Report on the 16th International Conference on Electronic Publishing: Social Shaping of Digital Publishing

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...

Digital manuscripts and electronic publishing

The publication of Vannevar Bush’s seminal paper, As we may think, in 1945 was closely followed by the invention of the electronic digital computer in 1948. In the following 50 years much of Bush’s vision has been realised by computer scientists. We can store vast amounts of data including speech and video in computers, and we can transmit them over networks. We can annotate the material with e...

Academic publishing is electronic publishing

Derk Haank began by saying that he wanted to keep his presentation simple and would make only a few statements. The first of these was to say that, although it might be stating the obvious, academic publishing is electronic publishing. It has been remarkable how quickly things have progressed since the invention of the Web, and an EC study recently recognised that the revolution in electronic p...

Selected papers from the international conference Academic Publishing in Europe: The Impact of Publishing

The fourth APE – Academic Publishing in Europe – Conference in the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, was about ‘the impact of publishing’. The APE 2009 spectrum varied from usage and users, peer reviewing and quality assurance, branding, funding and investing, business models, new types of information, enabling technologies, search engines, to research excellence, dissemination, access an...

On the road to electronic publishing