IuK Initiative for Information and Communication of the Learned Societies in Germany
Aims and work done by the Learned Societies in Germany.

1. Report on the aims and and work of the IuK Initiative
2. some personal statements to the field.

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   The Aims of the Initiative are to stimulate and coordinate the development of information and communication management in the most general sense across the learned fields, throughout all of Germany with its 65 Universities, and embedded into the international development.
   the activities are
   • Workgroups
   • Workshops and international meetings.
   • A Network of experts in the field of scientific information and communication.
   • International Contact points
   • Contact partners in the major learned societies

   Some personal remarks

   • 1.: Free Access to scientific information (Separation of permanent free access to any scientific information by anyone and posterior add-on value (could be commercial) services.
   • 2.: tasks for the authors: use mark up
   • 3.: tasks for the readers: learn searching
   • 4.: tasks for the national government: fund the free information centers
   • 5.: tasks for the state government: support and stimulate teaching material
   • 6.: tasks for the university services: act as publisher of authors of their University free to read for the readers.
   • 7.: chances for providers: the sector of add-on value services is huge. It will pay many new jobs
   • 8.: Separation of archiving from scientific information process services

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   author: E.R.Hilf; Dept. of Physics, Carl von Ossietzky University; Oldenburg, Germany
   Copyright Notice: Everyone is invited to copy, distribute, display, download, even read this article, as long as the integrity of the text and its links is kept, and proper reference is given with a link to the home site of this document:
   author: Eberhard R. Hilf
   
   started: 1.3.1999; last change: 1.5.1999
   

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   links corrected: 2.9.2002