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In order to increase the number of sales and spread the company's brand among users, any company needs to have strong web presence. It will allow the company to get further dissemination of their products and engagement with its users. However, not all sectors conform equal to the social web. Specifically, the fashion industry (one of the most annual sales generated in Spain), it is a case of special interest due to its market characteristics. The main objective of this study is to analyse the web presence of the Spanish fashion companies, gathered by the “Fashion from Spain” directory (April 2015). Based on the 1,300 companies identified, it has been verified the existence of an official web presence through a website or any profile on the following social platforms: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Youtube and Google+.

The users of the academic Ukrainian libraries changed - already does not want to be only the importers of knowledge, but also - by her active exporters. Among new services of the Ukrainian academic libraries especially popular today: Library Publishing, Embedded Librarian and Liaison Librarian.

In the current situation of economic crisis in Spain we discern two possible roads of exit to the crisis: the internationalisation and competitiveness. However, neither the business network, neither the companies can be effective in these fields without the concurrence of the Competitive Intelligence. Nowadays, in spite of the increase of the incorporation of this discipline to the business strategy of a lot of companies, still is not perceived in his just measure by the SMEs. Since the SMEs constitute a high percentage of the business network in this country, is to them to which it is necessary to do conscious of the importance of the Competitive Intelligence to the hour to detect new opportunities of business and niches of market. The Chambers of Commerce can be the most indicated actors to carry out this task of promotion, entitled by 125 years close working with the companies to create, consolidate and expand his business inside and out of the state field. It is this regional capillarity, consolidated bythe new Basic Law 4/2014 of the Official Cahmbers of Commerce, Industry, Services and Navigation, together with his paper as promoter of internationalisation and competitiveness plans, where the Competitive Intelligence can contribute to help the SMEs, and therefore to the business network, to surpass this disadvantageous economic situation.

This paper is presented as part of the application for participation in the procedure for filling the post of Head of Information and User Education emanating from the resolution of June 3, 2014, of Universidad Pablo de Olavide, laying specific competition calls for the provision of two jobs of civil servant administration and services, technical manager at the Library of the University.

This presentation is part of a lecture given to librarians interested in libraries and documentation centers related to the arts, specifically contemporary art in Mexico, whose aim was to generate a network that can provide: resources, training and updating in library matters .

This paper, “The end of tenure and the advent of renewable contracts for all in LIS,” as part of a topic suggested by the organizers of the Part-Time and Adjuncts SIG Session of ALISE 2014, whose title of proposed session is: Casualties and Collateral Damages: A Critical Look at Educational Entrepreneurship, written and proposed by a Mexican LIS scholar educated at national and international universities, LIS at undergraduate level at UANL, Mexico, one (Muela-Meza) in the USA at Master level (SUNY-Buffalo), and PhD (Muela-Meza, in Information Studies at the University of Sheffield, UK). Having a long tradition employing critical librarianship conceptualizations to his LIS practice and scholarship at UANL, and to his journal Librarianship (LIS) Critique: Journal of the Sciences of Information Science. And having researched and faced since 2008 many situations as part-time and adjunct professor at UANL, hampering his mobility towards full tenure. Thus, if accepted this proposal for participation by presence at ALISE in Philadelphia, would give the author the chance to bring forward some international insights on the issues of fading out of tenure and the advent of renewable contracts with critical epistemology and critical theories and concepts, mainly comparing the U.S., British, Spanish, and Mexican librarianship. Based on some international critics of capitalism and neo-liberal policies (Bouzas and de la Garza, 1998; Berry, 2002; 2005; Giroux, 2012), and underpinned with critical epistemology and critical librarianship concepts, they will try to analyze these issues as how they affect LIS theory and practice (as in e.g. Horner, 2000).

The traditional LIS education is more than hundred years old. In India, LIS education started in the year 1911. The information explosion and subject proliferation in the post industrial society brought major changes in global information environment. The second major thrust on global information scenario was imposed by internet and communication revolution since the late nineties of the last century. Meanwhile, a new global movement in LIS education started to incorporate paradigm shifts of information behaviour, which is known as i-school movement. In this paper, a brief description of global i-school movement is given with special emphasis to India. In India, though this movement was initiated less than a decade ago, but its preamble was started since after independence through the inauguration of INSDOC followed by DRTC. The course structure of the new courses has also been discussed and its similarities with traditional courses are highlighted.

