EBooks in the cloud: Desirable features and current challenges for a cloud-based academic eBook infrastructure

ELPUB 2011 - Digital Publishing and Mobile Technologies, 15th International Conference on Electronic Publishing

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 80-86

  Shen, Wei ^a   Koch, Ute ^a  

^a GESIS LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR THE SOCIAL SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cloud based eBook infrastructure; Collaboration; Electronic books; Information search; Mobile devices; Mobile reading; Semantic publishing

Indexed keywords

CLOUD-BASED EBOOK INFRASTRUCTURE; COLLABORATION; ELECTRONIC BOOKS; INFORMATION SEARCH; MOBILE READING;

DATA HANDLING; ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT EXCHANGE; MOBILE DEVICES; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; SEMANTICS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING;

EID: 84869130074     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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