What about the past?
This week the Royal Society made around 60.000 papers from their historical archive available online. Among the papers now open to the online public are such gems as Isaac Newton’s first published...
View ArticleHappy sustainability!
Germany calls out the year of sustainability for science! (applause!?) While the DFG (German Research Foundation) is sending out sustainable wishes for 2012, one may ask for the sustainability of...
View Article“Urheberrecht 2.0″? – A short overview to the german debate about copyright law.
In the layer of technological change (especially new media like the Internet) and the upcoming of an new “information society”, a reformation of the German copyright law (UrhG) seems to be urgently...
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Open Access to scientific knowledge – an imperative?
Scientific knowledge is a public good. In order to be used in a optimal way for further knowledge production or application, it is argued, scientific knowledge needs to be freely accessible. Yet, the...
View ArticleZur Debatte um “wissenschaftliche Autorschaft” und “Science 2.0″ (Teil 1) –...
“Digitale Medien (…) verändern Wissenschaftskulturen und ihre unterschiedlichen Praktiken” (Schneider 2006, S.2). Einer dieser Aspekte wissenschaftlichen Arbeitens dessen Wandel, besonders kontrovers...
View ArticleZur Debatte um “wissenschaftliche Autorschaft” und “Science 2.0″ (Teil 2) –...
Im folgenden Beitrag möchte ich einige Überlegungen von Roland Reuß zur „Autorschaft“ und deren Entwicklung im “Web” vorstellen und im Hinblick auf die in Teil 1 von „wissenschaftliche Autorschaft und...
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