`Electronic Publishing' -- Practice and Experience

Electronic Publishing -- Origination, Dissemination and Design (EP-odd) is an academic journal which publishes refereed papers in the subject area of electronic publishing. The authors of the present paper are, respectively, editor-in-chief, system software consultant and senior production manager for the journal. EP-odd's policy is that editors, authors, referees and production staff will work closely together using electronic mail. Authors are also encouraged to originate their papers using one of the approved text-processing packages together with the appropriate set of macros which enforce the layout style for the journal. This same software will then be used by the publisher in the production phase. Our experiences with these strategies are presented, and two recently developed suites of software are described: one of these makes the macro sets available over electronic mail and the other automates the flow of papers through the refereeing process. The decision to produce EP-odd in this way means that the publisher has to adopt production procedures which differ markedly from those employed for a conventional journal

Electronic Publishing

Discusses electronic publishing. What it is; Its two stages; The two `choices\u27 of publication types; ASCII; Fulltext databases; Use of CD-ROM; The choice each library must make; Electronic publications that are original publications; Whether electronic journals will ever replace print

Interactive electronic publishing

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Electronic publishing: technical constraints with policy consequences

This paper reviews the impact of two convergent trends in publication; the growth of 'electronic dissemination' through bodies such as Social Science Electronic Publishing, and the increasing electronic presence of normal journals. It assesses the prospects and difficulties surrounding emergent projects of fully-electronic refereed publications such as the new journal of the Society for Non-Linear Economic Dynamics. It discusses a project, current at the time, to convert the annual proceedings of a regular economics conference into a refereed electronic publication, and review the issues governing choice of medium, editorial standards and procedures, citation, authentication and copyright. This project subsequently matured into the refereed online journal Critique of Political Economy (COPE) [www.copejournal.org]COPE; TSSI; Electronic Publishing

Electronic Publishing: Research Issues for Academic Librarians and Users

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Scholarly Publishers and Scholarly Publishing in an Electronic World

Argues that the present publishing model is not infinitely sustainable in the emerging electronic environment. Publishers are seen as protectionist and displaying the classic Luddite approach to fundamental revolutions by erecting barriers against innovators and are then a hindrance to scholarly communication. While there is little doubt that publishers can and do add value to the scholarly communication process, it may be that a quite different breed of publishers will emerge

Representing and coding the knowledge embedded in texts of Health Science Web published articles

Despite the fact that electronic publishing is a common activity to scholars electronic journals are still based in the print model and do not take full advantage of the facilities offered by the Semantic Web environment. This is a report of the results of a research project with the aim of investigating the possibilities of electronic publishing journal articles both as text for human reading and in machine readable format recording the new knowledge contained in the article. This knowledge is identified with the scientific methodology elements such as problem, methodology, hypothesis, results, and conclusions. A model integrating all those elements is proposed which makes explicit and records the knowledge embedded in the text of scientific articles as an ontology. Knowledge thus represented enables its processing by intelligent software agents The proposed model aims to take advantage of these facilities enabling semantic retrieval and validation of the knowledge contained in articles. To validate and enhance the model a set of electronic journal articles were analyzed

APPLICATION OF ELECTRONIC SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING IN DIGITAL AGE: PROSPECTS AND CHALLENGES IN NIGERIAN UNIVERSITIES

The significant technological infrastructure which are now beginning to offer services to prestigious large and smaller publishers, including some of the more trade-minded university presses on online and electronic means. Scholarship Online has demonstrated to the university press community that a large aggregation of quality monograph content, optimized for online scholarly use, generates strong usage and holds sufficient appeal to librarians to support a profitable business. Therefore, this paper highlighted general introduction f electronic scholarly publishing, from digital books to digital publishing, potential benefit of electronic scholarly publishing, ebook/electronic publishing as the future of scholarly communications system, open access and electronic scholarly commutation in Nigeria, the role of library in electronic scholarly publishing, archiving and preserving of electronic scholarly publishing, important of electronic scholarly publishing, and some of the challenges of electronic scholarly publishing in Nigeria. Recommendations for functional adoption of electronic scholarly publishing in Nigeria have also been give