Converging media industry calls for tighter integration of creativity, business processes, and technologies. Media companies need flexible methods to manage electronic content production and delivery, and metadata is a key enabler in making this goal a reality. However, metadata is useful only if its nature is understood clearly and its structure and usage are well-defined. For this purpose, an...

Media industry is changing fast. Instead of spending years on product development and testing, media companies today have to develop complex new products for a variety of media platforms in a matter of days. Our work with the media companies has shown that unless the production process is understood, rethought, and altered, only fraction of the possible advantages of separating content and form...

Anna Metzner (German Association of Publishers and Booksellers) welcomed chairs, speakers and participants to Academic Publishing in Europe 2013. This being the 8th conference, she highlighted as continuous the open and discursive nature of the proceedings, and as evolving the themes under discussion. The funding of publishing is an especially timely theme as digital business models are being c...

This study is developed within the scientific areas of Information Science, Communication Sciences and Editorial Design. It refers to the hybrid publishing context in which there is a coexistence of electronic and print processes, and to the role played by Information and Communication Technologies. This scenario is conditioned by technical, morphological and cultural transformations, in the wo...

Student diScount order Form 2016/17 Clark’s Publishing Agreements: A Book of Precedents, Ninth Edition is a comprehensive compendium of model agreements for just about every contract needed in the publishing industry. From general author agreements, via merchandising rights to online licensing, you’ll find it all in this essential resource. Students will benefit from: • Guidance on how to draft...

The Keystone Symposium on Stem Cell Differentiation and Dedifferentiation attracted nearly 500 participants affiliated with academia, the biotechnology industry, scientific publishing and clinical practice. This broad group examined current advances in stem-cell biology, with a particular focus on induced pluripotent stem cells, and discussed both their potential and limitations in therapeutic ...

Increasing interest in ambulatory blood pressure measurement has resulted in the proliferation of non-invasive measurement systems. This paper discusses the problems associated with validation of these systems. There is an urgent requirement for a standardized protocol for validation of ambulatory systems which is practicable, universally applicable and which is acceptable to investigators, pub...

This paper addresses the relationship of copyright and the right of universities on scientific production. Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are causing many changes in the system of scientific communication, such as the creation of Institutional Repositories that aim to gather scientific production in digital format. The University needs quicker ways of spreading academic produ...