e-journals

Semantically richer PDF?

6 April, 2009

PDF is very important for the academic world, being the document format of choice for most journal publishers. Not everyone is happy about that, partly because reading page-oriented PDF documents on screen (especially that expletive-deleted double-column layout) can be a nightmare, but also because PDF documents can be a bit of a semantic desert. Yes, you can include links in modern PDFs, and yes, you can include some document or section metadata. But tagging the human-readable text with machine-readable elements remains difficult.

More on the ICTHES journals

31 March, 2009

I've had 3 responses by email to yesterday's post on the ICTHES journals (some responding to an associated email from me on the same issue). I'll summarise the two where quote permission was not explicit, and quote the third at length.

Charity closing, possible loss of 4 OA titles

30 March, 2009

I note from Gavin Baker's [not Peter Suber's; my mistake- CR] blog entry that the charity ICTHES is closing, and as a result its 4 OA journals, listed may disappear.