An analysis of management in recent years for the National Library of Argentina, discussed current state and prospects of planning for the improvement and preservation of historical documents and reconditioning work of various sectors.

We present a theoretical approach of a context model suitable for the proper administrative and accounting professional library associations, based on the theory and its corresponding case study applicable to the Asociación de Bibliotecarios Graduados de la República Argentina (ABGRA).

The speaker reported his experience of the 77th IFLA General Conference (WLIC) in San Juan, Puerto Rico, to the middle managers of the National Library of China

Consortium is a group of libraries that cooperate each other for their mutual benefit. The paper analyzes the different type of consortiums in India. The main objective of the paper is to review the IIM consortium, which was formed in the year 2000, to benefit the IIM libraries in developing their collection and enhancing the services. The paper describes the IIM Library Consortium Model, cost benefit analysis and discusses the future direction of the same

We try to explain a new challenge for the profession of librarian. The challenge is give a name to be understood by small and medium enterprises, it is speaking their language. This type of organization can not afford a librarian or an information manager full time so you should train staff so they can meet their needs and organizational information. We define the tools and skills that are accorded to people who want to dedicate this occupational field. Is a translation of user training in the field of libraries, applied to the business world.

Turbulent times led firms to a flat organization structure, process management and decentralization. In spite of the fact that we have sophisticated tools of communication in firms, exchange of information and knowledge in companies with a flat organizational structure are not satisfactory. It is evident that although there is very flexible and fast communication in contrast to the vertically managed organizations, we often struggle here with a great deal of information noise, loss of information and knowledge throughout the enterprise. Deficiencies in communication do not concern the core processes but mainly the support processes. These support processes are high demands on documentation and information exchange. We face here the human factor and its variety in action, which is very difficult to cultivate with organizational culture. The culture helps create information environment and behavior of individual elements of broadly conceived information system or information ecosystem of organization. One of the ways to streamline enterprise information ecosystem and reduce the error rate is outsourcing of record management and outsourcing of archival and administrative services.

The speaker talked about his experiences in IFLA general conferences (WLICs) as standing committee member, working group member and translator, and his ways of sharing information with others through social media.

University libraries are institutions that, by continuously flourishing on new information resources and presenting the latest scientific findings, directly support the education provided by and the research and academic studies conducted at universities in line with the universities’ missions and functions. Moreover, university libraries significantly contribute to creating course contents and to enabling students and researchers attain the required skills to effectively search-access-use-evaluate information resources available in print and digital environments. In this regard, university libraries should be sufficiently equipped with fundamental elements such as facilities, personnel and collections in order to fulfill their missions and objectives. This study aims to provide the fundamental elements of university libraries and to analyze the current status in Turkey in order to discuss the relevant primary issues and suggest solutions.

BCLA 2011 Conference Session: "Sitka For Trustees"; Public library trustees were invited to attend this panel session covering an overview of the Sitka Project and its provincial vision and marketplace context. Questions addressed included: What is an Integrated Library System (ILS)? How does the Sitka project fit into the provincial strategic plan for Public Libraries, Libraries Without Walls? What is the role of the BC Libraries Cooperative and who are the people behind that organization? How does the Sitka project differ from a commercial solution and what are its consortial advantages? Who are the other players in the ILS marketplace? What’s the current status and future prospects for Sitka?

