Abstract:
Publishing has a long tradition. It grew over the centuries into a very international and well
organised system. Computers and networks seems to add new possibilities for the production
and dissemination of relevant information. With the Internet and the World Wide Web a
whole new world has become available to everybody involved in writing, editing, publishing,
bookselling, libraries and documentation centres. We have to develop new rules and find ways
to identify and secure intellectual properties. The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) seems to be
one of those solutions.
In this Keynote Arnoud de Kemp, with his long and outstanding experience in STM
publishing, will present an overview of recent developments as well as his views on
publishing in the future. He will add his experiences from digital library projects, online full
text services, new licensing models, etc.