The Academic Book of the Future: New BOOC From UCL Press

UCL Press is delighted to announce the publication of The Academic Book of the Future, which is likely to be of interest to UCL Library staff. View it online for free: https://goo.gl/dbLS2N

This dynamic, innovative, evolving and open platform publishes contributions connected to the AHRC/British Library project, The Academic Book of the Future, which has been investigating key aspects of scholarly publishing for the last two years, led by a team of academics from UCL and Kings College London. The platform, which presents the content in the form of a BOOC (Books as Open Online Content), will grow as more content is created, and will allow different ways to explore and share the ideas and discussions.

Authors from all areas of the academic, publishing, bookselling and library communities discuss aspects of scholarly books and their possible futures: for example, the role of the editor, peer review, academic bookshops and libraries, open access, digital publishing and technology. The content – in a range of peer-reviewed formats including videos, blogs, chapters and reports – presents a fascinating variety of insights into the constantly evolving contexts of the academic book and will be of interest to anyone working in the HE sector and the publishing industry, and, indeed, to anyone interested in how ideas are disseminated to a wider general audience.

Content now available includes:

• Introduction to Academic Book of the Future
  Samantha J. Rayner
• Open Access Book Publishing and the Prisoner’s Dilemma: A Theoretical Approach to a Description of the slow scalability of Open Access Book Publishing
  Marcel Knöchelmann
• The Academic Book of the Future and Its Readers: Issues and Opportunities of Onscreen Reading
  Silvia Pirola
• Academic Book Discovery, Evaluation and Access: A Report
  Anna Faherty
• The Academic Book in the South: Conference Report
  Stephanie Kitchen
• The (Open) Academic Book of the Future
  Sarah Lippincott
• American Mathematical Society: Publishing Maths in the USA
  Robert Harrington
• What is the Point of the Academic Book? Part One
  Rebecca Lyons
• What is the Point of the Academic Book? Part Two
  Mari Shullaw
• What is the Future for the Academic Book?
  Sussex Research Hive
• The Future of the Academic Book in the USA
  Amy Brand, Anne Brackenbury, Robert Harington, Sarah Lippincott and moderated by Sheila Bond
• My Acts of Reading
  Andrew Prescott
• Students and the Digital Edition: A Polemic
  Stephen Gregg
• Open Access and Academic Publishing
  Ian Lovecy
• Open Access: A Personal Take
  Alastair Horne
• Towards an Ethics of Circulation: A Manifesto in Tweets
  Haidy Geismar
• Creative Writing Theses: Discoverability and Open Access
  Rebecca Lyons
• What is the Future for the Academic Book? BSECS 2016 Storify
• Github notes on What is the Future for the Academic Book?
  James Baker
• The Academic Book in the South (Storify)
• What is the Point of the Academic Book? BSECS Panel Storify
• Lincoln’s [Im]Possible Constellations
  Paul Moore
• Lincoln’s [Im]Possible Constellations
  Catherine Grant
• Lincoln’s [Im]Possible Constellations
  Karen Savage
• Lincoln’s [Im]Possible Constellations
  Mikey Murray
• Publishers Address the Academic Book of the Future
  Amy Brand, Anne Brackenbury, Robert Harington, Sarah Lippincott and moderated by Sheila Bond
• What is the Future for the Academic Book? – Video recording of a panel
  Caroline Basset, Kiren Shoman, Martin Eve
• Academic Publishing in the South: The Ghanaian Experience
  Akoss Ofori-Mensah
• New Directions, New Models 
  Abhijit Gupta and Padmini Ray Murray
• Panel Discussion: Academic Authorship and Knowledge Production
  Stephanie Kitchen, Insa Nolte & Padmini Ray Murray
• Panel Discussion: The Role of Libraries and Archives
  Gillian Evison, Francis Gotto & James Lowry
• Final Panel Discussion & Concluding Comments
  Ola Uduku
• Panel: The Role of Libraries and Archives
  Nureldin Satti
• The Academic Book of the Future Project Film
• Panel: Academic Authorship and Knowledge Production
  Sari Hanafi