Purpose – This column looks at which rights matter, how to retain them, and which journal publishers already cooperate. Design/methodology/approach – It uses the requirements of the Berlin Declaration on Open Access, and ...

Purpose – This editorial seeks to examine the definition of a “digital library” to see whether one can be constructed that usefully distinguishes a digital library from other types of electronic resources. Design/method ...

Purpose – To discuss the mission statement for the Institute of Library and Information Sciences at Humboldt University in Berlin. Design/methodology/approach – The article examines other i-school mission statements to ...

The conference co-ordinator and an invited speaker of the International Conference on Digital Libraries (ICDL) which took place in New Delhi, India, February 2004 provide an overview of the conference – one of a growing ...

The statutes themselves are not the only basis for deciding whether an intellectual property rights infringement has occurred. Ethical judgments can also influence judicial rulings. This column looks at three issues of ...

Legal deposit is the requirement that particular types of material be deposited with a national library or designated research libraries. US law does not at present include any requirement for the deposit of works that ...

Quine behauptet, dass uns der Holismus (d.h. die Quine/Duhem-These) daran hindert, Synonymie und Analytizität zu definieren (Abschnitt II). In Word and Object weist er einen Synonymiebegriff zurück, der selbst dann gut ...

Dieser Beitrag untersucht, unter welchen Bedingungen Autoren ökonomisch davon profitieren können, dass sie ihre Werke unter einer Creative-Commons-Lizenz frei verfügbar machen. Methodisch werden anthropologische Techniken ...