#24059
The Key to Mayo's Successful Publications? Dave Swanson
Mayo wants to give people actionable, not merely interesting, information.
Smith, Sally. Editorial Eye, The (1997). Articles>Scientific Communication>Publishing>Biomedical
#25660
Layered Data View for Searching, Browsing, and Presenting Scholarly Documents
This paper describes about the study result on text formats suitable for searching, browsing, and presenting scholarly documents as a digital library service, in relation with the document distribution formats and with the data production methods. Two types of data sources are considered in the context of their application to NACSIS-ELS. The printed document sources are first discussed mainly from the viewpoint of fulltext data production and their application, including application of OCR and document structure recognition technology. Electronic text sources are then discussed mainly from the viewpoint of format conversion and the mutual relation among formats for layered data view.
Oyama, Keizo. ISRDP in Digital Libraries (1997). Articles>Publishing>Online
#19854
What are these issues and how do they affect you? Whether writing source code, developing e-commerce Web sites, or using the Web for business or as a consumer, you can be affected by Internet law in ways you might not imagine. Our rights of free speech and privacy take on new dimensions in cyberspace. Our copyright and trademark laws are being applied to cyberspace with caution and controversy. New avenues of criminal activity in cyberspace can wreak havoc in our business, professional, and personal worlds. This paper focuses on Internet law involving copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, free speech, and privacy.
Kagan, Elissa. STC Proceedings (2000). Articles>Publishing>Legal>Online
#10609
The Legal Position of E-mail Disclaimers
Legal 'disclaimers' in e-mail messages, like those in faxes, are now commonplace. These disclaimers attempt to limit the sender's liability for the message's content. This article discusses the effectiveness of these disclaimers under English law.
Halberstam, Simon. GigaLaw.com (2001). Articles>Publishing>Legal
#32034
Literature-Space Vs. Cyberspace
Stories are so hardwired into our subconscious that it would not surprise me if we did indeed inhabit a story-space that is different from our web-based reading-space. This is a testable proposition. Do our brains work differently when we are in the middle of a story versus when we are in the middle of web surfing? I would be astounded if they were the same. But if that was all the happened -- different strokes for stories than for links, then the solution to exiting the web and entering stories is easy -- just read, listen, or watch more stories.
Kelly, Kevin. KK (2008). Articles>Publishing>Online>User Centered Design
#10825
Living Documentation: The Future of Technical Writing
Living documentation is documentation that does not cease to be developed until the product ceases to develop. Living documentation can be produced at any time in multiple formats. The book, web pages and online help would continue to be developed as long as that development either solves inaccuracy or increases product usability and customer satisfaction.
Hewitt, John. Writer's Resource Center. Articles>Publishing>Documentation>Online
#20443
In a recent issue of Nature magazine (8 April 1999), lithography rises again, in a new, ultra-high-tech guise!
Sterling, Bruce. Upper and lowercase Magazine (2000). Articles>Publishing>Technology
#19411
There are about 1,000 usability-related articles published each year. My guess is that less than 5% ever have any practical, long-term value to most usability practitioners. In some cases, the topics being studied are of little interest to practitioners. In many cases the research results are simply too hard for practitioners to find.
Bailey, Robert. Web Usability (2002). Articles>Publishing>User Centered Design>Usability
#20801
Measure Your Publication Program's Dollar Value to Your Organization
Get no respect? Then do the math to prove how much money your publications save and make for your employer.
#23575
Meet the Editors of the Technical Communication Journals 
Description of each journal in the field, written by its editor or editors, then edited for length by Mike Markel.
Carson, David L., Thomas Kent, Mary Lay Mike Markel, Frank R. Smith and Billie Wahlstrom. STC Proceedings (1994). Articles>TC>Publishing
#20700
Even if a tech writer did have an itch to produce micro-docs, the odds of the writer putting everything together on his own might be next to non-existent.
Creative Tech Writer, The (2003). Articles>Publishing>Writing
#18879
Compilation of the Digital Dictionary of Buddhism (DDB) began with the realization of the dearth of adequate lexicographical and other reference works in the English language for the textual scholar of East Asian Buddhism in particular, and East Asian philosophy and religion in general. The (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) CJK-English Dictionary (CJK-E) began soon after. I decided, during my first Buddhist and Confucian/Taoist texts readings courses, to save everything I looked up, and have continued that practice to the present, through the course of studying scores of classical texts. Although the content of these two lexicons is presently being supplemented by other interested parties, the terms that I have been compiling serve as the major portion of the work.
Muller, Charles and Michael Beddow. Journal of Digital Information (2002). Articles>Publishing>Online>XML
#19895
Moving to Electronic Delivery of Documentation
Includes information about the fundamentals of electronic documentation, case studies, what to expect, how to research, identify, and implement a process for moving from an exclusively hard copy development and delivery process to electronic documentation development and delivery. While anyone with a computer and an Internet connection can potentially view electronic documentation, this white paper also addresses globalization issues related to the development, delivery, and use of electronic documentation.
Robertson, Angela and Sandy Storey. STC Proceedings (2001). Articles>Publishing>Online
#24791
Newsletter Design for Non-Designers
Newsletter design comprises everything from column width and typeface to clip art style and paper color--where do you start? You don’t need to be a graphic artist to design an appealing newsletter—but you need to know the basic principles and how to apply them consistently. Consciously or not, every time you read something, you make judgments about its design. Was it easy to read or skim? Did the artwork seem appropriate? Were the page numbers easy to locate? In this workshop we will review these and other design elements and how to make them work for your newsletter.
