Dunleavy, Patrick 
ORCID: 0000-0002-2650-6398
(2012)
Paper books in a digital era: how conservative publishers and authors almost killed off books in university social science.
Impact of Social Sciences Blog
(02 May 2012).
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Abstract
For more than 15 years, books available only in paper form have fought a losing battle with digitally-available articles in academic journals – the publishing equivalent of horse cavalry repeatedly charging barbed wire defences with machine guns. As their usefulness and effectiveness waned, so the intellectual status of books in the social sciences declined strongly. In the first of a two-part blog post, Patrick Dunleavy traces the declining role of books that reached a nadir in 2010. Part 2 of the argument explores the second coming of books in digital forms.
| Item Type: | Online resource (Website) |
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| Official URL: | http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2012 The Author |
| Divisions: | Government Public Policy Group |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2300 Higher Education |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Aug 2013 08:42 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Sep 2023 18:40 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/51992 |
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