Crystallographic publishing in the electronic age

Crystallographic publishing in the electronic age.

The journals of the International Union of Crystallography have grown in size and number over the past 60 years to match developments in scientific practice and technique. High quality of publication has always been at the forefront of editorial policy and ways in which this has been achieved are described. In particular, the development of standard exchange and archive formats for crystallogra...

Open Access Publishing in the Electronic Age

The principle of open-access (OA) publishing is more and more prevalent also on the field of laboratory medicine. Open-access journals (OAJs) are available online to the reader usually without financial, legal, or technical barriers. Some are subsidized, and some require payment on behalf of the author. OAJs are one of the two general methods for providing OA. The other one is self-archiving in...

Dual Spacization Approach to the Electronic Publishing

Dual spacization of publishing means emergence of digital publishing in online and offline virtual environments along with analogue publishing. Analogue publishing is a kind of publishing that is produced in the form of physical printed writings as they appear in a single paper, single or many pages newspapers and magazines and books, writings on leaves and pieces of trees, natural skin and lea...

Electronic Publishing in the Information Age: Questions for the Academy

Semantically rich metadata in crystallographic publishing

Semantically-rich metadata assists publisher workflow and greatly increases the added value to the reader of a scientific publication. Where once bibliographic metadata provided the sole opportunity to locate and retrieve scientific publications, the experimental data on which scientific results are based itself is rich in metadata characterizing the data and the results derived from it. In cry...