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PurposeThis paper aims to examine the role that academic publishers have historically played and how this is being undermined by the revolution in information and communications technology. A central issue here is that of copyright. Although authors need to be protected against plagiarists, the main role of publishers' control over copyright is to generate profits for the publisher by limiting access.Design/methodology/approachThe paper explores some open‐access models for academic publishing, the first involving a heterodox economics library portal and the second a more general open peer quality review site.FindingsIt identifies a residual role for commercial academic publishers in the new guise of fee‐for‐service providers of refereeing services, whose accreditations may accelerate the uptake of scholarly contributions.Originality/valueThe paper examines the role that academic publishers have historically played and how this is being undermined by the revolution in information and communications technology.

The economic environment of today can be characterized as highly dynamic and competitive if not being in a constant flux. Globalization and the Information Technology (IT) revolution are perhaps the main contributing factors to this observation. While companies have to some extent adapted to the current business environment, new pressures such as the recent increase in environmental awareness and its likely effects on regulations are underway. Hence, in the light of market and competitive pressures, companies must constantly evaluate and if necessary update their strategies to sustain and increase the value they create for shareholders (Hunt and Morgan, 1995; Christopher and Towill, 2002). One way to create greater value is to become more efficient in producing and delivering goods and services to customers, which can lead to a strategy known as cost leadership (Porter, 1980). Even though Porter (1996) notes that in the long run cost leadership may not be a sufficient strategy for competitive advantage, operational efficiency is certainly necessary and should therefore be on the agenda of every company. ----- ----- ----- Better workflow management, technology, and resource utilization can lead to greater internal operational efficiency, which explains why, for example, many companies have recently adopted Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems: integrated softwares that streamline business processes. However, as today more and more companies are approaching internal operational excellence, the focus for finding inefficiencies and cost saving opportunities is moving beyond the boundaries of the firm. Today many firms in the supply chain are engaging in collaborative relationships with customers, suppliers, and third parties (services) in an attempt to cut down on costs related to for example, inventory, production, as well as to facilitate synergies. Thus, recent years have witnessed fluidity and blurring regarding organizational boundaries (Coad and Cullen, 2006). ----- ----- ----- The Information Technology (IT) revolution of the late 1990’s has played an important role in bringing organizations closer together. In their efforts to become more efficient, companies first integrated their information systems to speed up transactions such as ordering and billing. Later collaboration on a multidimensional scale including logistics, production, and Research & Development became evident as companies expected substantial benefits from collaboration. However, one could also argue that the recent popularity of the concepts falling under Supply Chain Management (SCM) such as Vendor Managed Inventory, Collaborative Planning, Replenishment, and Forecasting owe to the marketing efforts of software vendors and consultants who provide these solutions. Nevertheless, reports from professional organizations as well as academia indicate that the trend towards interorganizational collaboration is gaining wider ground. For example, the ARC Advisory Group, a research organization on supply chain solutions, estimated that the market for SCM, which includes various kinds of collaboration tools and related services, is going to grow at an annual rate of 7.4% during the years 2004-2008, reaching to $7.4 billion in 2008 (Engineeringtalk 2004).

International organizations, governments, academia, industry, and the media have all begun to grapple with the information society as a global policy issue. The first United Nations World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), held in December 2003, recognized the connections between information technology and human rights with a Declaration of Principles--in effect, the first constitution for cyberspace--that called for the development of the information society to conform to recognized standards of human rights. Critical issues in the policy debates around WSIS have been the so-called digital divide, which reflects a knowledge divide, a social divide, and an economic divide; and the need for a nondiscriminatory information society to provide universal access to information technology in local languages throughout the developing world. Other crucial issues include the regulatory frameworks for information access and ownership and such basic freedoms as the right to privacy. The contributors to this timely volume examine the links between information technology and human rights from a range of disciplinary perspectives. Scholars, human rights activists, and practitioners discuss such topics as freedom of expression, access to information, privacy, discrimination, gender equality, intellectual property, political participation, and freedom of assembly in the context of the revolution in information and communication technology, exploring the ways in which the information society can either advance human rights around the world or threaten them. An afterword reports on the November 2005 WSIS, held in Tunis, and its reaffirmation of the fundamental role of human rights in the global information society.Contributors:David Banisar, William Drake, Ran Greenstein, Anriett e Esterhuysen, Robin Gross, Gus Hosein, Heike Jensen, Rikke Frank JA¯Â?Â?A¯Â?Â?rgensen, Hans Klein, Charley Lewis, Meryem Marzouki, Birgitte Kofod Olsen, Kay Raseroka, Adama SamassA¯Â?Â?A¯Â?Â?kou, Mandana Zarrehparvar

