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| Set of articles about electronic publishing by the Director of the Cognitive Sciences Centre at the University of Southampton. | |
| Final report from a project whose goal was to identify, evaluate, and design a framework for providing integrated access to print and electronic materials. | ||
| Paper comparing the costs of traditional publishing methods with electronic opportunities. | ||
| Conference paper (January 1999) which examines various pricing formulae and charging mechanisms being used by publishers and producers of electronic material, particularly electronic journals, as well as models of pricing being proposed for the future. It also considers the options and implications for the funding of electronic resources within and between organisations. | ||
| Papers from this conference covering topics such as the economics of electronic scholarly publishing, incorporating technology into academia, the future of consortia and access versus ownership, electronic content licensing, and updates on several electronic scholarly initiatives such as the Columbia University Online Books Project, Project Muse at Johns Hopkins University, and JSTOR. | ||
| Article which argues that book and journal publishers need make use of both SGML (Standard Generalised Markup Language) and Adobe PDF (Portable Document Format) in making print and electronic products. | ||
| Collaborative project between the national libraries of Europe and publishers of electronic material to devise authoritative ways of describing electronic publications for catalogues and other listings. Includes a study of metadata and the transmission of data between publishers and libraries. Funded under the European Commission's Telematics Applications Project. | ||
| Proceedings of the Ninth Australasian Information Online and On Disc Conference and Exhibition, held in Sydney Australia, January 1999. Many of the papers reflect the challenges of managing information. Issues include access and rights, sustaining sites, improving access via gateways, verification and authentication, search engines and directories, integration with existing library information systems, and using the technology of the Internet in tasks such as serving remote library users. | ||
| Article discussing benefits and drawbacks arising from the electronic publication of scholarly monographs. Addresses recent changes in publishing, within university presses in particular, publishing and tenure, and journal pricing. | ||
| Online book with chapters covering Internet entrepreneurs, scalable systems for online communities, static site development, publicising Web resources, running a server, user tracking, database management systems, and e commerce. | ||
| A free weekly news report covering the main developments in the European online markets. Includes Europe wide and country specific news. | ||
| Analyses the history of the book and the rise of electronic publishing. Concludes that the book has a future due in part to established social and organisational mechanisms for its creation, archiving, preservation, and conservation. | ||
| UK eLib project to provide a framework for publishing journals in a network environment such that maximum access to (and from) the publications is ensured. | ||
| A repository of information related to electronic book research and products, intended to encourage the sharing and analysis of ideas surrounding electronic books and document readers. The focus is primarily on tasks, interfaces, and systems rather than content. Includes numerous links to articles in the popular press as well as technical and academic articles on electronic books. | ||
| Set of guidelines for publishing educational works on the Web which reflect the needs of academics and students throughout the UK. The recommendations comprise the findings of the EBONI (Electronic Books ON screen Interface) project based at the Centre for Digital Library Research at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. Available in HTML, PDF, and Word formats. | ||
| Discussion on the costs of electronic publishing, assessing the value of benefits specific to electronic media as opposed to print. | ||
| Library and information science current awareness newsletter with summaries of articles on developments in electronic information provision and delivery in relation to libraries. Archives available online from 1990 onwards. | ||
| Bi monthly electronic publication for librarians, providing topical articles on issues relating to electronic books. Also publishes regular columns entitled 'ebooks and the disabled' and 'upcoming ebook conferences'. | ||
| Online version of the magazine for technology buyers in the field of electronic publishing. Includes tables of contents of the current issue and back issues from 1998 onwards, with selected articles available in PDF. | ||
| Alphabetical listing of literature relating to all aspects of electronic publishing, including both print and electronic materials. Direct links to sources are provided where available. | ||
| An article on electronic publishing arguing that the authors of scientific works based on government supported research should be free to distribute those works as they see fit, via journals, electronic postings, and other new modes that may appear. | ||
| Opinion articles and technology and publishing news relating to electronic books. A weekly newsletter is available via email. | ||
| Bibliography for all aspects of electronic publishing. Includes journal articles, monographs and individual chapters, some with links to full text online. A subject index to the bibliography provided. | ||
| Proceedings of an international workshop organised by the Academia Europaea and the Wenner Gren Foundation, Stockholm, 1997. Focuses on electronic publishing from three viewpoints: the preservation of academic material, past, current and future, access to such material in digital form, and quality issues including peer refereeing and authentication. | ||
| Bibliography of material on the digital publishing of educational monographs, covering issues such as collection management, licences and copyright, authority and digital signatures, and preservation. Cites books, journal articles, and Web resources on metadata, the electronic publishing cycle, evaluation of material on the Internet, intellectual property rights, and digital libraries. | ||
| Part of the UKOLN server carrying a selection of British Library Reports. Includes reports on Digital Libraries, the Impact of Electronic Publishing on Library Services, Long Term Preservation of Electronic Materials and Networked Information in an International Context. | ||
| Collection of over twenty peer reviewed articles covering Internet publishing, electronic journals and electronic publishing in general. | ||
| Project investigating services offered to libraries by publishers within the electronic book industry considering licensing issues, applications, practicality, and marketing strategies, with a view to improving the relationship between the two parties. Provides access to patron survey results, a PowerPoint presentation describing the methodology used, and related press releases and articles. | ||
| News and resources on electronic publishing research and development projects throughout Europe. | ||
| Collection of documents and links about electronic journals and scholarly electronic publishing, with emphasis on Canadian products, projects and sites. | ||
| Essay discussing the process of filtering, labelling, refining, and packaging resources so they can be published electronically to meet the needs of academia. | ||
| A print and Web magazine of Internet issues for librarians and information specialists. Aims to describe and evaluate sources and services on the Internet relevant to the LIS profession, and report on progress and developments within the Electronic Libraries Programme. Back issues available online from 1996. | ||
| Report of an eLib supporting study, published April 1998, to investigate the incidence and nature of the publishing of electronic scholarly monographs and textbooks in the UK. It suggests that UK electronic monograph publishing is embryonic, and that extensive bibliographical problems remain, especially for Web monographs, with little evidence of collection management activity associated with electronic monographs in university libraries. | ||
| Article which examines how the digitisation of literature affects the craft of editing, and the everyday work of content producers. It focuses on the Encyclopaedia Britannica, which has been profoundly affected by CDs and the Web, showing how digitization of the encyclopedia has affected the structure of articles and has begun to affect the character of editorial work, the responsibilities of editors, and relations with authors, animators and others. | ||
| Journal aimed at electronic publishers. Issues discussed include Web design, server management, pricing and policy questions. | ||
| Presents selected articles, books, electronic documents, and other sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet and other networks. | ||
| Article considering various competing and complementary approaches to Web publishing. | ||
| The main aim of the Working Party at this stage was to identify any possible areas of agreement between representatives of JISC and the PA, on a practical definition of fair dealing of materials in electronic form, and, if possible, the necessary mechanisms that might be used to provide a workable monitoring system. | ||
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