Vorstellung des Volltextarchivs MONARCH der Technischen Universität Chemnitz. Auf der Basis von Betriebs- und Entwicklungsprinzipien wird MONARCH aus Nutzer- und Bibliothekssicht charakterisiert. Speziell wird auf die Aspekte eines Autors/Archivierenden eingegangen, z.Bsp. workflow und Statistik. Im zweiten Teil werden Interna dargelegt, wie Integration in die Gesamt-DV-Technologie, Verwendung von Standards und Basis-Werkzeugen sowie aktuelle Weiterentwicklungen.

The transformations of equipment and computer systems, and therefore their introduction in various spheres of human activity have influenced the way society creates and communicates. Originating from these changes, the Internet and the World Wide Web have enabled a cultural distinct movement, by which it is also observed a textual production directed to the dissemination and consolidation of scientific knowledge. In this scientific context created by digital tools, some questions arise, namely: One can consider the existence of an emerging academic-scientific genre (the cyberarticle) in the context of the Web? Is there a production context adjusted for the production and dissemination of cyberarticles? What are these digital technological tools to produce cyberarticles? In view of this, this thesis aims to characterize the cyberarticle as an emerging academic genre on the Web. This research was based on Bakhtin (1992) and his macro analytic studies on the genres, and Marcuschi (1999; 2008; 2010), Koch (2010) and Xavier (2001; 2009; 2010), especially when they refer to the relationship between genres and digital tools. These theories have articulated to the contributions of Lévy (1993; 1996) on the Cyberspace, the Cyberculture and the virtuality; to the contributions of Tapscott (2010) and Prensky (2001a; 2001b) on the Digital Generation and the digital natives and immigrants, respectively; and finally, to the contributions of Berners-Lee (1996; 2001; 2006) and O´Reilly (2005) on the Web. For a better understanding of the communication process through scientific journals, the studies of Biojone (2003) have become fundamental for research presented in this thesis. The methodological approach is constituted by two procedures of data observation and data collection: first, there was a cataloging of scientific journals and articles oriented to online publication, giving greater focus to the publications of the Universidade Federal de Sergipe and to proposals for scientific publication different from traditional forms; in the second procedure, a experience for production of cyberarticles in the Ciencidade (www.ciencidade.com.br) was accomplished with the participation of the students and professors of the UFS. By analyzing the virtual scientific journals of Universidade Federal de Sergipe it was verified that the text is limited to the use of static images and normalized links (ABNT, journal) and/or links created automatically by virtual word processors, which makes it a traditional scanned article. Moreover, in respect to proposals for different forms of publishing, along with the materials collected from the experience in the Ciencidade, it was clear that the production of cyberarticles is possible since there is a context that stimulates such production of cyberarticles. Thus, the cyberarticle can be considered an emerging academic and scientific genre in the context of the Web, because it is different from the genre of traditional scientific article due to the fact that it is characterized by integration of different languages and tools made possible by digital technology. / As transformações de equipamentos e sistemas computacionais e, por conseguinte, sua introdução em variadas esferas da atividade humana têm influenciado a maneira como a sociedade cria e se comunica. Oriunda dessas mudanças, a internet e a World Wide Web permitiram um movimento cultural distinto, por meio do qual também se observa uma produção textual direcionada à divulgação e consolidação do conhecimento científico. Nesse contexto científico criado pelas ferramentas digitais, surgem algumas questões, a saber: pode-se considerar a existência de um gênero acadêmico-científico emergente (o ciberartigo) no contexto da Web? Existe um contexto de produção ajustado para a produção e divulgação de ciberartigos? Quais seriam essas ferramentas tecnológicas digitais para a produção de ciberartigos? Diante disso, nesta dissertação, objetiva-se caracterizar o ciberartigo como um gênero textual acadêmico emergente na Web. Esta pesquisa se fundamentou em de Bakhtin (1992) e seus estudos macroanalíticos sobre os gêneros, e em Marcuschi (1999; 2008; 2010), Koch (2010) e Xavier (2001; 2009; 2010), especialmente quando que se referem à relação entre os gêneros textuais e as ferramentas digitais. Articularam-se tais teorias às contribuições de Lévy (1993; 1996) sobre o Ciberespaço, a Cibercultura e a virtualidade; às de Tapscott (2010) e Prensky (2001a; 2001b) sobre a Geração Digital e os nativos e imigrantes digitais, respectivamente; e, por fim, às de Berners-Lee (1996; 2001; 2006) e O´Reilly (2005) sobre a Web. Para melhor entender o processo de comunicação científica através de periódicos científicos, os trabalhos de Biojone (2003) tornaram-se fundamentais para a pesquisa apresentada nesta dissertação. O percurso metodológico se constituiu por dois procedimentos de observação e coleta de dados: no primeiro, houve uma catalogação de periódicos e artigos científicos orientados à divulgação on-line, a qual foi direcionada para as publicações da Universidade Federal de Sergipe e para propostas de publicação científica diferentes das formas tradicionais; no segundo procedimento, com a participação de alunos e professores da UFS, foi realizada uma experiência de produção de ciberartigos no Ciencidade (www.ciencidade.com.br). Ao analisar os periódicos científicos virtuais da Universidade Federal de Sergipe, ficou comprovado que o texto se limita ao uso de imagens estáticas e hiperligações normatizadas (ABNT, periódico) e/ou criadas automaticamente por processadores de textos virtuais, o que faz dele um artigo tradicional digitalizado. Por outro lado, no que se refere às propostas de publicação diferentes das formas tradicionais, juntamente com os materiais coletados a partir da experiência no Ciencidade, ficou nítido que é possível uma produção ciberartigos desde que exista um contexto de produção que estimule tal prática. Sendo assim, o ciberartigo pode ser considerado um gênero acadêmico-científico emergente na Web, pois se diferencia do gênero textual artigo científico tradicional, na medida em que se caracteriza pela integração de diferentes linguagens e ferramentas, possibilitadas pelas tecnologias digitais.