After the Cold War period, with the restructuring of the world, globalization, the revolution in information technology and the reconstruction of capitalism have created a new type of society, the "network society". The dependence of countries on information technologies, especially the internet, has increased day by day, and it has become almost impossible for individuals, state institutions and private companies to continue their activities independently of cyberspace, which is described as the fifth operational area. This situation has made it a critical priority to ensure the physical and cyber security of nuclear power plants, which carry the energy burden of the societies and at the same time pose great security risks. In this period, states, state-sponsored and radical terrorist groups that wanted to close the power deficit against military and economically strong states, started to develop asymmetric methods of struggle. In the end new threat vectors such as cyber terrorism have emerged and states that have moved many institutions and services to cyberspace have become more vulnerable to malicious attacks and terrorist activities. In this study, the concept of terrorism and cyber terrorism have been examined and focused on the SCADA systems of nuclear power plants and in the last section cyber security of these systems have been evaluated. This Implementation of this model aims to simplify the process for all organizations in the Nuclear Sector—regardless of their size, cybersecurity risk, or current level of cybersecurity sophistication—to apply the principles and best practices of risk management. Ultimately, the framework and this implementation model are focused on helping individual organizations reduce and better manage their cybersecurity risks, contributing to a more secure and resilient sector overall.

We are currently living in the digital age, more commonly known as the Information Technology (IT) Age; which can be described as an era where every aspect of human life or activities are mainly information based. This is due to the development and use of technology. We live in a world that has become more open in the sense of communication (global village) and internationalization (trans-border flow of data). The revolution in Information technology is having its implications on our access to information. The digital space provides us with a vast expanse of data and information on a domain that is easily accessible to all. And as such the ethical aspect with regards to the data get threatened. This paradigm shift in this digital age brings new ethical problems which are mainly related to issues of media laws; such as the right of access to information, the right of privacy which is threatened by the emphasis on the free flow of information, and the protection of the economic interest of the owners of intellectual property. In this paper the ethical questions related to technology and its implications on media laws and ethics will be discussed. Specific attention will be given to the challenges these ethical problems pose to the information on the digital space.

The revolution in information technology and in information and knowledge management contributed to the generation of actionable information and actionable knowledge required to address critical problems of national and global health care. Yet, despite expectations, e-based approaches are far from fulfilling the dream of equitable and universal access to health across the globe. A dramatically new approach is needed if health care is to be brought “among the people.” Based on maximum integration of computer technology (CT), information technology (IT), information management (IM), and knowledge management (KM), and multidimensional human expertise, the concept of “Teams of Leaders” (ToL) provides a foundation for such an approach. Utilizing the entire spectrum of IT/IM/KM, irrespective of specific platforms, and harnessing globally distributed human expertise, Teams of Leaders transcend bureaucracies and politics, create “bottom-up” flows of ideas and knowledge, and generate horizontal and vertical collaboration among hitherto isolated actors. By empowering people rather than concentrating on technology-facilitated improvements of processes, ToL may prove to be one of the pivotal concepts behind the desperately needed healthcare revolution.

The considerable revolution of information technology (IT) and its demands, and uses in the various parts of the human lives, such as education sectors, industrial sectors, agriculture sectors, communication sectors and others, there has also been high demands of IT in medical sectors which use to process, track and monitor the patient's information. To facilitate the medical sectors, the uses of propose study is twofold, and categorized in two phases. In first phase, the patient's real time information is carried via radio frequency identification (RFID) sensors tags and is transmitted and monitored through the uses of mobile phone, as an authorized user of monitoring system. In the second phase, the propose work is novel and is more based on the conceptual modeling, which provides the real time medical services for those patients that will have sudden illness (i.e., less major or major), and they may located at the distance placed from the main medical service station, may the distance will be in several, meters, kilometers, or a whole city. Therefore, to achieve this, a formal model will be designed which result the medical service that required by, and delivered to the remote located patients.

