Several libraries have become active partners in Open Access publishing of books in the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS). Not only have libraries started up their own presses, they are also collaborating with existing ...

On the one hand, libraries are at the forefront of the digital transformation and digital information infrastructures, on the other, they manage and curate cultural heritage collections. This brings about new ways ...

FOSTER is an EU project aiming at identifying, enriching and providing training content on relevant Open Science topics in support of implementing EC‘s Open Science Agenda in the European Research Area. During the ...

This paper presents selected findings of the Belmont Forum’s survey on open data which targeted the global environmental research and data infrastructure community. It highlights users’ perceptions of the term “open ...

Mit dem Aufkommen des elektronischen Publizierens und dem INternet sind wieder vermehrt Wissenschaftsverlage gegründet worden, die in der direkten Kontrolle von Universitäten stehen. Der Artikel untersucht, ob dies als ...

Immer mehr Institutionen bieten ihren wissenschaftlichen Angehörigen Dienstleistungen für die elektronische Verbreitung und Archivierung wissenschaftlicher Materialien an, indem sie dafür Webserver einrichten. Die großen ...

Academic libraries consider themselves to be guarantors of a high-quality sup¬ ply of literature for the academic community. What does the provision of infor¬ mation services mean today? How do we define digital services ...

Passing on information within the traditional model of teaching face-to-face had been mostly volatile and for a circumscribed audience. It therefore required less attention on possible copyright infringements unless the ...