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Scholarly publishing originated as the most efficient method for researchers and scientists to ve... more Scholarly publishing originated as the most efficient method for researchers and scientists to verify and communicate findings and to maintain the public records of research. This paper will argue that the growth of science and research from the 1960's, combined with the rationalisation of educational spending in the same period, has pushed the edifice of the scholarly journal to an extreme. The paper will suggest that the advent of digital publishing allows a re-evaluation of the role of the journal within research and education. The traditional subscription model has tended to treat research information as a commodity, while alternative models, such as the consortium model, linked to digital delivery, can provide primary research as an infrastructure provision.
Europe’s period of hegemony, from the late 1490s until 1945, saw the emergence of an idea of Euro... more Europe’s period of hegemony, from the late 1490s until 1945, saw the emergence of an idea of Europe that was tautologically bound to an idea of history and historicism itself. From the seventeenth century the idea of historical progress became associated with the idea of pan-national European institutions in projects that failed, due to the imperial growth of, and the competition between, Europe’s nation states. This dissertation will examine how the creation of pan-national European institutions following the Second World War was driven by the economic and political needs of the United States, the new hegemon, but still relied on the origin myths of the idea of Europe and the concept of historical destiny for their justification. This ‘imposed destiny’ created a fracture point between the concept of identity and the rational principle of progress inherent in the idea of a pan-European construct. This fracture in the concept of European integration is argued to be one of subject and object and a review of the historiographic models is used to demonstrate how this conceptual divide runs through the idea of history as it does the idea of Europe, bound as they are.
Serials: The Journal for the Serials Community, 1999
Serials - Vo1.12, no.1, March 1999 Vincent Cassidy The role of electronic journals in the corpora... more Serials - Vo1.12, no.1, March 1999 Vincent Cassidy The role of electronic journals in the corporate library ... Paper presented at the UKSG/TFPL seminar: Electronic journals in the corporate environment, London, November 1998 ... This paper argues that through permissive ...
Scholarly publishing originated as the most efficient method for researchers and scientists to ve... more Scholarly publishing originated as the most efficient method for researchers and scientists to verify and communicate findings and to maintain the public records of research. This paper will argue that the growth of science and research from the 1960's, combined with the rationalisation of educational spending in the same period, has pushed the edifice of the scholarly journal to an extreme. The paper will suggest that the advent of digital publishing allows a re-evaluation of the role of the journal within research and education. The traditional subscription model has tended to treat research information as a commodity, while alternative models, such as the consortium model, linked to digital delivery, can provide primary research as an infrastructure provision.
Europe’s period of hegemony, from the late 1490s until 1945, saw the emergence of an idea of Euro... more Europe’s period of hegemony, from the late 1490s until 1945, saw the emergence of an idea of Europe that was tautologically bound to an idea of history and historicism itself. From the seventeenth century the idea of historical progress became associated with the idea of pan-national European institutions in projects that failed, due to the imperial growth of, and the competition between, Europe’s nation states. This dissertation will examine how the creation of pan-national European institutions following the Second World War was driven by the economic and political needs of the United States, the new hegemon, but still relied on the origin myths of the idea of Europe and the concept of historical destiny for their justification. This ‘imposed destiny’ created a fracture point between the concept of identity and the rational principle of progress inherent in the idea of a pan-European construct. This fracture in the concept of European integration is argued to be one of subject and object and a review of the historiographic models is used to demonstrate how this conceptual divide runs through the idea of history as it does the idea of Europe, bound as they are.
Serials: The Journal for the Serials Community, 1999
Serials - Vo1.12, no.1, March 1999 Vincent Cassidy The role of electronic journals in the corpora... more Serials - Vo1.12, no.1, March 1999 Vincent Cassidy The role of electronic journals in the corporate library ... Paper presented at the UKSG/TFPL seminar: Electronic journals in the corporate environment, London, November 1998 ... This paper argues that through permissive ...