Introduction: Current era in which new technologies and the Internet are the communication medium has led many libraries to offer information and provide their services through these medium and / or tools. Objective: Analyze the visibility on the web of libraries health sciences Spanish hospitals and provides information to users. Material and methods: We have analyzed the current situation. Sample includes those public hospitals that have web page, institutional or non institutional, for the library service. We have conducted a trawl or browsing through the Internet in order to determine which sites had web page and wich services had been offered. Results: Number of sites visited and recovered is 124, with links available on the National Catalogue of Hospitals page of the Ministery of Health and the Catalog of journals in Libraries Health Sciences (C17). It has been analyzed the presence or absence of information, digital services, their types, which one are the most frecuent: general information (schedules, directories, regulations...) interlibrary loan, access to catalogs, databases, electronic journals, other services such as training users, news

The membership in the consortium is a way to increase the effectiveness and the stability of services of academic libraries, based in the main measuring cup on teleinformatic technologies. Of lending interlibrary, access to shared - of central online catalogues, using from the access to huge information resources in order to satisfy determined needs of users, joint financing mutually advantageous projects, in particular concerning the access to resources electronic whether involvement in conferences paid by the consortium or trainings for librarians it is basic, indeed important benefits resulting from such a form of cooperation among libraries.

The aim of this paper is to present a proposal for professional development supported by the theoretical foundations of information science, professional practice and organizational culture. The emphasis is on communication and transdisciplinarity to generate a positional change of the librarian in information management and professional group of the institution. Proposes professional development guidelines grouped into four core program areas: Professionalism, Research, Participation and visibility, permanent education

The factors affecting the success and efficiency of information systems are always an important and critical aspect for the structure, proper operation, and improvement of the produced services and products of an organization for its end users - both for the internal ones (employees) and for the external ones (public). At the present, the need to create suitable parameters, assisting in evaluating and measuring the successful operation of an information system in an organization is constantly growing. The purpose of the specific thesis is, firstly, to introduce us to the environment of the organizations’ information systems, while also providing us with a complete and extended presentation of their operations, processes, infrastructures, and factors of success. Through Systems Theory, we shall examine the analysis and design for an information system, while identifying the quality parameters necessary for measuring its success. In addition, we shall employ the model for measuring quality for an information system called: “DeLone & McLean Information Systems success model”. We shall see what each parameter of the above model examines, by investigating concepts such as system quality, information quality, user satisfaction, effect of quality on users and organization. At the same time, we shall develop an application for evaluating the quality of an information system, the so-called: "Organizational Memory Information Systems Quality" which builds on the success model of DeLone & McLean. The main objective of this thesis is to reach into a fruitful discussion regarding quality in the operation, infrastructure, and provided services of institutional organizations. Moreover, we shall focus on the usefulness and importance of measuring factors regarding efficiency for an information system, as this procedure is used by modern Society of Information, in order to be transformed to Society of Knowledge.

The presentation shows various aspects of cooperation between the Institute of Information Science and Book Studies NCU in Torun and libraries in Poland and abroad.

This paper tries to offer a clear and basic vision of what IFLA and the Government Libraries Section are and how they can help libraries and librarians. It describes the role of the Section, why and how a library, an association, an institution or an individual may join, and what could they do within the Section frame once they are their members.

The "Library 24 hours," Service created as a project of SIBUTEM, to give their students equal opportunities in access to information and comforable for study periods of semester exams.

Presentation of different professional associations and groups existing in Spain related to librarianship, informatiob science and archives since 1978.

The UB is the only Spanish university among the top 200 universities around the world and among the 100 top European level. In this presentation a short general information about the University of Barcelona is given. Most of the slides are devoted to the Faculty of Library and Information Science (LIS) --Facultat de Biblioteconomia i Documentació-, its historical background since it was created in 1915, career courses, masters, doctoral courses, research projects, etc.

DOC6 is a consultancy firm in corporative knowledge management, founded in 1988. They provide Electronic resources of information, Professional Services – Outsourcing, Training, etc. Has received the EUREKA label of R+D for its participation in project COGNOS (n.2734) for the development of knowledge maps in the organizations, as well as the IBEROEKA label (in May 2005). The company annually invests 12% of its benefits in research and development projects in order to offer better innovative solutions to its clients. DOC6 works in the HERMES Project for intelligent access to information.

