Discoverability enables scholars to locate the content needed to advance their research and other creative activities. Improved discovery experiences require heightened collaboration among (1) scholarly publishers and their published authors; (2) search engine developers, database providers, abstracting and indexing services, and academic publishers; (3) electronic resource management and integ...

ree access to the articles is becoming more popular since it gives thousands of researchers access to millions of publications resulting in higher visibility and receiving much more citations, which often times might be the ultimate goal. for this reason, authors may seek a way to make the papers easily accessible to other researchers via uploading the full text to their personal website and/or...

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Due to resource constraints, most Diamond Open Access journals publish fewer than 25 articles per year, and 75% of are not able provide their content in XML HTML, primarily providing only PDFs. In order keep up with larger commercial publishers, a high degree automation streamlining processes is necessary. The Source Academic Publishing Suite (OS-APS) project, funded by the German Federal Minis...

Dr. Karl-Peter Winters (German Association of Publishers and Booksellers, Frankfurt, Germany) opened the Fifth International Conference on Academic Publishing in Europe (APE 2010) “Researchers, Librarians and Publishers”. Dr. Winters highlighted that 2009 was yet another important year in the transition to digital publishing, with the topics of reading devices and content carriers gaining more ...

Prepared by an International Working Group Mark S. Frankel, Co-Chair, American Association for the Advancement of Science, USA Roger Elliott, Co-Chair, International Council for Science, UK Martin Blume, American Physical Society, USA Jean-Manuel Bourgois, Magnard/Vuibert Publishers, France Bernt Hugenholtz, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Mats G. Lindquist, Lund University Library, Sw...

Information retrieval is currently one of the most important usages of the Internet. Scientific publishers are one of the sources of information, providing access to digital libraries on a subscription basis. Contracts between publishers and larger organizations specify how access is to be regulated. This paper explores the legal implications and technical considerations of the use of software ...

a lot of time, but paradoxically it has become more difficult to access old references, which is a pity. Publicly-funded research should be more widely and easily accessible: public funds are used to produce the research, to pay for its publication, and to pay again to read scientific papers, with the profit of scientific publishers going to shareholders rather than back to science and educatio...

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