Study for e-journal production in Japan and e-publishing with NLM-DTD XML.

For e-publishing of scholarly journals, it is necessary to prepare metadata represented by XML, which allows for many electronic functions like searching and linking. In Japan many publishers still prepare metadata after printing production and hence are unable to take advantage of many beneficial aspects such as early web release. The Chemical Society of Japan has explored e-publishing with SGML, TeX, and other markup languages with respect to international compatibility. In this paper, new XML based e-publishing and related frameworks initiated from 2009 are introduced. These frameworks have been improved based on consideration of international trends of e-publishing and the strengths and weaknesses of previous systems. In this new framework, NLM-DTD based XML can be easily produced from MS-Word by using the tool eXtyles and galley proofs are semi-automatically produced with XML. Papers can then be released online directly after author proofreading. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]