Established in 2003, e-LIS is an internationaldigital repository for Library and Information Science (LIS). It has grown to include a team of volunteer editors and support for 22 languages. The development of an international LIS network has been stimulated by the extension of the Open Access concept to LIS works and facilitated by the dissemination of material within the LIS community. These are some of the reasons for the success of e-LIS.
In a few years, e-LIS has been established as the largest international open repository in the field of library and information science.
Organic Eprints is an international open access archive for papers related to research in organic agriculture. The archive contains full-text papers in electronic form together with bibliographic information, abstracts and other metadata.
The Web is a powerful medium which can be used to popularize science. The Web can be used for public education and circulation of scientific information, therefore, the Web plays a major role in the science popularization and dissemination of scientific information to the public. OA plays an important role in this process of science popularization and it should be promoted.
Der US-Ökonom Joseph Stiglitz hat davor gewarnt, dass Immaterialgüterrechte Innovationen behindern. Das System des geistigen Eigentums "schmälert den Zugang zum Wissen", erklärte der Professor, der 2001 den Nobelpreis für Wirtschaftswissenschaften für seine Arbeiten über das Verhältnis von Information und Märkten erhielt, laut dem Fachdienst Intellectual Property Watch am Samstag bei der Eröffnung des Instituts für Wissenschaft, Ethik und Innovation der Universität Manchester. Konkrete Einschränkungen seien vor allem beim Patentsystem erforderlich.
MERLOT is a free and open resource designed primarily for faculty and students of higher education. The MERLOT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching (JOLT) is a peer-reviewed, online publication addressing the scholarly use of multimedia resources in ed
Welcome to the Directory of Open Access Journals. This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages.
von Richard Sietmann. Der Kulturkampf über den Zugang zu wissenschaftlichen Veröffentlichungen verschärft sich. Was „Open Source“ für die Softwareentwicklung, ist „Open Access“ für die Wissenschaft - eine Bewegung, die sich für den freien Zu
Portal for open access research theses. DART-Europe is a partnership of research libraries and library consortia who are working together to improve global access to European research theses. The DART-Europe partners help to provide researchers with a single European Portal for the discovery of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs).