This eLib Supporting Study was conceived to investigate the incidence and nature of the publishing of electronic scholarly monographs and textbooks in the United Kingdom. Given the international nature of academic publishing, and the fact that the professional literature suggested a higher incidence of activity within North America, the study was extended to encompass publishing beyond the UK. ...

Publishing is a hallmark of good scientific research. The aim of publishing is to disseminate new research knowledge and findings as widely as possible in a timely and efficient manner. Scientific publishing has evolved over the years with the advent of new technologies and demands. This paper presents a brief discussion on the history and status of electronic publishing. The Open Access Initia...

The rst part of the paper identiies disadvantages of rst generation Web publishing solutions that have to be overcome for professional publication providers. Using Hyper-G for distribution of electronic documents opens the way to the rst fully-integrated professional publishing solution on the Web. User and group access rights as well as billing mechanisms are integrated into the server, links ...

We report on topics discussed at the 2nd CERN Workshop on Electronic Publishing: New Schemes in Electronic Publishing in Physics in March 2000 [click here to access]. The emergence of new models of e-publishing, from the experiences of e-archives and independent journals, and the initiatives from commercial publishers to face this evolution are described. A new definition of the e-journal, the ...

Information delivery is undergoing profound changes. The established media such as radio, television, and newspapers are faced with a variety of new digital content formats. New dimensions of publishing can be exploited in the case of newspaper production. This paper investigates the changes in the production models of newspaper organizations caused by the introduction of information technology...

Publishing is a distributed process which is characterized by the cooperation of different experts. The approach of the Integrated Publication and Information Systems Institute (IPSI) to support electronic publishing is to build an integrated publication environment. The publication of electronic documents demands enhanced support from publishing tools and imposes new challenges on database tec...

The paper discusses the linguistic influences on an Electronic Publishing infrastructure in an environment with a low-level of linguistic standardization. Essentially, in Serbia in the last half of the century (at least) publishing has been based on the following facts: 1. Two alphabetic systems are regularly in use with the possibility to mix both alphabets in the same document; 2. The various...

Electronic documents are more easily copied and redistributed than paper documents. This is a major impediment to electronic publishing. Illegal redistribution can be discouraged by placing unique marks in each copy and registering the copy with the original recipient. If an illegal copy is discovered, the original recipient can be identified. In this work we describe several invisible techniqu...