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The article discusses the collaboration of two librarians on the conference paper "How to write a paper in 140 characters or less: Social media for professional development."

Focuses on developments in digital or electronic paper. Launch of the independent venture Gyricon Media Inc. by Xerox Corp., which will use the power of electronic reusable paper to provide networked, reusable retail signs; Working prototypes of a flexible, paper-like electronic display demonstrated by E Ink Corp. and its technology partner Lucent Technologies.

The article discusses digital publishing, examining trends related to social sharing and advertising, user-generated content (UGC), and mobile device application. The author argues that it is important to make content and functionalities available to mobile devices such as smartphones and predicts that in the future touch screens will replace other technologies including desk-top computers and printers.

In the article, the author discusses the latest trends in the digital publishing industry as of December 2011. He cites the three trends that could dominate the sector, namely, mobility, ubiquity and touchability. The concept of conventional advertising is also being replaced by user-generated content (UGC), social sharing and social advertising.

The article discusses the best practices in repurposing content to engage and attract audiences to a website. Among the tips are knowing one's content by creating a list of content assets like blog posts, white papers, and case studies, developing a repurposing strategy, and combining small and long form content. Also cited are the comments of experts like Elliott Simmonds of DJS Research Ltd. and Linda Formichelli of Hero's Journey Content.

This article advocates of media democratization are battling academic publishers to open up their publication. It describes most academics are still constricted by the 20th-century system. In order to gain credibility, academics must earn their stripes by getting published in a small, exclusive group of scholarly journals, which are still produced on paper. It is ironic that the Web itself was invented by scientists to share information more easily and yet academics are blocking the easy sharing and access of information.

This article looks at the state of the online reference electronic book (ebook) market in 2005 and why it has a growing appeal to users, publishers and authors. Vendors agree that one of the reasons ebooks failed in their initial iteration was that the early vendors did not add any value to the electronic versions of books. Without any additional value, there was little innovation for consumers to buy the ebooks when the paper book worked perfectly line. Sean Devine, managing director of the Safari Books Online reference book service, says he compares his company more to an online database information like Factiva than to the original idea of an ebook. Devine says Safari typically acts as a content aggregator for publishers, which build electronic distribution rights into the standard contract so authors are compensated for electronic use of the book. CJ Rayhill, the CIO for O'Reilly Media who runs a new self-service publishing of Safari called SafariU, reports that authors have no complaints about this service. So far, these companies have only begun to touch upon making content portable, and all are at least exploring the possibility of making content available on handheld devices at some point in the future. INSETS: safari u Build Your Own Ebooks;Ebooks by the Numbers.

This article traces the history of the open access (OA) movement. The OA movement started in June 1991 Steven Harnad, a professor of cognitive science, posted what he called a subversive proposal to the Electronic Journals mailing list at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Harnad's proposition was simple but radical: since researchers' only interest in publishing is to share their ideas with as many of their peers as possible, the price tag of journal subscriptions not only imposes an undesirable restriction on that sharing but, in the age of the Internet, is no longer necessary. He suggested that researchers should immediately start self-archiving their papers on the Internet thereby maximizing the impact of their ideas and more effectively reaching their peers all over the world. Of course, Harnad was not the first to see the Internet's potential for enabling new ways of sharing research. Physicist Paul Ginsparg had founded the Internet's first preprint service, arXiv, 3 years prior Harnad's message. Indeed, many other saw the evident logic of OA but few have matched Harnad's focused energy. Now, ten years after, the OA is threatening to overturn the $6 billion scholarly publishing industry.

Presents news briefs concerning electronic publishing, as of November 2003. Addition of "The Lancet" backfiles to the ScienceDirect Service of Elsevier; Expansion of the online publishing business of Ingenta; Availability of the collection of Wright brothers papers in the online site of the Library of Congress.

The article considers the impact of the Internet on newspaper publishing. The advent of the Internet has been revolutionary for newspapers. However, news paper publishers are still searching for economically viable digital publishing models. Leading-edge newspapers and chains have been developing alternative ways to deliver their services, not only to readers but to advertisers as well. These early efforts are beginning to pay off, at least in terms of securing a leadership position for newspaper content online.

This article highlights developments in open access (OA) publishing in the U.S. as of September 2004. The history of OA will no doubt note that this was an important summer, as the movement achieved some key moral victories from publishers and government. And perhaps history alone will reveal if this cascade of events had a catalyst or was mere coincidence. The cascade of events began in May 2004 when Reed Elsevier stunned publishers and researchers by announcing that it would change its policy and allow authors to self-archive their papers in institutional repositories. Karen Hunter, Elsevier vice president for strategy, explained that there was a desire in the market from many authors and many institutions to have an official record of their institution's intellectual output. In June 2004, Springer launched Open Choice, which extends a tentative nod to OA by offering a controversial and unusual OA hybrid where traditional access and OA reside side-by-side. But it is also clear where Springer's heart really lies, as noted on its Web site's introduction to Open Choice: Springer still offers, and recommends, the traditional publishing model as a time-tested way of guaranteeing editorial quality and independence, but now also offers authors the option to pay to have their journal articles made available for free to anyone, anywhere in the world. Also in June came the announcement from Oxford University Press that its flagship journal Nucleic Acids Research will move to a full OA publishing model in January 2005. Unlike the Springer model, this is a true OA journal where the authors pay a fee once their paper has been accepted, and all articles published on-line are immediately available without charge.

