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Personal papers such as diaries or memoirs are established sources for historical, cultural and literary research. Special archival collections have been built up over the past decades. Depending on the focus of the content, these collections are composed very differently. With an intersectional approach, some of these differences are presented in this article: Are women and men documented differently in collections of personal papers from artists, scientists or politicians? How is the gender comparison in collections with an everyday history approach? Are women and men possibly represented here with different auto/biographical formats? And what about members of different social classes? Are there also diaries of workers or servants in the archives? The systematic comparison exposes structural inequalities in archival collections and thus shows the direct effects of documentation policies that have a lasting influence on which sources are ultimately available to research – and which are not. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The project "Kompetenznetzwerk Digital Edition" (KONDE) is funded by the Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy and has been operational since spring 2017. It is committed to the premises of the Open Science Community and aims to create conditions for the establishment of a sustainable publication platform for digital editions (DE). Contributors from the Universities Graz, Innsbruck, Klagenfurt, Salzburg and Vienna, the Graz University of Technology and the University of Arts Graz together with colleagues from the Austrian National Library, the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Adalbert Stifter Institute of the Province of Upper Austria, have set themselves the goal of establishing a research infrastructure for digital editions and pooling their expertise in this field throughout Austria. This infrastructure should by no means be understood merely as ahardware solution or a collection of technical solutions. It will also approach the topic of DE from a methodological-theoretical point of view and make the work and discussion results available to the scientific community in an interactive white paper on digital editing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ralf Schimmer answers questions about Max Planck Society's positioning on open access systems and also speaks a bout motives and date of the release of its keynote paper “ Disrupting the subscription journals ' business model for the necessary largescale transformation to open access: A Max Planck Digital Library Open Access Policy White Paper" . The interv ie w also refects the differe t kinds and fun ding of open access systems as well as the question about future tasks of libraries, of open access systems w ill succeed the classic pattern of journ ls which rely on subscriptions und licences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents information about developments in the digitalization of library resources in the 20th and 21st centuries. Written material is being digitized at a rate of 800 to 1300 pages per hour, so that libraries in Africa, Europe, the Middle East and the U.S. are able to offer scanned images of archived material to Internet users. An academic study by Swiss historian Monika Dommann is referenced, which discusses the use and regulation of copy machines and their social impact.

The debate on gender-inclusive and discrimination-sensitive use of language, that has taken place in German-speaking universities for many years, raises fundamental ethical questions. This paper discusses the possibilities of acting in and with langu- age and examines the individual responsibility of language use. The paper argues for a reflexive and thoughtful approach to language preconditions, that leads to a deeper understanding of the importance of gender representations in language. It proclaims language as a central field of action for gender equality and antidiscrimination work at universities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Disciplinary Open Access repositories differ from institutional ones in at least two important respects: the contributions they cover are restricted to an academic field, but necessarily trans-local in scope. Some difficulties that have recently been impeding the Open Access Initiative carry particular weight as far as these repositories are concerned. Two issues in particular will be discussed by referring to examples taken from a small philosophical repository Sammelpunkt. Firstly academic papers can (quite often in different versions and under various terms of use) increasingly be found in open as well as closed archives. Secondly, disciplinary repositories are overshadowed by the ubiquity of academic social web portals. One factor supporting these developments is the conceptual inadequacy of the catchphrase „Open Access“, which cannot prevent applications unintended by the initial inventors of this phrase. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents information about a research program to be released by a European committee in 2007. The program is intended to facilitate European users' access to digital information, as well as to increase digital library user rates. An additional goal is noted as the sharing of digital information between all European libraries. A call for papers is announced for the period between June 2007 and October 4, 2007.

The article discusses a project undertaken by the German National Library to determine the sustainability of a massive deacidification of its holdings. The project is part of a program for the conservation and restoration of endangered cultural artifacts (KUR), which is funded by the federal and provincial governments.

