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The article introduces this issue of the journal, which documents papers presented at the ODOK (Österreiches Online-Informationstreffen and Österreichischer Dokumentartag/Austrian Online Information Resources Conference and Austrian Documentation Conference) meetings in Wels, Austria, in 2012 and in Leoben, Austria, in 2010.

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This paper presents a scientometric analysis of articles from journals indexed in Web of Science (WoS), subject category 'Information Science & Library Science'. The results confirm the Anglo-American dominance in the library and information science literature (included in WoS) which is even stronger if only information science journals are considered. The two major exceptions are the Scandinavian countries and the field of scientometrics. The visibility of Germany and Austria turned out to be relatively low.

The article presents a report of the ODOK 2012 conference (Österreichisches Online-Informationstreffen und Österreichischer DOKumentartag), held on September 14-14, 2012 in Wels, Austria. The report focuses on several papers discussed during the conference, which includes the value of knowledge organization, information science, and the importance of knowledge management.

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Jazz has been an integral part of the Austrian music scene since the postwar era and has found wide acceptance in the Austrian cultural landscape over time. This paper presents an overview of the most important developments and personalities in Austrian jazz history. The sources for this information include musicological texts on jazz in Austria as well as interviews with observers and active members of the jazz scene; online research is also of particular relevance, especially concerning more recent history. The first section, »From the beginnings to the end of World War II«, deals mainly with the early development of jazz until the Nazi era. The second, »Postwar and the 1960s« traces the beginnings of an independent scene and important Austrian expatriate musicians as well as discussing Graz as a stimulating force and academic institutionalization. The section »The late 1960s to the generational change of the late 1970s« deals with the Vienna scene as well as the influence of the »Vienna Art Orchestra« and its leading soloists from that period. The final section, »Stylistic pluralism - the 1980s to the present« examines various trends and musicians from the 1980s and 1990s as well as introducing the first generation of the new millennium. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The EU funded Study of Open Access Publishing (SOAP) run from March 2009 to February 2011. More than 53.000 people worldwide participated in this online-survey on the Golden Road to Open Access, among them about 46.000 scholars. The paper will put a spotlight on the input of the 462 Austrian scientists who took part in this survey. It analyses their answers to 9 selected questions out of the survey's original total of 23 questions. A focus is put on significant differences in these answers between scientists from Austria and Germany. The financial supporting structure for Open Access in Austria is quite dissimilar from Germany hence differences should be expected. Even so 89% of scientists in both countries agree that Open Access is helpful in their own field of research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article provides an overview of personal and family archives available in Vorarlberg, Austria, in particular those of the Barons of Sternbach, the erstwhile rulers of the Bludenz, Austria, district, and of the counts of Hohenems and Waldburg-Zeil. In addition, the author discusses acquisitions such as the archives of the Berlinger family, which document both the business activities of the family and the history of Egg, Austria. A list of personal and family archives held at the Vorarlberger Landesarchiv (State Archives of Vorarlberg), which include the papers of teacher Franz Bachmann, politician and Catholic priest Barnabas Fink, and architect Johann Anton Tscharner.

Based upon a reading of Arnold Schoenberg's theoretical writings on the ›musical idea‹ and its presentation, this paper discusses the possibility of a posthermeneutical perspective on the phenomenon of sound in the Second Viennese School. On the one hand, Schoenberg's skeptical considerations towards the relevance of sound are contrasted with descriptions of personal experience of musical presence in letters of Schoenberg and Weber. On the other hand, Schoenberg's reflections on instrumentation are confronted with the existence of various arrangements, transcriptions and instrumentations of works by Weber, Schoenberg and Berg. It can be seen that sound has to be thought neither solely as a moment of constituting formal structure, meaning and sense, nor as the constitutive other of meaning. Thus, sound should be understood as a phenomenon oscillating between sense and sensuality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper presents the findings of a quantitative investigation into the major working fields of German, Austrian, and Swiss communication professionals. We build upon previous work done in roles research but follow a grounded approach in using an explorative cluster analysis on a sample of 340 communicators. We identify fives typologies into which the working fields of communication practitioners in these countries can be categorized: Strategists, Public Affairs Officers, Internal Communicators, Investor Relations Officers and Brand Officers. These profiles are distinctively different in terms of education, salary, and career as well as job satisfaction and show the various roles communication practitioners take as well as their integration within organizations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Th article presents a conference paper on the role of researcher Oswald Redlich in the historiography of the Habsburg monarchy of Austria. The article describes Redlich's approach to the subject matter, and the researchers he thereby influenced. Research which follows a similar approach is highlighted.

