Open Password – Friday, November 26, 2021
#1003
1000 issues Open Password – Erda Lapp – Information Professionals – Librarians – Documentarians – Central Library Research Center Jülich – Open Access – Willi Bredemeier – Voice of the Industry – Ralf Hennemann – GBI-Genios German Economic Database – Minesoft – Ann Chapman-Daniels – Jochen Lennhof – Sigrid Riedel – WTI-Frankfurt-digital – FIZ Technik – MBO Group – Information Industry – Salvatore Saporito – Password – ONLINE Information – Validatis – Bundesanzeiger Verlag Ulrike Ostrzinski, ZB MED, Life Sciences Information Center – Helga Schwarz – Information Science – Libraries
WissKom 2022 – Public and academic libraries – Research Center Jülich Central Library – Düsseldorf City Libraries – Lessons Learned – Thomas Arndt – ZB MED – Microsite DARUM ZB MED – Good scientific work – Young scientists – Unlimited Democracy – Disinformation Awareness Day – Media competence – Dietmar Pichler
- Cover stories for 1000 issues of Password
Erda Lapp
Ralf HennemannAnn Chapman-DanielJochen LennhofSigrid RiedelSalvatore SaporitoUlrike OstrzinskiHelga Schwarz
- Wisskom 2022
How do you do this? – Public and academic libraries in dialogue
III. E.g. MED
Tips for good scientific work
- Unlimited Democracy
November 27th, Disinformation Awareness Day
Erda Lapp
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Reinvented yourself and stayed young
By Erda Lapp, Bochum University Library
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, password!
first read the magazine password with current news from the information industry for information professionals, librarians, documentarians and information providers thirty years ago in the central library of the Research Center Jülich.
seeing themselves as information professionals.
Documentation was also perceived as far removed from our profession. Password was way ahead of its time.
In recent years password has reinvented itself several times, most recently when the magazine decided to appear in open access as open password; The magazine still seems very young today. She also keeps her promise of being up-to-date.
It has become an institution and we wish it many more successful years –
and its editor-in-chief Willi Bredemeier too.
Ralf Hennemann
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The drive for action is too great, the pen is too sharp.
Once again, we have become the voice of the industry
Dear Willi,
30 years of “PASSWORD” and now the thousandth edition of “Open Password”! You actually wanted to retire at the end of 2015 with the last (commercial) issue of “PASSWORD”. But no one who knows you has actually believed that. At least not me.
The restlessness is too great, the urge for action is too great and the pen, which still fidgets in your hand, is too sharp. Just like the print edition, “Open Password” has also become the voice of the industry. Congratulations on this fantastic achievement!
Good luck, stay cheerful and healthy (and let the spring continue to twitch violently ;-).
Your Ralf (on behalf of the entire GBI-Genios team)
Ralf Hennemann, Head of Marketing and Sales,
GBI-Genios German Economic Database GmbH
1000 issues Open Password (5 + 6)
Wide-range and reporting interesting
from the information industry
Dear Willi,
It is always a pleasure to hear from you via the Password Newsletter. Indeed, you have been keeping me informed over the last 30 years in your wide-ranging reporting of the Information Industry. As you know, Germany has played a special role in my personal and professional life. I would like to say a big “thank you” for the excellent standard of journalism you have brought us – always insightful, interesting as well as fun to read. Congratulations from (Great) Britain!!
Ann Chapman-Daniel, CEO, Minesoft
Ann Chapman and Jochen Lennhof (both middle) with friends
Hello Willi!
One of the few newsletters that provides me with reliable and professional information. And very often find something interesting. Congratulations on the 1000th newsletter and many thanks to the Password team. Keep it up!
Kind regards Jochen Lennhof, Minesoft GmbH
Sigrid Riedel
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Stubbornly questioned developments
in the industry
Dear Mr. Bredemeier,
The magazine you published, Password and then Open Password, has been with me in my professional life for a very long time.
