A Publisher meets SGML(XML)

Index.html Subscriber Publisher A

Web Rendezvous is the meeting of information publisher and subscriber, allowing the subscriber to create and maintain a list of links (indices) to publishers' pages. Rendezvous is diÆcult because pages may move and unauthorized publishers may seek to add their pages to the index (spamming). Current rendezvous approaches are work-intensive or restricted to very limited domains. We provide a taxo...

Why PLoS Became a Publisher

Communication among scientists has undergone a revolution in the last decade, with the movement of scientific publication to a digital medium and the emergence of the Internet as the primary means for distributing information. Millions of articles are, in principle, just a mouse click away from our computers. For many of us, PDFs have replaced printed journals as the primary form in which we re...

Musings of a Lilliputian publisher.

I must plead my extremely limited experience of publishing and point out that it has been restricted to the history of medicinea most unrepresentative, and certainly the least profitable, branch of medical publishing. Why should an author want to publish his own work in the first place ? In my case speed of publication was the only reason. As I had only eight weeks in which to bring out a book ...

A New Publisher, A New Horizon

A Secure, Publisher-Centric Web Caching Infrastructure

The current web caching infrastructure, though it has a number of performance benefits for clients and network providers, does not meet publishers’ requirements. We argue that to satisfy these requirements, caches should be enhanced in both the data and control planes. In the data plane, caches will dynamically generate content for clients by running code provided by publishers. In the control ...