The role of academic publishers in shaping the development of Web 2.0 services for scholarly communication

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James K Stewart, Robin WIlliams

Published: 05 Dec 2012, Last Modified: 19 Jan 2026New Media and SocietyEveryoneCC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Abstract: This paper examines how two contrasting academic publishers are responding to the opportunities and challenges of Web 2.0 to innovate their services. Our findings highlight the need to take seriously the role of publishers in the move towards a vision of more rapid and open scholarly communication and to understand the factors that shape their role as intermediaries in the innovation pathways that may be needed to achieve it.