The methods and technologies providing advantages in controlling and managing intellectual property rights are currently associated under the term Digital Rights Management (DRM). Our study revealed that the issues related to the DRM processes and components of DRM systems have been neglected from the perspective of the upstream of a value chain and the creator-side of a value network. This res...

This paper examines the concrete impact of digital publishing upon print publishing. The remarkable growth of the Internet is at the core of this impact, as the Internet forms the backbone for much of the digitization of print publishing, from commercial promotional efforts to e-book readers to alliances with education. Additionally, this paper offers short-term speculations—grounded in specifi...

Welcome to Neuromechanics, a section of Biomechanics published by the Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, MDPI [...]

With the increase of digital information practices (e.g. online search, desktop publishing, electronic reference management, etc.) in the academic context, printed books are sometimes cumbersome to integrate into the digital workflow. We present ResearchSherlock, an Android app that allows the user to quickly gather bibliographic information for a printed book by scanning its shelfmark or ISBN....

The Digital Single Market is a priority initiative of the new European Commission led by Jean-Claude Juncker. The Digital Single Market is an area in which businesses and individuals can access and exercise online activities under conditions of fair competition, with a high degree of consumer and data protection, irrespective of their nationality or place of residence.1 Three European Commissio...

In a move towards an enrichment of the metadata models that are used in the electronic publication of scholarly literature, modern publishers are making steps towards semantic publishing. The possibility to explore a collection of scientific papers (a digital library, a repository or an archive of data) using different and multiple facets, i.e., different and multiple points of view on the digi...

This paper investigates the use of virtual reality (VR) technologies to facilitate the analysis of plant biological data in distinctive steps in the application pipeline. Reconstructed three-dimensional biological models (primary polygonal models) transferred to a virtual environment support scientists’ collaborative exploration of biological datasets so that they obtain Digital Peer Publishing...