The primary aim of this thesis is to analyse and rate the project WikiSkripta from the point of view of it's use. The creation, evolution up to now, organization and results of the project are being presented. The core of this thesis is the questionnaire survey to the students of certain faculties of medicine in Czech Republic, based on the analysis of the WikiSkripta system. The introductory part gives a brief summary of professional medicine education in the internet area. The following chapter gives more close characteristic of the creation and evolution of the parental project of WikiSkripta - the MEFANET. The next part gives the analysis of the project WikiSkripta. The other part, the survey of the use of WikiSkripta, gives a comparison of the partial results of the survey. The given data from the survey are evaluated in the conclusion of this work. The thesis is processed on the base of my own analysis of the webpage WikiSkripta - both the content and the support part - and the result of the questionnaire survey.

Master thesis is devoted to the currently completed and running projects and initiatives focused on digital libraries in the Federal Republic of Germany. The initial chapters are a brief survey of the recently used termins. The second chapter deals with problematic of open access and its promotion. The third chapter concentrates on the German conception of the information policy and its main representatives: German Research Foundation (Die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG, http://www.dfg.de) and Federal Ministry for Education and Research (Das Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, BMBF, http://www.bmbf.de) and connected operational programmes. The fourth chapter introduces the key initiatives in digital library area: The Information and Communication (Information und Kommunikation, IuK, http://www.iuk-initiative.org) and The German Initiative for Network Information (Die Deutsche Netzwerkinitiative, DINI, http://www.dini.de) and their role at the emergence of the digital library projects. The German particularity consisting in the process of certification of servers and its prerequisites are described in more details, too. The fifth chapter sketches the chronological line of development and aims to show some selected projects composed into integrated system: opening of electronic dissertations to...

This thesis is focused on the issues of information behaviour of editors from publishing with an emphasis on information needs and the sources of information. The first part deals with the position in the information publishing companies, the trend for electronic publishing and its influence on the book market. The following is an overview of selected terminological terms from publishers and their analysis. The next chapter is a summary of information behaviour theories, related concepts, models and current research in the Czech republic. The results of research that was realized for the purpose of the thesis between Czech editors are summarized and analyzed in the conclusion. Based on these results, proposals for the increasing of information literacy of editors are included in the thesis.

The advances in ICTs have decisively changed the library and learning environment. On the one hand, ICTs have enhanced the variety and accessibility to library collections and services to break the barriers of location and time. On the other, the e-Learning has emerged as an additional medium for imparting education in many disciplines to overcome the constraint of physical capacity associated with the traditional classroom methods. For a vast developing country like India, this provides an immense opportunity to provide even higher education to remote places besides extending the library services through networking. Thanks to the recent initiatives by the public and private institutions in this direction, a few web-based instruction courses are now running in the country. This paper reviews different aspects of e-Learning and emerging learning landscapes. It further presents the library scene and new opportunities for its participation in the e-Learning process. How these ICTs driven advances can contribute to the comprehensive learning process in India is highlighted.