The article reports on how the Austrian National Library in Vienna, Austria is working on converting historical documents into digital documents, so that they can be published on the internet. The project is focusing on the daily newspapers that were published in the constituent lands of the Austrian Empire during the reign of the House of Habsburg, an Austrian royal ruling family, and is being financed by the ERSTE Stiftung, a foundation of the Erste Bank financial institution.

ePubWU was founded 2002 as one of Austria's first Open Access Repositories and has ever since been publishing working papers and doctoral dissertations of the Vienna University of Economics and Business freely available on the Internet. Over the years changes in requirements of the user groups and the technological environment made it necessary to enhance the functionalities and to achieve a future-proof repository. Primary objective was a connection to the IT-infrastructure of the university, particularly to the main administrative database. This should enable seamless access to the master data needed for authenticating users, for a normalisation of personnel data in the repository and a link to the research information system. This paper outlines the relaunch of the repository and the experiences we made. Emphasis is placed on the requirements analysis, software decision and the customisation of the software. Moreover, the most fundamental improvements of the relaunched ePubWU are presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the results of the OBV working group "Repositories in the Austrian Library Network". The aim of the working group was to develop a guideline for the registration of metadata for objects in repositories, which would contribute to the development of uniform standards in this regard, and with the help of which it should subsequently be possible to identify repository holdings in Alma or in the Austrian Union Catalogue without creating duplicates. Further goals were the development of recommendations for a central provision of metadata of open access publications to simplify local workflows (analogous to the DFG-funded project DeepGreen) by means of partial automation, as well as recommendations for establishing a tab for open access materials in the search engine of the Austrian Library Network (analogous to the tabs "Literature", "Theses and Dissertations" and "Bequests / Autographs"). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Even in the current situation, students of library science must gain professional experience in libraries under often difficult conditions. Libraries, in turn, should not lose the important input and new ideas that interns can provide because of the increased security measures. Many students choose to complete a part of their compulsory internship in the department of Repository Management PHAIDRA-Services of the University of Vienna every year. To continue this tradition during the crisis, a new concept for online internships was developed in the summer of 2020. The first group of four students from the Humboldt University of Berlin completed a four-week remote internship in October-November 2020. The paper discusses the concept for the virtual internship, as well as the feedback from both colleagues and interns. Lessons learned are presented in order to help other libraries that are considering the shift to virtual internships. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A lot of what we read today in the media about coronavirus waves, school closings, and soon available vaccines reminds of the influenza pandemic 1918-1920. An essential difference is the electronic infrastructure that allows us to supply users with online library services. This paper illustrates how the library of the University of Applied Sciences Burgenland managed to compensate the sudden decrease of physical borrowing with already available digital tools (Alma-Summon, Microsoft Teams), and new ones like LibAnswers. Finally, it will be shown how by simple means (Microsoft Office) a library seats availability dashboard was realized and shared with other libraries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article reviews the activities and results of subproject 3 of the "Austrian Transition to Open Access" (AT2OA) project. The aim of the subproject was to provide financial, conceptual and organizational support for the establishment and operation of Open Access publication funds at Austrian universities. Against this background, the article summarizes the development and current status of publication funds in Austria. It describes the activities of the working group and presents the results of the subproject (working papers and recommendations). Short reports from 13 universities illustrate the evolution of publication funds at AT2OA partner institutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Descriptive cataloguing of resources as one of the foundations of librarianship is in crisis, but it has been since before Corona. This paper describes the additional difficulties the field faces in light of the pandemic, and suggests low threshold measures to address them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the "Orientations towards the first Strategic Plan for Horizin Europe1", the strategy paper of the EU-Commission on the 9th EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation, the following sentence can be found on the importance of Open Science: "Open science practices will be mainstreamed as the new modus operandi for EU research and innovation." Open Science will be the specification of how research should be carried out in the future with the help of digital tools and networks. Although the EU-Commission is a pioneer in this area, local funding bodies are already following suit. For research institutions, this means that the institutional research infrastructure must be further developed to meet these requirements. In the project "e-Infrastructures Austria Plus", seven work packages have begun to build up the know-how and technical infrastructures required for this. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper introduces the Open Science Network Austria (OANA). It describes its history, development and structure before it defines Open Science as a general concept on the one hand, and in OANA's understanding on the other. The context and partners of OANA are presented and the most important programmatic accomplishments outlined. Finally, the current working groups of OANA and especially the work of the WG "Legal Aspects of Open Science" are explained. