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Source

RRZK-Kompass. 1995, Nr.65, S.21-22

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Abstract

Describes the Electronic Book (EB) standard developed by the Sony Corporation. It defines compatibility with ISO 9660, the international standard for file structures on CD-ROM. The EB standard defines search methods according to word search, endword search, keyword search, menu search, multi search, graphic search and linking. Provides a summary of EB players covering the Sony DD1-EX, DD8, DD-DR1 and Panasonic KXEBP1. Discusses EB software

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Abstract

Contains extensive beginning and advanced interactive tutorials and exercises to teach SGML and uses DynaText software to manage, browse and search the text, thus demonstrating the features of one of the most widely known programs available for SGML marked-up text

Footnote

Electronic edition of van Herwijnen's book 'Practical SGML'

Imprint

Providence, RI : Electronic Book Technologies

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Date

17. 7.1996 9:33:22

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Abstract

Google Book Search, initially released as Google Print, allows the full-text searching of millions of books supplied by both publishers and libraries. More than 10,000 publishers and dozens of research libraries contribute. The Library Project is significant because it is a partnership with a commercial entity, because Google is funding the digitization, because the project exists on such a massive scale, and because of the speed with which so many works have been and are being scanned. The aspect that has created the most controversy, and legal action, is that some libraries are contributing works that are protected by copyright. A fascinating and critical debate has arisen around copyright protection, the fair use privilege, and what these mean in the digital age.

Footnote

Vgl.: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/book/10.1081/E-ELIS3.

Object

Google Book Search

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Abstract

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the evolution in terms of shares of scholarly book publications in the social sciences and humanities (SSH) in five European countries, i.e. Flanders (Belgium), Finland, Norway, Poland and Slovenia. In addition to aggregate results for the whole of the social sciences and the humanities, the authors focus on two well-established fields, namely, economics & business and history. Design/methodology/approach Comprehensive coverage databases of SSH scholarly output have been set up in Flanders (VABB-SHW), Finland (VIRTA), Norway (NSI), Poland (PBN) and Slovenia (COBISS). These systems allow to trace the shares of monographs and book chapters among the total volume of scholarly publications in each of these countries. Findings As expected, the shares of scholarly monographs and book chapters in the humanities and in the social sciences differ considerably between fields of science and between the five countries studied. In economics & business and in history, the results show similar field-based variations as well as country variations. Most year-to-year and overall variation is rather limited. The data presented illustrate that book publishing is not disappearing from an SSH. Research limitations/implications The results presented in this paper illustrate that the polish scholarly evaluation system has influenced scholarly publication patterns considerably, while in the other countries the variations are manifested only slightly. The authors conclude that generalizations like "performance-based research funding systems (PRFS) are bad for book publishing" are flawed. Research evaluation systems need to take book publishing fully into account because of the crucial epistemic and social roles it serves in an SSH. Originality/value The authors present data on monographs and book chapters from five comprehensive coverage databases in Europe and analyze the data in view of the debates regarding the perceived detrimental effects of research evaluation systems on scholarly book publishing. The authors show that there is little reason to suspect a dramatic decline of scholarly book publishing in an SSH.

