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Founded in Korea in 2004 by JunKoo Kim, Webtoon is a digital publishing and self-publishing platform offering webcomics; it launched operations in the U.S. in 2014. The company offers webcomics [...]

Webcomics are the ultimate grassroots medium--they are almost all self-published by creators of all ages who work independently. 'It's all decentralized, like a medieval town of crafters before the rise [...]

Traditional typesetting continues to be the main strength and identity of Lapiz Digital. 'We have built and leveraged our skill sets, especially in mathematical and engineeringjournals and educational titles,' says [...]

Byline: banking Kotak Mahindra Bank has introduced a service for its customers offering access to the Amazon's Kindle Book Store. The service is specifically for the bank's 811 customers on [...]

Ten years ago, this journal produced a special issue on "Literacies and Technologies." It seems an opportune time to revisit this theme, given major shifts in the nature of electronic […]

THE PRODUCTS REVIEWED here have histories that extend back a century, like Wilson's Applied Science & Technology Index, and birthdates from the current millennium, and, appropriately enough, they represent an [...]

Objective: A unique collaborative project to identify interactive enhancements to conventional-print journal articles, and to evaluate their contribution to readers' learning and satisfaction. Hypothesis: It was hypothesized that (a) the enhanced article would yield more knowledge acquisition than the original article; (b) the interactivity aspects of the enhanced article would measurably contribute to the acquisition of knowledge; and (c) the enhancements to the original article would increase reader acceptance. Methods: Fifteen SNMA medical students, assumed to have a greater generational familiarity and comfort level with interactive electronic media, reviewed 12 articles published in three Elsevier clinical and basic science journals. They used the Student National Medical Association's asynchronous online discussion forum over a four month period to suggest desired enhancements to improve learning. 'Prognostic Factors in Stage T1 Bladder Cancer', published in the journal Urology was selected by the investigators as presenting the best opportunity to incorporate many of the students' suggested interactive and presentational enhancements in the limited timeframe available prior to the established test date. Educational, statistical, and medical consultants assisted in designing a test protocol in which 51 second to fourth year medical students were randomly assigned to experimental and control conditions, and were administered either the original or enhanced interactive version of the article on individual computer workstations. Test subjects consisted of 23 participants in the control group (8 males, 15 females) and 28 participants in the experimental group (9 males, 19 females). All subjects completed pre- and post-test instruments which measured their knowledge gain on 30 true-false and multiple-choice questions, along with 7 Likert-type questions measuring acceptance of the articles' format. Time to completion was recorded with the experimental group taking 22 rain on average compared to 18 rain for the controls; pre- and post-test times were 6 and 7 min, respectively. Statistical comparisons were based on change scores using either the Student t-test or the Two Way Analysis of Variance or Covariance. Significance was set at [alpha] = 0.05 or better. Results on the dependent measure of knowledge acquisition showed no difference overall on the 30 questions, but learning gain was statistically significant for the subset of 10 questions that measured gain on content that was accessible by the user-invoked interactive features of the enhanced article. Further analyses revealed significant interactions by student year and gender. Second year students (11 in the control group, 8 in the experimental group) were the best performers in terms of knowledge acquisition from both articles. The female medical students received a larger learning gain from journal enhancements and interactivity components than their male counterparts. Acceptance overall was greater for the experimental group who rated the experience more favorably than the controls. Conclusions: Failure to consider human factors such as gender and learning style may obscure underlying differences and their impact on the interactive aspects of scientific publications. Preliminary findings suggest the need for further study to include a heavier focus on interactivity apart from presentational enhancements; a more rigorous treatment of time as a specific variable; and an expanded experimental design that evaluates acquisition, understanding, integration and acceptance as dependent measures. Keywords: Electronic publishing, multimedia, graphics, computer, learning, information theory, medical students DOI 10.3233/ISU-2010-0608

In its ongoing effort to expand service sector coverage in the Producer Price Index (PPI), the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) introduced new price indexes for Internet Publishing and Web [...]

Take some time to familiarize yourself with the 'Earth 2' e-issue before you show it to your students. When you enter the issue, you'll encounter the cover page. Wait until [...]

Mark Farrah Associates (MFA) released an analysis brief providing insights into mid-year profitability for commercial and government lines of health insurance business. According to a media release, MFA compared second [...]

Perfect Corp. reported that founder and CEO, Alice Chang is an honoree on the Glossy 50 list, recognizing the leaders who are transforming fashion, luxury, beauty and tech. According to [...]

O'Dwyer's has ranked 5WPR as a top fifteen independently owned U.S. based travel Public Relations firm in its 2017 rankings. According to a release, 5WPR travel and tourism clients include [...]

OfferPad reported that Co-Founder, Brian Bair, was awarded the Most Innovative Agent Award by Inman during the 2017 Inman Connect Conference. According to a media release, dozens of finalists were [...]

CloudVelox is publishing an e-book outlining the stages crucial to an organization's successful migration to a hybrid cloud. The e-book, Re-Engineering the Hybrid Cloud Journey: The 5 Critical Phases, is [...]

Consider the following scenario. A patron asks you, a librarian, to download a journal article that is part of a database with which the library maintains a license agreement. In [...]

When the cost of scientific journals skyrocketed in the 1990s, no one academic institution could afford the annual 20 percent plus increases in cost for print journals. As a result, […]

The very nature of scholarly research has fundamentally changed with the increased availability of reference or citation linking. With the ubiquity of the Web, it seems natural to users and […]

Every year of business in every sector is punctuated by those companies that are making an impact on the industry that surrounds them. NMA has picked 10 companies to watch […]

So you want to publish your e-book but don't know where to start? These days there are dozens of options for self-publishing, so we've rounded up the various services for [...]

Copyright law can be difficult to keep track of, but the keys are using common sense and asking permission. Every day in my role as a project manager at the […]

Custom publishers need new services to win and keep clients. But is electronic publishing an opportunity--or trouble--for them? Custom publishing is undergoing an identity crisis. As online and print publishing [...]

IS THE PRICE RIGHT? If e-book publishing was a Venn diagram then price would be the central set that all other issues surround. The argument over whether e-book prices should [...]

Byline: PILAR GUZM�N PHOTOGRAPH BY INEZ AND VINOODH We'll Have What She's Having Love her or hate her, Gwyneth Paltrow bet big on her covetable taste by launching Goop and [...]

How Audible saved my life! Okay, it didn't really save my life, but it changed it substantially, and for that I'm grateful. It was back in 2001. I had started [...]

The Chemical Reviews, a monthly journal published by the American Chemical Society has started experimenting with the updating process of the online version of their articles, to update the review articles, which are considered less important. The journal marks up the new text and references in red boxes and frames new art in a blue box, thus being the first of its kind to introduce updated online reviews.

A decade after newspapers began to publish online, there is still trepidation about technology among reporters and editors, columnists and photojournalists. Some reporters worry that they will look like traveling [...]

When people first see the title on my new letterhead--Director, Multimedia Investigative Reporting--they often greet me with a blank stare or funny smirk. 'What? Were all the good jobs already [...]

Billy Harvey has a self-effacing sense of humor that comes across both in his music and his character. If you're ever invited to his house, he may explain that his [...]

Music libraries today realize that it is not enough to offer vibrantly-original tracks. They must make it easy for a wide variety of clients to find the music they need. [...]