Contents: List of figures and tables -- Biographies of editors and contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Section i The publication process -- Introduction to section i -- 1 The contribution continuum revisited / Daniel M. Ladik and David W. Stewart -- 4: 2 John O. Summers (2001),...

Modern media technologies paved the way to the open access movement. Instead of the traditional academic subscription and publishing model, which allowed few big publishers to charge excessive publishing fees, the open access model raises the hope for a fair system, where scientific content is...