While open access (OA) has become a significant part of scientific communication and academic publishing, qualification issues have been out of focus in the OA community until recent years. Based on findings about the qualification for OA within university-based programs in France and Germany the authors surveyed continuing professional education activities regarding OA in both countries in the years 2012-2015. The results indicate that there are different types of events qualifying for OA and reveal a lack of coherent concepts for different target groups. Until now traditional presentation formats have been dominant. Formats for distance learning, like MOOCs or webinars, might serve different needs and interests.

Purpose: This paper analysis if and how far Library and Information Services (LIS) are supporting E-Science and Grid-Computing projects funded by authorities in the EU and Germany. It explains and emphasises the relevance of LIS based information services and knowhow in e-Science activities. Design/methodology/approach: Projects are analysed regarding how far LIS expertise of institutions or persons is involved and information services are provided. Findings: Only very few of these e-Science projects realize LIS-based services. This could reduce the quality of e-Science related research in the long run and LIS experts might loose their role and expertise in serving scientists. Further research is needed to see if this hypothesis can be verified. Additionally research is needed to testify if e-Science projects in other countries are missing LIS services as well. Research limitations/implications: The research has taken place during a preliminary status of the projects. Practical implications: Funding should emphasize on inclusion and provision of LIS services. Originality/value: The findings of this research could provide awareness of this missing link to LIS-services enhancing the projects´ development and the distribution of their results.(=digitally enhanced science) promises to provoke more efficiency and comprehensiveness in these academic activities. These advantages will be enabled by Grid-Computing and services based on it. E-Science is based on distributed networks providing the software tools and computer power necessary to process large sets of data -by interconnecting computers and tools whereever they are available. This is supposed to enhance information exchange and intensify communication resp. cooperation between researchers. Their competitiveness as well as their ability to cooperate on the international level will be improved. E-Science programmes in several countries have initiated projects which try to investigate these benefits promised by e-Science in theory. It seems that information services adapted to e-Science do not play an important role within these projects and plans. Nevertheless such kind of services will -or at least should -become relevant. Without information services adapted to the e-Science environment scientists will not be able to benefit from e-Science as proposed. If libraries and other information service providers will not realize these services others may overtake their role inadequately and LIS institutions might loose there connection to scientists. This is the background scenario for analyzing projects related to e-Science. The objective of this paper is to investigate if and how these projects are realizing LIS-based information services by applying the specific know-how and experience of librarians and information scientists. The paper will focus on e-Science projects in Germany and the European Union (EU) which have been funded by national and EUsupport programmes. Preliminary research indicates that e-Science projects have a focus on a broad range of newly develo...

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Für unabdingbar und dringend wird jedoch ein Rechtsgutachten über die verschiedene Urheberrechtssituation in den EG-Ländern gehalten, so daß erkannt werden kann, was harmonisiert werden muß und welche Ausnahmeregelungen zugunsten der Bibliotheken geschaffen werden sollten. Die EG-Kommission will sich, so die Zusage am Schluß der Tagung, dieser Aufgabe in der nächsten Zukunft annehmen. Literatur: Cornish, Graham: Copyright management of document supply in an electronic age: the CITED™ solution. In: Interlending and Document Supply 21,2 (1993) 13 -20 Ulrich Korwitz (Zentralbibliothek der Medizin, Köln) Bibliotheksnetze und elektronische Medien Herausforderungen für Verlage und Bibliotheken Zu einer gemeinsamen Veranstaltung mit dem o.g. Thema hatten die Universität Bielefeld, der British Council und die Buchhändler-Vereinigung am 8. / 9. Februar 1994 in die Stadthalle Bielefeld eingeladen. Nach dem Kolloquium über CD-ROM-Netze vom Februar 1992 wurde damit zum zweiten Male eine solche, international besetzte Tagung federführend von der UB Bielefeld organisiert. Damit erweist sich diese Bibliothek, die ja für ihren innovativen Einsatz von Informationstechrflk bekannt ist, wieder einmal als Promotor von Diskussionen, die wichtig für die Weiterentwicklung des Bibliothekswesens sind. Vielversprechend war auf der Einladung das Ziel des Kolloquiums formuliertes sollte nicht nur über die neueste Entwicklung informieren, sondern auch Vorschläge erarbeiten, mit denen "die weitere Entwicklung und die Anforderungen bei der zukünftigen Nutzung elektronischer Publikationen in und über Bibliotheken" gestaltet werden könnten. Zum Bedauern vieler der mehr als 450 Teilnehmer ist das Kolloquium diesem Anspruch nur bedingt gerecht geworden. Die Gründe hierfür sind auf zwei Ebenen zu suchen: a) Die heterogene Qualität der Vorträge b) Der Ablauf des Kolloquiums.Aus systematischen Überlegungen werden sie hier getrennt angesprochen.

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