" The next five years will see greater change ". This is what the Editor of the British Medical Journal (BMJ), the first journal to be published electronically, wrote in March of this year [1]. Almost all scientists now use the Internet and most journals have produced an electronic version. This opens up the possibility for all scientists to have access to all research from their desktops. The ...

Academic publishing faces major challenges such as increasing costs and a reduced subscription base. Electronic publishing promises benefits and solutions to these and other challenges. This study examines six cases of academic electronic journals and the management practices used by their editorial boards. The cases indicate that many of the anticipated benefits of e-journals can be achieved g...

In a time when university presses are struggling to survive and most require financial support from their parent institutions, RMIT Publishing – an electronic publisher from its inception in 1989 – has grown its annual sales from AU$2.8m in 2003 to an expected AU$6m in 2007. This 100% sales growth in five years has been achieved by RMIT Publishing’s unique, context-driven approach to electronic...

Coordenação de Informação e Documentação, IBICT/MCT Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia SAS Q.05 Lt. 06 Bl. H, CEP 70070-914, Brasília/DF – Brazil Email: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Desenvolvimento Web, IBICT/MCT Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia SAS Q.05 Lt. 06 Bl. H, CEP 70070-914, Brasília/DF – Brazil Ema...

The journals of the International Union of Crystallography have grown in size and number over the past 60 years to match developments in scientific practice and technique. High quality of publication has always been at the forefront of editorial policy and ways in which this has been achieved are described. In particular, the development of standard exchange and archive formats for crystallogra...

The internet has fundamentally altered scientific publishing; this article discusses current models and how they affect this journal. The greatest innovation is a new range of open access journals published only on the internet, aimed at rapid publication and universal access. In most cases authors pay a publication charge for the overhead costs of the journal. Journals that are published by pr...

Perhaps some of you remember an editorial we wrote for our journal almost ten years ago entitled 'On the revival of an old and venerable journal'. We gave reasons for why our society should go on publishing Upsala Journal of Medical Sciences (UJMS) given the premises 'that it is not free of charge to run a business of this kind, despite the fact that the journal has grown thinner over the last ...

The state-of-the-art of electronic publishing in science and its nearest perspectives with the emphasis on technical issues are discussed. The discussion is based on the real-life activities of the author and his colleagues in publishing online journals (http://eos.wdcb.rssi.ru/) and the creation of an integrated electronic publishing environment. The EP environment includes a full set of techn...

In this paper a structured conceptual design is propounded, leading to objectoriented virtual schemata for the representation of sans serif fonts as StieltjesTartaglia intersections of various smooth structures in fake 4-space. The prospects for improved rendering of stems and counters are discussed. An Object-Oriented Methodology for Quality Control in the Production of Sans Serif Fonts G. BUZ...

s. After the publications are found, the system performs a similaritysearch of submitted articles and recent publications of the referees. We thinkthat we are able to assure the quality of publication into a long term withoutany additional human interaction! 9.5.2 Search for Publications of Referees In the following some possible solutions to the problem of finding the publica-t...