Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswesen und Bibliographie

As a result of the strategic change-over from analog to digital reproduction technology the Bavarian State Library (BSB) faces the tasks of implementing permanent archival storage of a constantly increasing number of image files of manuscripts and...

Publications in open access media can be used free of charge but nevertheless need to be financed. The scholars, institutions and libraries, as well as research funders, who contribute to making this possible, thus now find themselves in a new...

Ever since the highly publicized launch of the first open access journals of the »Public Library of Science« and the publication of the »Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities« there has been growing...

The so-called »green« road is the simplest method of implementing open access. Also known as »self-archiving«, this term applies to ancillary publishing of scientific publications in repositories set up by the authors themselves to make...

German Medical Science (GMS) was established in 2003 by the Association of German Scientific Medical Societies (AWMF), DIMDI (German Institute of Medical Documentation and Information), and the ZB MED Köln (German National Library of Medicine in...

Increased visibility of documents is regarded as one of the advantages of open access publication. Coupled with this is the assumption that, in comparison to fee-based access, increased visibility will lead to an increase in usage of open access...

The open access agenda of the Max Planck Society, initiator of the Berlin Declaration, envisions the support of both the green way and the golden way to open access. For the implementation of the green way the Max Planck Society through its newly...

In many disciplines there has been no question of the value and usefulness of primary data been for some time - though for different reasons ranging from good scientific practice, reusefulness,to data driven science. Along with a discussion of open...