Established in 1973, The Indonesian Library Association has contributed significantly for the development of professional librarian in Indonesia. It has branches in every province and serving million people every year. With robust network and solid organization, the association has regular annual meeting attended by almost thousands of its loyal members making it one of the largest professional organization in Indonesia. It is the only one formal library association in Indonesia dealing with librarians. Provoked by monetary crisis in Indonesia which melted down the fragile economic foundation and forced the longest served president, the late Soeharto to quit, Indonesia suddenly become a “new state” adopting democratic styled government, more open society And real free market. These unexpected changes have had tremendous impacts on many walks of life including professional institutions. Euphoria that followed reform movement has dispersed power concentration by the establishment of new political parties. Fortyeight new political parties joined eligibly the first democratic general election in 1999. Reform spirits also intruded to The Indonesian Library Association (ILA)locally known as Ikatan Pustakawan Indonesia (IPI). It faced highly demanding members who wanted some substantial changes in the organization structure and custodians and the implementation of power sharing favoring the association branches and chapters in the provinces and districts. Up to the present the top position of the association traditionally goes to the head of National Library. With his or her beauracratic style in leadership, some consider not suitable anymore for the new paradigm of modern and democratic organization.To compound the problems, some librarians have established four forums and one scholars association namely Public Library Forum, University Library Forum (FPPTI), School Library Forum (APISI/FPS), Special Library Forum (FPK) and The Association of Indonesian Library and Information Scholars (ISIIPI). They are autonomous semi formal entity. Judging this unfavorable condition, the board and management of ILA has taken some bold measurements by inviting some new faces, young librarians with strong commitment and high competency to participate actively and directly in decision making process in the association board meeting and put them in strategic position in the organizational structure. Moreover, the association has no objection in the implementation of power sharing making its branches and chapters more autonomous and creative as well. It also simplified its organizational structure to accommodate some changes in modern setting and globalization era. By reinventing its management style and streaming line the organization,the Association has managed to satisfy the majority of its members and attracting more new members especially the young professionallibrarians.

[The present paper is based on a curricular traineeship, part of the Degree in Information Science, under the theme of the implementation of Quality Management Systems, occurred at the Documentation Services of the University of Minho (SDUM).] The SDUM have their main purpose in providing the best resources, services and easy access to all the community of the University of Minho (formed by students of several areas, teachers, collaborators and investigators). In order to fullfil the users’ needs, it was essential for SDUM to grow and mature as an organization. The main objective of this paper is to give a general vision of all the work executed at SDUM, emphasizing this project, pioneer in Portugal: the implementation of Quality Management Systems, based on ISO 9001:2000 and Balanced Scorecard, in order to obtain the services’ certification. Between the amount of steps needed for a complex process as this one is, it is important to have the perception that Libraries are now dealing with a new “generation” of users and it’s important, not only to understand their needs, but knowing how to satisfy them and supplant what their expecting. The Quality, allied, most of the times, to Innovation, is a new opportunity to change what is not working the way it was supposed to but, more important than that, to involve and motivate all the collaborators, making them feel as a real team. And it will surely reflect in the services rendered to the users. From mapping processes, to documental management, passing through the Quality Manual, Benchmarking and the issues related to the human side of this question, the present paper aims to be an example of what is Quality applied to this area and also encourage

Building an effective and sustainable curriculum-integrated information literacy initiative requires several key ingredients, from securing support by identifying and aligning the library with key strategic partners on campus and providing convincing evidence of the need for attention to information competencies, to planning and designing information literacy development and assessment opportunities across the curriculum. Participants will hear case studies from two very different institutions and begin to build a strategic action plan for their own institutions.

CNBA was created in 1977 by a group of librarians operating in the architectural field, animated by a strong feeling of cooperation, which has remained the main characteristic of the association. There have always been two lines of action: one addressed to members (professional courses, stages, conferences and publications), the other addressed to users, students, professors and professional architects. In the latter direction can be mentioned the participation to national and international projects meant to offer tools for an improved access to documents in the field of urban planning and architecture

Information is an object of marketing, it is bought and sold, and it can provide, to those who own it, some actual and effective profits. This evidence is so obvious that the major companies leaders have designed policies to manage this resource in the interests of their company. However, sometimes also confused because of this situation, they simplify the information management with the mere addition of information technology of the last generation which, although having fundamental importance as tools for the very information management, the can only be seen as a support to cover that management of the information.

