Dr. Einar Fredriksson (Director of IOS Press) opened the second conference AcademicPublishing in Europe 2007 on “Innovation & Publishing”. He thanked the organisers andsponsors. Publishing was to be discussed in a comprehensive academic sense, including notjust STM publishing but SSH...

The number of scientific journals and thereby the number of published articles grew with an enormousrate in the last century (e.g. Price 1986; Henderson 2002). In the second half of the 20th century thesystem seemed to abut against its boundaries, because in relation to research budgets, library...

Accessing the World Wide Web via mobile end devices is increasing steadily. Mobile access is limitedby device properties and radio networks. In the past, software developers responded to this by specialstandards for a special mobile web: WAP, HDML, WML, C-HTML and XHTML-MP. However, theWorld...

Meanwhile, standard mobile phones are able to run applications which can be installed additionally tothose provided by the network operators. These applications can be used for various purposes - onepossibility is to use mobile phones for guiding persons on unknown territory. Mobile phones...

Mobility, understood as the possibility to move around, is an important part of human life. Sociologistshave even called mobility a vital principle for the individual and society. Mobility needs may besatisfied in several ways: independently by motorized and non-motorized individual traffic, by...

Currently, Semantic Web approaches play an important role in the discussion of knowledgemanagement. Metadata, which contains formal machine-readable information about contents,is added to resources in order to enable machines to access resources which are otherwiseonly understandable to human...

Produkte bzw. Leistungen der Medienbranche lassen sich vollständig digitalisieren und in digitalisierter Form distribuieren. Hierdurch ist die Medienbranche wie kaum eine andere von Innovationen der Informations- und Kommunikationstechnik tangiert. Das vom BMBF im Rahmen des Schwerpunktes...