“Those believed dead live longer” When you gave up the print edition of Password, no one believed that the 1000th edition of “Open Password” would now be published.
You have accompanied the information wastelands through the many changes, sometimes putting your finger on the wound. They were passionate about the important issues of our time and still do.
For me, dear Mr. Bredemeier, you were an important partner in the insolvency of FIZ Technik. They informed about the problems and importance of FIZ Technik and supported the MBO Group with the takeover and accompanied the new company WIT-Frankfurt. My heartfelt thanks for that.
Even now you are questioning the development of WTI and are staying on the ball for all of us. Hopefully your persistence in questioning developments in the industry will remain with us for a long time.
I wish you and “Open Password” another 1000 issues. Keep your interest and critical finger on the pulse of the information industry.
Best regards, Sigrid Riedel (former managing director of WTI-Frankfurt-digital GmbH)
Salvatore Saporito
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A fixed point for consistency,
openness and commitment
Dear Dr. Bredemeier,
what a number and what an anniversary!
On the occasion of the 1000th edition of Open Password, I am reflecting on the years of our long-standing collaboration. A wonderful fixed point in an increasingly fast-moving time in which media come and go, protagonists change and, above all, digital topics continue to increase.
That’s precisely why, on the occasion of Password’s anniversary, I am pleased with values such as consistency, openness and commitment, which have grown together with you over the years, while PASSWORD developed into Open Password and at the same time remained an informative specialist magazine for the information industry.
Our first meeting took place in 2003 at the ONLINE Information in London. In addition to the often critical, but always informative, factual articles with the necessary amount of spice, Password has accompanied my time ever since and is the medium of choice for me to keep myself informed in the information provider industry.
I look forward to 1,000 more issues reporting on and interpreting further developments in our industry.
My warmest congratulations on this achievement, your never-ending motivation to educate the industry, and our wonderful conversations that ensued.
All the best from Cologne on your anniversary edition!
Your Salvatore Saporito, Managing Director Validatis, Bundesanzeiger-Verlag
Ulrike Ostrzinski
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All this content three times a week
– how do you manage that?
By Ulrike Ostrzinski, ZB MED – Life Sciences Information Center
Issues Open Password: These are 1,000 issues with well-founded information, interesting interviews, sometimes controversial opinions and passionate discussions – the information and library industry can count itself lucky that the dedicated two-man team publishes all of this “content” regularly (three times in… of the week – how do you manage that?!?) is put together and sent.
At this point, a big thank you for this and no less big congratulations on this 1,000th. Edition – I’m excited and excited about everything that’s to come. Of course, especially on the things we plan to do together, because I can already tell you: there are plans for next year!
Helga Schwarz
1000 Issues Password (10)
Every new issue eagerly scanned
By Helga Schwarz, Berlin
As a librarian and information scientist – retired for a while now – I am interested in current events in these subjects. I no longer need to know all the details and use all the new techniques, after all I’m not an “info pro”, but I would like to have an overview of the topics currently being discussed. Open Password is just right for you.
You find out ‘what’s going on’ briefly and concisely and even longer articles are occasionally informative for me. My focus is on news from information science because – unlike library science – I do not subscribe to any other magazine in this area. Every new issue is eagerly scanned to see if and what news it has for me.
Read the following issue: 1000 more reports from information practice, please! – Tireless performance of an information filter and watchdog function – Dramatically declining research productivity as a topic – Practiced openness as a willingness to engage in dialogue about different positions – Concentrated knowledge and verified facts
Wisskom 2022
How do you do this? – Public and academic libraries in dialogue
Dear Colleagues ,
on the 21st-23rd WissKom2022 will take place in June 2022 with the title “How do you do that? – Public and academic libraries in dialogue”.
