Publishers now expect a variety of electronic files from the typesetter, both for publishing, and for archiving. And yet, the publishing industry, by and large, still follows the traditional “manuscript/edit/typeset/proofread/print” approach. The process is still essentially paper-based. The typesetting is also geared primarily towards paper output. I suggest that we are in need of radical chan...

this descriptive-survey study aims to identify the problems of publishing scientific journals in state universities and islamic azad universities. statistical population includes all academic journals the data of which is registered in www.magiran.com. required information were collected using a questionnaire. results of this research indicate that the problems of publishing scientific journals...

Derk Haank began by saying that he wanted to keep his presentation simple and would make only a few statements. The first of these was to say that, although it might be stating the obvious, academic publishing is electronic publishing. It has been remarkable how quickly things have progressed since the invention of the Web, and an EC study recently recognised that the revolution in electronic p...

Key points • New publishing models lead to new players – not all of them good. • No commonly accepted criteria aid scholars to select 'good' journals. • Journals (and publishers) need to assert their good practice. • How do publishers serve their different customers – readers, authors, reviewers, and the public? The scholarly publishing market has been disrupted by several recent innovations, a...

Construct web applications to provide dynamic, personalized web contents with high scalability and performance is a challenge to the software industry in the new Internet era. In most available solutions, load balancing and caching mechanisms are introduced in front of web servers to reduce workload. In this paper we present Content Request Markup Language (CRML), an enabling techniques for dis...

The digitisation of publishing has redefined the publishing industry and the reading experience for consumers. E-readers and smart devices are now part of the value proposition of e-books offering affordances ranging from overcoming the physical limitations of print books to providing the functionality of information systems to the reading experience. A gap exists in understanding the preferenc...

Knowledge plays an important role in health care. The production and diffusion of health-related knowledge are increasingly under the control of private commercial interests, which are characterized by conflicts of interests that result in abuses of power. Considerable research has been done on the medical-industrial complex and its role in the production of power imbalances and the consequent ...

This article will argue that the limiting the hunt for solutions to the library funding crisis to the serials sector is blinkered and hinders the development of integrated e-information systems. It will demonstrate that significant savings are to be had if ICT technologies are used to publish monographs online as serials. By ignoring this possibility the publishing industry delays the advent of...