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Role of libraries in providing access to scientific information and data

Libraries provide free access to large amounts of information resources, but there are also large amounts of copyright material licensed from rights holders; medical research needs to share images or data in a way to preserve privacy; physicists share not only data but also resources (such as machines, storage and so on)act as an intermediary between researchers and research information and data. Although an increasing amount of material found through libraries is open access and sourced either from open access journals or repositories, a significant amount of the material accessed by researchers through libraries is copyrighted material licensed from rights holders. This material is accessed via different mechanisms and authenticated at different levels.There are also access and authentication issues to be considered when it comes to the  depositing of open access material both for reasons related to digital preservation and for reasons of accountability. Different diciplines require different levels of accountability. In all cases, mechanisms and infrastructures to manage access are needed, for example to avoid misinterpretation or misuse of data, to identify the person requesting access, to identify his/her privileges and to log usage of data, to respect privacy regulations, to deal with ethical issues , and to guarantee data quality and integrity etc.

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