Open access publishing is an initiative that aims to provide universal, unrestricted free access to full-text scholarly materials via the Internet. This presents a radically different approach to the dissemination of research articles that has traditionally been controlled by the publishing enterprise that regulates access by means of subscriptions and licences fees levied on users, predominantly academic libraries. In presenting the case for open access publishing, the thesis explored the contemporary research environment, changing modes of knowledge production, the problems associated with the existing academic journal system, and the subsequent growth of the open access movement as an intervention to reclaim scientific communication. It highlighted the ways in which open access better answers the requirements of researchers, funders, governments, and society more broadly.

by Karina Lam Wai-ling. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1989. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 144-151).

郭豔玲. / 論文 (哲學碩士)--香港中文大學, 1999. / 參考文獻 (leaves 295-297). / 附中英文摘要. / Guo Yanling. / Lun wen (zhe xue shuo shi) -- Xianggang Zhong wen da xue, 1999. / Can kao wen xian (leaves 295-297). / Fu Zhong Ying wen zhai yao. / Chapter 第一章 --- 前言 --- p.4 / Chapter I --- 硏究動機、目的 --- p.4 / Chapter II --- 硏究範圍 --- p.4 / Chapter III --- 硏究方法 --- p.5 / Chapter IV --- 資料搜集的範圍、資料來源和資料搜集的困難所在 --- p.7 / Chapter V --- 文學類翻譯書籍的界定和分類 --- p.21 / Chapter 第二章 --- 近五十年來文學類譯書在香港的出版情況 --- p.29 / Chapter I --- 1946年以前文學類譯書在香港的出版情況 --- p.29 / Chapter 一 --- 時代背景及書業的發展 --- p.29 / Chapter 二 --- 文學類譯書的出版情況 --- p.30 / Chapter 三 --- 總結 --- p.33 / Chapter II --- 四十年代末期及五十年代文學類譯書在香港的出版情況 --- p.35 / Chapter 一 --- 時代背景及書業的發展 --- p.35 / Chapter 二 --- 文學類譯書的出版情況 --- p.48 / Chapter 三 --- 總結 --- p.78 / Chapter III --- 六十年代文學類譯書在香港的出版情況 --- p.81 / Chapter 一 --- 時代背景及書業的發展 --- p.81 / Chapter 二 --- 文學類譯書的出版情況 --- p.94 / Chapter 三 --- 總結 --- p.109 / Chapter IV --- 七十年代文學類譯書在香港的出版情況 --- p.112 / Chapter 一 --- 時代背景及書業的發展 --- p.112 / Chapter 二 --- 文學類譯書的出版情況 --- p.120 / Chapter 三 --- 總結 --- p.142 / Chapter V --- 八十年代文學類譯書在香港的出版情況 --- p.144 / Chapter 一 --- 時代背景及書業的發展 --- p.144 / Chapter 二 --- 文學類譯書的出版情況 --- p.158 / Chapter 三 --- 總結 --- p.195 / Chapter VI --- 九十年代文學類譯書在香港的出版情況 --- p.197 / Chapter 一 --- 時代背景及書業的發展 --- p.197 / Chapter 二 --- 文學類譯書的出版情況 --- p.214 / Chapter 三 --- 總結 --- p.240 / Chapter 第三章 --- 從文學譯書的出版情況探討本港文學翻譯事業的發展 --- p.242 / Chapter I --- 五十年來各類文學譯書出版情況分析及總結 --- p.242 / Chapter 一 --- 文學譯書出版的整體數量 --- p.242 / Chapter 二 --- 各種文體譯書數量的百分比 --- p.245 / Chapter 三 --- 1946-1995小說譯書的出版趨勢 --- p.246 / Chapter 四 --- 1946-1995散文譯書的出版趨勢 --- p.249 / Chapter 五 --- 1946-1995詩歌譯書的出版趨勢 --- p.251 / Chapter 六 --- 1946-1995劇作譯書的出版趨勢 --- p.252 / Chapter 七 --- 1946-1995兒童文學譯書的出版趨勢 --- p.255 / Chapter 八 --- 1946-1995其他文學類譯書的出版趨勢 --- p.256 / Chapter 九 --- 關於譯書的原作者 --- p.258 / Chapter 十 --- 關於譯書的譯者 --- p.264 / Chapter 十一 --- 出版文學譯書的出版社 --- p.269 / Chapter II --- 從文學譯書出版的整體特色探討香港的文學翻譯事業發展槪 況 --- p.275 / Chapter III --- 香港譯者在譯介文學作品上扮演的角色 --- p.285 / Chapter IV --- 五十年來的文學譯書出版及文學翻譯事業的發展帶給本港翻 譯界的啓示 --- p.290 / 參考書目 --- p.295 / 參考篇目 --- p.298 / 在資料搜集期間曾接觸/訪問/向其查詢資料的人物名單 --- p.304 / 爲豐富論文內容而出席的講座/硏討會/學術會議 --- p.307 / 附錄：香港的文學類翻譯書籍出版紀錄［1946-1995］