Bereits vor zehn Jahren gab es den ersten großen E-Book-Boom. Während damals noch digitale Buchinhalte für spezielle Lesegeräte im Mittelpunkt der Diskussion standen, dominieren inzwischen webbasierte Angebote den stetig wachsenden Markt. Für Bibliotheken eröffnen sich durch diese E-Books der nächsten Generation völlig neue Möglichkeiten in der Informationsversorgung ihrer Benutzer. Sowohl der globale Wissensaustausch, als auch der Zugriff auf Fachinformationen können mit ihrer Hilfe beschleunigt werden. Dies spielt insbesondere für Spezialbibliotheken, wie die der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, eine große Rolle. Denn gerade von ihnen wird erwartet, dass sie die Mitarbeiter ihrer Institute stets mit den aktuellsten Fachinformationen versorgen. Aufgrund der Vielzahl an Lizenzierungs- und Angebotsformen auf dem E-Book-Markt ist hier ein Anbietervergleich unerlässlich. Dieser erfolgt im Rahmen dieser Diplomarbeit für die Bibliotheken der Max-Planck- Gesellschaft. Hierfür werden zunächst die aktuelle E-Book-Marktsituation und die Strukturen der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft beschrieben. Anschließend untersucht die Verfasserin die bisherigen Entwicklungen in der zentralen und lokalen E-Book-Erwerbung der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft. Zu diesem Zweck werden u.a. eine Befragung unter den Institutsbibliothekaren und mehrere Experteninterviews durchgeführt. Auf diese Weise können geeignete E-Book-Anbieter für die Max-Planck-Gesellschaft ermittelt und Kriterien gefunden werden, um diese schließlich miteinander vergleichen zu können. Im Ergebnis des Vergleichs gibt die Verfasserin Empfehlungen für die weitere E-Book-Erwerbung in der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft ab.

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) projects are being initiated and deployed in marginalized areas to help improve the standard of living for community members. This has lead to a new field, which is responsible for information processing and knowledge development in rural areas, called Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D). An ICT4D projects has been implemented in a marginalized area called Dwesa; this is a rural area situated in the wild coast of the former homelandof Transkei, in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. In this rural community there are e-Service projects which have been developed and deployed to support the already existent ICT infrastructure. Some of these projects include the e-Commerce platform, e-Judiciary service, e-Health and e-Government portal. Although these projects are deployed in this area, community members face a language and literacy barrier because these services are typically accessed through English textual interfaces. This becomes a challenge because their language of communication is isiXhosa and some of the community members are illiterate. Most of the rural areas consist of illiterate people who cannot read and write isiXhosa but can only speak the language. This problem of illiteracy in rural areas affects both the youth and the elderly. This research seeks to design, develop and implement software modules that can be used to convert isiXhosa text into natural sounding isiXhosa speech. Such an application is called a Text-to-Speech (TTS) system. The main objective of this research is to improve ICT4D eServices’ usability through the development of an isiXhosa Text-to-Speech system. This research is undertaken within the context of Siyakhula Living Lab (SLL), an ICT4D intervention towards improving the lives of rural communities of South Africa in an attempt to bridge the digital divide. Thedeveloped TTS modules were subsequently tested to determine their applicability to improve eServices usability. The results show acceptable levels of usability as having produced audio utterances for the isiXhosa Text-To-Speech system for marginalized areas.

Vorstellung des Volltextarchivs MONARCH der Technischen Universität Chemnitz. Auf der Basis von Betriebs- und Entwicklungsprinzipien wird MONARCH aus Nutzer- und Bibliothekssicht charakterisiert. Speziell wird auf die Aspekte eines Autors/Archivierenden eingegangen, z.Bsp. workflow und Statistik. Im zweiten Teil werden Interna dargelegt, wie Integration in die Gesamt-DV-Technologie, Verwendung von Standards und Basis-Werkzeugen sowie aktuelle Weiterentwicklungen.

The thesis is dedicated to the changes of the book market between its entities, libraries and final consumer of information (readers, library users) after the arrival of the internet. Development of the internet has brought searching of the new business models and opportunities for cooperation. Electronic publishing that, along with the internet availability, commenced to raise is the starting factor for the development of electronic books. The thesis outlines the roles of individual entities of the book market, i.e. publisher and seller (distributor, book-seller and digital platform) and libraries during the production, sale and accessing books with the focus on electronic books. After description of used terminology, especially different approaches to the definition of "an e-book", the next chapter presents hardware devices and software programs that enable reading e-books. The third chapter introduces the role of a publisher in the process of publishing printed and electronic e-books. The aim of the chapter is to highlight different strategies of processing the printed and electronic text, incl. possibilities of self-publishing which gives new possibilities to the author's hands. The fourth chapter describes distribution and sale of printed and mainly electronic books and also defines the new...