Digital Production and Online Publishing: A Report from Springer Verlag

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Digital Production and Online PublishingA
Report from Springer Verlag

• CONCERT 2001
• October 3, 2001
• Maurice Kwong
• Springer Verlag Hong Kong

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Topics of the Presentation

• Online Publishing Strategy
• The challenge
• Rapid publication
• Availability on the Internet
• High quality products
• Content
• Presentation, online functionality
• Distribution Online First
• Online products beyond journals
• Landolt Boernstein (LB) and its User Survey

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Forum for Science - Online Libraries
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http//link.springer.de http//link.springer-ny.co
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Time Line Overview
The Process
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Time Line (1)
The Process
Important modules in this phase are
templates supporting manuscript preparation that
also create the basis for the automatic insertion
of tags for numerous structures workflow in
which data movement has been automatized
creation of structured data
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Time Line (2)
The Process
Important modules in this phase are creation
of a digital proof of the complete text
(including figures) provided online to the author
prior to page composition validation of the
SGML data for an article immediately after author
corrections automatic publication of the HTML
version of an article in LINK, identified by its
digital object identifier (DOI) and registered
with CrossRef
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Time Line (3)
The Process

• Important modules in this
• phase are
• automatic generation of alerting messages about
  online publication
• online transmission of the SGML data to the
  compositor for automatic page make-up
• automatic publication of PDF version in LINK

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Example from daily work
HTML as later published in LINK
PDF automatically created from HTML

• Digital proofs 2-3 weeks after submission to
  Springer
• Publication online 3 days after author
  corrections

The Process
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Journals in LINK
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Journals in LINK
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Journals in LINK
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Journals in LINK
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Journals in LINK
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LINK Strategy
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Bookseries in LINK
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Landolt-Börnstein in LINK
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Landolt-Börnstein in LINK
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Landolt-Börnstein in LINK
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Landolt-Börnstein in LINK
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Landolt-Börnstein in LINK
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Landolt-Börnstein Survey
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Landolt-Börnstein Survey
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Landolt-Börnstein Survey
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Landolt-Börnstein Survey
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Landolt-Börnstein Survey
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Thank you.