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The book market development with an emphasis on the internet development including the concept of an e-book (relationship of a publisher - book distributor - bookseller)
Váňová, Miloslava ; Papík, Richard (advisor) ; Sklenák, Vilém (referee) ; Jansová, Linda (referee)
The thesis is dedicated to the changes of the book market between its entities, libraries and final consumer of information (readers, library users) after the arrival of the internet. Development of the internet has brought searching of the new business models and opportunities for cooperation. Electronic publishing that, along with the internet availability, commenced to raise is the starting factor for the development of electronic books. The thesis outlines the roles of individual entities of the book market, i.e. publisher and seller (distributor, book-seller and digital platform) and libraries during the production, sale and accessing books with the focus on electronic books. After description of used terminology, especially different approaches to the definition of "an e-book", the next chapter presents hardware devices and software programs that enable reading e-books. The third chapter introduces the role of a publisher in the process of publishing printed and electronic e-books. The aim of the chapter is to highlight different strategies of processing the printed and electronic text, incl. possibilities of self-publishing which gives new possibilities to the author's hands. The fourth chapter describes distribution and sale of printed and mainly electronic books and also defines the new...
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The book market development with an emphasis on the internet development including the concept of an e-book (relationship of a publisher - book distributor - bookseller)
Váňová, Miloslava ; Papík, Richard (advisor) ; Sklenák, Vilém (referee) ; Jansová, Linda (referee)
The thesis is dedicated to the changes of the book market between its entities, libraries and final consumer of information (readers, library users) after the arrival of the internet. Development of the internet has brought searching of the new business models and opportunities for cooperation. Electronic publishing that, along with the internet availability, commenced to raise is the starting factor for the development of electronic books. The thesis outlines the roles of individual entities of the book market, i.e. publisher and seller (distributor, book-seller and digital platform) and libraries during the production, sale and accessing books with the focus on electronic books. After description of used terminology, especially different approaches to the definition of "an e-book", the next chapter presents hardware devices and software programs that enable reading e-books. The third chapter introduces the role of a publisher in the process of publishing printed and electronic e-books. The aim of the chapter is to highlight different strategies of processing the printed and electronic text, incl. possibilities of self-publishing which gives new possibilities to the author's hands. The fourth chapter describes distribution and sale of printed and mainly electronic books and also defines the new...
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Project WikiSkripta and its utilization
Eisnerová, Stanislava ; Bratková, Eva (advisor) ; Pokorný, Jan (referee)
The primary aim of this thesis is to analyse and rate the project WikiSkripta from the point of view of it's use. The creation, evolution up to now, organization and results of the project are being presented. The core of this thesis is the questionnaire survey to the students of certain faculties of medicine in Czech Republic, based on the analysis of the WikiSkripta system. The introductory part gives a brief summary of professional medicine education in the internet area. The following chapter gives more close characteristic of the creation and evolution of the parental project of WikiSkripta - the MEFANET. The next part gives the analysis of the project WikiSkripta. The other part, the survey of the use of WikiSkripta, gives a comparison of the partial results of the survey. The given data from the survey are evaluated in the conclusion of this work. The thesis is processed on the base of my own analysis of the webpage WikiSkripta - both the content and the support part - and the result of the questionnaire survey.
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Information needs of editors in publishing industry
Hajdová, Marie ; Papík, Richard (advisor) ; Stöcklová, Anna (referee)
This thesis is focused on the issues of information behaviour of editors from publishing with an emphasis on information needs and the sources of information. The first part deals with the position in the information publishing companies, the trend for electronic publishing and its influence on the book market. The following is an overview of selected terminological terms from publishers and their analysis. The next chapter is a summary of information behaviour theories, related concepts, models and current research in the Czech republic. The results of research that was realized for the purpose of the thesis between Czech editors are summarized and analyzed in the conclusion. Based on these results, proposals for the increasing of information literacy of editors are included in the thesis.
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The initiatives, projects and contributions of the Federal Republic of Germany in the field of digital libraries
Taucová, Radka ; Bratková, Eva (advisor) ; Vlasák, Rudolf (referee)
Master thesis is devoted to the currently completed and running projects and initiatives focused on digital libraries in the Federal Republic of Germany. The initial chapters are a brief survey of the recently used termins. The second chapter deals with problematic of open access and its promotion. The third chapter concentrates on the German conception of the information policy and its main representatives: German Research Foundation (Die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG, http://www.dfg.de) and Federal Ministry for Education and Research (Das Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, BMBF, http://www.bmbf.de) and connected operational programmes. The fourth chapter introduces the key initiatives in digital library area: The Information and Communication (Information und Kommunikation, IuK, http://www.iuk-initiative.org) and The German Initiative for Network Information (Die Deutsche Netzwerkinitiative, DINI, http://www.dini.de) and their role at the emergence of the digital library projects. The German particularity consisting in the process of certification of servers and its prerequisites are described in more details, too. The fifth chapter sketches the chronological line of development and aims to show some selected projects composed into integrated system: opening of electronic dissertations to...
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Crisis of scientific communication: Fact or Fiction?
Haňka, Rudolf
Modern libraries have been around for hundreds of years and served us well with practically the same form of service. Today electronic publishing seems to be changing not only the form of service but the concept of a scientific library as such, as professionals for their work not only need access to the right publications but they frequently want it right now. At the same time some, if not all, modes of scientific communication are experiencing growing degrees of stress. We are faced with an almost exponential expansion of journal titles, many of them published only electronically. When we add to this the current tendencies to assess the scientific merit of an academic by the number of his publications or citations we see the basis for this ‘publish or perish’ culture we all are experiencing. On the other hand the emphasis on the ‘transfer of technologies’ is often forcing scientists to hold back publications of their results in order to protect their intellectual property. Indeed some results are never published or patented precisely because their commercial value is greater when their essential principles are not known. We see the gradual decline of telephone directories as our mobile telephone numbers are deemed to be too confidential to be published. Are we moving in the same direction with the scientific results of a real value?
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PDF Document Format Features for Document Management and Distribution
Urban, Ondřej ; Horný, Stanislav (advisor) ; Krsek, Libor (referee)
The paper PDF Document Format Features for Document Management and Distribution describes the core of the PDF format for support of the portable documents. If you've heard about PDF or even if you use it already but you don't have a clear understanding what PDF means this paper is for you. The paper provides explanation of frequently used terms used in the DTP, prepress processes and print industry. You'll find out what happened before PDF format was introduced, what the original expectations of the format were and who was the visionary and co-founder of Adobe corporation behind the idea. There are the two main technologies -- Postscript and XML described which are core to the PDF format. In the later part of the document you will find description of PDF versions including their advantages followed by a list of standards based on or using PDF format, not only the official ones but also standards widely accepted. The description of competing Microsoft XPS format is also covered in detail. Second part of the document describes a list of useful features to be considered by a document user as well as a document author. You'll learn how to manage a document, how to navigate through a document, what tools and features are available for document review and team collaboration and how to secure a PDF document. You'll also discover that PDF format can be used for creation of electronic forms and it can also contain other components such as layers, 3D objects, multimedia content and attachments. Last but not least the second part of the paper provides overview of the accessibility features for disabled people. Last part of the paper focuses on practical aspects and guides you through PDF document authoring phase, introduces applications for authoring, management and viewing of PDF documents. There is a brief overview provided about production environment and PDF workflow. It also demonstrates on real life examples how to use PDF not only in Internet, in government institutions, in companies but also at home.
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