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Representing and Coding the Knowledge Embedded in Texts of Health Science Web Published Articles
No full textDespite the fact that electronic publishing is a common activity to scholars, electronic journals are still based in the print model and do not take full advantage of the facilities offered by the Semantic Web environment. This is a report of the results of a research project with the aim of investigating the possibilities of electronic publishing of journal articles both as text for human reading and in machine readable format recording the new knowledge contained in the article. This knowledge is identified with the scientific methodology elements such as problem, methodology, hypothesis, results, and conclusions. A model integrating all those elements is proposed which makes explicit and records the knowledge embedded in the text of scientific articles as an ontology. Knowledge thus represented enables its processing by intelligent software agents The proposed model aims to take advantage of these facilities enabling semantic retrieval and validation of the knowledge contained in articles. To validate and enhance the model a set of electronic journal articles were analyzed
Expectation and Reality in Digital Publishing: Some Australian Perspectives
No full textThis paper presents a brief summary of the findings of a Web-based survey of the views of Australian publishers, on the potential impact of digital technologies, followed by three case studies conducted between January and April 2007. The survey results indicate that the most influential technologies currently in use in publishing are the Internet and the World Wide Web, with little or any interest being shown in for example, semantic technologies. There is however, widespread realization of the importance of providing enhanced customer value through digital content and delivery channels, with consequent implications for changes to value chains and the emergence of new and transitional business models, which however, are likely to complement rather than replace existing business models. The case studies drawn from a set of eight selected to include a range of value propositions and business models suggest that in Australia publishers are optimistic about the prospects of digitisation but are nonetheless cautious in its uptake and application
Building Bridges with Blocks: Assisting Digital Library and Virtual Learning Environment Integration through Reusable Middleware
No full textVarious studies have reported that achieving effective use of increasingly heterogeneous scholarly objects within institutional learning and teaching frameworks is becoming critical to the performance of educational institutions. The integration of digital information environments, such as a University library, within a virtual learning environment (VLE) encapsulates this challenge. This paper presents reusable middleware to achieve effective digital library (DL) and VLE integration. The aim of the study is to demonstrate that the use of open standards and service-oriented architectures (SOA) to build ?light? web-services-based middleware is a suitable alternative for embedding digital library information sources in learning and teaching frameworks. We argue that by using open-source and open-standards approaches rather than software and practices developed specifically for a particular VLE product, it is possible to obtain open reusable middleware that can simplify the DL-VLE integration and bridge the functionality of both environments. We hope that our methodology can provide a common foundation on which a variety of institutions may build their own customized middleware to integrate scholarly objects in VLEs. The study has assessed the impact of the VLE-library integration on academic users of both the library and the VLE. Performance issues of the proposed digital library-VLE integration are also discussed. A secondary but important finding of our study is that much more effort is required to open and standardize the closed, restricted and proprietary approach of digital publishers to the reuse of scholarly material. This approach can be a serious obstacle to effective digital library-VLE integration and can limit the publishers\u27 ability to allow the discovery, integration and reuse of scholarly material. Current research in this area is analyzed and discussed
Managing Expectations for Open Access in Greece: Perceptions from the Publishers and Academic Libraries
No full textIn Greece, there seems to be a growing level of awareness regarding open access among scholars, faculty staff and information professionals. Indeed, consensus regarding the necessity of open access initiatives in Greece is gradually established. The present of open access in other European settings may however be revealing the expected, though distinct, future of open access in Greece. This work focuses upon some current aspects for open access and attempts to investigate them for the Greek setting. The investigation includes five (5) important aspects of open access, i.e. a) ETDs management from the academic libraries, b) university repositories development, c) regulation of digital and/or printed scientific material quality requirements, d) cooperation and competition between libraries and academic publishers, e) understanding the role of scientific work dissemination in developing future professionals and scholars. The paper initially provides an outline for the Greek publishing industry, focusing on STM publishers and on the way they take advantage of the changes mainly in editorial and marketing terms, in a hybrid technological era. The Greek publishing industry may be representative of other national small publishing markets. Further, an empirical research is providing in order to illuminate open access from two different points of view: that of STM publishers and that of academic libraries\u27 directors in Greece. The empirical investigation took place in February and March of 2007 and is based on seventeen experts\u27 perceptions. The methods employed are outlined and include the development of the questionnaire for semi-structured interviews. Finally, the unexpected agreement from both publishers and academic libraries\u27 directors regarding open access development is discussed and some specific for Greece conclusions are drawn
Feasibility of Open Access Publishing for Journals Funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada
