The number of scientific journals and thereby the number of published articles grew with an enormousrate in the last century (e.g. Price 1986; Henderson 2002). In the second half of the 20th century thesystem seemed to abut against its boundaries, because in relation to research budgets, library...

Due to the widespread appearance of filesharing systemslike Napster, the peer-to-peer concept has recentlybecome well known. So far, these file-sharing systemshave been used for the exchange of digital goods. Werecommend a concept, based on that of the file-sharingsystem, for a decentralized...

Der Beginn der Wissenschaftskommunikation im modernen Sinn kann in der Veröffentlichung derersten wissenschaftlichen Zeitschriften, dem „Journal des Savants“ 1665 sowie der „PhilosophicalTransactions“ der britischen Royal Society 1666, gesehen werden. Diese Form der formalen...

Die Organisation der Kommunikation wissenschaftlicher Ergebnisse wird derzeit kontrovers diskutiert.Insbesondere Bibliothekare und Verlage stehen sich mit ihren Standpunkten vielfach konträr gegenüber.Bibliothekare sehen sich als Opfer ständiger Preiserhöhungen insbesondere bei...

Peer-to-peer systems are highly distributed and self-organizing communication networks.They get on without a central server as much as possible. This paper proposesto organize the trading of securities - like it is being done up until now at the stock exchange- on a peer-to-peer basis. In this...