Von Karsten Schuldt Motivation (Einleitung) Innerhalb der LIBREAS-Redaktion wird immer wieder einmal diskutiert, ob und wie wir ein härteres Peer Review Verfahren einführen sollten. Bislang arbeiten wir nach dem Prinzip des Editorial Review.

zu: Anthony E. Cawkell (1980): Electronic information processing and publishing – problems and opportunities . In: Journal of Information Science Vol. 2. Iss. 3-4. 189-192

There are two major strands to position of traditional publishers have taken in justifying the process by which they will make the, now inevitable, transition to a system supporting Open Access.

I’m afraid I went to bed. It was getting on for midnight and it looked like another four hours or so before the petition would reach the magic mark of 25,000 signatures. As it turns out a final rush put us across the line at around 2am my time, but never mind, I woke up wondering whether we had got there, headed for the computer and had a pleasant surprise waiting for me. What does this mean?

Changing the world is hard. Who knew? Advocating for change can be lonely. It can also be hard. As a scholar, particularly one at the start of a career it is still hard to commit fully to ensuring that research outputs are accessible and re-useable.

Der LIBREAS-Verein freut sich, für den August 2012 zu zwei Veranstaltungen einzuladen. Am 17. August wird in der Fachhochschule Potsdam die Unkonferenz frei<tag>-2012 . Stand der Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft stattfinden.

Yesterday David Willetts, the UK Science and Universities Minister gave a speech to the Publishers Association that has got wide coverage. However it is worth pulling apart both the speech and the accompanying opinion piece from the Guardian because there are some interesting elements in there, and also some things have got a little confused. The first really key point is that there is nothing new here.

I attended the first Sage Bionetworks Congress in 2010 and it left a powerful impression on my thinking. I have just attended the third congress in San Francisco and again the challenging nature of views, the real desire to make a difference, and the standard of thinking in the room will take me some time to process.

Rezension zu: Mikko Kuorinki (2012): The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences. Karlsruhe: Mark Pezinger Verlag. von Ben Kaden Bis auf das Buch „Das Totenschiff“ segelte B. Traven an meiner Lektürebiografie fast spurlos vorbei. Aber irgendwie auch nicht.

Rezension zu: Byung-Chul Han (2012): Transparenzgesellschaft. Berlin: Matthes & Seitz. von Ben Kaden Das gibt es tatsächlich: Jemand wird zu einem Bewerbungsgespräch eingeladen und diejenigen, denen er gegenüber sitzt, haben das Facebook-Profil des Bewerbers geöffnet, um im Zweifelsfall abgleichen zu können, zwischen der Typisierung, die sich persönlich vorstellt und der, die man von sich über Jahre ins Netz hat fließen lassen.