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper presents the personal experience of the author with Open Science during her academic studies and as a fellow of the Fellow-Programm Freies Wissen. The concept "Open Science" is introduced along its accompanying principles. The author reflects upon the application of those principles during her studies of Classical Archaeology and Computational Linguistics. An introduction to the Fellow-Programme is also provided, along an overview of the author's activities and implementation of the principles during the eight months period of the programme 2018/2019, where a project to create an interactive, open, and online bibliography was pursued. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There is a discoverability crisis in research. A significant share of research outputs are not reused, even though publications are more easily accessible thanks to the open access movement. One of the main reasons for the crisis are the tools that we use for discovery. Classic list-based approaches are not suitable any more for the three million papers that are published each year. Open Knowledge Maps is dedicated to improving the visibility of scientific knowledge. To this end, the charitable nonprofit organisation operates the largest visual search engine in the world. Our approach is to use knowledge maps for discovery. Knowledge maps provide an instant overview of a scientific field and thus enable users to get acquainted with the literature much more quickly. Open Knowledge Maps is based on the principles of open science: content, data, and software are shared under an open license. This creates an open infrastructure, avoiding the lock-in effects of proprietary systems. Since the beginning, Open Knowledge Maps has worked together closely with libraries and librarians as the experts for knowledge organisation and management. As part of a consortial funding model, we now invite libraries to co-create the system with us - this includes important upcoming topics, such as the discoverability of research data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although studies have shown that it should be possible to financially su-stain an Open Access research environment with the expenditure that is already being spent on subscriptions, it is to be expected that on an institutional level the changeover may bring about financial difficulties. In order to avoid a situation where open access publishing is completely put on hold due to such constraints, we can pave the way for a smoother transition to openness by introducing transitional business models, sup-ported by central funds. The paper describes the prerequisites for an equitable and appropriate use of central funds for such transitional business models, and presents a case study of a currently running, successful agreement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper describes the implementation of the Alma integrated library system in the Austrian Library Network from the perspective of the descriptive and subject cataloguing departments. Apart from the experiences made replacing the Aleph system the authors put special focus on Alma's suitability for everyday use. The current situation of the cataloguing field is then discussed in the context of future developments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Digital repositories are central to both librarian and scientific work and keep evolving due to new requirements. The Austrian Library Network and Services Ltd. (OBVSG) is an application service provider of the repository software Visual Library. This includes the necessary coordination of both user requests and implementation by the companies responsible for the software. This paper describes the role of OBVSG as an application service provider of Visual Library and current plans for the further development of the software. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper describes the experience gained at the University of Padova Library System on modelling, creation, management and preservation of digital collections with Phaidra, the Digital Asset Management tool created and developed by the University of Vienna, for GLAM institutions (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums). There is also an examination of the motivations and strategies for creating a model for the presentation of the collections aimed at enhancing the cultural heritage of libraries, archives and museums of the University and local partners (Ca' Foscari University of Venice and Università Iuav di Venezia) and intended for use by a specialised audience as well as by the general public. Future challenges include the repository certification and the enrichment of the search functionality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The archiving of publications and (research) data from art and science poses major challenges for universities and non-university research institutes. It turns out that artists and scientists hardly use the infrastructures newly created by the universities (repositories, document servers, current research information systems) and rather rely on decentralized, mostly commercial platforms on the Internet. This paper introduces two web applications, “Portfolio" and “Showroom", whose useroriented development aims to provide low-threshold access to CRIS solutions. The functionalities of these two digital tools and the fundamentals of their development are presented as well as the just completed Graphical User Interface testing, its method and results. Finally, the article presents the environment in which the development (including interfaces to existing repository solutions) takes place. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is based on a presentation given at ODOK 2010, 23th September 2010. It reports on research conducted in the area of Linked Data and the Semantic Web within the project Europeana. The first part of this paper will sketch out the prospective information architecture of Europeana. The second part will present exemplary semantic search functionality based on Europeana's „Semantic Search Prototype“ and explain basic principles of such search facilities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

