While large international players showcase well-resourced compliance roadmaps toward accessibility compliance, many in the European publishing landscape are facing a more sobering reality: legal ambiguities, economic limits, and structural mismatches between regulatory goals and scholarly publishing practices.
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Authors need to understand more about producing web documents, particularly accessibility, if they want to forgo traditional publishing.
Manuscript Exchange Common Approach (MECA) committee members champion the benefits of standardizing the transfer of papers between journals.
As more publishers semantically enrich documents, Todd Carpenter considers whether links are the same as citations
Kent Anderson returns to update his essential list of just what it is that publishers do.
Is there (ever) a good time to overhaul a publishers’ production system? If you care about your journals’ Impact Factor, the answer is “yes.”
EPUB 3 reveals many smart advances, making EPUB a more viable direction than ever. And with the changing landscape of reading devices and customer preferences, even the vaunted PDF may feel the tremors.