Science Commons serves the advancement of science by contributing to the removal of unnecessary legal and technical barriers to scientific collaboration and innovation. Built on the promise of Open Access to scholarly literature and data, Science Commons identifies and eases key barriers to the movement of information, tools and data through the scientific research cycle. The long term vision of Science Commons is to provide more than just useful contracts. We will combine our publishing, data, and licensing approaches to develop solutions for a truly integrated and streamlined research process.

In the language of e-learning, teaching and learning contents are often organized in ‘learning objects’: molecular assets that may consist of texts, audio or video lessons, presentations, tutorials, self-evaluation tests, all adequately described and packaged. The idea that open access could and should be applied to learning materials is not new: recent initiatives such as MIT’s OpenCourseWare or Open University’s OpenLearn are clearly moving toward the right direction. However, the problem of the repositories to be used in order to collect, describe, preserve and distribute open access learning assets is still an open one. Learning Content Management Systems (LCMS) are the tools of choice in centralized management of learning assets, but while most LCMS adopt well-established standards for metadata (Learning Object Metadata – LOM) and packaging (SCORM) of learning objects, few of them explicitly address the problem of metadata harvesting by adopting the OAI-PMH protocol. On the other hand, most institutional repositories based on OAI-PMH do not address the specific problem of learning content metadata, for which the Dublin Core metadata scheme is painfully inadequate. The optimal solution seems therefore that of integrating basic LCMS features within existing Open Archives, allowing for both CD and LOM metadata handling and harvesting. This would also have the effect of actively promoting open access distribution for learning contents, by using a widespread and successful paradigm for their distribution. The paper will suggest a relatively simple model for such an integration.

The Italian Ministry of Health launched in 2001 a national program to support “independent information”. The dissemination included the translation and free distribution to all health professionals (300.000) of three reference books – British National Formulary; Medicines for Children and Clinical Evidence. The implementation plan includes the development of a free-access e-learning Continuing Medical Education (CME) system, based on Clinical Evidence, called ECCE. Doctors have access to a Clinical Evidence electronic version and related clinical vignettes. Solving the vignettes provides CME credits. Our objective was to understand the factors influencing knowledge transfer using a CME distance programme, based on clinical vignettes driven by the Clinical Evidence in general medical practice. As of June 10th 2007, more than 30 000 doctors voluntarily subscribed to ECCE (11.8%). Two surveys assessed doctors’ judgement about Clinical Evidence and ECCE. Free distribution and implementation of Clinical Evidence to Italian doctors have been well received, confirming their preference for problem-driven information and the key-role of a strong endorsement from Health Authorities for their implementation.

Recent reform processes affecting European and national research systems (mostly Higher Education and Public Research Institutes) enhanced the need of research evaluation as Government steering tool as well as mean for supporting allocation of public financial resources. Moreover, different methodologies for ranking Universities at international level on the basis of research quality are emerging, pushing institutions toward improving their visibility through the search of excellence. In both cases, peer review and bibliometrics are the chosen methods. The paper wants to discuss how considering concepts and means related to the Open Access (OA) context can influence these practices. Questions addressed are: how can peer review be implemented according to the OA initiative? Are there new tools other than bibliometrics, which can be used in order to reinforce peers’ outcome? Evidences from the Research Evaluation Exercise (VTR) recently developed in Italy by the National Committee for the Evaluation of Research (CIVR) will be presented.

While open access archiving and publishing are already common practices in many scientific, technical and medical (STM) fields, we cannot say the same for the humanities - especially in Italy. It is true that "information wants to be free" and ideas spread also in spite of all the copyright and closed access obstructions. However, the by-product of a such a situation is what we can call an incomplete library, which exacerbates the typical fragmentation of these disciplines. At the beginnings of Western philosophy, Plato dealt with the transition from orality to literacy, and met the challenge by combining freedom of the texts and knowledge communities. Now humanities have to face a similar challenge. And their fragmentation and lateness in the open access publishing can offer the opportunity to try out new filtering criteria, like open peer review, retroactive peer review and soft peer review. Outside the scientific community, a new kind of peer reviewing is emerging on-line - a kind of wisdom of the crowds that applies to de facto open access objects (see Chris Anderson, Wisdom of the crowds ). Although such a wisdom is not flawless, for humanities - which deal with human beings - it is crucial to communicate and to energize the new. cultivated public opinion that is arising from the Internet, if they want to preserve their eminence In a situation if information abundance, the well-known academic motto "publish or perish" might also be interpreted as "make your texts public, or perish".

