Dramatic changes have occurred in both publishing and teaching in the last 20 years stemming from the digital and Internet revolutions. Such changes are likely to grow exponentially in the near future aided by the trend to open access publishing. This revolution has challenged traditional publishing and teaching methods that-largely but not exclusively due to cost-are particularly relevant to p...

Chinese digital medicine society, a branch of Chinese medical association, was established and held its first academic annual meeting in Chongqing fromMay 21st to 23rd, 2011. In the following five years, five academic annual meetings have been held in Guangzhou, Fuzhou, Hangzhou, etc, with several publications of high-quality monographs like Digital Medicine Outline1 co-edited by Bo Zheng and L...

Publishing cultural heritage as 3D models with embedded annotations and additional information on the web is still a major challenge. This includes the acquisition of the digital 3D model, the authoring and editing of the additional information to be attached to the digital model as well as publishing it in a suitable format. These steps usually require very expensive hardware and software tool...

This paper presents REAP, a system for rights management in digital libraries. REAP is aimed at demonstrating that intellectual property can be published in the Internet by digital libraries in accordance with copyright laws. The article proposes an architecture/paradigm for managing rights when publishing information through Digital Libraries involving digital rights management. Based on this ...