Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Scientific JournalCondition: NewSubtitle: Authorship and the Politics of Knowledge in the Nineteenth CenturyISBN-10: 022675250XEAN: 9780226752501ISBN: 9780226752501Publisher: University of Chicago PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 09/22/2020Description: Not since the printing press has a media object been as celebrated for its role in the advancement of knowledge as the scientific journal. From open communication to peer review, the scientific journal has long been central both to the identity of academic scientists and to the public legitimacy of scientific knowledge. But that was not always the case. At the dawn of the nineteenth century, academies and societies dominated elite study of the natural world. Journals were a relatively marginal feature of this world, and sometimes even an object of outright suspicion.The Scientific Journal tells the story of how that changed. Alex Csiszar takes readers deep into nineteenth-century London and Paris, where savants struggled to reshape scientific life in the light of rapidly changing political mores and the growing importance of the press in public life. The scientific journal did not arise as a natural solution to the problem of communicating scientific discoveries. Rather, as Csiszar shows, its dominance was a hard-won compromise born of political exigencies, shifting epistemic values, intellectual property debates, and the demands of commerce. Many of the tensions and problems that plague scholarly publishing today are rooted in these tangled beginnings. As we seek to make sense of our own moment of intense experimentation in publishing platforms, peer review, and information curation, Csiszar argues powerfully that a better understanding of the journal’s past will be crucial to imagining future forms for the expression and organization of knowledge.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 28mmAuthor: Alex CsiszarGenre: Science Nature & MathTopic: Business & Finance, HistoryItem Weight: 513gRelease Year: 2020 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The Scientific Journal
Title: The Scientific Journal
Subtitle: Authorship and the Politics of Knowledge in the Nineteenth Centur
ISBN-10: 022675250X
EAN: 9780226752501
ISBN: 9780226752501
Release Date: 09/22/2020
Release Year: 2020
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Science Nature & Math
Topic: History
Number of Pages: 368 Pages
Publication Name: Scientific Journal : Authorship and the Politics of Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Item Height: 0.7 in
Publication Year: 2020
Subject: Publishing, General, Modern / 19th Century, History
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 23.1 Oz
Subject Area: Language Arts & Disciplines, Science, History
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Alex Csiszar
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