The article announces that PapersInvited database service was acquired by CSA company. The database service lists the calls for papers issued by professional organizations, journal editors and other conference organizers in different disciplines worldwide. Researchers would benefit from this service by finding publishing opportunities for their research papers.

This article discusses the development of the self-publishing paradigm, as of March 2004. Self-publishing is mainstream but organizations are the ones doing the publishing. The fascinating thing about the paradigm is that getting stuff out there is both much easier and more difficult than the publishing in the past. Production has gotten much easier; the author of a book or paper bangs out the manuscript on a computer, emails it to an editor and proofreader, makes the required changes and the material gets posted on a Web site. Billions of Web pages and tens of thousands of books are published each year. All sorts of organizations are now publishers in every sense of the word. For example, the Microsoft corporate site has reams of detailed information on viruses, works and other pests that plague its products. As a new form of grassroots politics has emerged on the Web, the political Web site has become an important new publisher. Academic papers go straight to university sites, bypassing the traditional journal publishing process. Pharmaceutical companies publish detailed information about their products on well-organized sites for health care professionals and the general public.

Calls for digital publishing to return to desktop publishing. Recommends that already created print documents are delivered to customers who cannot easily or efficiently get paper products; Problems from tethering information interfaces to the rigidity of a publisher's paper version; Web business models for electronic versions; Companies involved in digital publishing, including NewsStand, Zinio Systems, and qMags; Customers who use digital publications.

The author reflects on the outstart of Internet publishing and its effectiveness as a research tool. She infers that the emergence of Internet publishing as a trend in scholarly research had imposed something like a digitization distress that created some interesting moments in content presentation. With the development of social networking, she equates how far did Internet publishing has perfected its formula in providing online information services. Based on her experiences having been on scholarly publishers' sites where the supplemental material has vanished, she concludes that traditional publishing in paper is still viable as a research tool.

The article reports on the launch of UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) on January 9, 2007. UKPMC is the British version of the U.S. National Institutes of Health's PubMed Central. It will provide free access to a permanent online archive of peer-reviewed research papers in the medical and life sciences. The service is the product of work done by the Wellcome Trust to encourage British research-funding bodies to promote and encourage open access publishing. A special manuscript-submission system has been also introduced to let scientists submit articles that have been accepted in a peer-reviewed journal directly to UKPMC.

This article discusses the trends in the electronic publishing of books in the U.S. as of July 2005. Conventional wisdom said e-books were not going to work. And it is true that e-books did get off to a shaky start during the dot-com time. It would be kind to say that those expensive e-book readers were a premature technology. Paper lovers of the world rejoiced as the traditional book reigned supreme. Adobe decided to close its e-book store. However, Adobe is presenting this as a happy closure, without anyone crying over the loss of the Adobe Digital Media Store. But entertainment e-books seem to be gaining traction. The Open eBook Forum, a trade and standards organization dedicated to the development and promotion of electronic publishing, stated in its annual list of top-selling e-books that Dan Brown dominated the 2004 list with The Vinci Code topping the list and Brown's Angels & Demons and Deception Point rounding out the top three. At the same time, the industry reported continued growth, with e-book revenues for the third quarter of 2004 up 25% and sales of e-book units up 11% over the same quarter in 2003.

The article offers information on SciDetect, an open source software program designed to check for fake scientific papers, by international science and technology publisher Springer.

Information about panels, papers, and innovations at the 54th Annual National Federation of Advanced Information Services Conference in February 2012 is presented. Topics discussed include a preview of software company Microsoft's Academic Search tool that can help track publications and citations, a discussion by director Lee Rainie of the Pew Research Center concerning user content and networked information, and a discussion about hype concerning emerging technologies.

The article presents the e-book trends in the publishing industry as reported in a survey conducted by Aptara, Inc., a provider of content production and digital publishing services. It says that trade publishers ranked the highest in boosting their e-book initiatives where production jumped by 26% from 2009 to 2011. It also announces the initial release of O'Reilly Media, Inc.'s Tool of Change (TOC) white paper series, "The Global eBook Market: Current Conditions & Future Projections."

The article offers information on the State Papers Online, one of Gale/Cengage Learning's latest digital collections which brings a host of British primary documents to life from the Tudor and Stuart government and society from 1509 to 1714. When the four-part project is completed in 2011, users will have access to nearly 3 million pages of reports, letters, memos, and parliamentary drafts from the 16th through the early 18th centuries.

Focuses on E Ink Corp., a developer and marketer of electronic ink technology. Announcement that it has demonstrated the world's first active-matrix electronic ink display that's capable of producing high-resolution illustrations and text; Claims of the company that this is a step toward a new generation of highly mobile devices such as cellphones, personal digital assistants (PDAs), and reader devices with screens as easy to read as ink on paper.