In 2001, The Institute of Medicine (IOM) and the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) attributed substantial problems in the quality of American medicine to four domains: growing complexity of science and technology; the increase in chronic conditions; a poorly organized delivery system; and constraints on exploiting the revolution in information technology (IT). Although all of these domains have been improved by IT systems within the last decade, the U.S. health care systems has been slow to adopt these developments. We propose one way to combat such quality problems by incorporating a medicine-specific computer science (CS) curriculum as the third of Abraham Flexner’s pillars of medical education.

Leaking by the Bucketload: The Nature of Database Leaks

In the last 10 years, the Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) revolution has redefined the structure of the 21st century healthcare organization. It is clear that the 21st century healthcare organization will bring about new healthcare services and that traditional management and technological concepts would not be the appropriate conduit for disseminating these new healthcare services. The fundamental challenge faced by the 21st century clinical practitioner is to acquire proficiency in understanding and interpreting clinical information so as to attain knowledge and wisdom. An additional challenge that must be considered is that clinical practitioners make potentially life-saving decisions whilst attempting to deal with large amounts of clinical data. We focus on the emergence of telehealth as an alternative implementation for transfer of medical information using futuristic Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). We contend that current healthcare applications are being used in a static manner; futuristic applications will need to be dynamic in nature and would call for the transfer of context-based healthcare information. A Knowledge Management (KM) solution would allow healthcare institutions to give clinical data context, so as to allow knowledge derivation for more effective clinical diagnosis. It would also provide a mechanism for effective transfer of the acquired knowledge in order to aid healthcare workers as and when required Using data inputs from our collaborating organization, Applied Network Solutions (ANS), we argue that healthcare institutions that integrate KM and ICT into their main organizational processes are more likely to survive and prosper. These organizations would have a profound understanding of how to use clinical information for creating value in tangible and intangible terms.

: Globalization has generated remarkable economic, social, and political change in China. For example, the Communist government of China recently reversed a decades-old policy by granting constitutional protection of private property ownership. Also, multinational corporations have invested large amounts of money in China, and many have established operations there. On the political scene, in some regions, democratic-style popular elections are being held at the local level. The author uses his Economics-Driven Change (EDC) Model to explore globalization and its effect on Chinese decision-making. He demonstrates how global economic interdependence is fueling dramatic economic, social, and political change in China, while the revolution in information technology accelerates the rate of change. Put another way, economic interdependence is the engine of globalization, and information technology is the turbo-charger. If China continues along its current path, a more democratic Chinese political system may be on the horizon. U.S. civilian and military leadership will benefit from understanding the effect of globalization on Chinese society in general, and its decision-makers in particular, as they formulate policy and interact with China. It could mean the difference between China becoming a cooperative partner instead of a confrontational peer competitor.

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One of the most pervasive and novel characteristics of life in technologically advanced societies is the growing prevalence of conditions of sensory and informational overloads. Even though this assertion seems self-evident, or perhaps because of it, little systematic effort has been made to examine its empirical basis and to attempt theoretical integration of the diverse lines of research and hypotheses that apply the explanatory concepts of sensory and information overload. Yet these concepts reflect profound changes in the environment in which we live and their impact on the quality of life, on subjective experience, on individual and social behavior, and on human health and disease. Urbanization, crowding, noise, mass media of communication, revolution in information technology, explosive growth of printed data, conditions of work—these are the major factors that are transforming man’s sensory environment. Some of the sensory input that bombards him consists of symbolic stimuli intended as messages and meaningful communication. Some represents physical stimuli, such as noise, which are by-products of technological development and are devoid of informational content. For the purpose of this discussion I shall follow the distinction between information inputs, connoting symbolic stimuli on the one hand, and sensory inputs, which refer to physical stimuli that do not consist of messages, on the other. Overstimulation, or overload, may result from the excess and other attributes of both symbolic and physical stimuli.

“Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.” Ernest Hemingway1 I wish to suggest a structure...