On January the 1st, 2016 a new agreement between 32 Austrian scientific libraries and the publisher Springer took its effect: this deal covers accessing the licensed content on the one hand, and publishing open access on the other hand. More than 1000 papers by Austrian authors were published open access at Springer in the first year alone. The working group "Springer Compact Evaluierung" made the data for these articles available via the platform OpenAPC and would like to use this opportunity to give a short account of what this publishing agreement actually entails and the working group intends to do. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the light of current and prospective projects of women's /gender information centres on the one hand and gender studies institutions on the other, the article focuses on the significance and the necessity of sharing a specific gender-sensitive language of documentary. Written in the process of the Master's program Library and Information Science (MALIS) at the TH Köln, the intention of this paper is to formulate suggestions as to how a gender thesaurus could be modelled. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the results of a pre-study on completing the cataloguing of the exile library of Charlotte and Karl Bühler. The value of a bequest library like the one in question lies in the unique traces of use and perusal. Consequently, the project focused on securing and indexing the specific features of the items as well as making them accessible. As there is no accorded procedure for cataloguing item-related characteristics in the Austrian Library Network (OBV) the core issue of the project was the development of a solution that fitted the specific requirements of the Bühler's bequest library. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper deals with a legacy left behind by National Socialism in the books of Vienna University — library stamps with the Swastika symbol. Recently a library patron used social media to demand that these stamps should be removed. This contemporary response is juxtaposed to an outline of the historical development of the library holdings, the reasons for stamping and the periodization of the stamps used. The stamps and other object details are important historical sources which transform books into historical documents and provide important evidence for NS provenance research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper provides executive summary and recommendations of “Researchers and their data. Results of an Austrian survey - Report 2 01 5 " This report provides an overview of the nation-wide survey on research data, which was carried out within the project e-lnfrastructures Austria in 2015. This was directed at the arts, humanities and sciences staff of all 21 public universities and three extramural research institutions in Austria. The participants were asked about the following topics: data types and formats; data archiving backup and loss; ethical and legal aspects; accessibility and re-use; and infrastructure and services. The first survey conducted at the national level in this context was used for the practical handling of research data in Austria, and is therefore the basis for a consecutive optimization of relevant infrastructure, an adaptation of the services provided, as well as a reorientation in identifying resources in this strategic area which correspond to the expressed needs of people in the research process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

