Volume 61 (2014), Edition 3

The challenges involved in providing an efficient scientific informationinfrastructure in the future are considerable. It willrequire close coordination of all the parties involved if they areto be met. This article serves to clarify the role of...

The current reorganisation of the established system of SpecialSubject Collections, supported by the German Research Foundation(DFG), into Specialised Information Services is the subject ofintense discussion not only by the libraries concerned...

This article outlines the problems which result from transformingthe DFG Special Subject Collections into Specialised InformationServices. It corrects several aspects of the picture of the SpecialSubject Collections drawn in this context and...

Computers have displaced fountain pens and typewriters evenfrom the writing desks of authors in recent decades. This developmenthas provided literary archives with a problem, as digitalliterary estates are difficult to process using established...