The buzzwords Information Society and Age of Access suggest that information is now universally
accessible without any form of hindrance. Indeed the German constitution calls for all
citizens to have open access to information. Yet in reality there are multifarious hurdles to
information access - whether physical economic intellectual linguistic political or
technical. Thus while new methods and practices for making information accessible arise on a
daily basis we are nevertheless confronted by limitations to information access in various
domains. This new book series assembles academics and professionals in various fields in order
to illuminate the various dimensions of information's inaccessability. While the series
discusses principles and techniques for transcending the hurdles to information access it also
addresses necessary boundaries to accessability.
