Electronic Publishing Service Research Articles

Characterisation of hospital-produced guidelines regarding management of temporary tube feeding care in general paediatric patients

Background/Aims There is significant variation in the implementation of temporary tube feeding management in children and a paucity of associated clinical practice guidelines covering all phases of care, from decision making regarding tube insertion through to tube weaning. Development of clinical practice guidelines should consider levels of evidence other than randomised control trials. Examining hospital-produced guidelines used by frontline health staff, for example, could distinguish areas of application of evidence-based recommendations, as well as domains of care in need of increased implementation. This article describes the content of existing hospital-produced guidelines relating to tube feeding care in a general paediatric population. Methods Hospital-produced guidelines were sought by mailing 200 health services worldwide and searching Queensland Health's Electronic Publishing Service in Australia and Google. A content analysis was then performed. Results The 13 collected hospital-produced guidelines from Australia, the UK and Canada generally comprehensively reported on processes related to the decision-making, tube placement and tube maintenance phases. However, reporting on oral feeding while tube feeding, tube feeding dependency, tube feeding exit planning, and the social and emotional aspects of tube feeding were areas within these phases that had limited coverage. Recommendations for the phase of tube weaning were also infrequently included. Conclusions Development of formal clinical practice guidelines covering all tube feeding phases should assist in optimising patient and health service outcomes.

First steps for a library publisher

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to presents the very recent development of e-journal publishing services at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Charlotte. In 2011, the J. Murrey Atkins Library at UNC Charlotte created a new unit in the library, the Digital Scholarship Lab (DSL), which partners with faculty and graduate students in the use of digital and networked research tools to create, disseminate and store new knowledge. E-journal publishing and hosting are among the suite of services offered by the DSL, and we currently publish three journals (https://journals.uncc.edu/). Design/methodology/approach – This report provides an overview of the context of our library’s decision to begin publishing journals, including a discussion of our university’s becoming more research-intensive, our university system mandating increased efficiencies and sharing research with the state citizens, and the library’s own goals of raising awareness of and supporting open access. Also outlined are the technical and procedural choices made, important activities undertaken to develop, define and publicize the new services, campus response to the service and next steps. Findings – This report provides detailed accounting of how a large academic library implemented an electronic publishing service to support open access scholarship. Important activities such as marketing communication, policies development and technical/procedural activities are defined and results described. The report provides observation and lessons learned for academic libraries in development and support of electronic journals. Originality/value – Library as the publisher is a new concept. This report will be of interest to many libraries who are considering offering publishing services and to libraries that currently offer publishing services.

ВИКОРИСТАННЯ ЕЛЕКТРОННИХ ЖУРНАЛЬНИХ СИСТЕМ ВІДКРИТОГО ДОСТУПУ ДЛЯ ВИПУСКУ НАУКОВО-ОСВІТНІХ ВИДАНЬ: ПОРІВНЯЛЬНИЙ АНАЛІЗ ПРОГРАМНОГО ЗАБЕЗПЕЧЕННЯ

У статті представлено порівняльний аналіз основних програмно-технологічних характеристик і функціональних особливостей використання електронних журнальних систем відкритого доступу. Здійснено детальний огляд спеціалізованої літератури, сайтів розробників і аналіз світового досвіду інсталяції систем даного класу. Подані рекомендації щодо використання таких сервісів електронної публікації вітчизняними науковими установами і навчальними закладами в процесі випуску науково-освітніх видань. Зроблена спроба добору сервісу, що найкраще задовольнятиме потреби і ресурси окремого видання і наукової установи, що його підтримує.

Scottish Academic Periodicals Implementing an Effective Networked Service (SAPIENS) project

This article describes the aims and continuing progress of the Scottish Academic Periodicals Implementing an Effective Networked Service (SAPIENS) project which has been running at the University of Strathclyde's Centre for Digital Library Research since September 2001. Initially funded for two years, the project has been extended until October 2004.
 The rationale behind SAPIENS is the concern that small Scottish publishers, operating on limited budgets, are in danger of finding themselves marginalised in the modern information environment. The project's primary objectives are to explore the viability of, and launch, an electronic publishing service to assist small-scale Scottish publishers of academic and cultural periodicals to publish online. It has achieved these aims by implementing a demonstration service which is gradually moving into an operational mode, delivering current journals.

