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The number of scholarly journals being published in Korea has massively expanded since the late 1990s, and this expansion has been accompanied by larger numbers of international scholars from outside Korea publishing in Korean journals. Alongside this expansion in the number of Korean journals has been an increase in competition among journals, a need for journals to seek recognition from various authorities, and a desire to expand readership beyond Korea. However, little has been written about these important changes in Korean scholarly publishing. This article provides an overview of the current state of Korean scholarly publishing and then examines the experiences of international academics publishing in Korean journals. Finally, this article discusses five lessons that can productively inform those who are refashioning Korean journals in this new, highly competitive environment of global publishing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As contributors to academic journals, we expect our submissions to be treated with a certain amount of respect by editors and dealt with expeditiously; we want to see our papers published. An editor who is allowing a submission to 'gather dust' is not acting in the best interests of either their authors or their journal. I recommend that authors sometimes review their list of papers ' in press,' ' in review,' and 'submitted,' and those that have stopped moving should be withdrawn and submitted elsewhere. An editor who fails to give their contributors timely support is not deserving of their papers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 2006, the Online Journal of Rural Research and Policy (OJRRP) was launched. The publication is an example of the ability of academia to create narrowly defined scholarly journals aimed at a small, targeted readership while relying on a meagre budget. This article discusses the factors that fostered the creation of hundreds of online-only journals, as well as providing a case study of the creation of OJRRP and the long-term implications of online cross-disciplinary publications. Areas covered include sponsorship, editorial board, editorial staff, software, link rot, code, promotional activities, tracking and supporting usage, and, perhaps most importantly, long-term sustainability. The OJRRP experience is presented along with lessons learned in each area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores an issue that has been neglected in Australia, the intertwined fates of the scholarly book and the university press. These institutions face two significant threats: the commercialization of the university, which has left academics with less time for the patient research and writing needed to produce a monograph, and the 'tyranny of the journal article' (in contrast to that of the monograph, which has been noted in American debates), which has devalued the monograph and thus reduced some of the incentive for academics to write one. After examining the decline of university presses in Australia, the article concludes that they, and the monographs they publish, will best flourish with increased philanthropic, governmental, and university funding; careful list diversification; creative commissioning; cross-subsidization; and the savvy use of electronic and traditional forms of publishing and dissemination. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Let academics in developing countries shine in the international publishing community. A suggestion that they should target their own local journals would mean that their best research would reach only a limited audience, that they would probably be poorly regarded by promotion committees, that they would be unfavourably appraised by international grant-awarding agencies, and, in all probability, that publication would follow only after an inordinately long wait. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Journal prices have long been a matter of controversy. Lacking has been any objective information on costs that could be used to judge whether price increases have been justified by rising costs. Using a rare, publicly available set of data for the American Economic Review, the premier journal in economics, this article normalizes costs for number of issues per annum, number of pages per issue, and print quantities per issue to construct an index for the costs of producing this journal. It shows that costs have in fact increased more slowly than the general rate of inflation and argues that the cost experience of this journal provides a reference point for academic journals generally. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the rapid development of scholarly publishing and the internationalization of academic journals in China, peer review has begun to gain ground as well. After briefly summarizing the recent academic debate on the validity of peer review and the function of peer experts, the authors look into the major problems with the existing peer-review practices of academic journals in China. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The range of potential outlets for academic publishing is large and varied. Different sorts of publications – such as peer-reviewed research journals, books, CDs, book reviews, conference abstracts, and guides – inform, influence, and entertain different parts of an academic's potential audience. While the current management focus on publication in journals listed in citation indexes and with high impact factors is expedient in terms of the academic reputation of the host institution, publishing results, reviews, and essays anywhere and everywhere is the way for a researcher to inform the widest constituency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

History journals are a major force in historical research and scholarship. Publishing research in journals offers scholars greater intellectual flexibility, increased specialization, and opportunities to engage in more innovative approaches to historical research. Although a counterpart to the monograph, the journal is not a lesser component in the scholarly communication of historical scholarship but a necessary agent in maintaining and expanding the purview of historical research and intellectual evolution. Without the scholarly history journal, historical research and published scholarship would be impoverished, less capable of creative evolution vis-à-vis disciplinary evolution and the generation of newer vectors of research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Scholarly journals play a substantive role in the dissemination of knowledge among academics, and university presses have been exceptionally active as journal publishers. But since 1981 a series of events has affected, and in some instance adversely affected, journal publishing. This article analyses data from the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) regarding 1317 scholarly journals in 25 marker fields and addresses the following question: It has been alleged that it became difficult for academics in certain fields to get published in scholarly journals. Was there any decrease in the number of articles published in the 1317 journals analysed in this study? Other questions addressed in this paper include the following: What impact did the serials crisis have on university presses? Did the economics of journal publishing change between 1981 and 2000? What is the potential impact of the 'open access' movement on scholarly communication? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article explores the criteria that can be identified to support the continuation of subscriptions to expensive journals on the library budget. Grossly overpriced journals are common in many fields, yet they are also usually successful in attaining a wide circulation (mainly to libraries), which seems illogical. There is little doubt that librarians usually know their constituencies [of faculty and students] and collect the most in-demand items first. It is the demand for these journals by the constituencies that really promotes their success (or otherwise). My experience in my own field, paleontology, is that many journals provide a similar product, but that publishing-house journals explore particular facets of the speciality, making them essential reading to a (commonly large) subset of the potential audience. Two factors particularly act to maintain the status quo, one intrinsic--the high profile such journals have among researchers--and the other extrinsic--the resistance of the constituencies to change. Expensive publishing-house journals are unattractive to any library, but particularly so to institutions in the Third World.