Please forward this information: ECIS'2006 European Conference on Information Systems Göteborg, Sweden June 12-14, 2006 Conference website: http://www.ecis2006.se/ Track: "Open Source, Open Access, and the Open Information Society" Track Chairs: Bo-Christer Björck, Hanken/Knut Rolland, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) One of the most interesting effects of the Internet has been that it has acted as an enabler for new organizational forms that rely on business models that in many ways differ from the ways in which commercial firms operate. Open Source Software (OSS) development and open dissemination of scholarly publications often referred to as Open Access (OA), are examples of recent phenomena that typically rely on voluntarism and open sharing - in stark contrast to the prevailing business models of the commercial world. Understanding these new phenomena; to what extent they are successful, under what conditions they are successful, and if so why, has spawned exciting areas of research. Although Open Source Software (OSS) has recently gained increasing attention in Information Systems Research, there is still a lack of empirically sound and analytically novel approaches that show the multifaceted nature of these phenomena. This track therefore welcomes empirical and theoretical accounts of OSS and OA, and especially contributions based on multidisciplinary approaches. Possible topics include (but are not limited to): Comparisons between the "quality" of OSS software and traditional commercial software Issues of coordination and control in OSS development Empirical accounts of the more "mundane tasks" and "daily nurturing" of OSS development teams End users perspectives on OSS code Author pays business model for OA publishing The different economic effects and implications of different forms of scientific publishing Search for scholarly resources enabled by OAI compliant web harvesters Novel forms of peer review enabled by the web Practices of commons-based peer production (inside and outside OSS and OA) Innovations based on open innovation processes and non-proprietary knowledge Open content approaches to creative work as music, art, film etc. Motivational factors to contribute to Open Source, Open Access and other areas of public good and open sharing of knowledge