Date

20. 1.2015 18:30:22

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Abstract

You were going to get one-click access to the full text of nearly every book that's ever been published. Books still in print you'd have to pay for, but everything else-a collection slated to grow larger than the holdings at the Library of Congress, Harvard, the University of Michigan, at any of the great national libraries of Europe-would have been available for free at terminals that were going to be placed in every local library that wanted one. At the terminal you were going to be able to search tens of millions of books and read every page of any book you found. You'd be able to highlight passages and make annotations and share them; for the first time, you'd be able to pinpoint an idea somewhere inside the vastness of the printed record, and send somebody straight to it with a link. Books would become as instantly available, searchable, copy-pasteable-as alive in the digital world-as web pages. It was to be the realization of a long-held dream. "The universal library has been talked about for millennia," Richard Ovenden, the head of Oxford's Bodleian Libraries, has said. "It was possible to think in the Renaissance that you might be able to amass the whole of published knowledge in a single room or a single institution." In the spring of 2011, it seemed we'd amassed it in a terminal small enough to fit on a desk. "This is a watershed event and can serve as a catalyst for the reinvention of education, research, and intellectual life," one eager observer wrote at the time. On March 22 of that year, however, the legal agreement that would have unlocked a century's worth of books and peppered the country with access terminals to a universal library was rejected under Rule 23(e)(2) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. When the library at Alexandria burned it was said to be an "international catastrophe." When the most significant humanities project of our time was dismantled in court, the scholars, archivists, and librarians who'd had a hand in its undoing breathed a sigh of relief, for they believed, at the time, that they had narrowly averted disaster.

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Abstract

The debate about access to scientific research raises questions about the current effectiveness of scholarly communication processes. This book explores, from an independent point of view, the current state of the STM publishing market, new publishing technologies and business models as well as the information habit of researchers, the politics of research funders, and the demand for scientific research as a public good. The book also investigates the democratisation of science including how the information needs of knowledge workers outside academia can be embraced in future.

Content

Inhalt: Chapter 1. Background -- Chapter 2. Definitions -- Chapter 3. Aims, Objectives, and Methodology -- Chapter 4. Setting the Scene -- Chapter 5. Information Society -- Chapter 6. Drivers for Change -- Chapter 7 A Dysfunctional STM Scene? -- Chapter 8. Comments on the Dysfunctionality of STM Publishing -- Chapter 9. The Main Stakeholders -- Chapter 10. Search and Discovery -- Chapter 11. Impact of Google -- Chapter 12. Psychological Issues -- Chapter 13. Users of Research Output -- Chapter 14. Underlying Sociological Developments -- Chapter 15. Social Media and Social Networking -- Chapter 16. Forms of Article Delivery -- Chapter 17. Future Communication Trends -- Chapter 18. Academic Knowledge Workers -- Chapter 19. Unaffiliated Knowledge Workers -- Chapter 20. The Professions -- Chapter 21. Small and Medium Enterprises -- Chapter 22. Citizen Scientists -- Chapter 23. Learned Societies -- Chapter 24. Business Models -- Chapter 25. Open Access -- Chapter 26. Political Initiatives -- Chapter 27. Summary and Conclusions -- Chapter 28. Research Questions Addressed

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Abstract

Eines ist gleich geblieben an der neuen Luxus-Variante des E-Book: der Einband aus Leder, der wenigsten ein bisschen an den guten, alten Papier-Schinken erinnert. Dazwischen verbirgt sich jede Menge Technik. Neu ist vor allem der hoch auflösende Bildschirm: Er bietet 32 000 Farben und reagiert auf Berührung; somit lassen sich handschriftliche Beinerkungen in die Bücher schreiben. Das Gerät mit der Bezeichnung REB 1200 soll den Softbook Reader ablösen. Es wiegt 940 Gramm und ist von Haus aus mit 8 MB Speicher ausgestattet. Darauf passen etwa 3000 farbige Seiten. Wer mehr Lesestoff braucht, kann eine 128 MB Steckkarte zusätzlich einstecken. Zu dem Gerät gehört ein Modern, mit dem sich Bücher auch ohne Internet-Anbindung laden lassen, und eine Ethernet-Netzwerkkarte für den schnellen Kontakt zum Computer. Kostenpunkt in den USA - 700 US-Dollar. Der kleinere REB 1100 arbeitet ohne Farbe. Daher passen auf den gleichen Speicherplatz 8000 Seiten. Die Hardware wiegt noch 500 Gramm und damit 130 Gramm weniger als sein Vorgänger, das Rocket E-Book. Sie verfügt nun ebenfalls über ein Modem. Zur Ausstattung gehört ferner ein USB-Port und eine InfrarotSchnittstelle. Kosten: 300 Dollar. Hergestellt werden beide Geräte von Thomson Multimedia. Gemstar kümmert sich nun ausschließlich um die Geschäfte mit den Verlagen

