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Electronic publishing in libraries: introduction
Diane K. KovacsThe impact of electronic publishing (e‐publishing) on library collections, services and administration is complex. There are no simple solutions to the problems of managing the…
Electronic journals and academic libraries
Liza ChanReflecting upon the short history and fast development of electronic journals, there is no doubt that electronic journals open up many exciting service opportunities for academic…
Seven years of tracking electronic publishing: the ARL Directory of Electronic Journals, Newsletters and Academic Discussion Lists
Dru MoggeThe ARL Directory of Electronic Journals, Newsletters, and Academic Discussion Lists covers an important period in the development of Internet publishing. Since 1991, each of the…
Electronic journals in academic libraries: a comparison of ARL and non‐ARL libraries
Marian Shemberg, Cheryl GrossmanIn late 1997/early 1998, we conducted a survey dealing with library provision of electronic journals and other electronic resources. We compared the responses from a census of…
Virtual universities and the publishing revolution: a publisher’s viewpoint
Anne ChristieThis article sets out to highlight how new technologies have changed the way publishers and other information providers are able to deliver services. Publishers are rethinking…
Design issues in the development of an electronic reserve system
Stephen G. ThomasTowards the end of 1993, the University of Adelaide Library began looking at the implementation of an electronic reserve system. At that time, a number of other libraries in…
E‐reference: incorporating electronic publications into reference
Courtney L. Young, Karen R. DiazThe traditional work of reference librarians has been greatly impacted by access to electronic publications on the World Wide Web. Reference librarians are also using the Web to…
Publishing on the Web: creating a local reference tool
Deborah R. Hollis, Margaret M. JobeWith the aid of seed money from a federal grant, librarians at the University of Colorado at Boulder (CU Boulder) developed an online statistical abstract called Colorado by the…
The meaning of publishing, speed, capacity and processing power
Steve GilheanyPublishing has been defined as a way to make information widely available to the public. Our formerly mechanical world required many preliminary actions, such a typesetting and…
Considerations in the choice of an Internet search tool
Jason VaughanIn an effort to better speculate whether a certain set of factors plays a role in information professionals’ choice of Internet search tools, this article describes a survey…
Ethics in an age of changing technology: familiar territory or new frontiers?
Janet R. CottrellRapid advances in computer technology led computing and philosophy professionals in the late 1980s and early 1990s to examine, with considerable debate, whether new or…
Librarians and information technologists: more alike than different? Interviews with CIOs
Merri Beth LavagninoFor this second column in the IT I‐V (information technology interview) series, we interview academic chief information officers. The CIOs interviewed for this column use a wide…
Why a copyright column?
Michael SeadleCopyright is integral to everything we do in digital publishing. This new column will examine a wide range of intellectual property issues using concrete examples from current…
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- Dr Dickson K.W. Chiu
- Dr Kevin K.W. Ho