Overlay Publications, cosa sono?
Posto qui di seguito l’articolo che presenterò domani in occasione di ELPUB 2009, all’UniversitĂ Statale di Milano.
Qui l’abstract:
This paper tackles on the issues of overlay publications (journals, but also edited monographs and books in general). It’s two parts are aimed at providing theoretical understanding of what an overlay publication is and at examining a concrete example of a print on demand overlay book, published after the free digital version was released.
The first part takes into account the definitions found in literature and goes back to the functions that every system of scholarly publication, must satisfy, as
The second part of the paper analyzes in deep a first experiment of, according to the first part, what can be defined as an overlay book. The case study is about a short monograph, in Italian, in the field of online and social marketing, published first as a free ebook, and then published in print, through a print on demand model.
The paper ends summarizing the findings of the case study and providing some insights about overlay publications, trying to clarify what they are and why they’re useful.