High Energy Physics (HEP) spearheaded the Open Access dissemination of scientific results with the mass mailing of preprints in the pre-WWW era and with the launch of the arXiv.org repository at the dawn of the '90s. The community is now ready for a further push to Open Access while retaining all the advantages of its peer-review system. CERN, the world leading HEP laboratory which gave to the world the WWW, has now taken the lead in furthering Open Access publishing, leveraging on its experience and assets in world-wide collaboration. In recent months, HEP funding agencies, laboratories and library consortia joined forces to establish a single body, called SCOAP3: the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics. SCOAP3 will engage scientific publishers towards building a sustainable model for Open Access publishing, transparent for HEP authors. In the SCOAP3 model, subscription fees from multiple institutions are replaced with contracts with publishers of Open Access journals where SCOAP3 is a single financial partner. The publishers' role of assuring the high quality of published scientific literature through the peer-review system is at the basis of this model. Publishers would receive financial compensation for the costs incurred in the organisation of the peer-review service, while assuring Open Access to the accepted articles. We discuss the HEP publishing landscape and its links to the Open Access tenets leading to the basis of the SCOAP3 model. An outline for the transition of the entire HEP corpus to Open Access is then presented and the recent steps towards the establishment of SCOAP3 are reviewed.

Over the last years, the CRUI (Conferenza dei Rettori delle Università Italiane) has acknowledged the importance of full and open access to information and data belonging to the public domain for scientific research and education. Therefore, it has been fostering the web dissemination of scientific knowledge produced by Italian Universities and Research Institutions. In November 2004, the CRUI promoted the agreement of the Italian Universities to the "Berlin Declaration to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities", on the occasion of the Messina Conference on "Italian Universities for Open Access: towards open access for scholarly literature", in order to spread the advantages generated by open-access publishing. At the beginning of 2006, within the CRUI Libraries Commission, the Italian Group for Open Access has been set up, targeted at carrying out the principles of the Berlin Declaration. This Group is drawing up the guidelines, in order to make the academic community aware of the advantages due to Open Access, and to provide definite indications for the creation of open archives and the actualization of e-publishing initiatives. More precisely, the group is working on the laws and the ways of publishing Ph.D. dissertations in the archives.

In the preservation of the author’s rights often prevails some aspects that can be brought back to the creative autonomy of authors and publishers, like a vertical system in which every distribution or fruition act of the creative contents is authorized and controlled. On this point are well known those prejudicial opinions and critical positions that seem to prevent any opening policies in the name of unspecified “international treaties”. However, a social opening is present in the international area and there could be forms of opening and mediation – even if this social opening does not have a defined content and is subdued to state legislation. The international organisation is well aware of this need of differentiation that often appears and which requires an adaptation to some limitations without that the whole discipline of the auhtor’s rights (sometimes confused with copyright) risks to be misconceived. Then, there must be discovered the exceptions to the legislation that refer to the payment of the author’s and the related rights to assure, from one hand, the social opening to the system in a responsible way. In other words, the matter is not to rewrite all the author’s rights issue, but to focus better its application.

Since the aim of Open Access is the removal of any economic, technical and legal barrier to the access to peer-reviewed published output of research, the creation and implementation of Rights Management Policies in higher education is a strategic issue for an effective and really practice Open Access endorsement. Italian Universities' priority should be the identification of stakeholders and the allocation of their own interests. A policy statements should explain in a very clear way how each faculty member's ownership should accomplish their digital scholarly material ensuring that the availability and the accessibility of this material is not adversely affected by the copyright. Policies on Open Access should be a fundamental part of the mission of our Universities, because it is involved in any process from creation to dissemination of scholarly works; for this reason University policies should balance the interests of stakeholders - reserving rights or benefits for research uses or teaching activities and ensuring that the work it funds can be read and utilised by the widest possible audience. Managing copyright is a skill to be created. A variety of approach can exist even within one country, depending by laws or by habits to faculties. Copyright laws are inadequate to deal with the complex issues surrounding the management of intellectual works created at Universities. On Government side we need new legislations such as specific laws for the scholarship communication world. Nowadays the copyright is perceived as a very strong legal barrier for research and teaching, because copyright laws influence in a negative way the dissemination and the consequent impact of intellectual research output, with heavy cultural, social and economic relapses. On the administrative side we have to work inside our University. We need different levels of policies which foresee agreements that seek to assure to University and to its authors the ability to use and manage the works in fulfilment of their most important interests.

