Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are a substantial part of modern business. For this reason it is not astonishing that their complexity grows with assigned requirements. Therefore, it is vital and sustainable to invest into recruitment of new ERP experts. System-integrated (business) simulation games form a new educational approach adapting theoretical concepts on a practical framewor...

sir, the recent publication on “publication ethics” is very interesting (1). the article by fazly bazzaz and sadeghi demonstrated many interesting cases                   of misconducts. indeed, the misconducts can be seen  in many ways. as mentioned in the present publication, both author and editor can perform publication misconducts. nevertheless, the problem has many more facets. sometimes,...

Discussions of the economics of scholarly communication are usually devoted to Open Access, rising journal prices, publisher profits, and boycotts. That ignores what seems a much more important development in this market. Publishers, through the oft-reviled Big Deal packages, are providing much greater and more egalitarian access to the journal literature, an approximation to true Open Access. ...