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DEFINITION As stated in the entry “Publish/Subscribe over Streams”, publish/subscribe (pub/sub) is a many-to-many communication model that directs the flow of messages from senders to receivers based on receivers’ data interests. In this model, publishers (i.e., senders) generate messages without knowing their receivers; subscribers (who are potential receivers) express their data interests, an...

With a new president in the USA it seems now more than the ever is the importance, in a gathering recession, to build optimism but also to do this with some pragmatism and realism. The expression, Yes we can, applies to the academic publishing world and we must all learn better how to “accentuate the positive”, as the famous song describes it. Innovation is the positive that needs to be accentu...

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The Journal Usage Statistics Portal (JUSP) service is expanding rapidly, and aims to encompass all NESLi2-participating publishers by the end of 2011, together with all UK higher-education institutions subscribing to deals from those publishers. A key part of the success of JUSP will be the implementation of the Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI) protocol for automatic ...

Content users in businesses, academic institutions, government agencies and other sectors need digital reuse rights to be able to lawfully share copyrighted materials with others. Advances in licensing are creating new opportunities for publishers and other rightsholders to address current and future needs of content users by streamlining, simplifying and integrating licensing solutions within ...

A core goal of librarians is to maximize usage of the content to which their libraries subscribe. Webscale or resource discovery systems offer a single search box for library users to access subscribed content. This article examines usage data at the University of Huddersfield to show how resource discovery has helped to increase the usage of publisher content, which has been made available to ...

This paper analyzes U.S. university press datasets (2001-2007) to determine net publishers’ revenues and net publishers’ units, the major markets and channels of distribution (libraries and institutions; college adoptions; and general retailer sales) that these presses relied on, and the intense competition these presses confronted from commercial scholarly, trade, and college textbook publishe...

This paper revises the general perception that localisation is about linguistic and cultural adaptation of digital content to the requirements of foreign markets; that localisation is successful if the origin of the material can no longer be detected. We will show that in a more and more globalised society (not just economy) publishers, and especially publishers of advertisements, play with 'st...