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Economic cost models of scientific scholarly journals This paper elaborates the expenses related to scientific publishing, taking five publishing components into account. A publisher adopts a suitable model comprising these components that is also cost-effective. An estimation of the total cost of publishing a standard scientific journal, derived from sample science journals, is made in this paper.     Click here

The Cost of Electronic Publishing of Scholarly Works This study was carried out to differentiate the costs of paper and electronic publishing models, the effect of electronic publishing on popular publishers, self-publication and the economies of the peer-review model. The paper describes the matters related to maintaining, updating and archiving print and electronic journals.     Click here

White Paper on Electronic Journals' Usage Statistics As more readers prefer and use electronic journals, librarians require specific data on the usage level. This helps them decide the investment levels in electronic resources. Publishers and aggregators spend to identify e-readers. However, each publisher can collect compatible levels of data only by adopting standard steps of data aggregation. This paper analyses issues relating to electronic journals users and publishers.     Click here

E-publishing and Scholarly Journals A shift from traditional publishing to electronic publishing was expected to reduce the price of scholarly journals. Contrary to that belief, the journals prices have been increasing, in turn restricting the purchasing power of the libraries. As an alternative to paid electronic content, efforts such as open access policy, institutional repositories and archiving have been developed. Electronic publishing has thus helped as well as hindered scholarly professionals in various ways.     Click here

Jikzi - a new framework for security policy and trusted publishing Jikzi, a prototype tool for secure e-publishing, is the result of three years' research. The researchers sought to find a protection system for online medical data published, particularly against errors and attacks. Jikzi investigates the security level of the data for publishers involved in the electronic business of such data. The paper describes the development of Jikzi, and also analyses various case studies related to the problems in medical publishing.     Click here