Publishers’Development Strategies in Response to Changes in National Reading-Analysis Based on the 16th to 20th National Reading Survey Report

Since 2014,nationwide reading has been included in the government work report for 10 consecutive times,and twice into the country’s five-year development plan.The importance of reading for individuals,society,and the country has become increasingly prominent.National reading has flourished,and throughout the 2018 to 2022 National Reading Survey Report,there have been welcome changes in national reading in China.This study compares and analyzes the relevant reading indicators of adult nationals from 2018 to 2022,and summarizes the five changes and new trends in national reading.That is,national reading awareness has increased,paper-book reading habits have returned,digital reading has become more diversified,the listening group has grown,and the voice of national reading activities has continued to rise.Accordingly,it provides relevant development strategies for publishers.

Analytical Methods in the Quality Control of Scientific Publications Part III: Publishers’ Ethics and Editors’ Complicity

In 2012, the first paper in the series Analytical Methods in Quality Control of Scientific Publications was published in the American Journal of Analytical Chemistry, Vol. 3, No. 6, 2012, pp. 443-447. This paper was mainly based on evidence presented in the 2011 in book Historical Overview of Chromatography and Related Techniques in Analysis of Antimalarial Drug Primaquine (editor Ilia Brondz, Nova Science Publishers, Inc., ISSN 978-1-61761-944-1). The first paper in this series di- scussed issues of obvious falsification and plagiarism contained in paper published by Dongre et al., Applications of GC-EI-MS for the Identification and Investigation of Positional Isomer in Primaquine, an Antimalarial Drug. Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis, Vol. 39, No. 1-2, 2005, pp. 111-116. Dongre et al. copied their publication from an original research manuscript submitted for consideration by other authors. This paper was published in the Asian Journal of Chemistry, Vol. 17, No. 3, 2005, pp. 1678-1688. Conclusive arguments against the publication of Dongre et al. were presented in the American Journal of Analytical Chemistry, Vol. 3, No. 6, 2012, pp. 443-447. Further cases of general plagiarism and incompetence relating to authors, reviewers, editors, and publishers were presented in Part II in Analytical Methods in Quality Control of Scientific Publications Part II: The Authors’, Reviewers’, Editors’ Responsibility and the Publishers’ Authority in the International Journal of Analytical Mass Spectrometry and Chromatography, Vol. 1, No. 2, 2013, pp. 81-89. The present paper will discuss the following issues: the obvious neglect of the rights of authors by some publishers and editors;how original research manuscripts are exposed to mediocre researchers, and possibly sold, by editors to these “scientists” to boost the image of these particular “scientists”;how the order of authors’ names in published articles are changed to satisfy the commercial interests of companies;and how copyright is breached in an appalling way by well-established publishers. The documents presented here concern research publications in the fields of chromatography, chromatography-mass spectrometry, and mass spectrometry.

A privacy-preserving method for publishing data with multiple sensitive attributes

The overgeneralisation may happen because most studies on data publishing for multiple sensitive attributes(SAs)have not considered the personalised privacy requirement.Furthermore,sensitive information disclosure may also be caused by these personalised requirements.To address the matter,this article develops a personalised data publishing method for multiple SAs.According to the requirements of individuals,the new method partitions SAs values into two categories:private values and public values,and breaks the association between them for privacy guarantees.For the private values,this paper takes the process of anonymisation,while the public values are released without this process.An algorithm is designed to achieve the privacy mode,where the selectivity is determined by the sensitive value frequency and undesirable objects.The experimental results show that the proposed method can provide more information utility when compared with previous methods.The theoretic analyses and experiments also indicate that the privacy can be guaranteed even though the public values are known to an adversary.The overgeneralisation and privacy breach caused by the personalised requirement can be avoided by the new method.

Research on the Audio Publishing of Classical Books Based on the Theory of Business Model Canvas: Taking Romance of the Three Kingdoms in Digital Audio Platforms as an Example

Visual media have dominated sensory communications for decades,and the resulting“visual hegemony”leads to the call for the“auditory return”in order to achieve a holistic balance in cultural acceptance.Romance of the Three Kingdoms,a classic literary work in China,has received significant attention and promotion from leading audio platforms.However,the commercialization of digital audio publishing faces unprecedented challenges due to the mismatch between the dissemination of long-form content on digital audio platforms and the current trend of short and fast information reception.Drawing on the Business Model Canvas Theory and taking Romance of the Three Kingdoms as the main focus of analysis,this paper argues that the construction of a business model for the audio publishing of classical books should start from three aspects:the user evaluation of digital audio platforms,the establishment of value propositions based on the“creative transformation and innovative development”principle,and the improvement of the audio publishing infrastructure to ensure the healthy operation and development of the digital audio platforms and consequently improve their current state of development and expand the boundaries of cultural heritage.

The Book Publishing and Analysis of Modern Peking University Library

The paper is based on literature search,introducing and analyzing the book publishing situation of modern Peking University Library from the perspective of the publisher being Peking University Library and its predecessor.It is pointed out that the majority of the book printing methods published by the modern Peking University Library are lead printing,and among the types of Chinese library classification,catalogue of library collections is the most common.

