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The article reports on the "Open Access and Open Data" international conference held in Köln, Germany, on December 13 and 14, 2010. The article discusses the theme "The Open Access Advantage" as referred to by speakers including professor Dieter Stein, Dr. Alma Swan, a consultant in scholarly communication, and Celina Ramjoué a representative of the European Commission.

The article provides a summary of a September 2009 meeting on provenance research projects as reported at the 30th Austrian Librarian Conference in Graz, Austria. Among the undertakings reviewed was the attempt to inventory and recover missing medical manuscripts of the University of Vienna, Austria, lost during the National Socialist (Nazi) era. Similar book restitution efforts were reported at the universities of Graz, Innsbruck, Klagenfurt, and Salzburg.

The article reports on satellite conferences between the Hochschulbibliothekszentrum des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen (hbz - College Library Center of North-Rhine Westphalia) ) and the Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Medizin (ZB MED - German Central Library for Medicine) in Düsseldorf, Germany in November 2008. The Open Access Conference addressed the theme "Changing Scholary Communication in the Knowledge Society."

The article reports on an April 2008 conference on "E-Journals in Practice" at the Free University of Bozen, Italy. Topics discussed included licensing and monitoring of eJournals, journal management, open access library materials, and systematic peer reviews. The final discussion revolved around the implementation and application of library use and user statistics.

The article discusses Austrian legislation effective in 2004 which brought more autonomy to universities and a changed administrative role based on strategic management. University libraries, however, are said to have lost their independence. Interlibrary cooperation efforts are reviewed, particularly with respect to electronic media and cataloging.

The article discusses the blog series "Vertrieben 1938," first published by the library of the Medizinische Universität in Vienna, Austria, about medical professors expelled from the University after the annexation of Austria to the German Third Reich in 1938.