BACKGROUND Harold Jeghers, a well-known medical educator of the twentieth century, maintained a print collection of about one million medical articles from the late 1800s to the 1990s. This case study discusses how a print collection of these articles was transformed to a digital database. CASE PRESENTATION Staff in the Jeghers Medical Index, St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital, converted paper...

The impact of ebooks on print book sales has received increasing attention in the publishing industry. This paper estimates a dynamic model of consumer book purchase, format choice and e-Reader adoption decisions. I combine a unique individual level purchase history panel data set with publicly available book prices and characteristics. Consumers have persistent heterogeneous general reading ta...

In recent years, as one of the biometric identification technology, palm-print identification has received many reseachers’ attention. To solve the key problem of palm-print recognition -feature extraction, we propose a new method, which based on wavelet transform and principal component analysis. In general, we use wavelet transform to deal with palm print images and extract high-dimensional w...

SEVERAL SCIENTIFIC AND GENERAL MEDICAL JOURNALS publish full-length articles on their Web sites and abridged versions in their print journals. We surveyed a stratified random sample of BMJ readers and authors to elicit their preferred format for the abridged print version. Each participant received a research paper abridged in 3 different formats: conventional abridged version, journalistic ver...

Currently, the conventional channel for reporting scientific results is the Web electronic publishing. Despite the advances in electronic publishing scientific articles are still published in paper print formats such as PDFs. The emergence of the Semantic Web and Linked Data environment provides new opportunities for communicating, sharing, and integrating scientific knowledge in digital format...

The proliferation of digital information resources in recent years challenges consumers with the need to employ critical thinking skills in reading news. This paper suggests an updated perspective to the expression that “the medium is the message” by comparing the ability of high-school and college students to exercise critical thinking skills in reading news in print and digital formats. The m...

Automatic software reengineerings change or repair existing software systems. They are usually tailor-made for a specific customer and language dependent. Maintaining similar reengineerings for multiple customers and different language dialects might therefore soon become problematic unless advanced language technology is being used. Generic pretty-printing is part of such technology and is the...

With the advent of the Information Age, it has become feasible to consider providing electronic access to library tools (bibliographies, indexes and directories) published in the South Pacific. That something is feasible however, does not necessarily make it desirable. To explore this further, a research project was initiated as part of a Masters thesis at Charles Sturt University to survey fou...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of the Health Sciences Library System (HSLS) electronic book (e-book) study was to assess use, and factors affecting use, of e-books by all patron groups of an academic health sciences library serving both university and health system-affiliated patrons. METHODS A web-based survey was distributed to a random sample (n=5,292) of holders of library remote access passwords...