Other Cities’Distribution Institutions for Publishing Books in Modern Chinese Libraries:Taking Huating Bookstore,the Shanghai General Distribution Office of Modern Zhejiang Library,as an Example

Many modern Chinese libraries have established distribution agencies in other cities to distribute books published or sold on consignment.Huating Bookstore,which was once the Shanghai General Distribution Office of Zhejiang Library in modern times,is one of them.On the basis of a brief description of modern Zhejiang Library and its book publishing,as well as the overview of Huating Bookstore,the paper introduces and analyzes the ZPL Publishing Book Catalogue sent by Huating Bookstore,and the ZPL publishing and selling consignment books issued by Huating Bookstore.It points out that Huating Bookstore is a bridge between the ZPL located in Hangzhou and various retail ZPL publishing bookstores in Shanghai.Their production and sales relationship is a mutually beneficial one.

Analysis of the Books Issued by Yadong Library, Published by Peking University Publishing Department: Taking Several Bibliography Advertisements Carried in Newspapers and Magazines From 1919-1922 as Examples

Based on several bibliographic advertisements carried in newspapers and magazines from 1919 to 1922 for books published by Peking University Publishing Department,and issued by Yadong Library,the paper analyzes the characteristics of the books published by Peking University Publishing Department during this period,and points out that Yadong Library entered its golden period of development due to move from the alley to the main road and obtain the management rights of the books published by Peking University Publishing Department.

Book Review “Fabrikant,V.I.Contact and Crack Problems in Linear Theory of Elasticity,Bentham Science Publishers,Sharjah,UAE(2010)”

As suggested by the title, this extensive book is concerned with crack and contact prob- lems in linear elasticity. However, in general, it is intended for a wide audience ranging from engineers to mathematical physicists. Indeed, numerous problems of both academic and tech- nological interest in electro-magnetics, acoustics, solid and fluid dynamics, etc. are actually related to each other and governed by the same mixed boundary value problems from a unified mathematical standpoint

Perspectives from a publishing ethics and research integrity team for required improvements

It is imperative that all stakeholders within the research ecosystem take responsibility to improve research integrity and reliability of published research.Based on the unique experiences of a specialist publishing ethics and research integrity team within a major publisher,this article provides insights into the observed trends of misconduct and how those have evolved over time,and addresses key actions needed to improve the interface between researchers,funders,institutions and publishers to collectively improve research integrity on a global scale.

A New Privacy-Preserving Data Publishing Algorithm Utilizing Connectivity-Based Outlier Factor and Mondrian Techniques

Developing a privacy-preserving data publishing algorithm that stops individuals from disclosing their identities while not ignoring data utility remains an important goal to achieve.Because finding the trade-off between data privacy and data utility is an NP-hard problem and also a current research area.When existing approaches are investigated,one of the most significant difficulties discovered is the presence of outlier data in the datasets.Outlier data has a negative impact on data utility.Furthermore,k-anonymity algorithms,which are commonly used in the literature,do not provide adequate protection against outlier data.In this study,a new data anonymization algorithm is devised and tested for boosting data utility by incorporating an outlier data detection mechanism into the Mondrian algorithm.The connectivity-based outlier factor(COF)algorithm is used to detect outliers.Mondrian is selected because of its capacity to anonymize multidimensional data while meeting the needs of real-world data.COF,on the other hand,is used to discover outliers in high-dimensional datasets with complicated structures.The proposed algorithm generates more equivalence classes than the Mondrian algorithm and provides greater data utility than previous algorithms based on k-anonymization.In addition,it outperforms other algorithms in the discernibility metric(DM),normalized average equivalence class size(Cavg),global certainty penalty(GCP),query error rate,classification accuracy(CA),and F-measure metrics.Moreover,the increase in the values of theGCPand error ratemetrics demonstrates that the proposed algorithm facilitates obtaining higher data utility by grouping closer data points when compared to other algorithms.

Publisher’s Note

Introducing article numbering to Asian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences Within the publishing industry,article numbering has emerged as an easy and efficient way to cite journal articles.Article numbering has already been successfully rolled out to Elsevier’s multidisciplinary open access journal Heliyon,as well as more than 1600 other journals,and has been well received by the academic community.Based on that positive feedback,we are now pleased to introduce article numbering to Asian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences from Jan.2023.

Large language models and scientific publishing

ChatGPT and similar large language models(LLMs)have rapidly caught the sci-entific and popular imagination,inviting reflections on their potential and risk for science(Grimaldi&Ehrler,2023;Nature,2023;Thorp,2023;van Dis et al.,2023).

Publishing and Medicine:A Potentially Integrated Field?

