This paper describes several scenarios for the management of digital media, focusing on electronic publishing from mobile environments. The solution proposed in those scenarios is based on MIPAMS (Multimedia Information Protection And Management System), a service-oriented Digital Rights Management (DRM) platform, which enables the creation, registration and distribution of multimedia content i...

How should our scientific research communications infrastructure be reconfigured to take maximal advantage of newly evolving electronic resources? Rather than "electronic publishing," which connotes a rather straightforward cloning of the paper methodology to the electronic network, many researchers would prefer to see the new technology lead to some form of global "knowledge network," and soon...

The Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR) was one of the first scientific journals distributed over the Web. It has now completed over five years of successful publication. Electronic publishing is reshaping the way academic work is disseminated, and JAIR is leading the way towards a future where scientific articles are freely and easily accessible to all. This report describes how...

ALTHOUGH T ERE ARE MANY POSSIBLE links and ways to join them in the publishing chain for scholarly journal articles, the first and last links are always authors and readers. Unless it satisfies the motivations and goals of both authors and readers, electronic publishing cannot completely succeed. One of the most frequently cited advantages of electronic publishing is the loss of distinction bet...

1. ABSTRACT We are developing support for Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) as the first step in supporting electronic scholarly publishing in general. In this paper we discuss the planning and initial implementation processes undertaken at UNC as part of our migration from print to electronic theses. Because we found that existin...