VISTA Journal Subscription Management and Fulfillment System

Feed Subscription Management

An increasing number of data sources and services are made available on the Web, and in many cases these information sources are or easily could be made available as feeds. However, the more data sources and services are exposed through feed-based services, the more it becomes necessary to manage and be able to share those services, so that users and uses of those services can build on the foun...

An Electronic Journal Management System

A web-based information system for management of scientific electronic journals is presented in the paper. Journal management requires exchange of information between many participants in the publishing process, including authors, reviewers, editors, and lectors. Each participant in the process plays a different role, and cooperates with other participants. The web system is implemented using o...

Journal subscription expenditure of UK higher education institutions

The academic libraries of higher education institutions (HEIs) pay significant amounts of money each year for access to academic journals. The amounts paid are often not transparent especially when it comes to knowing how much is paid to specific publishers. Therefore data on journal subscription expenditure were obtained for UK HEIs using a series of Freedom of Information requests. Data were ...

A New Online Journal Management System

Efficient Subscription Management in Content-based Networks

Content-based publish/subscribe systems offer a convenient abstraction for data producer and consumers, as most of the complexity related to addressing and routing is encapsulated within the network infrastructure. A major challenge of content-based networks is their ability to efficiently cope with changes in consumer membership. In our XNET XML content network, we have addressed this issue by...