Akademinė elektroninė leidyba Lietuvoje: požymiai, galimybės, problemos

It is of remarkable importance for publishing academic, especially research articles, that carefully selected, reviewed and prepared research articles, conference proceedings were published and distributed not only in a traditional, but also in an electronic way. The effective use of contemporary possibilities of electronic publishing is important for wider distribution of publications in an electronic space. The article analyses presentation ways of research articles published by Lithuanian higher education institutions and the use of contemporary technologies in electronic publishing for the purpose of wider distribution of publications in the world. Different types of institutional repositories in the world and Lithuania, their main goals, advantages and disadvantages, the most important criteria for the selection of institutional repositories type were presented in the article. Digital object identifiers (URN, PURL, Doi, etc.) were studied in order to determine their purpose, their differences and criteria which are important for their selection. The findings of the study suggest that Lithuanian academic publishers do not really make use of well-known and widely accepted, sometimes even free of charge, electronic publishing services. Article in Lithuanian. Akademinė elektroninė leidyba Lietuvoje: požymiai, galimybės, problemos Santrauka. Akademinėje,  ypač  mokslo  leidinių,  leidyboje  svarbu,  kad  kruopščiai  atrinkti,  recenzuoti  ir  parengti  mokslo žurnalų, konferencijų rinkinių straipsniai būtų ne tik išspausdinti ir išplatinti tradiciniu būdu. Būtina kuo platesnei jų sklaidai elektroninėje terpėje efektyviai naudoti šiuolaikines elektroninės leidybos galimybes. Straipsnyje nagrinėjamas Lietuvos aukštųjų mokyklų leidžiamų mokslo žurnalų pateikimo būdas internete, šiuolaikinių technologijų naudojimas elektroninėje leidyboje siekiant  platesnės  leidinių sklaidos  pasaulyje,  palyginami  institucinių  talpyklų  tipai  pasaulyje  ir  Lietuvoje,  jų  pagrindiniai uždaviniai, privalumai ir  trūkumai,  svarbiausi  kriterijai  renkantis  institucinės  talpyklos  tipą.  Nagrinėjama,  kokį  vaidmenį akademinėje e. leidyboje atlieka skaitmeniniai objekto identifikatoriai (URN, PURL, Doi ir kt.), kuo jie skiriasi ir kokiais kriterijais reikėtų vadovautis juos renkantis. Atlikta analizė parodė, kad Lietuvos akademiniai leidėjai iki galo neišnaudoja pasaulinėje leidybos praktikoje jau įsitvirtinusių ir plačiai paplitusių, kartais net ir nemokamų elektroninės leidybos paslaugų. Reikšminiai žodžiai: elektroninė leidyba, mokslo publikacijos, institucinė talpykla, Doi, PURL. First published online: 29 May 2009

Ten Major Issues in Providing a Repository Service in Australian Universities

By mid 2006, all Australian universities had established, or were partway to establishing, institutional repository services. The development of institutional repository services can often be related to the open access movement, which seeks to make valued research outputs openly available by encouraging academics to place their publications into repositories, enhancing their availability and bypassing the high cost of journal subscriptions. However, many universities have extended the functionality of their repository services for other purposes, such as giving scholars the opportunity to develop their own research portfolio, providing a means of improving research reporting, establishing an electronic publishing service, or giving access to collections of images or other research outputs. The potential for development seems endless.

Evidence based practice guidelines for the nutritional management of chronic kidney disease

The purpose of these guidelines is to provide dietitians in Australia and New Zealand with a summary of evidence based clinical guidelines related to the dietetic management of adult patients with chronic kidney disease. The patient target group is any adult patient fulfilling the definition and diagnostic criteria of Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD), excluding those with nephrotic syndrome. These guidelines by definition also exclude acute renal failure and transplantation. The clinical questions were as follows: • At what level of glomerular filtration rate (GFR) should patients be referred to the dietitian in order to maximise nutritional intervention opportunities? • Which specific measures best reflect nutritional status or change in nutritional status in CKD? • What are the goals of nutrition intervention for CKD? • What is (are) the appropriate nutritional intervention(s) to optimise nutritional status in CKD and prevent malnutrition? • What is the optimal method of implementation and follow up to ensure nutritional status is maintained or improved? These guidelines are meant to serve as a general framework for handling patients with particular health problems. It may not always be appropriate to use these guidelines to manage clients because individual circumstances may vary. The independent skill and judgement of the health care provider must always dictate treatment decisions. These guidelines for practice are provided with the express understanding that they do not establish or specify particular standards of care, whether legal, medical or other. 1

