Our presentation gives an outlook on some of the main results of a strategic European study entitled “EP2010 – The Future of Electronic Publishing Towards 2010”. The paper puts forward the thesis that, driven by the emerging knowledge economy, “traditional” publishing industries will have to face the technological and economic challenges of knowledgeenhanced publishing: Novel publishing objects...

Eva Verona (1905-1996), In Memoriam by Aleksandra Horvat Patricia B. Yocum. Libraries and the Electronic Journal in Science Patricia B. Yocum. Electronic Publishing in Science: Report of the Expert Meeting Sponsored by UNESCO and ICSU Press, 19-23 February 1996 Abdus Sattar Chaudhry. Exploiting Network Information Resources for Collection Development in Libraries Brian McMahon. Electronic Publi...

The available technologies for publishing journals ‘electronically’ are surveyed. They range from abstract representations, such as SGML, concerned largely with the structure of the document, to formats such as PostScript which faithfully model the layout and the appearance. The issues are discussed in the context of choosing a format for electronically publishing the journal: Electronic Publis...

This paper reports on the effects of going electronic in the publishing value system that starts with the author and ends with the reader. In between we find several contribuants to the final product, the publication. The organization and economics of publishing are analysed and described as it transforms from a hardcopy business via CD-I and CD-ROM as an in-between stage into fullfledged onlin...

The principle of open-access (OA) publishing is more and more prevalent also on the field of laboratory medicine. Open-access journals (OAJs) are available online to the reader usually without financial, legal, or technical barriers. Some are subsidized, and some require payment on behalf of the author. OAJs are one of the two general methods for providing OA. The other one is self-archiving in...

Introductory electronic publishing courses are typically designed to teach students how to use a particular system. More advanced courses may include elements of document design, and a survey of available systems and technologies with a comparison of their capabilities, but they are still normally designed to teach specific skills and so may be considered as ‘service’ courses. An electronic pub...

How will scholarly publishing evolve? The history of other technological innovations suggests the shift to electronic publications will be rapid, but fundamental changes in the nature of scholarly communications will be much slower.

The internet causes a continuous emergence of novel forms of scholarly communication and collaboration. Electronic publishing provides a means for representing eventual outcomes of these processes, i.e. all types of content such as papers and advanced forms of media. Electronic journals are often chosen as an adequate publishing format because they simultaneously deliver content in a well-known...

This text presents a set of reflections about the use of electronic publishing in African countries, as a means of access to scientific information. It includes brief remarks about electronic publishing, their advantages and benefits. The text continues with a discussion about the need to find solutions to the problem of the different degrees of access to scientific and technological informatio...

WHILETHERE HAVE BEEN LITERALLY HUNDREDS of articles and other publications dealing with electronic publishing, few go beyond expressions of opinion or speculation. Very few recent publications, even those having the term “economics” in their titles, provide any empirical evidence concerning these speculations. This article presents some economic issues, provides some quantitative evidence conce...