The present paper shows the specific features of mortality in Vienna city in the 19th century. As a data source 5 parish registers were used. A detailed analysis of the causes of death reveals the reasons for the „epidemiological change" from the transition period of proto-industrialisation to the end of industrialisation. The mortality and their development is a useful indicator to describe changes of the urban health conditions when it is differentiated by age and cause of death. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Social network analysis is a useful tool for historical research on social networks. But the process of generating data for a social network analysis has hardly been discussed yet: How should qualitative, process-generated data be coded to be suitable for social network analysis? For historical research on eugenic networks in Austria from 1900 to 1980 sociological methods such as the content analysis and the social network analysis will be used. This contribution discusses the method of content analysis by focusing on the question how to narrow down networks and process-generated data and on the process of coding. The example used is the depiction of eugenic sterilization in scientific and non-scientific papers in Austria. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The huge minerals demand of China led to tremendous problems in the supply with mineral raw materials worldwide. The paper deals with the main reasons and the problems arising. The situation of minerals supply of the European Union and Austria are discussed in detail. The Austrian Mineral Resources Plan is an important tool to solve the problems regarding minerals supply with special emphasis to construction materials. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The paper discusses analytical and statistical problems in studying the financial wealth distribution of private households. A particular focus is laid on methodical problems of micro data on households' wealth such as testing the quality of the data, conducting plausibility checks, and imputing of missing data. Furthermore, the article presents some results of a recent survey of the Osterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB) compiling information on households' financial wealth, investment, debt and financial behaviour. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reports selected results of an empirical study where library executives from Germany, Austria and Switzerland, as well as from Great Britain and the USA, were consulted with respect to the future of the library system. The latter two countries were selected since they are frequently considered in international comparisons because of their model fonction. Apart from the evaluation of the current country-specific situation, the judgment of alternative future scenarios regarding their probability of occurrence constituted the main focus of this questioning. The concurrences and differences resulting from the individual estimates can be helpful when carrying out strategic planning in the German library system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Stability is an essential but frequently underrepresented fact in the study of language variation and change. Although in dialectology the distinction between "primary" and "secondary" dialect features initially led to a certain consideration of stable features as opposed to more dynamic ones, more recent empirical studies have not taken any notice of the former. The question of stability is nevertheless crucial for dialectology. For example, the extent of dialect loss cannot be assessed without establishing which forms are stable. The aim of this study is therefore to address this desideratum by investigating ten dialectal features in Austria's rural dialects. All ten examples concern variables of the vowel system which show large phonetic differences between dialect and standard variants. On the basis of a comprehensive dialect survey, both a real- and an apparent-time study is conducted to examine the extent and the factors of dialectal stability and change. The study provides evidence for a surprisingly high degree of stability and continuity in Austria's rural dialects. Changes are not only restricted to a few variables, but also limited (a) to a lexical factor -- only a small group of lexemes is not completely stable --, and (b) to a regional factor -- only some eastern parts of Austria show a higher degree of change. Other factors, such as the extent of the spatial distribution of a form or the phonetic distance to the standard, do not prove to be relevant for stability and change of the variables. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper investigates the relationship between social inequality and participation in the Austrian high school system (secondary level II). The European Community Household Panel is used as data basis. The results show differences in participation rate by sex and by the three classical dimensions of stratification, namely education, occupation and income of parents. Hence, social inequality still exists in Austria. Gender differences have been reversed: Nowadays, more girls attend high schools than boys. Inequalities are reduced by secondary technical and vocational colleges. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper concentrates on one aspect of female employment that is hardly subject of employment research although it is still a quantitatively important issue: the non-employment of women. Explanations for changing female labour market participation cannot be reduced on family aspects. The complexity of the interplay between family issues, labour market constraints and individual preferences, or the interplay of individual choices and structural circumstances is empirically unidentified. One-sided explanations are not only unsatisfying in a scientific sense, but can also be used for misleading interpretations in the political debate. The empirical analysis of female non-employment in Austria takes up theoretical approaches both of sociology and economy, especially an expanded rational-choice approach. Using the Mikrozensus 1995-1993 structural aspects describing labour market and family issues can be combined with individual preferences, because in this survey women were asked on their personal reasons for non-employment. Nearly half of the women is exposed to difficult conditions on the labour market as well as in the family, nine from ten women are at least in a difficult situation in one of the two areas. In this complex situation many women quote "family reasons" for their non-employment, because this answer is socially accepted and fits into the prevalent "frames" of motherhood and care work. Our