Electronic books and journals are both desirable and feasible. From a user's point of view they solve some shortcomings of conventional media, but more important are the new opportunities they open. To exploit those, a number of technical challenges have to be addressed. Besides, a series of business and organisational issues have to be taken care of. The German project MeDoc had to cope with a subset of these questions and found pragmatic answers. Libraries and librarians are well adviced to embrace electronic media as an important new opportunity
The purpose of this paper is to describe how librarians andusers think of electronic books in librar...
Use of electronic information is increasing day by day. Information available on internet is one exa...
Electronic publishing presents the most fundamental challenges to the practice and the values of lib...
It has become unimaginable to provide information – particularly scientific information – without e-...
About five years ago, when many believed digitization would become the panacea for libraries, some o...
Visions of a dynamic electronic publishing environment as added value to electronic library portals
This paper will explore some of the difficulties and limitations facing the current generation of e...
Electronic books, while not as popular as electronic journals, continue to be produced, marketed, an...
Even acknowledging the considerable reservations of some users - we have to recognize the overall tr...
This paper, based on three recent research projects, addresses some of the issues that are central t...
In much the same way that the field of artificial intelligence produced a cult which fervently belie...
The online revolution brought about by the world wide web accompanied by other advancements in the I...
The author considers the major advantages and disadvantages of electronic publishing for the academi...
Part of the book "Aspects of the Digital Library" - http://hdl.handle.net/1956/182
While e-journals have successfully be integrated into library collections, the same cannot be said a...
The purpose of this paper is to describe how librarians andusers think of electronic books in librar...
Use of electronic information is increasing day by day. Information available on internet is one exa...
Electronic publishing presents the most fundamental challenges to the practice and the values of lib...
It has become unimaginable to provide information – particularly scientific information – without e-...
About five years ago, when many believed digitization would become the panacea for libraries, some o...
Visions of a dynamic electronic publishing environment as added value to electronic library portals
This paper will explore some of the difficulties and limitations facing the current generation of e...
Electronic books, while not as popular as electronic journals, continue to be produced, marketed, an...
Even acknowledging the considerable reservations of some users - we have to recognize the overall tr...
This paper, based on three recent research projects, addresses some of the issues that are central t...
In much the same way that the field of artificial intelligence produced a cult which fervently belie...
The online revolution brought about by the world wide web accompanied by other advancements in the I...
The author considers the major advantages and disadvantages of electronic publishing for the academi...
Part of the book "Aspects of the Digital Library" - http://hdl.handle.net/1956/182
While e-journals have successfully be integrated into library collections, the same cannot be said a...
The purpose of this paper is to describe how librarians andusers think of electronic books in librar...
Use of electronic information is increasing day by day. Information available on internet is one exa...
Electronic publishing presents the most fundamental challenges to the practice and the values of lib...