This paper describes the automated process to create structured master and access copies for the digitised works at the BND – National Digital Library. The BND created during 2004 and 2005 nearly half million of digitised images, from more than 25.000 titles of printed works, manuscripts, drawings and maps. The resulting of the digitisation process is a group of TIFF image files representing th...

The publishing industry like many other industries has not escaped the impact of information technology in both the production and distribution of the information it creates. From earliest DTP techniques to the selling of books over the internet and the publishing of electronic journals the publishing industry has readily accepted technological innovation. Many publishers are now ready to embra...

used to help make patient care decisions’ [1]. The On the verge of the information revolution information needed by physicians has been schematized into six categories [2] (Table 1). Of these, medical The current biomedical publication system—journals, knowledge is the most burdensome because its rate of textbooks and scientific meetings—started in the early change is rapidly increasing. It has...

or the past five years, it has been our great pleasure to serve as the editorial team of the Journal of Clinical Pathology. We have been fortunate to be able to implement several changes to the journal, and have kept our readership aware of these by means of several editorials. 1–8 Now that our term of office is coming to an end, we would like to review the developments of the journal during th...

The publication of Vannevar Bush’s seminal paper, As we may think, in 1945 was closely followed by the invention of the electronic digital computer in 1948. In the following 50 years much of Bush’s vision has been realised by computer scientists. We can store vast amounts of data including speech and video in computers, and we can transmit them over networks. We can annotate the material with e...

Arquivo Distrital de Braga (ADB), the second largest Portuguese Archive, owns thousands of important master pieces, published according to merely typographic techniques. For the great majority, their existence in electronic support is still a mirage. However, some years ago, ADB and the Department of Computer Science at the University of Minho have created a synergy aiming at modernizing, throu...

Originally established to merely publish electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) as well as postdoctoral theses, the edoc server at Humboldt University Berlin (http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/) has become the service platform for scholarly publications of all types. It is an integral part of the university’s information infrastructure which also contains a teaching management system, a virtual libr...

SUMMARIZES DEVELOPMLNT of electronic publishing since the early THE 1960s-when computers were used merely to produce conventional printed products-to the present move toward networked scholarly publishing.

In this paper we examine a part of the Information Marketplace (Dertouzos, 1997) that will give users of the WWW a wide range of new possibilities for gathering information, a task that is predominantly carried out using index-based (e.g., www.google.com, www.metacrawler.com) or catalogue-based search engines like www.yahoo.com, for example. One of the major shortcomings of search engines is th...

Media companies experimenting with electronic publishing are seeking for sustainable business models. Based on the case of the leading Danish business newspaper, Børsen, the move from traditional publishing towards electronic publishing is analysed. After a brief review of Børsen’s current business and core competences, the challenge of ‘going digital’ is examined from three perspectives – the ...