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The article discusses changes in scientific work (academic and applied) associated with new potentials, but also coercions of information technologies. Background for this interest is the experience gained in several digital library projects that inclinations and willingness to use these technical possibilities is much less common than the developers of these systems, and we all, tended to think in recent years. This seems to be true even in those scientific disciplines which were and are at the forefront of the development, e.g. physics, mathematics, etc. The background for this observation is discussed looking at general economic and social changes, viewing the environments of work in the scientific sphere, the contents and their quantity and quality of supply in scientific IT systems, the user side in their communities of practice, and the technological and organizational basis of scientific information. Some strategic issues to improve the situation are discussed in the final part of the paper.
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Schmiede, R. (2005). Scientific Work and the Usage of Digital Scientific Information – Some Notes on Structures, Discrepancies, Tendencies, and Strategies. In: Hemmje, M., Niederée, C., Risse, T. (eds) From Integrated Publication and Information Systems to Information and Knowledge Environments. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3379. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-31842-2_12
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