We cordially invite you to submit your abstract by November 30th. www.wisskom2022.de
WissKom2022 is the 9th conference of the Central Library of the Research Center Jülich, in cooperation with the Central Library of the Düsseldorf City Libraries: Academic and public libraries usually move in separate worlds, but have more in common than is apparent at first glance. Many libraries face the same challenges. Some have tackled these successfully, others can only tell a thing or two about the hurdles. What do academic libraries and public libraries have in common? What sets them apart in their paths and goals for the future? How and what can libraries learn from each other?
The contributions should follow the “lessons learned” idea and thus stimulate an exchange about the presentation of one’s own activities and their feedback. What can libraries look like for one another and for one another? Topics are:
- Digital strategy
- Open Access
- Sustainability
- Open space in libraries
- User groups
- Information and advice Submission :
We invite you to submit contributions to these topic blocks. Please let us know whether you would prefer your contribution to be considered as a lecture or as a poster. The lecture lasts 20 minutes. A further 10 minutes are allocated for discussions. Posters are preferably presented in A0 portrait format. The conference language is German. Lectures in English are also very welcome. Please send abstracts of the lectures and posters (2000 to 3000 characters) to: zb-conference@fz-juelich.de
Dates: Submission of abstracts: November 30, 2021
Notification of Acceptance: February 7, 2022
Submission of the article for the proceedings: April 30, 2022
Submission of the poster for the proceedings: May 15, 2022 Lecture / poster presentation at WissKom2022 May 21-23. June 2022
Submission of the presentation slides as a supplement to the proceedings by: June 30, 2022
We look forward to your submission.
Kind regards, Thomas Arndt (contact person for speakers,
call: (02461) 61-290
E.g. MED
Tips and tricks
for good scientific work
Why is it difficult to find good specialist information? Why is good scientific practice more than correct citation? Or: Why does it make sense to keep the laboratory notebook electronically? (Young) scientists and students ask themselves these and other questions in their daily work. ZB MED – Information Center for Life Sciences has launched the microsite DARUM ZB MED! built up.
Bundled according to thematic focus, the site contains tips, hacks and information for scientific work in the life sciences – from medicine to biodiversity to environmental protection. The first three topic pages are now online: Researching specialist information, good scientific practice and scientific misconduct and electronic laboratory notebooks. The microsite will be gradually expanded and additional questions will be added.
“We actively impart knowledge, skills and abilities” – this is one of ZB MED’s strategic guidelines. So far, the different services are in different places: FAQs on the PUBLISSO pages, background information and more comprehensive instructions in the ZB-MED blog, tips for researching on the ZB MED website, tutorials and video clips on the ZB MED YouTube channel, etc The new microsite DARUM ZB MED! now bundles all of this on topic pages and links from there to the special offers.
For example, one of the first topic pages that has now been put online is dedicated to the questions: “Why is good scientific practice more than correct citation?”, “And what does that have to do with my career?”, “What actually happens if something happens a mistake happened?” The page links, among other things, to an FAQ that basically explains the topic of good scientific practice – GWP for short – a video on the topic of retractions and what they have to do with GWP and a blog post on predatory publishing.
One of the other topic pages answers questions about research and access to specialist information in the life sciences. Another page brings together information about electronic laboratory books.
If you have any further specific questions, an expert from ZB MED is available to contact for any topic. THAT’S WHY MED! is primarily aimed at (young) scientists and students. https://darum.zbmed.de/
Unlimited Democracy
November 27: Disinformation Awareness Day
The “Disinformation Awareness Day” is intended to raise international public awareness of the topic of disinformation: “Disinformation is now a global threat to democracy and public health,” says the initiator of the day for disinformation, Dietmar Pichler (Twitter @DietmarPichler1).
The co-founder of the Center for Digital Media Literacy and political consultant in the association Unlimited Democracy sees media literacy as the only vaccination against disinformation: “I am very pleased that we can declare the first global day against disinformation on November 27th under the umbrella of Unlimited Democracy and can thus raise awareness for this important topic.”
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