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Περιέχει το πλήρες κείμενο ; Eventhough governments worldwide is considered to be the biggest producer of information, it is not uncommon that the entities cannot have access to the information that concern them or further they are obliged to submit the same information repeatedly to different public organizations. However, the access to the information held by public administration is an institutional right of the entities. Nonetheless, governments have not always been willing to grant access to government information based on a variety of reasons to forbid the access, with national security to be the most common one. However, the re-use and dissemination of government information across government agencies and between agencies and the public is the cornerstone of electronic government. Under that scope, many countries have proceeded the last 20 years in adopting national policies for the use and access of government information. Greece has delayed in that field to be synchronised the European Union's recommendations. However the last five years, there has been efforts to move forward and close the gap with the rest Member-States by issuing a number of legislative and regulatory documents such as the Law 3448/2010 on the reuse of public sector information, the Law 3861/2010 on the obligatory publication of the legislative and regulatory documents produced by all governmental, administrative and local government agencies via Diavgeia", the Law 3979/2011 on electronic government, and the Greek e-Government Interoperability Framework. The access to government information is a precondition to offer fast, transparent, reliable and qualitative services aiming to protect and promote the citizens' basic democratic rights.

Περιέχει το πλήρες κείμενο ; Eventhough governments worldwide is considered to be the biggest producer of information, it is not uncommon that the entities cannot have access to the information that concern them or further they are obliged to submit the same information repeatedly to different public organizations. However, the access to the information held by public administration is an institutional right of the entities. Nonetheless, governments have not always been willing to grant access to government information based on a variety of reasons to forbid the access, with national security to be the most common one. However, the re-use and dissemination of government information across government agencies and between agencies and the public is the cornerstone of electronic government. Under that scope, many countries have proceeded the last 20 years in adopting national policies for the use and access of government information. Greece has delayed in that field to be synchronised the European Union's recommendations. However the last five years, there has been efforts to move forward and close the gap with the rest Member-States by issuing a number of legislative and regulatory documents such as the Law 3448/2010 on the reuse of public sector information, the Law 3861/2010 on the obligatory publication of the legislative and regulatory documents produced by all governmental, administrative and local government agencies via Diavgeia", the Law 3979/2011 on electronic government, and the Greek e-Government Interoperability Framework. The access to government information is a precondition to offer fast, transparent, reliable and qualitative services aiming to protect and promote the citizens' basic democratic rights.

Die Forderung nach Open Access wird wissenschaftslogisch (Beschleunigung der wissenschaftlichen Kommunikation), finanziell (Linderung der Zeitschriftenkrise), sozial (Verringerung des Digital Divide), demokratietheoretisch (Zugang zu Informationen ermöglicht Partizipation) und sozialpolitisch (freier Zugang zu Informationen nivelliert Ungleichheiten) begründet. Dieser Beitrag untersucht einige dieser Annahmen mittels sozialwissenschaftlicher Modelle. Von Befunden aus der Bildungssoziologie und Sozialpsychologie bereits hinlänglich widerlegte Naivitäten wie die Annahme, Zugang zu Informationen wirke per se nivellierend, bleiben außen vor. Im Zentrum stehen die Erkenntnisse aus Pierre Bourdieus Kapitaltheorie für die Akzeptanz von Open Access und die Erkenntnisse aus Michel Foucaults Diskursanalyse für die Wirkung von Open Access innerhalb des Digital-Divide-Konzepts. Bourdieus Kapitaltheorie deutet darauf hin, dass für die Akzeptanz von Open Access bei Wissenschaftlern nicht hagiographische, wissenschaftslogische Argumente wie die Beschleunigung der Kommunikation ausschlaggebend sein dürften, sondern machtlogische Argumente: Entscheidend für die Akzeptanz von Open Access (und konzeptionell verbundener Modelle wie etwa alternative metrische Verfahren) ist, wie Wissenschaftler dessen mögliche Auswirkungen auf bestehende Akkumulationsprozesse wissenschaftlichen Kapitals wahrnehmen. Hinsichtlich der Wirkung von Open Access im Digital-Divide-Modell legt Foucaults Diskursanalyse nahe, dass Open Access Abhängigkeiten, Szientozentrismen und Ethnozentrismen verstärken kann. ; Claims for Open Access are mostly underpinned with science-related (Open Access accelerates scientific communication), financial (Open Access alleviates the serials crisis), social (Open Access reduces the Digital Divide), democracy-related (Open Access facilitates participation) and socio-political (Open Access levels disparities) arguments. Using sociological concepts and notions this contribution analyses some of the presumptions mentioned. ...

Former publisher Alex Holzman weighs the pros and cons of open access via a review of Peter Suber's Open Access.

Access to the victims of armed conflicts for humanitarian relief
operations is vital for the survival of those victims, especially for the
most vulnerable ones. What can international law do to facilitate and secure
such access? These remarks shall pinpoint some basic principles and
problems.

Librarian Jill Cirasella describes some problems with the traditional system of scholarly journal publishing and explains how scholars can make their works open access, or freely available online. She discusses some of the benefits of open access, as well as some of the challenges to achieving widespread openness.

State constitutions receive relatively little academic attention, yet they are the source of significant substantive rights—and, when compared to the U.S. Constitution, they are relatively easily amended to comport with contemporary needs and values. Unlike the constitutions of dozens of other nations, the U.S. Constitution contains no explicit recognition of a right to information from the government, and the Supreme Court has declined to infer that such a right exists, apart from narrow exceptions. Conversely, seven states expressly memorialize the public's right of access to government meetings and records in their constitutions. In this paper, the authors examine case law applying the constitutional right of access, concluding that the right is somewhat underutilized and rarely seems to produce an outcome clearly different from what a litigant could expect relying on state statutory rights alone.

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Georgia State University Professor Jill Littrell asserts that open access democratizes information access and helps her disseminate meaningful scholarly ideas to a much broader audience. ; https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/gsu_images/1017/thumbnail.jpg