/opic-cipo/cpd/eng/search/basic.html?wt_src=cipo-patent-main.

The problem this article addresses is that academic literature is mainly text-oriented, and this textual alignment can give readers a worded perspective that is limited. Written words excel at describing how something happened and how we should do something. However, visual art also excels at description in ways that words cannot because art provides different perspectives of human feelings and how we see the world. This research endeavors to consider whether including visual art in academic literature can enhance our general understanding of the topics in the literature. Images such as charts and diagrams are already included in academic literature. However, those graphics show data and processes. They intend to describe the information in the literature further rather than convey emotion and meaning as art-based images do. The approach of this article is to analyze two drawings and excerpts from academic literature. The drawings contain poetic text and other words that help connect the drawings to the excerpts. The excerpts and drawings together show how art can help us better understand topics in academic literature. The article is structured so that the excerpt is first provided. Then, the main concepts of the excerpt are identified. Next, the associated drawing is presented, and then an analysis of the connections between the excerpt and the drawing is offered. The article's findings intend to show that visual art, such as drawings, can offer perspectives that words alone cannot provide in academic literature.

The paper examines and presents the scale and structure of recent (2012–2018) academic publishing in Croatia, with a focus on academic books and journals, the participation of institutions and publishers, scientific fields and disciplines, and invested financial means. As Croatian academic production to a large extent depends on subsidies, the paper is based on the analyses of data from seven years of subventions, which the Croatian Ministry of Sciences and Education allocates to national academic publish­ers, regardless if they are academic institutions or privately owned publish­ers. Conducted analyses provide detailed insight into the model of supply-side academic publishing and into national academic publishing in general. The topics – academic publishing and system of subsidies – have rarely been addressed in recent research. Thus, this paper offers new insights for researchers (e.g. providing knowledge about the scale and structure of academic publishing), provides evaluation possibilities for policymakers (e.g. to design the tools for monitoring and improving the system of public subsidies), and provide comparable perspective for national academic pub­lishing in the context of European academic publishing setting.

This work seeks to bridge areas of academic institutional research, social network analysis, and content analysis through the application of a social media paradigm to the academic research publishing environment. The concept is built upon the analysis of similarities and differences that exist in the structural and functional building blocks of academic publishing and social media. The potential impact in the form of new research directions that arise from this application are presented.

The immense potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in academic journal publishing has significantly impacted scholarly communication between stakeholders, leading to increased research into ethical considerations for AI use in academic publishing. Due to the contextual nature of ethics and the ontological base of language as its own object of inquiry, the conceptual framework and underlying ideologies of AI ethics in linguistics deserve attention. In this study, we address the call for these ethical considerations by combining a hybrid thematic analysis (HTA) of the ethical guidelines available on 144 Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) linguistics journals’ and 11 corresponding publishers’ websites as of 31 October 2025, and a critical discourse analysis (CDA) case study on Language Testing, a representative journal with self-developed AI ethical guidelines. Through the HTA, we identified seven themes: accountability, authorship, citation practices, copyright, long-term governance, human agency, and transparency. The role allocation of CDA demonstrated that the AI ethical guidelines independently established by the linguistics journal expand the scope of stakeholders to include the sources of research data and technology, covering the informed consent of research participants and the responsibilities of the AI tool operators. Moreover, AI tools are given a beneficialized role, suggesting a more technology-assisted-oriented perspective and reflecting deeper trust in AI’s involvement. Through the findings, our study contributes to the broader understanding of ethical governance in relation to AI usage in discipline-based communication, highlighting the need for a more dialogic and diverse framework to share responsibility among stakeholders to promote the ethical use of AI.

The author discusses how this Internet technology is destroying the economics of academic publishing. He was concerned that coverage of politics and news was concentrated in the hands of a few unscrupulous newspaper publishers. Printing technology (including inexpensive paper manufacturing) has taken "things with words" from precious works of art to fish wrappers. Print has made words cheap (though color is still relatively expensive). For academic publishers, the Internet is a very disruptive technology. Academic publishing (including professional societies like IEEE and commercial academic publishers) has long been an interesting niche. Research produces results of economic value, so society and commerce have long supported it. Academic publishing has been supported by singularly noneconomic model. The continued existence of the formal paper-based peer reviewed publication depends on the research community's resisting the powerful economic forces.

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Books in the Digital Age . The Transformation of Academic and Higher Education Publishing in Britain and the United States. By John B. Thompson . Polity, Cambridge, 2005. 480 pp. $79.95, £65. ISBN 0-7456-3477-X. Paper, $29.95, £19.99. ISBN 0-7456-3478-8. The author explores the changes that are taking place in academic publishing and the implications these may have for the future of scholarly books.

This paper offers a systematic review of academic and practitioner-oriented literature on FinTech to determine the literature's existing scope and examine the intersection with work in the Information Systems (IS) field. Findings from our review show that the practitioner-oriented literature foreshadowed the rise of FinTech by extensively reporting on algorithm-based and electronic trading (2009 onwards), followed by reporting on FinTech start-ups and funding successes (2014 onwards). The practitioner literature subsequently reported on alternative finance models, the introduction of cryptocurrencies, and risks and regulatory issues. Academic literature on FinTech began to rise from 2014 onwards, focusing initially on the development of FinTech in the aftermath of the 2007-2008 global financial crisis. Research attention subsequently shifted to FinTech innovations (alternative finance, cryptocurrency and blockchain, machine-based methods for financial analysis and forecasting, including artificial intelligence), as well as risk and regulatory issues. IS work on FinTech started to emerge from 2015 onwards, initially focusing on mobile payment systems and peer-to-peer lending. However, the body of work at the intersection of FinTech and IS is still small. Our review sheds light on several opportunities for future research, including financial inclusion, the impacts arising from COVID-19, and the emergence of new business models, such as Banking as a Service (BaaS).