A number of serious reasons will convince an increasing amount of researchers to store their relevant material in centers which we will call “language resource archives”. They combine the duty of taking care of long-term preservation as well as the task to give access to their material to different user groups. Access here is meant in the sense that an active interaction with the data will be m...

In response to the call for research that considers the human as well as the technical aspects of information systems implementation, the authors report on an interpretive case study which explores the adoption and use of an agricultural decision support system (DSS) CottonLOGIC in the Australian cotton industry. The study was informed through the innovation-decision model by Rogers and the tec...

1 Mohacsi PJ,Thompson JF, Nicholson JK, Tiller DJ. Patients’ attitudes to xenotransplantation. Lancet 1997; 349: 1031. In the absence of a political solution, we believe that there are only two ethical alternatives. Preferably, more autonomy should be granted to the refugees and aid should be targeted towards restoring their livelihoods. Such a change would probably involve dividing the camps i...

Be it resolved, that the FLOSS research community requires that data and analyses behind FLOSS research publications be made expeditiously available to other researchers. Research on FLOSS has relied on several different kinds of scientific evidence, such as the archives created by the FLOSS developers, versioned code repositories, mailing list messages and bug and issue tracking repositories [...

Archives are an extremely valuable part of cultural heritage since they represent the trace of the activities of a juridical person or organization in the course of their business. Through various information technology (IT), tremendous amount of digital archives (DA) are created. These archives are the basis for providing evidence and knowledge in everlasting memory of human society. The manag...

I would like to thank all of the reviewers from 2006 for their time and expertise. These physicians and surgeons are largely responsible for the quality of the Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery. This was a notable year for our journal. We began our Web-based review system, which has made the review process more efficient and rapid. The Web also allows us to better utilize a large number of exc...