This article focuses on the intersection of English-language scholarship between the history of publishing and the history of medicine in Imperial China.As an important part of cultural and social history,both topics have attracted attention from a number of historians.This article contains three sections.The first section introduces the evolution of Chinese book and publishing history in recent years and examines what book historians have done in relation to traditional Chinese medicine.The second section explores how medical historians have considered the role of printing in the history of Chinese medicine and the ways in which medical publications were used as primary sources or subjects of research.The third section explores scholarship on medical epistemic genres,a subfield of medical history,in Chinese medicine,specifically focusing on medical case histories and recipes from the comparative and cross-cultural perspectives.Finally,the conclusion explores potential future directions from the integration of Chinese publishing history and medical history.

Economy&Management Publishing House

Founded in 1984 by renowned economists Ma Hong and Jiang Yiwei,Economy&Management Publishing House is a central-level publishing house led by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences(CASS)and sponsored by Institute of Industrial Economics of CASS.Since its establishment,Economy&Management Publishing House has undertaken the mission of cultural inheritance,and has always given top priority to social benefits.By adhering to the objective of“spreading management philosophy and creating economic value”.

Economy&Management Publishing House

Founded in 1984 by renowned economists Ma Hong and Jiang Yiwei,Economy&Management Publishing House is a central-level publishing house led by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences(CASS)and sponsored by Institute of Industrial Economics of CASS.Since its establishment,Economy&Management Publishing House has undertaken the mission of cultural inheritance,and has always given top priority to social benefits.By adhering to the objective of“spreading management philosophy and creating economic value”,it promotes mainstream consciousness,excellence and academic publishing.Backed by the strong scientific research ability of CASS,Economy&Management Publishing House has extensively contacted domestic and foreign universities and scientific research institutions,and has gradually developed into a publishing house with professional and academic features in economics and management.So far,11 branch offices,1 professional copy editing departments and several functional departments have been established.

The Path to Reshaping the Structure and Chain System of the Publishing Industry in the Era of Big Data

Today,we are living in the era of“big data”where massive amounts of data are used for quantitative decisions and communication management.With the continuous penetration of big data-based intelligent technology in all fields of human life,the enormous commercial value inherent in the data industry has become a crucial force that drives the aggregation of new industries.For the publishing industry,the introduction of big data and relevant intelligent technologies,such as data intelligence analysis and scenario services,into the structure and value system of the publishing industry,has become an effective path to expanding and reshaping the demand space of publishing products,content decisions,workflow chain,and marketing direction.In the integration and reconstruction of big data,cloud computing,artificial intelligence,and other related technologies,it is expected that a generalized publishing industry pattern dominated by virtual interaction will be formed in the future.

全媒体传播体系下出版深度融合发展研究

在全媒体传播体系建构纳入国家战略规划背景下,处于数字化浪潮中的中国出版业面临产销技术、业务模式、组织机构等多方面的冲突与转型。在完成从数字出版到融合出版的过渡后,出版深度融合成为当下我国出版业面向未来生态建设的全新趋势。本课题紧密结合数字化环境下的新出版传播体系,以全媒体传播视角审视出版产业的深度融合问题,探讨出版融合发展的理论框架,以传统出版转型为立足点,构建多维度、系统化、针对性的全媒体传播体系下出版深度融合发展的实践路径和生态保障体系。

建设中国特色出版学科自主知识体系的逻辑进路与趋势展望

中国特色出版学科自主知识体系建设迎来研究热潮。在一流学科和新文科建设背景下,学者们从出版本体论、认识论、方法论相统一的视角,围绕出版学的“三大体系”进行自主知识体系建构的研究。文章在梳理2023年度重要研究文献的基础上,探讨构建中国特色出版学科自主知识体系的紧迫性、主要研究成果、现存问题及趋势展望,为中国特色出版学科建设、出版教育的高质量发展提供参考。

出版家年谱编撰:作者、体例与编写策略

年谱是史籍中较为特殊的一种人物传记体裁。作为人物年谱的一个类别,出版家年谱在出版史料的搜集整理和研究中占有重要地位。以出版家为谱主的年谱编撰者有三类,即作者自撰,谱主的朋友、门生和子孙所撰,后世学者撰写。以上三类各有其利弊得失,做到内容丰富、考订精详并非易事。出版家年谱的编制体例,既有专谱、通谱,也有合谱。编写纯而又纯的职业出版家年谱相对容易把握,而更多属于身份多重的“兼职”出版家,其年谱编撰需要有明确定位和叙述边界。出版家合谱不等于合刊,其中的区别需要厘清。在实际编撰工作中,编写者还需要注重将史料性与研究性结合,处理好实事求是与为尊者讳的关系,同时更加重视书信和日记等史料在年谱编撰中的重要作用。

我国出版公共服务社会化探索

基于对出版公共服务的供需主体、价值关系、对接关系的分析,本文提出建立主体之间的协同关系,形成出版公共服务多元治理结构、完善出版公共服务合作供给模式,推动政府主导与市场化运作相结合、健全出版公共服务社会化保障机制,促进供需关系的良好运转等具体路径,以实现我国出版公共服务社会化探索。