INIS (International Nuclear Information System) is the world's largest database in the field of peaceful uses of nuclear science and is operated by the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) in collaboration with the INIS Member States. The Austrian INIS center is located at the Central Library of Physics and is responsible for the selection and input of relevant, in Austria published literature. With over 3.3 million bibliographic records the INIS Collection provides access to a unique collection of gray literature in the field of nuclear science. This includes over 280,000 full-text documents, such as, scientific and technical reports, conference protocols and patents, which would be difficult to obtain elsewhere. This paper deals specifically with the INIS Collection Search, which allows an extremely precise search result using the INIS multilingual Thesaurus. The Thesaurus contains 30,000 terms and is available in all the IAEA's official languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Japanese, Spanish and German). Access to the INIS Collection, the INIS bibliographic database and to the full-text document is free of charge and via the INIS website http://www.iaea.org/INIS possible. The INIS Collection Search is powered by Google Search Appliance, and particular attention has been paid to the usability of the search system. INIS supports information retrieval through two basic search modes: Standard Search and Advanced Search. User registration for INIS Collection is provided through NUCLEUS. the common access point to the IAEA 's scientific, technical and regulatory information resources. Registered INIS-users have access to a comprehensive range of information, to an “ user profile" and to a “workspace", where, among other things search results can be saved and search queries (queries) can be managed. After a brief general introduction about INIS and ICS selected case studies on the application of ICS are shown. Last but not least, new developments related to the INIS Collection Search are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper a user study for two libraries of the University of Graz, namely the main library and the Law and Social and Economic Sciences Library, is presented. In detail, user structure, user behavior, and user satisfaction are evaluated by interviewing 276 library users. The results reveal that most users are students who use both libraries quite intensively and are quite satisfied with the existing offer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper deals with a critical commentary on IFLA 's international code of ethics, blogged by American professor R. David Lankes, trying to extract the essence from it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A central function of mass media in democracies is to make political processes public. In this paper, starting from the theory of communicative action by Jürgen Habermas, a communication ethical perspective for journalists is discussed. Based on this theory, the journalist is seen as a lawyer in the public discourse. As a lawyer he should — on behalf of the interested public - question critically the actions of politicians. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we analyze the opening hours of 50 randomly selected university libraries (UL) in Austria, Germany, Canada and the USA. The aim of this analysis is to identify possible influences on the extent of the opening hours. Potential influencing factors that we consider are library size and country (state) or linguistic area in which a library is located. The results of the analysis show that larger UL and UL that are located in the United States tend to be opened longer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper deals with content-related enhancements of courses on information literacy for lawyers. The objective is to address a larger group of people for further education in this field. In addition to the offering of courses for several fields of law, courses aimed at legal practice should be realised. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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.

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.

This article reports on a symposium of the Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries for long-term availability of royalty-bearing digital content (i.e. licensed content) and summarises the papers presented at the symposium and the discussion phases between the lectures. Starting from a statement on the reasons of the consortium to deal with issues of long-term availability of royalty-bearing content (looking for a technical and organisational solution to ensure post-cancellation-access to various electronic journals for the consortium member libraries) the state of digital preservation activities in some European countries is outlined (Germany, Netherlands, Denmark, France, Italy, Great Britain). The two long-term-preservation projects LOCKSS and Portico are described in terms of their concepts, their organisational structures and their modes of operation. Advantages and disadvantages of both projects are shown through their comparison. The implementation of a LOCKSS test-installation at the Library of ETH Zurich is briefly outlined and the perspective of a major academic publishing house (Springer) on the issue of digital preservation is reported. The event as a whole is being evaluated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The huge amount of user-generated content produced in Web 2.0 needs structures if this content should be used in a meaningful way. Folksonomies are a breed of the Web for indexing digital resources with free user-generated tags, which is both beneficial and risky at the same time. This paper deals with the basic concepts of folksonomies and discusses their pros and cons for knowledge representation purposes. Moreover, it is shown how libraries can use folksonomies in their daily work. [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]

This article contains announcements of conventions on topics relevant to libraries, including an international conference in Bielefeld, Germany on the topic of information services and their relationship to technology and economics, a conference in Berlin, Germany on the topic of academic publishing in Europe, and a call for papers for the international UDC seminar at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek in The Hague, Netherlands.

The article presents information on the 6th annual "Verein zur Förderung der Informationswissenschaft-Förderungspreis (VFI-Förderungspreis)," a sponsorship prize given to Austrian information science students with outstanding academic thesis papers.

The article discusses a German-language version of guidelines developed by IFLA and UNESCO for an Internet manifesto on Free Access to Information and Freedom of Expression (FAIFE). Web site addresses are given for the guidelines in English and German, as well as a site for fundamental papers on the issue in German.