Date

3. 5.1997 8:44:22

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Abstract

Presents a model for an electronic book (hyper-book). Hyper-books are electronic books defined on the basis of the paper book metaphor. Gives a formal definition of the hyper-book model as a dynamic system. The model was implemented in a working system, and evaluated with a group of users. The evaluation has confirmed that the adoption of the book metaphor is very effective, as it guarantees ease of using and understanding the system

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Source

Publishers weekly. 240(1993) no.47, 22 Nov., S.33-35,38

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Abstract

Das neue Buch ist leicht, handlich, elektronisch und bietet fast unbegrenztes Lesevergnügen. Seine Bibliothek in der Handtasche herumzutragen, klingt ebenso verlockend wie innovativ. Aber wird der E-Book-Reader das Buch wirklich verdrängen?

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"Freitagabend kurz vor sechs eilen am Münchner Hauptbahnhof Pendler und Wochenendheimfahrer zu den Zügen. Der ICE nach Düsseldorf nimmt unglaublich viele dieser hastenden Reisenden auf. Kein Wunder, dass etliche keinen Sitzplatz mehr ergattern. Richtig kuschelig ist solch eine Reise nicht, doch lässt die geeignete Lektüre die Widrigkeiten dieser Reise recht gut vergessen. Während viele der Mitreisenden eine Zeitschrift, ein Buch oder ein Notebook aufklappen, schlägt die Stunde meines neuen Reisebegleiters. Sonys E-Book-Reader taucht unauffällig aus den Tiefen meiner Handtasche hervor. Hinter der beigefarbenen Schutzhülle vermutet man einen Taschenkalender, ein Notizheft vielleicht, ziemlich sicher aber keine vollständige Bibliothek. Aber genau das verbirgt sich hinter dieser wenig prickelnden Hülle: Ein nicht ganz billiges Lesegerät - nichts für Fashion-Victims wohl aber was für echte Leseratten. Ist das elektronische Lesegerät erst einmal eingeschaltet, trumpft es mit seinen Qualitäten auf: Gestochen scharf erscheint der Text auf dem Bildschirm, weder Flimmern noch Lichtreflexe stören. Das garantiert stundenlanges unbeschwertes Lesen im ICE oder auch im gleißenden Sonnenlicht am Strand oder auf Balkonia. Und praktischerweise lässt sich der E-Book-Reader auch mit Musik bestücken. Bücherwürmer können so ganz in ihre Lektüre eintauchen und dabei ihren Lieblingssongs lauschen. Lärmende Züge und Mitreisende geraten so schnell in Vergessenheit.
Die Bibliothek in der Handtasche Gleichwohl für eine Zugfahrt von München nach Düsseldorf auch ein Taschenbuch genügt hätte, führen moderne Leseratten mit dem E-Book-Reader gleich ihre ganze Bibliothek in der Jackentasche. Sonys digitales Buch ist etwas schmaler (gerade mal 8 mm breit) und ähnlich schwer wie ein herkömmliches Buch (254 g), doch lassen sich bis zu 160 Bücher darauf speichern. Langen Lesespaß gibt es dank ausdauernder Akkus und Strom sparender Technik; der Hersteller verspricht, dass 6800-mal umgeblättert werden kann, ehe das E-Buch ans Stromnetz muss. Das Blättern wiederum erfolgt per Tastendruck und offenbart aber gleich schon ein Manko: Bis die neue Seite auf dem Bildschirm erscheint, dauert es recht lang. Außerdem erscheint kurzzeitig eine Negativ-Ansicht des Bildschirminhalts, was den Eindruck eines kurzen Aufflackerns erweckt. Auf jeden Fall stört es, wenn die nächste Seite mit einem Aufflackern neu aufgebaut wird. Auch sonst geht der Charme beim Lesen im E-Buch etwas verloren. Weder stimuliert der Duft eines frisch gedruckten Buches, noch erinnert der leicht modrige Geruch eines zu feucht gelagerten Werkes an das Leseerlebnis früherer Tage. Das vertraut, hastige Rascheln bei der spannenden Lektüre ist einem kaum wahrnehmbaren Tastenklicken gewichen. Ganz zu schweigen davon, dass das Bücherregal im Wohnzimmer leer bleibt. Die geheimnisvolle Tinte Aber so schnell werden Druckmaschinen nicht ausgemustert. Seit zehn Jahren treibt das Gespenst des E-Books schon umher. Doch die ersten Exemplare waren unförmig, unpraktisch und die Schrift wegen der flimmernden LCD-Bildschirmen schlecht lesbar. Die neue Generation digitaler Lesegeräte beruht auf sogenanntem elektronischem Papier oder elektronischer Tinte. Die Displays sind nicht nur leicht, dünn und flexibel, sondern auch scharf und kontrastreich. Sie reflektieren Licht so wenig wie Papier und lassen sich ähnlich wie Papier unabhängig vom Betrachterwinkel gut lesen. Die elektrisch geladenen Teilchen der E-Tinte bleiben, wenn sie nach dem Blättern neu angeordnet werden, an Ort und Stelle und ermöglichen einen geringen Stromverbrauch. In Deutschland sind derzeit drei dieser Geräte verfügbar: der Sony EBook-Reader sowie Cybook und BeBook.