Disch, Cheryl and Cheryl Lockett Zubak. STC Proceedings (1995). Articles>Document Design>Publishing>Newsletters
#21236
Newsletters in the Communication System of Science
Newsletters play several important roles in the scientific community because they can be used to convey information (e.g., administrative information) that is not appropriate for more formal genres (e.g., journals) and because they can be a more timely form of communication than other media, such as books.
O'Hara, Frederick M., Jr. STC Proceedings (1995). Articles>Scientific Communication>Publishing>Newsletters
#30858
Newspaper Design as Cultural Change 
his article describes the (re-)design of newspapers and magazines as a process of cultural change which goes beyond designing a publication's layout, typography and use of colour, and includes designing the processes and structures of its production.
de Vries, James. Visual Communication (2008). Articles>Graphic Design>Publishing>Visual Rhetoric
#22857
On Beyond Help: Interface Design Paradigms for Online Documents
In the world of printed documentation, there are many different programs, with different ways of solving the problem of editing and layout, but they all produce the same product in the end--a printed page. The online world can be bewildering even to experienced authors, since not only the authoring approach but the end result can vary so widely. This session is a look at some of the different types of online systems and how they affect both interface and document design.
Quesenbery, Whitney. STC Proceedings (1997). Articles>Publishing>Online
#27530
Online Flipping: Examination of the Digital FlipViewer
This article examines the usability of FlipViewer software for digital FlipBooks. The FlipViewer software allows users to read online documents in a three-dimensional e-book format simulates a paper document. Participants performed 11 tasks with a FlipBook and their performance was evaluated. Some tasks were difficult for participants to complete, however, participants were satisfied overall with their experience using FlipViewer® and 100% indicated that they would recommend the product to others.
Hull, Spring S. Usability News (2005). Articles>Publishing>Online>eBooks
#13076
Online Vs. Hard-Copy Marketing Material: Both Have a Place
The World Wide Web, the panacea of the so-called information age, was supposed to transform the way we shop, are entertained, and get informed. If the web was supposed to be so great, why are we still reading so much information on paper?
Zvalo, Peter. Writer's Block (2001). Articles>Publishing>Online
#26698
The Orange Journal: Creating a Student Writing Space
Argues that the Orange Journal can provide a way to help graduate student scholars create a map for those inherent contradictions of being a graduate student, providing a space that serves our needs and that can give us legitimacy.
Gulbrandsen, Karen. Orange Journal, The (2005). Articles>Publishing>Education
#22796
Pages, Books, the Web, and Virtual Reality: A Response to Negroponte's "Books Without Pages"
Inclusion of Nicholas Negroponte's paper on 'Books Without Pages' (1979) in this Journal requires explanation, as the paper does not concern itself directly with computer documentation. However, the implications of its assertions and questions ultimately involve all of us who teach, practice, and learn about documenting computer programs. As we leave paper and move to other media to deliver our instructions to users, we are faced with the same questions that Negroponte was asking over 15 years ago. Just as the MIT researchers were doing, we look for new metaphors and new ways to define the relationship between our 'readers' and the information we are providing to them. We search for that perfect controlling metaphor that will clarify how our communications in new media work, and how we can apply some sense and some structure to them, a new 'grammar', if you will, for our books without pages.
Dicks, R. Stanley. Journal of Computer Documentation (1996). Articles>Publishing>Online
#24681
PDF Means Change for Many Print Shops 
There is a battle brewing in the back rooms print shops around the country, and after Graph Expo the pressure is on and tempers are flaring. What is causing the problem? PDF. Owners and production managers are going back to their shops to talk about the amazing things they have seen equipment do using PDF files. What they are hearing back from prepress staffs is that PDF files won't work for their shop. Owners are confused and not sure who to believe.
Giles, John. On Demand Journal (2004). Articles>Publishing>Prepress>Adobe Acrobat
#21262
Peer Review: The Key to Quality in Scientific Communication
The panel will present a discussion of the role of peer review in the process of authoring and publishing technical papers and scientific and technical articles. The three panelists discuss 1) the role of peer review in the publishing process and its importance in ensuring integrity and quality; 2) the working relationship between journal editor and reviewer; and 3) the kind ofpartnership among journal editor, author’s editor, and author that makes the most efective use of each review. Each panelist will give a IO-minute presentation followed by a brief question and answer period in which the other two panelists will participate. Following the presentations there will be a discussion period in which the audience will be divided into thirds and the panelists will rotate among the three groups for three Jifteen-minute sessions of open discussion.
Hibbard, Jeffrey L., Lottie B. Applewhite and David L. Armbruster. STC Proceedings (1997). Articles>Scientific Communication>Publishing
#25592
Personal Publication and Public Attention
What makes weblogs a genre different from the autobiography, the diary, the researcher's journal or any other pre-Internet writing? While weblogs have many non-digital predecessors, blogs cannot live outside of the computer. They are ergodic texts (Aarseth 1997), and demand the assistance of technology in order to be created and used.
Mortensen, Torill Elvira. Into the Blogosphere (2004). Articles>Publishing>Online>Blogging
#18778
Personalising Electronic Books
The paper addresses how hyperdocuments, accessible via electronic books (e-books) which are read using the World Wide Web, can be endowed with features that personalise the interaction process that takes place between the reader and the e-book. A novel, abstract approach to modelling the personalisation of hyperdocuments is introduced. This approach aims to make available features that allow readers to interact with these documents in a manner much closer to that with paper-based documents. The research is based on a formal characterisation of personalisable hyperlink-based interaction. This characterisation is unique in formally modelling a rich set of user-initiated personalisation actions that allow users to come closer to satisfying their specific, often dynamic, information retrieval goals.
Ohene-Djan, James and Alvaro A.A. Fernandes. Journal of Digital Information (2003). Articles>Publishing>Online
