Every scientist should you ever have wondered why he gets on accounts of individual authors only after weeks of waiting for access. Books are sold out, already on loan or have to be ordered via interlibrary loan cumbersome. The answer is so simple as depressing: The publishers missed the need for quick access to available knowledge. Karl-Heinz Schneider is rightly disturbed by fold internal debates that challenge the very principle of digitization in question. So far, seems the demand for electronic books still to be low, but the alert observer will hardly escape, that the artificial scarcity of knowledge, coupled with unfriendly author publishing structure their heyday may have long since behind him. Whilst so far only has Apple's iPad user expectations in terms of ease of use can satisfy, but is also evident here a remarkably dismal range of electronic publications. Why?
Few scientific publishing relies on parallel digital publications. The publishers obviously lacking not only the technical know-how, but obviously, any forward-facing vision. Not a German geschichtsddiaktische publication is available digitally. does not have a history of educational journals their previous issues made fully available online. What have Nature and Science for parts of the natural sciences already possible is not even announced in this country. That still the case, it is certain that counteract the established institutions of insignificance. Committed democratic scientists can not put up with for some time that they get permits to new releases no direct paperless and immediate access. And it is not even considered that the simple digitization of past print content to the principles of networking and multimedia, so new reading habits, yet only primitive actions would be. It would probably take, if the publishers their position risked, but not if they slept so well as the connectivity of published knowledge for years.
No one can say how the future may look humanities publishing. But anyone can see that the current situation needs of scientists and technical capabilities of the network of documents inadequate. No text is in line with the networks to allow for themselves, without comments and observations. No matter how powerful blockade of the publishers will prevent the long term the Crosslinked and access to expertise. The Post publishing culture has left the starting blocks long ago.
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In the seminar, we ask ourselves, therefore, the question of how these needs could we know for instant access to justice, the role that publishers play and what benefits to offer networked digital texts by scientists.
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