Ulrich Herb, Referent für elektronisches Publizieren, elektronische Archive und Open Access der Saarländischen Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek

Open Access revisited: Wissenschaftsaltruismus oder alter Wein in neuen Schläuchen?

Open Access
a) enhances fast and technologically easy exchange of research. Thus, scientific information is ubiquitously accessible.

Bettina Kann, Leiterin der Hauptabteilung Digitale Bibliothek, ONB

Going digital: Die Neu(er)findung des Bibliothekskonzepts?

In 2004 Google announced its plan to digitize and to make publicly available 15 million books during the next six years. This announcement raised questions (such as the one of the democratization of knowledge) but has also had a positive impact on digitization initiatives and projects on the European level.

Chris Armbruster, Executive Director, Research Network 1989

Five Reasons to Promote Open Access and Five Roads to Accomplish it in Social and Cultural Science

Economists have done most to innovate scholarly publishing and communication by switching to Open Access. In cultural studies, history, law, political science and sociology, Open Access publishing is still an innovation at the margins. Yet Open Access is demonstrably the superior publishing model in the WWW Galaxy.

Gabriella Ivacs, Chief Archivist, Open Society Archives at CEU:

Emerging Archives/Parellel Archives
The Open Society Archives, part of the Soros Foundations Network and one of the founding members of the Budapest Open Access Initiative and Open Document Format Alliance, is launching a cutting edge IT solution to address academic needs in the field of archival research. The intelligent repository will allow sharing, long term preservation, collaboration and the rediscovery of primary sources.