The Data, Data Analysis, and Visualization plan of the U.S. National Science Foundation's (NSF) Cyberinfrastructure Vision for 21st Century Discovery (see http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf0728/nsf0728.pdf) provides a framework in which NSF will work with its partners in the public, private, and international sectors to address data acquisition, access, usage, stewardship and management challenges in a comprehensive way. Motivated by a vision in which science and engineering digital data are routinely deposited in well-documented form, are regularly and easily consulted and analyzed by specialists and non-specialists alike, are openly accessible while suitably protected, and are reliably preserved, NSF’s five-year goal is twofold: To catalyze the development of a system of science and engineering data collections that is open, extensible and evolvable; and To support development of a new generation of tools and services facilitating data mining, integration, analysis, and visualization essential to turning data into new knowledge and understanding. The resulting national digital data framework will consist of a range of data collections and managing organizations, networked together and designed to contribute to the emerging global information commons. It will be simultaneously local, regional, national and global in nature, and will evolve as science and engineering research and education needs change and as new opportunities arise.

The presentation will describe the progress towards open access to UK research papers over the past two years, covering subject and instituional repository growth and "gold" open access developments. The JISC has funded many projects to support universities in repository development, and some universities have made new policy commitments in support of open access. The Research Councils have also made important policy decisions, and the Wellcome Trust has joined with other biomedical funding agencies in establishing UK PubMed Central. Many UK publishers now offer an open access option to authors and UK universities and funding agencies are currently developing procedures to enable authors to take advantage of these options.

In Germany, the members of the so-called alliance of research organisations (Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, German Rectors’ Conference, German Research Foundation DFG, Helmholtz Association, Leibniz Association, Max Planck Society) drive the open access agenda forward. Providing information for academics and scientists still plays a major role, and members of the alliance found various ways for adressing their often specific needs. A DFG-funded platform (http://www.open-access.net/) serves as a national focal point, providing information for different stakeholders involved or concerned with open access. Developing guidelines and policies can thus rely on the information provided (e.g. the resolution by the German Commission for UNESCO that was based on a handbook on open access, cf. http://www.unesco.de/reshv67-3.html?&L=0). Some organisations asked key researchers to provide their articles via repositories in open access to demonstrate that open access publications comply with the highest quality standards. At the same time, the infrastructure for open access archiving is continuously improved, be it by large-scale projects like eSciDoc (http://www.escidoc-project.de/homepage.html), be it by networking the repositories in Germany. Although there is a strong support for the so-called "green road", major German research organisations are also interested in contributing to the SCOAP3. Besides, providing open access to primary research data comes more and more into the focus of attention. The presentation will depict the major developments within Germany, pointing out the specific interests of the alliance’s member organisations.

The authors present a summary of the results obtained from a survey made to members of the professional association SEDIC in 2006. Data are analyzed with the aim of identifying origin and needs on continuous formation, labour and professional situation, different profiles in the profession and degree of job satisfaction of SEDIC members. The results are compared with the survey made in the same association in 2001, with the aim of drawing conclusions to improve our knowledge on the labour and professional situation in the sector of the Information Science in Spain.

