Volume 61 (2014), Edition 4-5

In order further to improve the efficiency of the overall system ofscientific information infrastructures in Germany and the qualityrequired by the scientific community to ensure the system’s effectiveperformance, the German Council of Science...

The Internet and digital developments are creating fundamentalchanges in the way in which scientific work is conducted. Thedemands placed on the scientific information infrastructures andtheir respective players are increasing and changing...

The pricing policy of some publishers in the 90s and the reactionsof libraries all over the world led to two of the key players in the»Scientific Publication« ecosystem becoming embroiled in heateddebate. But now, just as the material conflict...

The current national information service structures are characterizedby alliance constraints and lock-in phenomena that effectivelyblock the development of state-of-the-art data infrastructures.A possible solution could be the return to the...

Libraries have served as education and research infrastructuresfor centuries. In this paper, we will describe major opportunitiesand future challenges in the context of digital research and the»e-infrastructures« that are required for...

This brief article describes how research data can be integratedinto a large-scale digital library. INSPIRE serves a communitywhere data sharing is emerging. New open science services aredeveloped to support the grass root interest of the...

The article in hand gives an overview about the present situationconcerning the status of information support at a big science andtechnique-focused university, which plays a very specific role for asmall country beyond science, research and...

How do you become even more successful if you are already successful?That is a question that the TU Delft Library asks itselfregularly. In the last few years, it has seen that its transformationinto a Library Learning Centre was a good move, but...

The creation, dissemination and use processes of information arechanging fundamentally in the digital society. In place of discreteinformation »units« in the form of »publications« there is nowthe infinite, borderless information space of...

In times of rapid change, academic libraries, too, are increasinglyunder pressure to rethink their existing models and to seize theinitiative with regard to developing their portfolio of servicesand planning their deployment of resources....

Research information systems are sophisticated components ofcurrent and future information infrastructures. The article providesa brief outline of the wide variety of systems used andof some of the related acceptance issues. As service...

Bibliometrics is an emerging field for academic libraries andshould certainly never be reduced to its evaluative aspect. It offersmany opportunities to provide innovative services specificallytailored to academic and administrative communities....

»World library« is no longer merely a metaphor. Ever larger numbersof publications are now digitally catalogued, if not digitallyborn, and can be combined to create libraries, the size and cataloguingdetail of which would previously have been...

The Competence Centre for Non-Textual Materials at the GermanNational Library of Science and Technology together with theHasso Plattner Institute for IT Systems Engineering has developeda portal for AV media which optimises access to...

The Science Year 2014 theme of »Digital Society« is raising thequestion of the extent to which digitisation is characterisingand modifying the research of information. The correspondingchanges will also have considerable effects on services...

Following an application phase of statistical processes whichwere based predominantly on information science, the field ofdigital humanities, which has rapidly established itself in recentyears, is focussing more closely now on the cognition...

Does the creation of a »Cloud-based infrastructure for LibraryData« open up the possibility of web-based information of unprecedentedquality, or are existing systems merely being reproducedin a new environment? The present article urges...

Given the rapid progress of digital transformation, the long-termpreservation of digital information is one of the most urgentchallenges facing us. The article provides a concise overview ofthe developments to date. It highlights problem areas...

Within the context of the Lisbon Agenda of the European Headsof State and Government, a strategy paper was put forward in2000 on European research. Since then numerous initiativeshave been developed which are outlined briefly in the...

The German Research Foundation (DFG) currently contributesroughly EUR 50 million per year for the provision of Scientific LibraryServices and Information Systems in Germany. The supportis based on the position paper entitled »Taking Digital...