...Jane Cho Purpose With the recent expansion of the online environment, the importance of descriptive metadata assisting in a user's purchase and selection has come to the fore. Therefore the publishing circle and libraries began discussions about mutual management in order to minimize common...

...Samrand Toufani; Gholam Ali Montazer Purpose The purpose of this paper is first to construct an e‐publishing model and then to implement the model in Iranian publishers. Design/methodology/approach This article critically tries to evaluate Iranian publishing companies involved in e‐publishing...

...Brenda Chawner It may be a truism to say that change is the only thing that is constant, but nonetheless, anyone interested in the ways in which information and communications technology have affected academic publishing will agree that changes have been happening for most of the last 40 years...