What role should journals and conferences play in the age of arxiv, twitter and other yet-to-be-invented digital wonders? Detecting among many colleagues a general impatience with the status quo, I wrote this article to generate more public discussion. It is addressed solely to colleagues in theoretical computer science, not other fields. I also don’t address legal issues such as copyright, cos...

This paper presents a brief summary of the findings of a Web-based survey of the views of Australian publishers, on the potential impact of digital technologies, followed by three case studies conducted between January and April 2007. The survey results indicate that the most influential technologies currently in use in publishing are the Internet and the World Wide Web, with little or any inte...

years. Books and journals have had almost no rivals as vehicles of scientific progress and practical instruction. From Darwin’s On the Origin of Species to Sir William Osler’s The Principles and Practice of Medicine and the peer-reviewed periodical, this mode of knowledge dissemination has served us remarkably well. But the tradition of publication requires continuing support, and the next gene...

NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Digital Signal Processing. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive vers...

The research takes three fundamental Internet Academic Journals (IAJ), which are China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), Chongqing VIP Information Co., Ltd. (VIP) and Beijing Wanfang Data Co., Ltd. (WFD), as subjects to discuss digital publishing mechanism innovations for China’s science information communication system. After introducing main Internet environment, comparing journal cha...