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Remediation refers to the re-presentation of old media in new media. This article studies remediation in electronic products in library collections, especially the digital facsimile. Early English Books Online (EEBO) is a particularly interesting example, not only because of its scholarly importance, but also because of its multi-layered genesis from printed work to microfilm (Early English Books (EEB)) to digital (EEBO) facsimile, and to the text encoding initiative EEBO-TCP, a joint ProQuest and Text Creation Partnership (TCP) project. The article analyses the impact of filters and limits of remediation in relation to EEBO and its predecessor EEB, such as the choice to duplicate a single copy of a work as bi-tonal black and white images, and to scholarly work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article reports on an analysis of links and link distribution in five publisher e-journal packages licensed through the Canadian National Site Licensing (CNSLP): ACS Web Editions. IOP Electronic Journals, ScienceDirect®, RSC Online Journals and Springer-Link. Hyperlinks were quantified in five page environments journal home page, table of contents, full citation, and full text in HTML and PDF formats. Hyperlinks in tables of contents were mapped to four link types first proposed in a 1998 paper by Stephanie W. Haas and Erika S. Grams: navigation, expansion, resource, and miscellaneous. The study concludes with preliminary thoughts on improving current link practice with the goal of urging publishers and vendors to advance a linking standard for e-journals and packages. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]