Dass die Revolution des digitalen Buches dennoch auf sich warten lässt, liegt unter anderem am Preis: Ungefähr 300 Euro müssen Bücherwürmer auf den virtuellen Ladentisch von buch.de, Libri, Thalia oder Weltbild legen, um das smarte Lesegerät zu erwerben. Dafür stellt sich der echte Vielleser locker 30 Taschenbücher ins Regal und macht sie auf Wunsch über den Marktplatz eines Online-Buchhändlers wieder zu Geld. Bibliothek aufstocken Für 300 Euro steht aber noch kein einziges Buch in der elektronischen Bibliothek des EBook-Besitzers. Um sie aufzustocken, muss die E-Leseratte recht tief in die Tasche greifen. Auf jeden Fall dann, wenn er bei den ausgewiesenen E-Book-Händlern Lesestoff erwerben möchte. Ein E-Book kostet bei buch.de, Weltbild oder einem der anderen Online-Buchhändler ungefähr so viel wie die gebundene Ausgabe. In den USA, wo Amazon recht erfolgreich E-Bücherfür den Kindle 2 verkauft, ist dies durchaus anders. Selbst Bestseller kosten dort nicht einmal halb so viel wie das gedruckte Buch. Verantwortlich für die hohen Preise für E-Books in deutschen Online-Buchläden sind der höhere Mehrwertsteuersatz - bei Büchern liegt er bei 7 Prozent, während auf E-Books 19 Prozent entfallen und die Buchpreisbindung. Dadurch kosten Bücher, ganz gleich wo sie gekauft werden, gleichviel. Da ein elektronisches Buch im Wesentlichen der gedruckten Variante entspricht, gilt die Buchpreisbindung auch dafür. Dass die Verlage den Preis eines E-Books recht hoch ansetzen, liegt wiederum an der (noch) niedrigen Nachfrage. Sonys Reader ist erst seit März verfügbar; bei Weltbild steht das Cybook erst seit Mai im virtuellen Regal. Amazons Erfolgsprodukt Kindle ist auf dem europäischen Markt noch nicht vertreten. Deutschland ist somit noch Entwicklungsland. Dass die E-Book-Revolution noch auf sich warten lässt, hat möglicherweise auch was mit dem Angebot an elektronisch verfügbaren Büchern zu tun. Bei buch.de gibt es zurzeit 20.000 Werke, während bei Weltbild 30.000 angepriesen werden. Das hört sich nach viel an; bei genauerem Hinsehen wird aber schnell klar, dass nicht für jeden Geschmack genügend Lesefutter zu finden ist. Anders ausgedrückt heißt das, dass von den jährlich 100.000 neu erscheinenden Büchern, lediglich 3.000 als E-Book verfügbar sind. Ein Glück, dass es im Internet alternativen Lesestoff gibt, der allerdings stark auf englischsprachige Lektüre fokusiert ist (s. Short-link am Ende des Artikels). Und was in den USA mit Amazons Kindle 2 längst möglich ist, nämlich Zeitungen und Zeitschriften auf dem Reader zu lesen, ist in Deuschland noch Zukunftsmusik. Im Unterschied zu den hier verfügbaren Readern, lädt Amazons Kindle Lesestoff direkt via Modem aus dem Internet. Bei aktuellen Inhalten wieTageszeitungen ist das unerlässlich.
Lästig ist auch der Kopierschutz, mit dem E-Bücher versehen sind. Das dafür entwickelte EPUB-Format verhindert, dass E-Books beliebig weitergereicht werden. Ähnlich wie bei DRM-geschützten Songs können E-Books so nur auf autorisierten Rechnern und Lesegeräten gelesen werden. Die elektronische Bibliothek bleibt für weitere Leser geschlossen. Es sei denn, es handelt sich um Lesestoff im frei zugänglichen PDF- oderTXT-Format. Auch der Einkauf eines E-Buchs ist mühsam. Am Anfang einer jeden E-Bibliothek stehen einige Anmeldungen und das Herunterladen von Programmen auf dem Plan. Anmelden muss sich der E-Bücherwurm zunächst bei dem Online-Shop, bei dem er den E-Book-Reader und Lesestoff erwerben will. Möglich ist das zurzeit bei buch.de, Libri, Thalia oder etwa Weltbild. Für die Verwaltung und Anzeige der E-Bücher auf dem PC muss anschließend das kostenlose Programm Adobe Digital Editions heruntergeladen und installiert werden. Damit die Rechteverwaltung kopiergeschützter digitaler Bücher auch funktioniert, muss man sich bei Adobe registrieren, damit der PC als Verwaltungsgerät autorisiert wird. Nach dieser Anmeldeprozedur gibt es einen Downloadlink zum E-Book. Um es auf den heimischen PC zu laden, muss das Verwaltungsprogramm von Adobe geschlossen sein. Wer sich davon nicht abschrecken lässt, viel unterwegs ist und Bücher nicht wegen des damit verbundenen Leseerlebnisses konsumiert, wird seine Freude an E-Books haben. Die Revolution lässt hierzulande noch etwas auf sich warten."

