Bücher von David J. Brown

This volume focuses on games to manage and facilitate rehabilitation. It emphasizes user practice, attitudes, and experience, and their changing place within developing rehabilitation frameworks. It looks at how users have adopted, integrated, and innovated with games to facilitate rehabilitation. Topics include game technology, game design and accessibility, web-based technologies vs pervasive and mobile technologies, social and collaborative aspects, and rehabilitative outcome. Games for rehabilitation are gaining interest from different communities such as medicine, psychology, and rehabilitation. A distinction can be made between games specifically made for rehabilitative purposes and games made for the general public but that are used in rehabilitation as well. Games have allowed the building of new/complementary forms for rehabilitation and offered new options to produce rehabilitative activities and experiences.

This series presents innovative approaches used by professionals in library and information practice worldwide. The authors are chosen to provide critical analysis of issues and to present solutions to selected challenges in libraries and related fields, including information management and industry, and education of information professionals.

The debate about access to scientific research raises questions about the current effectiveness of scholarly communication processes. This book explores, from an independent point of view, the current state of the STM publishing market, new publishing technologies and business models as well as the information habit of researchers, the politics of research funders, and the demand for scientific research as a public good. The book also investigates the democratisation of science including how the information needs of knowledge workers outside academia can be embraced in future.

Dieses Werk stellt den kunftigen Umfang des elektronischen Publizierens dar und bietet praktische Hilfe bei der Planung und Entscheidungsfindung hinsichtlich der Investitionen in Informationssysteme fur elektronische Medien. Als Resultat aus dem Bedarf an fundierter Information angesichts sich rasant andernder Technologien entstand dieser Titel als zweite Ausgabe des erfolgreichen "e;Electronic Publishing and Libraries: Planning for the Impact and Growth to 2003"e;. Pluspunkte: hohe Fachkompetenz beider Autoren praktische Hilfestellung fur Bibliothekare und Verleger z.B. bei Investitionen