The Future of Reference Publishing

This interview is extracted from a report entitled “The Future of Reference Publishing” published by Electronic Publishing Services Ltd in October 2005, and is republished in Elucidate with their kind permission.For details of how to purchase the full report see http://www.epsltd.com reference works online affected print sales?

Publishing Electronic Theses and Dissertations: Reconfiguring Library Services

ABSTRACT As research libraries investigate digital storage options for theses and dissertations, a range of new service issues emerge. At the outset, staffing these projects creates a challenge. Library roles are changing with regard to handling theses and dissertations, meeting new demands beyond traditional binding, cataloging, and shelving. In some cases, the functions and services provided to graduate students by academic departments, graduate schools, and libraries are reconfigured as electronic publishing services. The authors present an overview of library program responses that assist graduate students in completing theses and dissertations. A review of the literature and discussion of staff configurations is given. From the few university libraries engaged in electronic theses and dissertations (ET/D) projects, information is discerned as to library roles in ET/D services, the relative number of electronic documents published, details on Web sites for contact information and staff, and the level of services available to distance education students.

Voluntary deposit of electronic publications: a learning experience

ABSTRACTDuring the second half of 2002, Electronic Publishing Services (EPS) carried out a study on the likely cost impact of extending legal deposit to non‐print publications. This article is not a summary of the report, which is publicly accessible on the Web, but focuses on a number of interesting phenomena and issues that EPS encountered in the course of the study. Statistics collected confirm the rise of email for serials and the demise of CD‐ROM, yet original material in e‐book format remains scarce. The voluntary deposit scheme for non‐print publications in the UK has been a successful experiment, though not necessarily exactly as originally planned. New legislation may be enacted in 2003.

The electronic publishing revolution is not “Global”

Proclamations of a global information revolution are in accord with the daily experience of many who live in wealthy countries where interactive CD-ROM products are now being released and high-bandwidth computer networks are essential tools for research and development communities. However, the phrase sounds somewhat glib to many of those who live in poorer countries. This article reviews the global distribution of electronic publishing products and services. It details many of the promising projects now underway, particularly those undertaken in computer networking, and surveys some of the major problems that continue to beset attempts to expand electronic publishing services in the developing world. © 1994 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Is there a future for the Electronic Book?

Learned PublishingVolume 7, Issue 4 p. 233-237 ArticlesFree Access Is there a future for the Electronic Book? Chairman David R. Worlock, Chairman David R. Worlock Electronic Publishing Services Ltd. 104 St. John Street, London EC1M 4EH.Search for more papers by this author Chairman David R. Worlock, Chairman David R. Worlock Electronic Publishing Services Ltd. 104 St. John Street, London EC1M 4EH.Search for more papers by this author First published: 01 January 1994 https://doi.org/10.1002/leap/70054AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Volume7, Issue4October 1994Pages 233-237 RelatedInformation

The Online Journal of Current Clinical Trials (OJCCT):

The Online Journal of Current Clinical Trials (OJCCT), the first peer-reviewed electronic scientific journal, was launched on July 1, 1992. A joint venture between OCLC and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), this scholarly journal includes clinical trial reports, reviews and meta-analyses, book reviews, and letters to the editor. It is indexed by BIOSIS and will probably be indexed by MEDLINE in the near future. OJCCT exists in two versions, via Guidon, a Windows interface, and via the Electronic Publishing Service (EPS). Both versions are available through OCLC and CompuServe dial-access, while EPS is also available through the Internet or an OCLC dedicated line. OJCCT is an innovative approach to scientific publishing which poses several challenges and advantages: slowness of printing and the paucity of articles, on the one hand, and the rapidity of publication, the linking of articles, and related articles or letters, on the other.