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20. 6.2009 15:13:22

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Abstract

Compares the processes an author's manuscript must go through to become a book, in paper and in electronic form: noting the common and unique features of each of the 2 processes. Proposes definitions of paper book and electronic book; but excludes graphics, art and hypertext from the discussion. Distribution by floppy disc, rather than via network, is considered so as to achieve an even comparison between the 2 publishing processes. Concludes that publishing electronic books is cheaper than publishing paper books on a per book basis. The cost savings are realized by the subprocesses of the publication process that can be eliminated for the electronic medium and by the comparatively small space on a computer disc on to which the equivalent paper book can fit

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Abstract

Vorstellung und kritische Kommentierung der Ergebnisse des Projektes New Book Economy aus der Sicht der Informationswissenschaft

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This volume is the first book coherently summarizing the current issues in digital libraries research, design and management. It presents, in a homogeneous way, thoroughly revised versions of 15 papers accepted for the First International Workshop on Digital Libraries, DL '94, held at Rutgers University in May 1994; in addition there are two introductory chapters provided by the volume editors, as well as a comprehensive bibliography listing 262 entries. Besides introductory aspects, the topics addressed are administration and management, information retrieval and hypertext, classification and indexing, and prototypes and applications. The volume is intended for researchers and design professionals in the field, as well as for experts from libraries administration and scientific publishing.

