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A PDF Bigger than the Universe

How big can a PDF be?

  • By David Crotty
  • Feb 9, 2024
  • 4 Comments

Guest Post: HighWire’s John Sack on Online Indexing of Scholarly Publications: Part 2, What Happens When Finding Everything is So Easy?

HighWire’s John Sack looks at the changes that search engine indexing has driven for discovery of research publications. Part 2 of a two part series covering Anurag Acharya’s recent ALPSP keynote address.

  • By John Sack
  • Oct 12, 2015
  • 24 Comments

The Evolution of Digital Publishing and its Formats

A video detailing the evolution of digital publishing, and the enduring popularity of the PDF.

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Dec 6, 2013
  • 17 Comments

The Web-scale University Press

This is an essay on what it would mean to create a university press that operates at Web scale. It speculates about what such an endeavor would look like and probes some aspects of the financial model.

  • By Joseph Esposito
  • Nov 7, 2013
  • 16 Comments

Scholarly Kitchen Podcast: Anita de Waard on the Semantic Web, Data, and Discovery

An expert on the semantic Web, structured markup, and the emerging area of research data services talks about the current state of play.

  • By Stewart Wills
  • Jul 17, 2013
  • 1 Comment

Retrofitting Scholarly Communications

As scholarly communication moves from its frankly printer-centric reality of today, publishers will be faced with many more rounds of improvement to their digital information. Is ePub an answer?

  • By Joseph Esposito
  • Aug 31, 2009
  • 7 Comments

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