Peters, Michael A.Jandric, PIrwin, RLocke, KDevine, NHeraud, RichardGibbons, AndrewBesley, TinaWhite, Elizabeth JayneForster, DJackson, LGrierson, EMika, Carl Te HiraStewart, GTesar, MBrighouse, SArndt, Sonja KathrinaLazaroiu, GMihaila, RLegg, CatherineBenade, L2016-11-1020162016-11-102016Peters, M. A., Jandric, P., Irwin, R., Locke, K., Devine, N., Heraud, R., … Benade, L. (2016). Towards a philosophy of academic publishing. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 48(14), 1401–1425. http://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2016.12409871469-5812https://hdl.handle.net/10289/10721This article is concerned with developing a philosophical approach to a number of significant changes to academic publishing, and specifically the global journal knowledge system wrought by a range of new digital technologies that herald the third age of the journal as an electronic, interactive and mixed-media form of scientific communication. The paper emerges from an Editors' Collective, a small New Zealand-based organisation comprised of editors and reviewers of academic journals mostly in the fields of education and philosophy. The paper is the result of a collective writing process.application/pdfen© 2016 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http:// creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).Journal Article10.1080/00131857.2016.1240987