Date

22. 1.1996 18:26:45

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Paper presented at the UK Serials Group conference on CD-ROM held in York in Sept 89. A light hearted look at the fantastic changes which are going to hit the library world when the printed book is displaced by the Electronic Book. Reviews the last 30 years of developments in the computer world so as to establish trends. Looks at a few current realities, e.g. a single chip which can contain much more information than a large book. It then projects these into the next decade and shows how they will result in the box of delights, called the Electronic Book. Enumerates the advantages of the Electronic Book claiming that the 500 year era of print is drawing to a close. Also looks at the radical changes which are currently beginning in reference libraries, especially in the USA.

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Abstract

Scholars writing books that are widely used to support teaching in higher education may be undervalued because of a lack of evidence of teaching value. Although sales data may give credible evidence for textbooks, these data may poorly reflect educational uses of other types of books. As an alternative, this article proposes a method to search automatically for mentions of books in online academic course syllabi based on Bing searches for syllabi mentioning a given book, filtering out false matches through an extensive set of rules. The method had an accuracy of over 90% based on manual checks of a sample of 2,600 results from the initial Bing searches. Over one third of about 14,000 monographs checked had one or more academic syllabus mention, with more in the arts and humanities (56%) and social sciences (52%). Low but significant correlations between syllabus mentions and citations across most fields, except the social sciences, suggest that books tend to have different levels of impact for teaching and research. In conclusion, the automatic syllabus search method gives a new way to estimate the educational utility of books in a way that sales data and citation counts cannot.

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Abstract

Examines the emergence of hand held electronic analogues of the book and their potential impact on traditional publishing, bookselling and libraries.

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Abstract

Bob Donaldson, Managing Editor of the directories: The Software Users Year Book and The Computers Users Year Book; published by Learned Information Europe Ltd.; offers some advice to directory publishers who are considering publishing on CD-ROM based on experiences with these 2 titles

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Abstract

To arrive at relevant and reliable conclusions concerning the usability of a hypermedia educational e-book, developers have to apply a well-defined evaluation procedure as well as a set of clear, concrete and measurable quality criteria. Evaluating an educational tool involves not only testing the user interface but also the didactic method, the instructional materials and the interaction mechanisms to prove whether or not they help users reach their goals for learning. This article presents a number of evaluation criteria for hypermedia educational e-books and describes how they are embedded into an evaluation procedure. This work is chiefly aimed at helping education developers evaluate their systems, as well as to provide them with guidance for addressing educational requirements during the design process. In recent years, more and more educational e-books are being created, whether by academics trying to keep pace with the advanced requirements of the virtual university or by publishers seeking to meet the increasing demand for educational resources that can be accessed anywhere and anytime, and that include multimedia information, hypertext links and powerful search and annotating mechanisms. To develop a useful educational e-book many things have to be considered, such as the reading patterns of users, accessibility for different types of users and computer platforms, copyright and legal issues, development of new business models and so on. Addressing usability is very important since e-books are interactive systems and, consequently, have to be designed with the needs of their users in mind. Evaluating usability involves analyzing whether systems are effective, efficient and secure for use; easy to learn and remember; and have a good utility. Any interactive system, as e-books are, has to be assessed to determine if it is really usable as well as useful. Such an evaluation is not only concerned with assessing the user interface but is also aimed at analyzing whether the system can be used in an efficient way to meet the needs of its users - who in the case of educational e-books are learners and teachers. Evaluation provides the opportunity to gather valuable information about design decisions. However, to be successful the evaluation has to be carefully planned and prepared so developers collect appropriate and reliable data from which to draw relevant conclusions.