4. Information access options

Open access and closed options

Let’s start with some news. We recently announced that EMBO, together with Nature Publishing Group, will launch next year an open-access, author-pays journal called Molecular Systems Biology. Two reasons guided our decision: we believe that journals publishing data-intense papers—such as those in systems biology— should be open access so that the information can be shared and mined by the scien...

Combining different access options for image databases

Living Memory is an interdisciplinary project running for two years, which is realised in cooperation of several institutions. It aims at developing an information system for a digital collection of different types of visual resources and will combine classical methods of image indexing and retrieval with innovative approaches like content-based image retrieval and the use of topic maps for sem...

limitations in access to information in internet

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Extending DTGOLOG with Options 4

Information Access Router for Integrated Information Access System

In this paper, we describe the idea and preliminary survey of an Integrated Information Access System (IIAS) that accepts diverse kinds of questions and provides the requested information in the most suitable format for the information need. We designed a set of 18 Information Access Types — categories defined by the form of the output and the semantics of some of the output types. Also, we wil...