In this paper the interdisciplinary nature of electronic publishing is addressed by raising two issues relating to the content and structure of an electronic publishing course. The first is whether it is possible to agree upon a generic curriculum, based on a set of headings or topics, which may be treated quite differently by those in different disciplines (e.g. typographers, computer scientis...

The advent of modern electronic publishing and delivery systems make it possible to extend previous modes of publishing to incorporate new media and new features. These extensions can then provide new opportunities for use of publications. In this paper, we discuss the design and construction of a particular type of electronic publication that has gained recent popularity: electronic conference...

During the last four years the PaVE department at GMD-IPSI experimented with the Individualized Electronic Newspaper, an active publication that is individualized and composed on demand for a reader, and then delivered electronically. The work concentrated on the user interface design for active electronic publications and, in particular, on the investigation of publishing system architectures ...

The International Conference on Health Sciences and Medical Technologies (ICHSMT'16) was held in Tlemcen, Algeria from 27-29 September 2016. The conference was organized by the University Of Tlemcen, in partnership with Electronic Physician Journal, Mehr Publishing, and Mehrafarin Scientific Publishing. There were participants from 14 nations who presented their research in poster or oral prese...

Electronic Publishing with tools from the Extensible Markup Language (XML) family of technologies has been increasingly used since the first XML and Extensible Style Sheet Language Transformation (XSLT) specifications were been published in 1998/1999 and supporting processing applications emerged. This paper describes ideas and solutions of how to migrate the existing electronic publishing proc...

This paper explores the topic of electronic books (e-books) and the effect that these digital devices and other new technologies has on the publishing industry. Contemporary society often claims that the publishing industry is dying and that the innovation of the e-book will eventually sentence the printed book to death. But this study will show that such is not the case. While it is true that ...

The Department of Information Science at Loughborough University has carried out several user studies on electronic journals in recent years, including the ELVYN and Cafe Jus projects. We now report on two large-scale surveys carried out in mid 1998 to early 1999, with which this department was associated. The first was conducted under contract to the UK government’s Department of Trade and Ind...

This paper describes part of the results of recent research carried out in Brazil and the UK, which investigated the perceptions by academic social scientists of the impact of electronic publishing on the information dissemination process within their scholarly communities. Results showed that there have been similar experiences by both communities of researchers. Accordingly, it was observed t...