The disruptive changes of publishing industry, new research themes on digital publishing, two case studies: Chinese online literature and open access scholarly publishing

1. New Models of Publishing
Dr Xiang Ren

2. The Traditional
Publishing World
Publishing
industry
Authorship
Copyright
Readership
Inspired by Angus Philips: Introduction to Turning the Page. Routledge 2014

3. The “New” Readers and
Authors
Readers
Readers +authors
Readers+ authors+
publishers
• Active, creative, and
networked readers
• Everyone publishes
everything
• Gatekeeping vs. readers’
collective intelligence
• Removal of publisher
intermediaries

4. Copyright from Closed to Open

5. Crisis and Opportunities for
Publishing Industry

6. Research Themes
• New Value Propositions: The shift from
markets in content to markets in services that
make content useful
• Moving beyond closed: the sustainability,
efficiency, and regulation of the “open” at
scale
• Coordinating Institutions and Infrastructure
and supporting publishing industry
• From national to global content landscapes

7. Case Studies
• Self-publishing: Chinese Online Literature,
democratizing authorship and monetizing UGC
• Open access, open publishing, and the future
of digital scholarship

8. Case Studies: Knowledge Unlatched
• A global scale action research
experiment in market
coordination for OA
• 300 libraries in 24 Countries
• KU South
• Big Knowledge Lab

9. Case Studies:
Digital Publishing
in China

11. Thank You!
Research Fellow,
Australian Digital Futures
Institute, USQ
Xiang.ren@usq.edu.au
Twitter: #renxiangcn