The Digital Monograph: Preservation and Repurposing of the Academic Monograph at University Presses

This study sets out to contribute to the understanding of current practices in the preservation and repurposing of academic monographs at university presses. With the movement of scholarly communication to online access finding strong footholds in journals and reference publishing, the academic monograph, the mainstay of university presses, has still yet to be fully exploited. This study proposes a survey of the Association of American University Presses (AAUP) member presses to determine the state of digital monographs, including their preservation and repurposing, and to examine the number of initiatives for presenting academic monographs online, and to gauge how presses are adjusting to the challenges of these new publishing paradigms. Through the use of a literature review and the survey responses, an analysis of the current state will be discussed and recommendations will be made for new publishing models

S. Adler

Technical context and cultural consequences of XML The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is an open standard for creating domain- and industry-specific markup vocabularies. XML has become the predominant mechanism for electronic data interchange between information systems and can be described as a universally applicable, durable ‘‘Code of Integration.’ ’ As we celebrate its tenth anniversary, it is appropriate to reflect on the role XML has played and the technical ecosystem in which it functions. In this paper, we discuss both the environment from which XML arose and its technical underpinnings, and we relate these topics to companion papers in this issue of the IBM Systems Journal. We discuss the broad consequences of XML and argue that XML will take its place among the technical standards having the greatest impact on the world in which we live. We conclude with some reflections on the significant technical, economic, and societal consequence