District Architecture for Networked Editions (DAFNE) is a research project funded by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research aiming to develop a prototype of the national infrastructure for electronic publishing in Italy. The project's initial target concerns the scientific and scholarly production in the human and social sciences. The organizational , legal, technical and bu...

In most industry nations there is a shift of employment and added value from production industry to service industry. In Germany in 1998 64% of all employees worked in the service sector and achieved 68% of added value . This trend can be observed in the publishing field as well. It influences the future expectations of the management. In 1999 about only 6% of the publishers in Germany expected...

The publishing industry is at the verge of an era, wherein particular professional customers of publishing products are not so much interested in comprehensive books and journals, i.e. traditional publishing products, anymore as they now are interested in possibly structured information pieces delivered just-in-time as a certain information need arises. This requires a transformation of the pub...

Gender and motherhood dynamics feature prominently in research that examines professional workplace inequities. The rise of patenting as an available form of academic productivity presents a fruitful site to revisit these in the science profession and to compare academic and industrial science contexts. I predict patenting involvement across disciplines, sectors, and time. Contrary to findings ...

Event-condition-action (ECA) is the basic pattern for business rules implementation in the vast majority of companies dealing with complex set of either industry regulations or internal business processes and policies. For example, financial institutions have common federal and/or state rules of conducting business as well as specific rules, e.g. inside brokerage or insurance industry. The stan...

The World Wide Web Consortium’s eXtensible Markup Language (XML) and the eXtensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) are standards defined in the interest of multipurpose publishing and content reuse. XML and XSL have been gaining popularity rapidly both in industry and in academia. Although much has been written on XML/XSLbased solutions, there exists a gap between theory and practice. In this paper,...

As a society published journal, Radiation Research has been a successful and enduring project of the Radiation Research Society (RRS). In 59 years of publication, the journal has produced 732 issues and 10,712 articles. As a nonprofit organization, RRS, like most societies, has used revenues from subscriptions to support, in part, the life of the organization (meetings, conferences and grants t...