Academic publishing : issues and challenges in the construction of knowledge

Machine generated contents note: 1.Impetus: the imperatives of publication 1.1.Publishing as knowledge production 1.2.Publishing as regulation and reward 1.3.Publishing and the measurement of esteem 1.4.Counting the costs 1.5.Conclusions: an abundance of riches? 2.Locality: global and local publishing 2.1.Everybody's doing it: going global 2.2.Staying local: challenges and benefits 2.3.Local versus global knowledge 2.4.Publishing from the periphery 2.5.Conclusions: making space for the local 3.Language: visibility and inequality 3.1.English in academic publishing: dominance or prevalence? 3.2.English and communicative inequality in writing for publication 3.3.Language, publishing, and non-Anglophone authors 3.4.Conclusions: disadvantage and modest mitigations 4.Authoring: engagement and collaboration 4.1.Academic authoring and rhetorical engagement 4.2.Authoring as co-authoring: collaborative research Contents note continued: 4.3.Death of the author? Changing conceptions and contested contributions 4.4.Conclusions: authorship matters 5.Participation: community and expertise 5.1.Global communities, local interactions, and personal positions 5.2.Experts and newcomers 5.3.Participation as learning 5.4.Conclusions: a thoroughly social practice 6.Genres: articles and alternatives 6.1.Research articles: `the master narrative' 6.2.Books, blogs, and other genres 6.3.Chains, networks, and transformations 6.4.Conclusions: affordances and challenges 7.Journals: impact and access 7.1.Roles, ranks, and relevance: journals in academic publishing 7.2.Establishing a brand: journal descriptions 7.3.Publishers, predators, and access 7.4.Conclusions: the commercial/?academic interface 8.Gatekeepers: evaluation and regulation 8.1.Purposes, practices, and problems of peer review 8.2.`Revise and resubmit': commentary in peer reviews Contents note continued: 8.3.Negotiating with editors 8.4.Conclusions: a question of faith 9.Pedagogy: choices and strategies 9.1.English for research purposes: assumptions and curricula 9.2.Focus on language 9.3.Focus on strategies 9.4.Conclusions and final thoughts.