Chandos Publishing imprint: 386 books
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
The world of the academic journal continues to be one of radical change. A follow-up volume to the first edition of The Future of the Academic Journal, this book is a significant contribution to the debates around the future of journals publishing. The book takes an international perspective and looks...
by Mirna Willer, Gordon Dunsire
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
New technologies will underpin the future generation of library catalogues. To facilitate their role providing information, serving users, and fulfilling their mission as cultural heritage and memory institutions, libraries must take a technological leap; their standards and services must be transformed...
Finding official British Information
Official Publishing in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Examining the different bodies that publish official material, this book describes the types of material published, how it is made available and how it is recorded. Finding Official British Information focuses on the digital availability of official information and considers how much is now freely...
Library Scholarly Communication Programs
Legal and Ethical Considerations
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Libraries must negotiate a range of legal issues, policies and ethical guidelines when developing scholarly communication initiatives. Library Scholarly Communication Programs is a practical primer, covering these issues for institutional repository managers, library administrators, and other staff...
New Content in Digital Repositories
The Changing Research Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Research institutions are under pressure to make their outputs more accessible in order to meet funding requirements and policy guidelines. Libraries have traditionally played an important role by exposing research output through a predominantly institution-based digital repository, with an emphasis...
Digital Asset Ecosystems
Rethinking crowds and clouds
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
Digital asset management is undergoing a fundamental transformation. Near universal availability of high-quality web-based assets makes it important to pay attention to the new world of digital ecosystems and what it means for managing, using and publishing digital assets. The Ecosystem of Digital...
XML-based Content Management
Integration, Methodologies and Tools
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
XML-based Content Management: Integration, Methodologies and Tools covers the design and deployment of XML-based solutions and how to manage content and metadata, a practice that requires a more methodological approach than those traditionally applied to the design and deployment of document and content...
by Ksenija Mincic-Obradovic
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
Written from the perspective of a librarian, this book offers a comprehensive overview of the impact of e-books on academic libraries. The author discusses advantages to both researchers and librarians and provides current examples of innovative uses of e-books in academic contexts. This book reviews...
Gatekeepers of Knowledge
A Consideration of the Library, the Book and the Scholar in the Western World
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
Throughout its history, the Western library has played a significant role in bringing the book to the hands of Western scholars. This book analyses that history, examining constructs of librarianship, publishing and scholarship within that history as gate keeping access to knowledge. Exploring significant...
Law Firm Librarianship
Issues, Practice and Directions
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
The legal information environment is deep, wide, and dynamic with many participants, including courts, parliaments, legislatures, and administrative bodies. None exemplifies the agile, knowledge-engaging legal player better than the law firm. Current, authoritative information is essential for the...
Social Reading
Platforms, Applications, Clouds and Tags
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Contemporary developments in the book publishing industry are changing the system as we know it. Changes in established understandings of authorship and readership are leading to new business models in line with the postulates of Web 2.0. Socially networked authorship, book production and reading...
Library Consortia
Practical Guide for Library Managers
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
Libraries are burdened with increased demand for resources and services and inflating expectations against shrinking or stagnant budgets. An individual library cannot cope with the situation. Hence, libraries form alliances for cooperation and sharing. Emerging changes in the publishing industry are...
by Marianne Buehler
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
Institutional repositories remain key to data storage on campus, fulfilling the academic needs of various stakeholders. Demystifying the Institutional Repository for Success is a practical guide to creating and sustaining an institutional repository through marketing, partnering, and understanding...
Shaping Knowledge
Complex Socio-Spatial Modelling for Adaptive Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
Organizations in ever-changing environments depend upon their knowledge, as their survival depends upon effective thinking and agile actions. Any organization’s knowledge is its prime asset yet its true value requires the activations of structure, query, search and decision. Shaping Knowledge provides...