Outsourcing and Offshoring in STM publishing: Trends and what makes it work for publishers
Frank Stumpf, President and COO, SPI Publisher Services has made a presentation on the benefits of outsourcing/offshoring of STM publishing. Read More
Web 2.0 – Dive in, Don’t Define !
The author (Leigh Dodds, Engineering Manager, IngentaConnect) opines that Web 2.0 isn't a product, nor is it a single technology. It is a label that has been applied to the culmination of a number of different trends (social, business and technical) that have been influencing web activities over the past… Read More
Online Publishing – Strategies and Issues
This presentation by Pipa Smart, Head of Publishing Initiatives, INASP, Oxford, UK, generally discusses about Online Publishing and covers topics ranging from archiving & preservation, alternative publishing models, interoperability and alternative online initiatives. Read More
Archiving Large Scale Information Systems
Like all publishers, Elsevier is also trying to come to terms with the drastically changed demands that have emerged from working in a digital environment. The changes are more reflective in the area of long-term preservation of the publishing output, and the STM publisher is constantly looking for ways to… Read More
Data integration in Biosciences
As increasing numbers of research groups are making efforts to understand biological design and control principles at a systems level, the need to combine comprehensive sets of accurate and reliable quantitative data is also increasing. However, there are several biological data repositories that vary both semantically and syntactically. Seamless access… Read More
Milestones on the Green Road to Open Access – Policy and Practicalities
The ubiquity of the internet in general and the development of repository software packages and internationally-agreed standards have helped scholars to share their outputs as never before. However, with some notable exceptions, scholars have not rushed to take advantage of repositories. This paper by David Prosser, Director, SPARC Europe, surveys… Read More
Realizing the Power of On-line Publishing in Copyright and Creativity in International Scholarship
This presentation by Philip Bourne of the University of California, describes the role of libraries to set up an OA journal in partnership with an international society. It also describes the approach taken by scientists to establish new modes of scientific dissemination. Read More
Making available scientific information in the third millennium: perspectives for the neuroscientific community
This presentation by Enrico Alleva and Igor Branchi from the Section of Behavioural Neurosciences, Departement of Cell Biology and Neurosciences, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, looks at whether open access method of publishing will create new discriminations on who can publish on OA journals. Also it explores if it will be… Read More
Journal publishing in China – The NSFC experience
In this presentation, Prof Zu Guang'an, Executive Director, Department of Publication, NSFC, Beijing, China, presents National Natural Science Foundation of China’s (NSFC) activities on scientific journals. Read More
Publishing Realities: contracts versus copyright
This presentation by David Hoole of the Nature Publishing Group, looks at a publishers perspective on negotiating licenses and copyright. The presentation describes every thig from the basics of copyright to its implication in the STM publishing. It also looks at the future developments that will best serve science. Read More
