Publish/subscribe networks provide an interface for publishers to perform many-to-many communication to subscribers without the inefficiencies of broadcasting. Each subscriber submits a description of the sort of content they are interested in, then the publish/subscribe system delivers any appropriate messages as they are published. Although publish/subscribe networks offer advantages over tra...

Educational materials are developed by publishers but educational methods utilizing these instructional materials are selected and implemented by faculty members. This article examines ethical issues in developing and using electronic educational materials designed for healthcare education at the undergraduate level. An ethical faramework called “the four principles with attention to scope” was...

Website publishers can derive enormous performance benefits and cost savings by directing traffic to their sites through content distribution networks (CDNs). However, publishers who use CDNs today must trust their CDN not to modify the site’s JavaScript, CSS, images or other media en route to end users. A CDN that violates this trust could inject ads into websites, downsample media to save ban...

Adaptive learning can transform the way students learn. Because tailored content and teaching resources strive to understand what a student knows, and how he or she is approaching the task at hand, they can personalize the learning experience. However, unless an organization has a clear implementation strategy, adaptive learning can become a complex and expensive endeavor. So, how can publisher...

Large commercial publishers sell bundled online subscriptions to their entire list of academic journals at prices significantly lower than the sum of their á la carte prices. Bundle prices differ drastically between institutions, but they are not publicly posted. The data that we have collected enable us to compare the bundle prices charged by commercial publishers with those of nonprofit socie...

As far back as 1994-95, when the advent of the Web led publishers to recognize that at some point they would have to migrate significant amounts of their print content to the online world, two concerns were paramount: the need to protect copyright in the digital environment, and more generally, the need to facilitate interoperability among the many different systems and vendors involved in the ...

There is a great deal of interest in obtaining access to the vast stores of full-text literature held by the various publishers. The need to balance a reduction of the restrictions on access with the protection of the revenue streams of the publishers is critical. Without the publishers, the content would not be available and support for several scientific societies would also disappear. On the...

Open access is a key aim of research funders, institutions and academics. If sustainable solutions are to be found, we must work together as a whole community, including with publishers. Research funders have shown flexibility and sensitivity to publishers in how they make policies for delivering open access to the work they fund; for their part, publishers must now do their bit by acknowledgin...

blacks was the root cause of the social and economic problems suffered by blacks. Family patterns of blacks were attributed to slavery and racial oppression, which focused on Erol Ricketts is an assistant director of the Equal Opportuhumbling the black male. The Report generated bitter debate nity Division of the Rockefeller Foundation. The views prebecause, on the basis of a comparison of 1950...

The primary purpose of this essay is to identify instructional practices that can serve to enhance teaching effectiveness. There is both an art and a science dimension to effective teaching. The science dimension entails a comprehensive knowledge of the discipline, both historical foundations and research on the frontiers. The art dimension, which is likely to be the more elusive of the two, in...