DTE_SECURITY: herramienta para la distribución segura y limitada de documentos electrónicos

DTE_SECURITY es una herramienta diseñada específicamente para distribuir de forma segura y limitada libros, apuntes y manuales, generados en cualquier procesador de textos. En realidad, se trata de un plug-in que se inserta y amplía las funciones de las herramientas de edición electrónica de ADOBE: ACROBAT y ACROREAD. El objetivo que se persigue es aumentar la confianza de los autores en la publicación electrónica, mejorando su seguridad y ampliando las funciones que restringen el acceso a los mismos (consulta limitada, fechas de caducidad, redes de trabajo, usuarios registrados, ...

On-Line Publications: Defining Requirements for User Acceptance

This study investigated user requirements for an on-line system to distribute United States Air Force publications. Requirements were gathered utilizing focus groups of users from the students and staff of the Air Force Institute of Technology. The focus groups identified requirements for the system intended to foster its acceptance within the user community. The conceptual framework posited user involvement in the design and implementation of the new system, providing a balance between functionality and ease of use fostering user acceptance. The framework was used to examine the relationships between the user’s involvement in the system design and implementation and its acceptance and use. The conceptual framework and focus groups were used for gathering data about system requirements. The inputs from the focus groups were used to develop the suggested requirements for the system. The resulting system requirements fell into the following groups: system reliability, system accessibility, search capabilities, desktop options, and hyperlink capabilities

High School Students' decisions to read print or electronic text: learning outcomes and preferences

This study examined high school history students' decisions to read text on the computer screen or to print a copy. Subjects were randomly assigned either to an experimental website, which included additional features beyond the text, or to a control website, which only included the text. Results indicated that the decision to print or to read on the screen was often made before visiting a website and was not heavily impacted by the specific design. Overall, the control group had more positive responses to electronic text than did the experimental. On test questions, those who read the experimental version surpassed the performance of the control group and equaled the performance of those who read a printed copy

The E-Writing Experiences of Literary Authors

The e-writing experience is new and not yet fully understood and there is a story to be told about the enigmatic term e-writing and its impact on authors in the e-paradigm. In this study I collected understandings of e-writing by exploring the experiences of literary authors through qualitative case studies. I set out to find answers amidst two interconnected plots of inquiry. The first plot examined e language, in particular the term e-writing, and asked how authors understand the term e-writing and how their experiences contributed to that meaning. The second storyline asked how the digital revolution and resulting e-culture changed their work, writing practices, and conception of themselves as authors. Eight authors participated in this study. The first author was interviewed in a pilot study and seven authors participated in the subsequent main study. Data was collected using semi- structured interviews that were recorded and transcribed, lists compiled of the authors’ works that included information about publication methods, and screenshots of the authors’ online presence such as social media participation and personal websites. Data was analyzed simultaneously with collection and the result is a narrative text describing the e-writing experiences of literary authors. Unraveling the enigma of e-writing was a task complicated by its own conclusions. The findings of this study emerged as the story progressed and climaxed in the understanding that e-writing as a term is not used or understood by authors beyond the general context they derived from the prefix e. Therefore, the e-writing experiences of literary authors can be more accurately described as a writing experience influenced by or situated in e-culture. These experiences revealed current authorship as being in an era of transition, where new media, new relationships between readers and authors, and new forays into virtual community are changing the work of authors, but also where residual print culture has a stronghold on our understandings and practices

Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2007 Annunal Edition

This bibliography lists citations of English-language articles, books and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. Most sources have been published from 1990 through 2007; however, a limited number of key sources published prior to 1990 are also included