An initiative to develop a concerted national programme for the digitization of medieval manuscripts in Germany was launched by five German manuscript centres in January 2013. This new proposal aims at the development of ...

This paper summarizes the findings of an analysis among scientific infrastructure service providers (mainly from Germany but also from other European countries). These service providers have been evaluated with regard to ...

The amount of research data is growing constantly, dueto new technology with new potentials for collecting and analyzing both digitaldata and research objects. This growth creates a demand for a coherent IT-infrastructure.Such ...

Citation counts and more recently usage statistics provide valuable information about the attention and research impact associated with scholarly publications. The open access publisher Public Library of Science (PLOS) has ...

The aim of this paper is to analyse the current copyright framework conditioning the progress of OA in Mediterranean countries and to examine whether this copyright framework needs to be improved and by which measures. In ...

Over the past 15 years the Web has transformed the ways in which we search for information and use it. In more recent years, we have seen the emergence of a new array of innovative tools that collectively go under the name ...