SUMMARIZES DEVELOPMLNT of electronic publishing since the early THE 1960s-when computers were used merely to produce conventional printed products-to the present move toward networked scholarly publishing.

The chapter tackles the role of scholarly publication in the research process (quality, preservation) and looks at the consequences of new information technologies in the organization of the scholarly communication ecology. It will then show how new technologies have had an impact on the scholarly communication process and made it depart from the traditional publishing environment. Developments...

Scholarly publishing is in the middle of a revolution based on the use of Web-related technologies as medium of communication. In this paper we describe our ongoing study of semantic publishing and automatic annotation of scholarly documents, presenting several models and tools for the automatic annotation of structural and semantic components of documents. In particular, we focus on citations ...

The paper reports the changes taking place in the traditional scholarly communication system owing to technological changes in the information and communication technologies, particularly the Internet. It describes the importance and impact of e-journals on academic publishing and the need for universities to adopt ‘open access’ initiatives and create institutional repositories. It discusses th...

Print has been the most significant scholarly communication technology for the last three hundred years (at least). Kaufer and Carley’s Ecology of Communicative Transactions analyses print communication in ecological terms. This paper applies this perspective to the changes now occurring in scholarly communication. The theory of punctuated equilibrium proposes that evolution of new species occu...

Peer review is an essential component of scholarly publishing. In recent years it has attracted criticism and its role has been challenged. Based upon the findings of focus groups commissioned by Elsevier, this paper examines the role of peer review and discusses if, and how, it could be improved. Perspectives in Publishing is an occasional newsletter for journal editors. It aims to address gen...

Once upon a time there was an academic librarian at the University of Colorado who led a quiet librarian life until the day he noticed predators in the midst of scholarly publishing. Jeffrey Beall discovered, studied, revealed, and blogged about what he would eventually name Predatory Publishing. His Web site, Scholarly Open Access (http:// scholarlyoa.com), is an increasingly important source ...

The growing momentum of the world wide open access movement has splurged a parallel trend of development of open source and low cost electronic publishing systems and digital repository services. These growth and development strongly reflect the desire of the scholarly communities to take back control of aspects of scholarly communication and to improve processes for the dissemination and impac...

How will scholarly publishing evolve? The history of other technological innovations suggests the shift to electronic publications will be rapid, but fundamental changes in the nature of scholarly communications will be much slower.

Spam has become an issue of concern in almost all areas where the Internet is involved, and many people today have become victims of spam from publishers and individual journals. We studied this phenomenon in the field of scholarly publishing from the perspective of a single author. We examined 1,024 such spam e-mails received by Marcin Kozak from publishers and journals over a period of 391 da...