According to Clifford Lynch, Coalition for Networked Information president, a problem in developing digital libraries is that scarce resources get burned up in too many small-scale local projects, which then wither away ...

Purpose – The purpose of this column is to look at how copyright enforcement is handled. Design/methodology/approach – Legal issues in enforcement are examined, as well as the initiatives of organizations like the Recording ...

Der Nachweis wissenschaftlicher Open Access-Publikationen in Bibliothekskatalogen im Sinne der Kataloganreicherung stellt Bibliotheken vor zahlreiche Fragen. Am Beispiel von hybriden Publikationen (parallele Druck- und ...

The questions we were asked to discuss for this 6th International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science were whether there should be a unique iSchool curriculum and, if so, what would it look like? ...

This editorial discusses long-term archiving and long-term access to digital documents, with an emphasis on criteria for selection. Selecting materials for digital preservation depends on whether the materials are both ...

Purpose – This column seeks to look at the case of a long-standing project to arrange document delivery between US and German libraries. This case represents the broader problem of international document delivery. ...

Sind es wirklich in der Hauptsache Bestände und Informationsdienstleistungen, von denen sich Menschen in Bibliotheken ziehen lassen? Sind Bibliotheken nicht auch hochkomplexe Soziotope, in denen weitaus mehr als nur ...

In copyright law, the principle of moral rights is that some part of the creator’s personality has gone into each original work, and that that element of personality cannot be sold or transferred. Moral rights are not about ...

Vor dem Hintergrund aktueller Forschungspolitik ist die Hypothese einer abnehmenden Forschungsvielfalt plausibel. Gewissheit darüber gewinnt man allerdings erst dann, wenn eine entsprechende quantitative Analyse gelungen ...