Nowadays, Computer Aided Audit Tools (and Techniques’) support almost all audit processes concerning data extraction and analysis. These tools were firstly aimed to support financial auditing processes. However, their scope is beyond this, therefore, we present case studies and good practices in an academic context. Although in large auditing companies Audit Tools to do data extraction and anal...

the lack of active academic publishers in the domain of social science translation has made the private publishers override the public publishers in the quality of published translations. the atmosphere of translation criticism in the country is not in place and most of the time,publishersemploy the unskilled translators to translate the books with regard to the fame of an author or a subject a...

The Study for Open Access Publishing (SOAP) project is one of the initiatives undertaken to explore the risks and opportunities of the transition to open access publishing. Some of the early analyses of open access journals listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) show that more than half of the open access publishing initiatives (56%) were undertaken by smaller publishers associa...

Research recently undertaken among over 1000 academic authors has shown many variations in the contracts offered by publishers. In this article I list and assess the more important sources of variation. The relevant conditions of the contract may be grouped into three broad categories: those relating to the obligations of the author, those relating to the obligations of the publisher, and those...

OAI-Publishers are software modules implementing the OAI-PMH protocol interface, enabling harvesting of metadata records describing the digital resources of a Digital Repository. Typically, such modules are manually configured and implemented to export records contained into a local store according to the metadata formats supported by the relative Repository. Due to their static nature, these a...

BitTorrent has been popular over the last decade. However, few studies have made serious efforts to understand who and why publish torrents, and what strategies are adopted by publishers. In this paper, we study the current content publishing practice in BitTorrent from a socio-economic point of view, by unraveling (1) how files are published by publishers, (2) what strategies are adopted by pu...