No full textThis paper reports on the results of a feasibility study on open access publishing for humanities and social sciences journals supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada\u27s (SSHRC) Aid to Scholarly and Transfer Journals Program. The study is part of a broader effort of the SSHRC to better understand the landscape of Open Access and how best to implement this principle into the current research programs funded by SSHRC. As such, the study was designed to assist SSHRC in making policy and program decisions regarding its Aid to Scholarly Journals Program. In particular, this study focused on the current publishing practices of SSHRC funded journals, with the ultimate goal of understanding the financial implications for these journals if they were to provide open access to the journal content. The more immediate goal of the study was to gain better knowledge of the general level of understanding among journal publishers and editors on the impact of open access and on their scholarly societies\u27 publishing program
Automatic Content Syndication in Information Science: A Brazilian Experience in the Creation of RSS Feeds to e-journals
No full textThis paper reports the partial results of an exploratory study which intends to develop a methodology for a Web feed-based aggregation content service to electronic journals in Information Science. Ten scientific e-journals were chosen as sample to demonstrate the potential of the Web syndication technology. These e-journals are supported by the Brazilian Electronic Journal Publishing System (SEER), adapted from the Open Journal Systems (OJS), an open source software for the management of peer-review journals, developed by the Public Knowledge Project (PKP). In this context, the present study describes the concepts of aggregation and content syndication in Web environments. Moreover, it discusses the possibilities, advantages and eventual barriers to the implementation of RSS applications concerned with electronic journals in Information Science, specially the ones supported by the OJS Systems
A Survey on magiran.com: A Database for the Magazines of Iran
No full textThis paper present the design and function of magiran.com, a databse of periodicals published in Iran. It also attempts to answer the following questions: How many of the total periodicals published in Iran are covered by magiran? What is the subject coverage of the periodicals covered? Which subjects seem to have been given importance among the periodicals covered? How many of the periodicals are available full text? What is the subject coverage of the periodicals available full text? What are the languages of the periodicals covered? How many of the periodicals accredited by MSRT are found in magiran? What is the subject coverage of the accredited periodicals? Which subjects seem to have been given importance among the accredited periodicals covered? How is the general structure of the site in terms of colors, icons, pull-down windows, and so on
The PURE Institutional Repository: Ingestion, Storage, Preservation, Exhibition and Reporting
No full textJointly developed over 5 years by Atira A/S and a number of university libraries, the commercial repository system PURE is a tool in the research administration and dissemination effort at 11 Danish and Swedish universities. Also the hospital sector, the pharmaceutical industry and other research institutions use PURE
Challenges in the Selection, Design and Implementation of an Online Submission and Peer Review System for STM Journals
No full textTwo international scientific publishers collaborated to develop an Online Submission and Peer Review System (OSPREY) for their journals. Our goals were to meet market demand, increase editorial efficiency and streamline the transition from peer review to publishing. One of the publishers (National Research Council (NRC) Research Press, Canada) had previously purchased a third-party system that was subsequently discontinued by the vendor. Because of this experience and its complex requirements, we decided to build rather than buy a new system. The collaboration with the second publisher, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Publishing, Australia, allowed sharing of resources within a common vision and goals. Agile development through the use of iterations allowed us to continuously add functionality, make improvements and incorporate new requirements. The development team included technical staff as well as stakeholders, future users, business analysts and project managers. The architecture chosen was based on open source technologies, with Java servlets and Java Server Pages for the Web interface. OSPREY currently supports 32 journals at the two publishers. Users accomplish all regular tasks in peer review (submission, selection and invitation of reviewers, submission of review, recommendations and decision) through the software. Editorial staff verifies submissions, sends correspondence and assigns customizable roles and tasks. All tasks are accomplished through a Web browser accessing the application on central servers at the publisher, with no special software or configuration required for any users. Currently, the system integrates with the publishing system by generating manuscript metadata in an XML format, although closer integration with a workflow management system is planned. Since OSPREY implementation, the number of submissions has risen, although marketing and higher ranking of the journals are also factors. For the future, we plan to add new functionality for business tasks and for parsing, tagging and linking of article references
The Semantic Institution: An Agenda for Publishing Authoritative Scholarly Facts for Web 2.0 and the Semantic Web
No full textThe Web has been a remarkable technology that has promoted knowledge sharing in scholarly environments. Institutions and their researchers share information with readers via ad hoc home pages, structured portals, information databases and repositories. However, an external service still needs to create a sophisticated data mining application in order to be able to compare and contrast different research or teaching activities from a range of institutions. Even OAI-PMH has not solved the problem of exchanging metadata between data providers and service providers. Instead, we need to adopt Semantic Web techologies to reliably and accurately share information between institutions, repositories and services. Web 2.0 has encouraged social networking and the creation of "mashups" (the combination of data from various sources to provide new applications such as Repository66.org that plots data from public repository registries onto a Google Map). The Semantic Web makes mashups easier to achieve, and will ultimately help researchers understand and interpret the complex scholarly networks of citation, funding, influence and esteem that constitute the academic landscape in which we operate