Scholarly Communications: A History from Content as King to Content as Kingmaker

Contents: 

• Scholarly communications: the intersection of research and commerce
• The scientific journal: an historical perspective to modern times
• The scholarly book : its hard times and rise again
• Secondary publishing: from abstracting and indexing to access and information
• The rise and fall of the CD-ROM technology
• The birth of online: the Internet and the Web change scholarly communication
• Traditional economics of academic publishing
• Institutional buyers, scholars, and open access: a continuing story
• Big data, big science, and social academic networks
• The rise of workflow systems