CfP LIBREAS. Library Ideas #32 Wirkt Open Access? Oder: Wo ist die Utopie geblieben? | LIBREAS.Library Ideas

From Google Translate: "For libraries and publishers, there is a kind of unwelcome Dejavu after modes for the digital simulation of analog dependencies could be established half way. Consequently, it is mainly with copyright and licensing barriers that attempts are being made to counter the dissolution of the principles of analogue culture through digital media. The dynamics and indivisibility of digital communications structures are trying to keep something hand-held, driven by the fear that science could sooner or later communicate with them.

 Thus, for example, both discover the value of digital success monitoring for science, whose methods are usually hardly more transparent than the impact factor. Where the digital barrier is difficult to gain access to the medium, value-added services and new barriers are developed. Are the withdrawal battles? Or reinterpretation of one's own role?

 The upcoming edition of LIBREAS would like to consider the mixture of these factors. Obviously, one can ask today: Are libraries (and the classical publishers) still needed to organize a (utopian) scientific publication and even more a communication culture, which is purely digital and completely open access? At the same time one can question: If not, who then? What institutional alternatives are there for the organization of scientific communication?

 Over all this, the question of funding has hovered since the very beginning. The transparency of the publication costs is on the one hand, the overhead of the operation of library systems on the other. Both are under the pressure of legitimation, and the open access discourse is interesting, especially the publishers in the view. Or is it all different? We are looking for the issue # 32, which also likes to take a close look at the interrelationship between the three components - open access, libraries and publishing houses - in a very open and relentless way, questioning, deconstructing, measuring and analyzing them."