This thesis explores the persuasive effects of literature both personally and socially, via the codification of character archetypes in fiction (exemplified here in high fantasy fiction). This thesis firstly explores the manner in which literature can affect individuals' beliefs, and how certain representations of groups (in this case, women) can be inherited and maintained through genre norms, themselves maintained through traditional publishing models and financial concerns. Next, this thesis offers an analysis of self-published novels' responses to the archetypal representations of women within high fantasy, as exemplified in two popular high fantasy works, The Lord of the Rings and A Game of Thrones, and four self-published novels (including the author's own). It then focuses on whether self-publishing allows for the highlighted genre norms to be more easily subverted due to the nature of the new publishing model. It concludes with a discussion on the possibility of a new form of literary understanding, termed by the author 'multiliteraryism'. Building on debates in the field of world literature and multilingualism, multiliteraryism, it is suggested, can offer a new method of understanding multiple voices and representations, absent any denigration in terms of the means of publication.

This thesis examines the publisher Thomas Nelson’s contribution to the juvenile publishing field in Britain in the period between 1850-1918, and studies Nelson’s development into a specialised publisher of books for children in the same period. The thesis examines the ways in which the children’s book and the juvenile publishing field developed through negotiating the demands of religious and secular education, arguing that it was through the children’s list that Nelson transitioned into a modern educational publisher. The thesis challenges assumptions that the history of children’s books is one from reading for instruction to reading solely for pleasure, thus also expanding our understanding of the types of books which were published in the “Golden Age” of children’s books. Finally, in uncovering the influence of the Nelson firm, the thesis reassesses the role of Scottish companies in British juvenile publishing. The research builds on three types of data: first and foremost information comes from the “Papers of Thomas Nelson & Sons”, a collection of the firm’s business and editorial papers. To allow comparisons with the larger publishing field and with specific publishers, data were also gathered from contemporary trade, professional, government and literary publications. Finally, the material form of selected Nelson children’s books is analysed. In chapter one, the impact that Nelson’s origin as a publisher with evangelical sympathies had on text selection and editorial methods is analysed. The reasons for the adventure tale’s dominant position on the Nelson list is the focus of chapter two, which analyses the editorial treatment of this genre and the diverse opportunities this genre afforded Nelson. Chapter three analyses the development of Nelson series, particularly the implications such diversification schemes had for the demarcations between juvenile and popular fiction. Chapter four examines the educational gift book and its relationship with Nelson’s schoolbooks, and the ways in which the conservatism and innovation of the early twentieth-century print market affected the composition of the children’s book list. The thesis concludes with a comparison of Nelson books from either end of the period studied, and uses the 1921 Newbolt Report on “The Teaching of English” to reflect on Nelson’s position in the publishing field.

The book publishing industry experienced a period of drastic change during the final decades of the twentieth century. Small publishing companies consolidated and were purchased by large, profit-minded media conglomerates. The widespread adoption of digital media technologies prompted many questions about the very future of the book itself. Yet at the pinnacle of these changes, the American young adult publishing market gradually began to experience not a decline, but a renaissance. In this report, I explore ways that changes in book publishing have manifested themselves in contemporary young adult literature through two case studies. Are today’s young adult books works of literature or commercial products? Is their increased popularity due to widening readership or more savvy marketing? Are the companies producing them more concerned with the public good or their own profit margins? / text

Open access publishing is an initiative that aims to provide universal, unrestricted free access to full-text scholarly materials via the Internet. This presents a radically different approach to the dissemination of research articles that has traditionally been controlled by the publishing enterprise that regulates access by means of subscriptions and licences fees levied on users, predominantly academic libraries. In presenting the case for open access publishing, the thesis explored the contemporary research environment, changing modes of knowledge production, the problems associated with the existing academic journal system, and the subsequent growth of the open access movement as an intervention to reclaim scientific communication. It highlighted the ways in which open access better answers the requirements of researchers, funders, governments, and society more broadly.

Zugl.: Leipzig, Univ., Diss., 2006 / Includes bibliographical references and index.

Thesis (M.S.)--Rochester Institute of Technology, 1990. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 107-108).

Thesis (M.S.)--Rochester Institute of Technology, 2008. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 54-57).