CONTENTS

List of Abbreviations

Foreword to the English Edition

1 Changes in Scientific Publishing: A Heuristic for Analysis

Niels Taubert & Peter Weingart

PART ONE: THE CHANGING SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING SYSTEM

2 Different from Discipline to Discipline: Diversity in the Scholarly Publication System

Konstanze Rosenbaum

3 Recent Processes of Change from the Perspective of Academic Publishers

Niels Taubert

4 On the Situation and Development of Academic Libraries

Peter Weingart

5 A Participatory Experiment in Science Policy: Results and Evaluation of the ‘Publication System’ Online Consultation

Niels Taubert & Kevin Schön

PART TWO: FRAMING CONDITIONS

6 Recommendations, Statements, Declarations and Activities of Science Policy Actors on Shaping the Scholarly Communication System

Ulrich Herb

7 Open Access: Effects on Publishing Behaviour of Scientists, Peer Review and Interrelations with Performance Measures

David Ball

8 Copyright and Changing Systems of Scientific Communication

Alexander Peukert & Marcus Sonnenberg

PART THREE: VISIONS

Visions Concerning the Future of Publishing in Science

9 Electronic Publishing, Open Access, Open Science and Other Dreams

Martin Grötschel

10 A Vision of Scientific Communication

Reinhold Kliegl

11 Methodological Optimism Regarding the Digital Future: Critical Remarks on the Recommendations on the Future of the Scholarly Communication System

Volker Gerhardt

12 Trust, Quality Assurance and Open Access: Predatory Journals and the Future of the Scholarly Publication System

Peter Weingart

13 Publishing in German Sociology in the Year 2030

Niels Taubert