The Changing Landscape of Scholarly Publishing: Will Radiation Research Survive?

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2013-10
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Radiation Research Society
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As a society published journal, Radiation Research has been a successful and enduring project of the Radiation Research Society (RRS). In 59 years of publication, the journal has produced 732 issues and 10,712 articles. As a nonprofit organization, RRS, like most societies, has used revenues from subscriptions to support, in part, the life of the organization (meetings, conferences and grants to new scholars). The model for scientific publishing, however, continues to evolve. Radiation Research has weathered the rise of electronic publishing, consolidation in the commercial publishing industry, the aggregation of library subscriptions and library subscription cuts. Recent years have seen dramatic changes in how scholarly publishing is financed and new funder and institution policies will accelerate these changes. The growth of open access to journal articles reflects the information habits of readers and facilitates the dissemination of new knowledge. The Radiation Research Society, however, will need to account for and adapt to changes in the publishing market if it intends to support the communication of peer reviewed scholarship in the future.

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Jere Odell and Elizabeth C. Whipple (2013) The Changing Landscape of Scholarly Publishing: Will Radiation Research Survive?. Radiation Research: October 2013, Vol. 180, No. 4, pp. 335-339. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1667/RR3528.2
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