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The paper stresses the importance of acquisition librarian in collection development, points out the general lack of formal training in librarianship about mercantile and purchase activities, book trade practices and relevant laws of the land, enumerates the prevailing circumstances in which document acquisition decisions are made and finally attempts to highlight and discuss selected significant problems of selecting and purchasing of books, reports and journals in science and technology libraries.

In the current exiting information era the Public Libraries can play a significant social, cultural and economic role. However, the improvement of the quality of the information services provided as well as their services augmentation is a necessary prerequisite. Over the last five years in Greece, a coherent set of quality indicators and standards have been recognized and followed annually for the Academic Libraries. At the same time, LISIM is a specially designed model for self–assessment in Public Libraries which has been distinguished in the literature as well as in the library practices. The employment of the experience gained by the MOPAB project and the LISIM may both provide a pathway for Public Library quality assessment in Greece.

Scientific communication should include nowadays the construction of a branding image that promotes scientific works further than in traditional methods (books, magazines, conferences…). Investigators must compete in an environment with different dimensions. They have to publish in indexed magazines, attempt a patent, educate in a postgraduate level, etc. But also, for example, participate in public forums like conferences, congress or digital networking. That means further than promoting our contents only for a branding image, that we also have to manage our online reputation, pick a type of profile, the broadcast media we are going to be in, which is going to be my identification tone in those profiles or the target of each one of them, guide strategically the promotion activities of our digital identity and in focus about how give away only the right and necessary information: quality against quantity and personalized services against to only replicate content.

The landscape of scholarly communications is transforming into an Open Access environment. Policies are being set by national funding agencies and universities, among others. This session will present an overview of major policy issues, the academic (teaching faculty) perspective on open access publishing and self-archiving and what it all means in the real-world university (library) environment. Delivered at Canadian Library Association Conference, June 16, 2006, Ottawa, Ontario (Canada)

It is really hard to avoid the meaning of communication in every day's life. It is a matter of a wide sense, which includes media, scientific branches, university specialists, professions, human resource management, social relations. Human relations are based in communication field. Every person, every plant, every animal and every object transmits signs. When those signs are detectable, transmit a message to a receiver. Those messages can change the information of whom who understands them and consequently changes his/her behavior. This change on the receivers behavior, thereafter can affect the transmitter, the one who transmits the message, in an detectable way or maybe not. Sometimes, results of the message transmission are immediate, while in some cases are distant. An observer in this case, may not succeed in connecting the two facts. The most effective communication is the result of successful interpersonal relationships with the members of family environment, of our work environment and generally with members of our public life. In our workplaces, one of the most important matters of the administration which often stands aside, is communication. Especially, for the leading operation, interpersonal communication composes an important element of application, since interaction between humans in fact succeeds throughout her. Academic libraries today, worldwide, have been marked out as a complicated organizations which been called to work in a fast changing environment. Those changes are possible not affect and also not brought up changes in the administrative model which is being applied. In this point, we want to see the application and the role of the communication in our every day workplaces, the meaning of the communication and the kinds of communications we're applying and if we can improve it, intending with this, in improving our professional and interpersonal relationships.

This work is aimed at testing the most trational bibliometric indicator, Impact Factor, and Open Access journals. It is focused mainly on the JCR Science edition, because of the largest coverage in OA journals (about 5%). OA journals rank in the top fifty percentiles with a 38,62% share. The research is to be continued on the incoming JCR 2010 edition.

This presentation considers the best practices in Science and Technology journals that Social Sciences could add.

The article defends there is no valid methodology in the studies about industrial Archaeology or Industrial Patrimony – gaining importance for the last years – without the use of those record sources offered by the company archives, an which replace industrial remains into their historical context. As an example the methodology for the stydy of the history of Pozo Ibarra (1930-1996) through the records of the Vasco-Leonesa Coal Mine Archive, located in La Robla (León), in several record series, as Company reports, Minute books, Pictures or Correspondence, is proposed. The approach to the reality of the Archives of company in Spain can be made from diverse perspective. The article analyzes two aspects that center the activity and the sense of the company archives: the cultural aspect, like members of the corporative memory of the organization, and the administrative aspect, like axes of the documentary management within the companies. The emphasis in anyone of the two aspects is determining to define the place that occupies the Archivewithin the organizational chart of the company and to clarify what waits for the company of its archive.

This presentation described the origin of and policies and procedures relating to the recently-established Open Access Authors Fund at the University of Calgary. Other Open Access activities at the University of Calgary were also briefly discussed. This talk was presented at McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, and at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON, on January 27, 2009, and at Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, on January 28, 2009.

Study of the motivation factors that influence in the negree selection. It has been carried out among the Ciencia da Informaçâo, Arquivistica e Biblioteconomica Coimbra’s University degree students and the Información y Documentación Salamanca’s University degree students. Targets and analysis identification have been compared from the compile results by MODO questionary, made about targets and student profiles