Por José Luis Hernández Huerta. Editor de Foro de Educación. Facultad de Educación de Palencia. Universidad de Valladolid (UVA).
For the publishers of academic journals, the changes under way in the way in which advances are made and disseminated in the area of social sciences and humanities pose certain challenges, herald several opportunities and also bring with them a number of risks.
Over the past thirty years, but especially intensely in the last decade, the management models for the publishing of academic journals in social sciences and humanities have substantially changed; it has become a more complex and dynamic task, tending toward professionalization. Today, editorial teams are no longer concerned solely with the sense and unity of the publication and the originality and academic significance of articles, reviews, interviews and other material they publish; their members need to develop other skills and abilities – social, bureaucratic and technical – which have little or nothing to do with academic, scientific work per se. Continuar leyendo “Non-Spaces for Scientific Communication. Reflections on the Publication of Academic Journals in the Field of Education”
