Purpose – This paper aims to, through an analysis of the current literature, explore the current state of the library e-publishing community and its approach to preservation. Libraries are increasingly proposing publishing services as part of their workwith their communities, and recently, there has been a pronounced interest in providing electronic publishing (e-publishing) services. The libra...

E-books, E-Journals and digital publishing technologies in general are young technologies and are still evolving very rapidly. I argue that approaching the field with a theory of socio-technical change will help us to understand better the phenomenon. A social constructivist approach is proposed to tackle on the stage of evolution of digital publishing technologies and to propose some possible ...

The publication of Vannevar Bush’s seminal paper, As we may think, in 1945 was closely followed by the invention of the electronic digital computer in 1948. In the following 50 years much of Bush’s vision has been realised by computer scientists. We can store vast amounts of data including speech and video in computers, and we can transmit them over networks. We can annotate the material with e...

The ways in which we both produce and consume content has been a constant state of technologyled evolution. However, the perceived speed of change is now greater, and with that speed comes disruption (as was the case with the music industry around a decade ago). This work will look at the “content economy” where it has come from, where it is going, and whether the world of iPad-clutching consum...

Peer review has long been held as the gold standard for article evaluation. At its simplest, goal of peer is to ensure that a published in journal appropriately vetted by qualified scholars. Traditional models require this process either single- or double-blind; editor assigns reviewers based on subject expertise and either/or reviewer author names are hidden. In an ideal scenario, fosters open...

Applying traditional collaborative filtering to digital publishing is challenging because user data is very sparse due to the high volume of documents relative to the number of users. Content based approaches, on the other hand, is attractive because textual content is often very informative. In this paper we describe large-scale content based collaborative filtering for digital publishing. To ...

Library-led publishing is one of the new approaches to journal publishing and open access that has grown tremendously in the last few years. A 2010 MLIS-funded survey found that 55% of respondents—from U.S. academic libraries of all different types and sizes—were already implementing or developing a publishing program. Library-led publishing has garnered such momentum because, by offering lowor...