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ELPUB
2007
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Managing Expectations for Open Access in Greece: Perceptions from the Publishers and Academic Libraries
In Greece, there seems to be a growing level of awareness regarding open access among scholars, faculty staff and information professionals. Indeed, consensus regarding the necess...
G. Christina Banou, A. Petros Kostagiolas
ELPUB
2007
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Enhancing Traditional Media Services Utilising Lessons Learnt from Successful Social Media Applications - Case Studies and Frame
The paper presents a framework for describing electronic media services. The framework was created by utilising earlier models and case studies of successful social media applicat...
Asta Bäck, Sari Vainikainen
ELPUB
2007
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Multimedia Modular Training Packages by EUAIN
The European Accessible Information Network (EUAIN) was established to support the move to incorporate accessibility within mainstream content processing environments. EUAIN has b...
David Crombie, George T. Ioannidis, Neil McKenzie
ELPUB
2007
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Five Years on - The Impact of the Budapest Open Access Initiative
Open Access was first defined by the Budapest Open Access Initiative following a meeting organized by the Open Society Institute/Soros foundations. The subsequent Open Access move...
Melissa R. Hagemann
ELPUB
2007
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Centralized Content Portals: iTunes and the Publishing Industry
This paper addresses new questions around media performance as a result of the rise of centralized content portals such as iTunes or MySpace. We first describe the rise of central...
Matthijs Leendertse, Leo Pennings
ELPUB
2007
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Automatic Sentiment Analysis in On-line Text
The growing stream of content placed on the Web provides a huge collection of textual resources. People share their experiences on-line, ventilate their opinions (and frustrations...
Erik Boiy, Pieter Hens, Koen Deschacht, Marie-Fran...
ELPUB
2007
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
The Open Document Format and its Impact on Accessibility for Persons with a Reading Impairment
It has become very common in the current information society to talk about "open" and to use this term as a quality mark. Open standards, open source software, open arch...
Jan Engelen, Christophe Strobbe
ELPUB
2007
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
The Inclusion of Open Access Journals in Academic Libraries: A Case Study of Bioline International
Specialized open access digital collections contain a wealth of valuable resources. However, major academic and research libraries do not always provide access to them, and thus d...
Jen Sweezie, Nadia Caidi, Leslie Chan
ELPUB
2007
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
A Lifeboat Doesn't Do You any Good if it's not There when You Need it: Open Access and its Place in the New Electronic Publishin
This paper draws on the results of recent research into digital publishing in Latin America sponsored by the European Commission's ALFA programme. It outlines the growth in p...
Ian M. Johnson
ELPUB
2007
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Technical Infrastructure and Policy Framework for Maximising the Benefits from Research Output
Electronic publishing is one part of a much larger process. There is a research lifecycle from creation of a programme for funded research through research proposals, projects, ou...
Keith G. Jeffery