Der Beitrag diskutiert Bedeutung, praktisches Potenzial und konkrete Herausforderungen von bibliothekarischen Serviceangeboten für den grünen Weg des Open Access. Er adressiert Einrichtungen, die einen Zweitveröffentlichungsservice auf- bzw. ausbauen wollen und präsentiert mögliche...

Commons are holistic social institutions to govern the (re)production of resources, articulated through interrelated legal, socio-cultural, economic and institutional dimensions. They represent a comprehensive and radical approach to organise collective action, placing it "beyond market and...

The nature and extent of openness depend on the context and/or disciplinary domain. Earlier usage of the term open was in the context of computer systems. For example, in networked systems of computers, "openness" refers to enabling protocols that connect previously closed systems so that they...

In this article we argue that the current endeavors to achieve open access in scientific literature require a discussion about innovation in scholarly publishing and research infrastructure. Drawing on path dependence theory and addressing different open access (OA) models and recent political...

Der Beitrag diskutiert Bedeutung, praktisches Potenzial und konkrete Herausforderungen von bibliothekarischen Serviceangeboten für den grünen Weg des Open Access. Er adressiert Einrichtungen, die einen Zweitveröffentlichungsservice auf- bzw. ausbauen wollen und präsentiert mögliche...

The present study was conducted with the objectives a). to evaluating general perception of university academia about using open educational resources (OERs) in higher education; b). to examining the attitude of university academia towards the use of OER in enhancing academic, research and...

In this editorial statement we present a balance of the first year of life of the European Journal of Government and Economics. We discuss the main developments that concern the journal's indexation by academic databases. We also comment on the approval of a code of publication ethics and...

Starting from a theoretical and methodological foundation of an academic ideology critique, the production, distribution and valorisation of science communication will be analysed in exemplary fashion. The focus is on the criticism of publishing houses’ business models in the sphere of open...

This editorial discusses the difference between creative common and commercial licenses from the point of view of the author of an article.