Issues To Consider Before Submitting a Manuscript: Redundant Or Duplicate Publication

Readers of primary source periodicals deserve to be able to trust that what they are reading is original unless there is a clear statement that the article is being republished by the choice of the author and editor. The bases of this position are international copyright laws, ethical conduct, and cost-effective use of resources.

International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. Academic>Publishing

J.A.W.S.: A Historical Perspective  

This article is a historical perspective on librarians' fight against rising journal prices. Libraries' battle against rising journal prices and the publishing industry is compared to a horror movie. To emphasize this point, the author has revised the script of the movie Jaws so that the horror transpires within a library setting. This article shows how the battle for more affordable journals has empowered librarians and helped make them a more cohesive community. The author's revised movie script illustrates the parallels between the terrorized islanders in the original movie and the once-fearful librarians warring against rising journal prices. Due to the graphic nature and adult language used in the scripts, reader discretion is advised.

Smith, Felicia A. Journal of Electronic Publishing (2007). Articles>Publishing>Pricing

JDF: The Evolving Standard

The JDF standard is expected to revolutionize the printing industry. It's come a long way, but there still is work to be done.

Bury, Scott. PennWell (2004). Design>Publishing>Standards>Printing

Journal of Digital Information  

Publishing papers on the management, presentation and uses of information in digital environments.

Journal of Digital Information. Journals>Publishing>Online

"Just" Professing: A Call for the Valuation of Prototypical Electronic Scholarship  

We should not limit our view of 'what counts' as electronic publishing to online journals that merely replicate print conventions but enlarge it to include other, even yet-to-be-developed forms of electronic publishing.

Nahrwold, Cynthia. Kairos (1997). Articles>Publishing>Online

The Kairos of Kairos: It's Time for a Change  

Having over ten thousand readers visit the journal each month probably means that we are not quite an obscure web journal any longer.

Eyman, Douglas. Kairos (2003). Articles>Publishing

Keeping Things Consistent When You're the 'Guest' Editor

Consistency is the cornerstone of intelligent editing. In these days of leaner staffs and smaller budgets, however, many organizations don't employ full-time editors and depend on contract or freelance editors to make sure their publications are written in a consistent — and thus coherent — manner.

Goode, Judith. Editorial Eye, The (1996). Articles>Editing>Publishing

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

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

Legal Issues in Cyberspace  

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

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

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

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

Look at the Underside First

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

Low-Cost, Flat-File XML for the Masses  

When you hear about XML publishing, you mostly hear about databases, workflow tools, and content management systems. These are typically costly systems aimed towards the information management needs of larger enterprises, where the sheer volume of information pumped through these systems provides a fairly rapid return on investment. This fosters the perception that you need one of these complex, expensive, enterprise solutions to use take advantage of the modularity and flexibility of authoring in XML. That is simply not true. You can realize the benefits of publishing from modularized XML, without the expense of an enterprise publishing system, by implementing the authoring environment on top of nothing more than your operating system's file system. Although this environment is not adequate for enterprise publishing needs, it is more than adequate for the needs small writing teams, businesses with a limited number of related products, proof-of-concept demonstrations, and even home users. The AIC documentation group at Cisco Systems has implemented such an authoring environment. We have been able to reuse and re-purpose modular, XML-based information without implementing a database back end. By examining how the AIC team implemented XML in a flat-file environment, you will see: * the decisions you need to make before implementing a flat-file XML system * the trade-offs, drawbacks, and pitfalls of implementing a flat-file environment (as compared to a database publishing environment) * the benefits of XML that are still available, even without the database * a migration path to a more traditional publishing environment

Willebeek-LeMair, Jason. IDEAlliance (2001). Presentations>Publishing>XML>Writing

Maintaining the Marketing Drumbeat in Print and E-Mail Formats  

Success in the marketplace depends on delivering the right messages to the target market. A regular, consistent “drumbeat” can be an extremely effective way to deliver messages. At the IBM® Network Computing Software Lab, I have developed a traditional newsletter and an email bulletin for delivering our marketing messages regularly and consistently. Though they share the same objective, these two instruments are very different in content and format – reflecting the fact that they are designed to maximize the opportunities and overcome the limitations of their respective media.

Kunz, Lawrence D. STC Proceedings (2000). Presentations>Publishing>Online

Making Research-Based Design Decisions: What is the Best Way to Get User-Centered Research Results to Practitioners?

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

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.

Writing that Works (2003). Articles>Publishing>Assessment

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

Microcontent for Sale

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

Moving into XML Functionality: The Combined Digital Dictionaries of Buddhism and East Asian Literary Terms  

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

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

Moving to Electronic Delivery of Documentation  

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 documentation development and delivery process to electronic documentation development and delivery.

Robertson, Angela and Sandy Storey. STC Proceedings (2000). Presentations>Publishing>Online

New Horizons in Scholarly Communication

A service of the Librarians Association of the University of California, New Horizons in Scholarly Communication highlights trends affecting the process of creating, disseminating, retrieving, and using information for instruction and research at the university level. We began by identifying sources covering all aspects of scholarly communication which are of concern to faculty, instructors, researchers, students, and staff.

Jaffe, Lee. Librarians Association of the UC (2002). Academic>Publishing>Research

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