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DCL (Data Conversion Laboratory)Technical Library eBooks / ePublishing section Large collection of e-book publishing articles with a slant towards technical issues.
http://www.dclab.com/techlibrary.asp?GRP=3ICCC/IFIP Fourth International Conference on Electronic Publishing (ElPub 2000): Electronic Publishing in the Third Millenium Kaliningrad State University, Russia, Aug. 2000 . Abstracts available. http://www.albertina.ru/elpub2000
ICCC/IFIP Fifth International Conference on Electronic Publishing (ElPub 2001): 2001 in the Digital Publishing Odyssey University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.
http://library.kent.ac.uk/iccc/2001/main.htmlICCC/IFIP Sixth International Conference on Electronic Publishing (ElPub 2002): Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, November 2002.
http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/elpub02ICCC/IFIP Seventh International Conference on Electronic Publishing (ElPub 2003) From information to knowledge University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal, June 2003.
http://piano.dsi.uminho.pt/elpub2003ICCC/IFIP Eighth International Conference on Electronic Publishing (ElPub 2004): Building Digital Bridges: linking cultures, commerce and science Will be held at the University of Brasília, Brasilia, Brazil 23 - 26 June 2004.
http://www.elpub.netNB: All freely available ElPub Conference digital papers may be found at:
http://elpub.scix.netThe Publishing of Electronic Scholarly Monographs and textbooks by Chris Armstrong and Ray Lonsdale, University of Wales Aberystwyth. (April 1998). NB: For a list of UK scholarly electronic publishers see Appendix 1 (non UK, see appendix 4). The Bibliography is also extensive. These authors are continuing research in this area. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/dlis/models/studies/elec-pub/elec-pub.htm
Towards a national infrastructure for access to Australia's documentary information resources in electronic formats : strategic developments at the National Library of Australia David Toll, National Library of Australia, ACT:
http://www.vala.org.au/vala2002/2002pdf/11Toll.pdf
Displaying Digital Information on Paper-like Devices A Technology and Standards Watch report, January 2003. "For almost three decades, digital paper (also referred to as electronic paper or e-paper) has been hypothesised as a way of combining digital information with the familiarity, quality and convenience of paper. ... http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=techwatch_report_0301
Tomorrow's paper-thin screen gems by Olga Kharif. Business Week Online, 18 June 2002, http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jun2002/tc20020617_5587.htm
Are we ready for digital paper? by Eric Schonfield ZDNet, 11 March 2002
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-856627.htmlThe electronic paper chase by Steve Ditlea. Scientific American, November 2001, http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=0004C2D2-B938-1CD6-B4A8809EC588EEDF&pageNumber=1&catID=2
Electronic paper turns the page by Charles C. Mann. Technology Review, March 2001, http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/mann0301.asp
eBook Locator Finds e-book titles in Palm Reader, Microsoft Reader & Adobe Reader (PDF) formats. Each e-book record offers information on where to purchase the title immediately, & includes current bibliographic data and details of covers, jacket copy, table of contents, excerpts, and author information. Searchable by format, author/creator, title, subject, keyword, publisher & identifier.
http://www.ebooklocator.comEbooks-in-Print "Commercially-neutral" search engine registry of book-length electronic publications (including poetry etc.). Note that they assign a unique Electronic Publication Registry Number (EPRN) to each listing. Be aware that they charge to list a title. Extent of listings unknown.
http://www.ebooks-in-print.comElectronic Literature Directory Search engine to locate electronic texts by title, category, author or publisher, & also by whether short, long or collected. Categories include fiction, non-fiction, drama, poetry, interactive, animated, extensively graphical & audio recorded. Last reported containing 2199 works by 1123 authors, and 169 publishers. Courtesy of the (non-profit) Electronic Literature Organization.
http://directory.eliterature.org/
Word Circuits Directory A resource for finding hypertext/cybertext literature published on the Web and on disk. Not regularly updated.
http://directory.wordcircuits.com/dir/index.html
Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
There are over 1,700 selected "articles, books, electronic documents, and other sources" included dealing with this important topic. A great achievement from Charles W. Bailey Jr. of the University of Houston, Texas.
http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html . (HTML version)
http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.pdf (PDF version for Acrobat Reader):
Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources of Information The index deals with all aspects of electronic publishing and includes print and non-print materials, periodical articles, monographs and individual chapters in collected works. It is accompanied by: "Electronic Sources of Information: A Bibliography", which lists all indexed items. Both the Index and the Bibliography are continuously updated.
http://library.usask.ca/~dworacze/SUBJIN_A.HTM
An Introduction, which includes sample search and instructions how to use the Subject Index and the Bibliography, is located at:
http://library.usask.ca/~dworacze/SUB_INT.HTM