results show that female non-employment is not primarily the result of the preferences of women, but the result of the "classical" reconciliation problem of family and work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper deals with the current efforts of the Austrian government to remodel the university sector. The Rectors' Conference meddled in the discussion process and asked some experts to evaluate the outline which has been drawn up by the ministerial bureaucracy. The result is the voluminous report "Universitäten im Wettbewerb". The report stands up for a radical change in the sense of neo-liberalism and centres the question how to make universities more efficient. Its suggestions refer to all aspects of universities: their funding and organisation, employment contracts of scientific staff, regulation of studies and access to university. The ideas presented in the report radicalize the outline the government developed. The analysis shows that a break with the targets of educational and research policy in the past is intended. Efficiency of universities and the interests of the economic sector are moved in the focus of policy at the expense of free access to universities, participation of lecturers and students, academic freedom and independent scientific work, diversity of research, generous furthering of junior staff. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Hostility towards foreigners and racism in sport were not discussed in Austria practically up to now. The purpose of this paper is to point out these problems using the example of soccer and to put them up for debate. Developing on a historical preface, the study focuses not so much on the behaviour of spectators as on the attitudes and activities of the players themselves. In addition, the experiences of a coloured soccer player in Austria and the role of mass media in this context will be related. It shows that hostility towards foreigners and racism thoroughly took place in the domain of sport. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The social security system in Austria, which is highly dependent on wage labour, has been coming under pressure because of the great variety of social and economic processes. This paper deals with social policy reform efforts by organized labour and employers' associations. These lobbies have great influence on social policy in Austria because of the social partnership arrangement. Their reform efforts are mainly aimed at the maintenance of the present social security system. Alternative social policy concepts — such as different models for ensuring basic social provision — are rejected. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The first part of this paper contains some biographical details on Werner Stark's emigration and on some stations in his academic career. The following part summarizes the main principles of Stark's sociology of knowledge: a) a social a priori (in analogy to Kant) as a mechanism of selecting perception on the way to the production of knowledge; b) a holistic interaction functionalism in opposition to idealistic and materialistic doctrines for describing the relation between infrastructure and superstructure; c) social consciousness or ideology; his conception of sociology of knowledge as a way to truth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper summarizes the causes and genesis of the first collective agreement on employment security against rationalization in Austria. This agreement concerns the implementation of computerized technologies in daily and weekly newspaper production (Kollektivvertrag über die Einführung integrierter Texterfassungssysteme bei Tages- und Wochenzeitungen). Owing to the new, computerized technologies, old craft groups - especially the compositors - could either be dispersed or disappear behind the computer monitor. In order to prevent dismissals of their members, the three trade unions involved - the printing union, which represents workers, the white collar union and the journalists' union sought negotiations with the association of newspaper publishers and the printing industry association. Divergent interests turned out not only to exist between entrepreneurs' associations and trade unions, but also within the different groups. The new technology also threatened the membership area of trade unions: a skilled worker disappearing behind the computer monitor suddenly does the same work as a secretary always did. The collective agreement came into force In May, 1981 and expires in 1989 and contains e. g. a 10 year employment security for skilled workers (2 years for employees and Journalists). Compared with Germany and Great Britain the Austrian agreement is the most favorable to workers, a result which is due to the different organizational framework in these countries. Highly centralized and concentrated trade unions have better chances to protect workers' interests when the power of protest of the latter is weakened by a new technology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article The World of Yesterday and Its Adversaries: (Dis)continuities in Post-war Austrian Literature provides an outline of the complex interplay of ruptures and continuities in Austrian literature since 1945 and relates them to the historical context. After a phase of catching up on international trends, the Austrian readership largely leaned towards the literary past (of the Austro-Hungarian and the interwar period), encouraged by the cultural policies of the Allies who – operating on the basis of the victim theory – endorsed a cultural heritage that would strengthen the overall sense of community among the Austrian population. After 1948, the lack of reorganization of the literary field became evident in the dominance of catholic conservative agents who upheld their pre-war cultural ideals, and the reintegration of (lesser) Nazi offenders into the literary scene, all of this to the disadvantage of unknown, progressive, and avantgarde writers, whose publishing opportunities were scarce. The article explores how the new generation’s various ways of confronting the past represent significant breaks in this continuity, while becoming a major literary trend in their own right. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article provides a brief historical overview of the origins and administration of archives in Austria, with specific focus to the current projects. Topics discussed include importance of archives in preservation of cultural heritage, ways in which archival emergence is closely related to cultural memories, and challenges and need of planning in advance in each archive regardless of the type of archival material.

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