From Author to Reader. Challenges for the Digital Content Chain

This book contains over sixty papers on the many aspects of Electronic Publishing that have been written specifically for the 9th ELPUB conference hosted by the Research Group on Document Architectures (Jan Engelen) of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. They have been refereed by the International Programme Committee consisting of 34 highly qualified experts with a wide variety of backgrounds and expertise domains. This committee was presided by Milena Dobreva of the Bulgarian Institute of Mathematics and Informatics. The major general topics covered are: Libraries and Scholarly Communication, Scholarly Publishing, Open Access, Humanities and Electronic Publishing and Electronic Publishing in a more general Societal and Economic Context. In the technical track specialised contributions can be found in the field of: Innovative Approaches, Mark-up Languages, Multilingual Issues, E-publishing for Reading Impaired Users and Web Content Management.