Academic Publishing in Europe

Head of Sector – Scientific Data Infrastructures of European Commission Dr. Carlos Morais Pires underlined that speed of information transfer is the main thing that needs to be done in future in his report called “European Commission: e-Infrastructure for Europe – From Networks and Grids to Repositories and Scientific Data”. It was the main topic of his report. Dr. Pires told that it is impossible to imagine scientific work without access to Internet and that’s why it is important to develop e-infrastructures giving scientists an opportunity of getting new information about innovations as fast as possible. It really was one of the most interesting reports on APE 2009.
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Travis Brooks (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford) was the second in session Information Discovery and Access: Repositories, Infrastructures, Libraries, How Everything Comes Together with his report about Organizing a Research Community with SPIRES. He told that SPIRES is much more useful and productive than SLAC. SPIRES attracts 25 thousand searchers a day. It is 100% open access to scientific information. There are mainly pre-prints with links to full text from all known resources. It helps researchers to find information they need faster losing minimum time for searching. Brooks thinks that SLAC should migrate with SPIRES to INSPIRE that would help to remove barriers between research fields, repositories and the researchers and curators.
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Dr. Salvatore Mele was chairman in session Information Discovery and Access: Repositories, Infrastructures, Libraries, How Everything Comes Together. First words in this session were from Dr. Ralf Schimmer from Max Planck Digital Library. Doctor Schimmer presented report on theme “The European Landscape of Licensing”. He told that there are three drivers of licensing: open access, technology and users. He underlined that users mostly are doing more than just reading (for example, some of they are searching for scientific information for their own researches). And he told that his organization (MPDL) would do its’ best to help users to find everything they need for researches.
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