eprintid: 1474651 rev_number: 26 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/01/47/46/51 datestamp: 2021-11-18 14:48:50 lastmod: 2021-11-18 14:48:50 status_changed: 2021-11-18 14:48:50 type: book_section metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Lyons, RE creators_name: Rayner, SJ title: Introduction: The academic book of the future ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B03 divisions: C01 divisions: F15 keywords: British Library; Open Access Publishing; Research Excellence Framework; Academic Book; Peter Lake note: This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). abstract: In early 2014, the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) partnered with The British Library to launch a call for teams to run The Academic Book of the Future Project. The Project brief was ‘to explore the future of the academic book in the context of Open Access publishing and the digital revolution’.1 Our team2 successfully pitched to facilitate a two-pronged approach. We are using the expert services of the Research Information Network and Dr Michael Jubb to undertake a wide-ranging series of focus groups, gathering responses to our research questions,3 whilst the core Project team are consulting with the communities of practice connected to academic books to evoke responses via more detailed pieces of commissioned research, symposia, workshops and conferences. The mid-point of the Project, Academic Book Week (9–16 November, 2015),4 will highlight a week-long showcase of this activity, plus other special events from our partners, including the launch of the volume you are now reading. date: 2016-01-12 date_type: published publisher: Palgrave Macmillan official_url: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137595775_1 oa_status: green full_text_type: pub language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1110953 doi: 10.1057/9781137595775_1 isbn_13: 9781137595768 lyricists_name: Lyons, Rebecca lyricists_name: Rayner, Samantha lyricists_id: RLYON44 lyricists_id: SJRAY01 actors_name: Lyons, Rebecca actors_id: RLYON44 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public place_of_pub: London, UK pagerange: 1-9 book_title: The Academic Book of the Future edition: 1st citation: Lyons, RE; Rayner, SJ; (2016) Introduction: The academic book of the future. In: The Academic Book of the Future. (pp. 1-9). Palgrave Macmillan: London, UK. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1474651/1/Introduction_Final_PDF.pdf