عنوان

The scientific journal :

(Number (ISBN

022655323X

(Number (ISBN

9780226553238

Erroneous ISBN

022655337X

Erroneous ISBN

9780226553375

Title Proper

The scientific journal :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

authorship and the politics of knowledge in the nineteenth century /

First Statement of Responsibility

Alex Csiszar.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Chicago :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

The University of Chicago Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

[2018]

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2018

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xi, 376 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations ;

Dimensions

24 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-361) and index.

Text of Note

Introduction: "Broken pieces of fact" -- The press and academic judgment -- Meeting in public -- The author and the referee -- Discovery, publication, and property -- What is a scientific paper? -- Access fantasies at the fin de siècle -- Conclusion: Impact stories.

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Text of Note

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.

Parallel Title

Authorship and the politics of knowledge in the nineteenth century

Communication in science.

Science-- Periodicals-- Publishing-- History-- 19th century.

Technical writing-- History-- 19th century.

02.13 practice of science.

Communication in science.

Science-- Periodicals-- Publishing.

SCIENCE-- Reference.

Technical writing.

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Book number

Csiszar, Alex

Date of Transaction

20200822102528.0

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[Book]

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