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Summary and Conclusions of Scholarly Communication for Librarians, a book designed to provide librarians at all levels with the basics of how scholarly communication works, an understanding of the academic library as an essential support for scholarly communication, the...

This paper will introduce some of the agents involved in context of protection (monopoly‐commoditization) / liberalization (open access as a public‐information) of information and their positions, citing the example of recent projects such as CODATA, Science Commons or,...

5 x 5 crucial points and suggestion for scientific copyright is the focus of the Conference “Condividi la Conoscenza: nodi e proposte per una politica della conoscenza. L’Italia e l’agenda di Lisbona”, Milan, IULM, 22 June 2007. (Share the knowledge: crucial points and ...

Medline introduction tutorial using the Pubmed interface: search in titles or abstracts, search using subject headings, combine search sets, limit your search, print, email or save your results.

Report on a workshop on open access publishing in Vienna in October 2013.

Advocates of Open Access call to substitute the established scholarly publication model, in particular subscriptions and licences, by an Open Access Publishing model. Scholarly papers should be immediately accessible without paying and leave the copyright to the author....

The principle of open access is gaining currency and is not often questioned any more.The discussion has shifted to practical issues of bringing about open access, of which there are many. This shift, however, is progress for open access. Understanding is growing of the...

The phrase information commons refers to our shared knowledge base. Heather Morrison presents examples of the commons in action, ranging from open access and open source scholarly resources to the blogosphere. The concept of sampling in music is discussed, and applied t...

At the time of the Budapest Declaration, self-archiving supporters looked like a revolutionary, "anti-commercial publishers" movement. Today, after some years debate (and technological innovation in research and scientific e-publishing), antagonist positions are able to...

The development of the “Open Access” (OA) movement since early 1990s has been radically changing the scientific communication landscape. Within the last decade more universities and research institutions are recommending their scholars to make their works freely accessi...