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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Csiszar, Alex
Titre(s) : The scientific journal [Texte imprimé] : authorship and the politics of knowledge in the nineteenth century / Alex Csiszar
Publication : Chicago : University of Chicago press, copyright 2018
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XI-376 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Notes bibliogr.
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
Sujet(s) : Sciences -- Périodique -- 19e siècle
Information scientifique -- 19e siècle
Rédaction scientifique et technique -- 19e siècle
Indice(s) Dewey : 501.4 (23e éd.) = Sciences naturelles et mathématiques - Communication
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780226553238. - ISBN 022655323X (rel.). - ISBN 9780226553375. - ISBN 022655337X (eBook)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45554652x
Notice n° :
FRBNF45554652
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Table des matières : 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.
