Book
The Academic Book of the Future
2015
Rebecca E. Lyons
Samantha Rayner
Typology category
livingISBN-13
9781137595768
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Authors
Rebecca E. Lyons, Samantha J. Rayner
Publication year
2016
Publisher's description
This book is open access under a CC-BY licence. Part of the AHRC/British
Library Academic Book of the Future Project, this book interrogates current
and emerging contexts of academic books from the perspectives of thirteen
expert voices from the connected communities of publishing, academia,
libraries, and bookselling.
Experimental aspects:
This innovative new digital format presents subjects in the form of a ‘living book’ with articles of various types, in a non-linear thematic presentation that offers readers the option to select and sort subjects they wish to read. With long and short articles, blogs, videos, audio and Storifys, these ‘books’ are added to and grow over a period of time. Due to the nature of material featured in BOOC only certain types of content were subject to peer review. Non-traditional content such as videos and Storifys have been excluded from the peer review process. The Academic Book of the Future is the first BOOC to be published by UCL Press. More content will be added to BOOC in the near future.