Digital research/analog publishing – one scientist's view

Are Scientists Really Publishing More?

2 [email protected] Université de Montréal, École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l'information, C.P. 6128, Succ. CentreVille, H3C 3J7 Montreal, Qc. (Canada) Université du Québec à Montréal, Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche sur la Science et la Technologie (CIRST), Observatoire des Sciences et des Technologies (OST), CP 8888, Succ. Centre-Ville, H3C 3P8 Montreal, Qc. (...

Teaching Electronic Publishing to Computer Scientists

Introductory electronic publishing courses are typically designed to teach students how to use a particular system. More advanced courses may include elements of document design, and a survey of available systems and technologies with a comparison of their capabilities, but they are still normally designed to teach specific skills and so may be considered as ‘service’ courses. An electronic pub...

Embracing Digital Publishing

Digital Publishing - Data Handling

SuperJournal is a research project aiming to identify what factors will make electronic journals successful and why. The project brings together some 20 society, university press and commercial publishers, who are providing electronic versions of around 50 journal titles in discrete areas of academic research. The “why?” is being established via a formal evaluation study being conducted by Loug...

Put the digital into digital publishing

• Compose personalized documents for the reader. For example, once could have a text base on statistical methods, where each topic is treated at several levels (such as for readers who know calculus and those who do not) and where each method has examples from several domains. Given a reader’s background, subject domain, and learning goal, the system would then sequence of topics that build on ...