Table of Contents:
  • Publishing challenges in the new century
  • Technological rabbits and communication turtles
  • Tripartite nature of university presses
  • Limits of standardization in scholarship
  • Publishing, property, and information structures
  • Specialization in the electronic world
  • Social science and scholarly communication
  • Open access and closed minds
  • Professional ambitions and public interests
  • Formatting ideology through tabloid politics
  • Scholarly pornography
  • Publishing programs and political dilemmas
  • Political periodicals in policy formation
  • Monopolization of publishing and crisis in education
  • Publishing responses to economic crisis
  • Publishing as a vocation: the necessity of independence.