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An overview of the translator and the copyright is presented.

An overview of historical development of the copyright in translation is presented.

This lecture discusses the evaluation process of scientific articles submitted for publication in the biomedical area, pointing to issues such as integrity of the scientific literature, quality of data, relevance of theresearch etc. It also describes the Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research experience in the scientific literature evaluation.

Focusing on the information availability for the acquisition and transmission of human knowledge, it describes a project for the development of a consortium assembling universities and research institutes libraries of the Sao Paulo State, Brazil. It proposes to enhance the information access, increase users satisfaction, and reduce costs of international electronic journals subscriptions, through cooperation and resources sharing activities among those institutions. It highights the advantages of those procedures and presents the objectives, management and installation steps of the project, submitted to the Fundacao de Amparo á Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo-FAPESP.

The article discusses the conception of authorship, including its formation and functions both in the modern and postmodern cultures.

This paper analyses economic aspects of the scientific scholarly journal publishing, based on production costs and use data. It compares the production of traditional journals with electronic journals, discussing price policies for subscriptions and providing a guide to assess breakeven points, helping libraries to face the option of subscribing to journals or obtaining separate copies through intelibrary borrowing or document delivery.

It presents the new Brazilian law on copyright (Lei 9610, February 19, 1998), discussing specially this issue in relation to Internet

It describes the SciELO Methodology Scientific Electronic Library Online for electronic publishing of scientific periodicals, examining issues such as the transition from traditional printed publication to electronic publishing, the scientific communication process, the principles which founded the methodology development, its application in the building of the SciELO site, its modules and components, the tools use for its construction etc. The article also discusses the potentialities and trends for the area in Brazil and Latin America, pointing out questions and proposals which should be investigated and solved by the methodology. It concludes that the SciELO Methodology is an efficient, flexible and wide solution for the scientific electronic publishing.

When the historical development of the humanity is analyzed, which is appraised that this one has experienced a proportional evolution to the knowledge, and that is translated in a great volume of information available. In the last years an exponential increase of the scientific information has been observed, in addition to remarkable advances in the form to communicate it.

The revolution that represents the process of electronic publishing has arose a controversy regarding its advantages and disadvantages compared to printed publications. Issues such as the possible absence of scientific paper screening, the uncertain paternity of some of them, the likely misinterpretations or distortion of the electronic information, the actual convinience and easiness of readers to consult the information, among others, are opposed to the advantages that reside on the potentialities of electronic publishing to quickly share and spread updated information towards wide markets and the broad possiblities of hypermedia that offer a lot of them. These ideas are briefly analized from the point of view of the Analysis and Trends Unit in Health, entity belonging to the Ministry of Public Health which has begun to insert itself in the environment of electronic publishing.

The experiences gained during the process of selecting an efficient word processing or desktop publishing for the electroning publishing of the Revista Cubana de Plantas Medicinales, that is published in the same way with the support of the software Adobe Acrobat are exposed. Among other indicators, the size and quality of files obtained as a result of the work with the above mentioned word processing is compared by the use of desktop publishing available in Cuba.

The organization of the publishing work from the institutionalization in the country of the Cuban Institute of Book, has been a subject controverted enough. However, the search of guidelines to perfect the work of the publishing industry, demands serious and systematic studies that they make possible to break traditional schemes and methods, as well as to surpass limitations. This work sets out to expose the experiences acquired during a long period in the National Center of Scientific researches, in the application of a methodology that was denominated Article Database and that facilitates the edition process of scientist-techniques serials. It concludes that its application would make possible to give a qualitative jump in the organization of the work and that is an option that could contribute to make more efficient the publishing process of this type of publications in the publishing network of the Ministry of High Education.