As www, and now web 2.0 is growing by the second, it gives us new possibilities of pedagogical forms, and the main following outcomes: resources, implementation, usage, practice. We will re-evaluate and examine new forms of social networking - theoretical and practical knowledge in academia and science: from implemetation of web roots practice, listservs, eBoards, eZines (alternative art and education forms –then), the usage of eResources in academia, education profession to the wider audience: using larger online open archives, Consortias, digital libraries, repositories, to online social networking applications, science and education blogs. Author uses and presents data from her Master research paper with relevant results about the usage of the precious online resources, electronic publishing materials within Consortia (that are available in science institutions, academia and libraries). More than thousands and thousands available resources are not used because of many factors that the author explained in one of the chapters in master paper. As indicated in outlines, e-tensions play themselves differently in various institutional geographies. Author took empirical research on three geographic points: USA, Europe (UK and Nederlands) and Serbia. The Scopes are two paradigms: human factor and digital media educational tools (human-computer interaction and its social impacts), that we use in education systems and professional practice. For the first one is indicated open source educational software, applications and tools for giving information and knowledge. We will also give a short notice on the interest and the usage of the aimed groups of those possiblities (at classes, lectures). For the second, in professional practice we will see how those social knowledge tools have impact on larger science commnity groups (science, educational institutes and institutions) as well as the outcome-feedback. The point will be given on interaction in open knowledge and education, as well as the notice to the audience of the recent exemplar of implementation of social, interactive knowledge into professional practice and educational system - the concept of web of science which founder is the father of World Wide Web Tim Berners- Lee.

The availability of broad characterizations of campus information systems for students can be useful for the strategic information management of higher education centres. First we describe and contextualize a characterization model for on-line campus information systems for undergraduate students. This serves as a framework of conceptual reference for empirical work on Spanish universities. Information was gathered by means of structured visits to institutional websites and structured interviews with undergraduate students. Analyzing the information collected enables us to classify Spanish higher education institutions into three clusters with homogeneous characteristics, in the sense of their information system and organizational aspects. Finally, we discuss future research on this subject.

This study examines how collaboratories affect informal scientific communication. Collaboratories are virtual organizations, where various information technologies are adopted to support distributed scientific work. In this paper, a framework to understand factors affecting informal communication are presented and how these factors play out in collaboratories are discussed. The results of data analysis suggest that collaboratories bring about new opportunities, but there are also barriers to informal communication in collaboratories. Peripheral scientists encounter more barriers than their partners in US and Europe. The paper concludes with a discussion of areas for future research and implications of this study.

Today’s knowledge workers rely increasingly on information to get their job done, and the availability of search engines to locate relevant information is thus essential. Understanding how users interact with search engines is a prerequisite for the successful design of useful systems and a body of knowledge has in recent years begun to compile. However, all previous studies have focused on the public web, not acknowledging the fact that much business-related information seeking occur on corporate internal networks. In this exploratory study, we have collected and analysed intranet search engine log files from three different years – 2000, 2002, and 2004 – enabling us to detect shifting trends in intranet search behaviour. Comparing our data to what has been reported from the public web we conclude that intranet searchers are both similar to and different from searchers on the public web. In sum, it appears that intranet users are more extreme in their behaviour and that qualitative studies are needed to understand the motives and rationales governing their actions.

In the current age, which is distinguished for the progress of technology and information the libraries have conspicuous place in the academic services of universities that are addressed in the instructive personnel, as well as in the students but also in the exterior users of libraries. In the frame of program E.P.E.A.E.K. titled “Pythagoras - Aid of Inquiring Teams of University Macedonia”, is held research titled “Investigation of Most optimal Practices: Growth of database from most optimal practices (Best practices) in administrative and organisational operations of universities of country”. Part of this study constitutes the investigation of most optimal practices from the libraries of Greek Universities. For the concretisation of research was realised recording of libraries of Greek universities. Followed the creation of questionnaire, which was based on qualitative and quantitative criteria, which was sent in all universities of country rectors in order that, it is transmitted in the persons in charge of academic libraries. Also were realised visits in the libraries of educational institutions for the collection of elements as well as search of information from the web pages of libraries. The particular statement will include the results and the recording of most optimal practices of services of Greek academic libraries, that corresponded in the research, as well as report in most optimal practices of services of library in foreigner universities.

In this presentation, the basic characteristics of electronic records are analyzed in the frame of operation of an organisation. Then, three systems of electronic management of records and the basic characteristics of them are presented, as well as the frame in which these were developed. Finally, there is an attempt to investigate the application of these models in a Greek organisation.