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The "International Spring School on the Digital Library and E-publishing for Science and Technology" course was designed for library managers, librarians, reference librarians, subject specialists, publishers and other information professionals in the fields of science and technology. Advanced libraries were mainly be addressed, without excluding the less technically advanced libraries.
Participants should complete the course with a knowledge of:
- the current changes in the information chain, possible roles and opportunities for science and technology libraries;
- the strategies of other (commercial and scholarly) players on the market;
- the organisational and technical aspects of electronic self-publishing;
- different approaches to licensing and the forming of consortia;
- the experiences with integrating digital content in leading institutions.
The following subjects were be dealth with during the course:
- changes in the information chain;
- new roles of publishers on the Internet;
- the library as the information gateway, the library as a publisher;
- licensing options;
- library consortia: success, realism and myth;
- electronic preprints: document servers and the Open Archives Initiative;
- reference linking;
- library case studies.
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