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E-Government ICT Conference

The recent conference E-Government ICT Professionalism and Competences Service Science (IFIP International Federation for Information Processing, IFIP 20th World Computer Congress, Industry-Oriented Conferences, September 7-10, 2008, Milano, Italy) is of interest to those involved with ICT in government and eGovernment in general (although the conference is rather EU-centred). Note the content is behind a pay-wall, so you can't read the articles unless you belong to an institution that has a subscription or you have one yourself. Of interest: Why is True eGovernment still difficult to be achieved? E-Government For Small Local Government Organizations A normative approach to democracy in the electronic government framework IT skill requirements in Public Administration How to move forward and implement e-skills on a long term basis Search: "open source": Business Process Monitoring: BT Italy case study The Italian Public Administration Electronic Market: Scenario, Opera...

EU Digital Preservation Workshop: Planets in Denmark

" Digital Preservation – the Planets way " is a Planets ( P reservation and L ong-term A ccess through NET worked S ervices) outreach and training event to be held at the Royal Library in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 22-24 June 2009.

Open access: opportunities and challenges: A Handbook

A collection of excellent Open Access papers (somewhat Germany/EU-oriented, but with some good international and canonical content) has just been published: Open access: opportunities and challenges: - A handbook (PDF). 2008. The European Commission and the German Commission for UNESCO, translated from the original German edition published by the German Commission for UNESCO. Its table of contents: Chapter 1: Definition and Origin of Open Access The Concept of Open Access. Norbert Lossau Open Access – A Historical Survey. Peter Schirmbacher Chapter 2: An Introduction to Three Publication Models The Edoc-Server at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: An Example of an Open Access Repository. Susanne Dobratz The New Journal of Physics as an Example of Open Access Journals. Eberhard Bodenschatz The Example of a Hybrid Model: Springer Open Choice. Jan Velterop Chapter 3: Implementing Open Access Models Financing Open Access Models. Stefan Gradmann Open Access and (German) Copyright. Karl-N...