Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswesen und Bibliographie

Open access to the results of publicly funded research is one ofthe European Commission’s avowed goals. Yet how far is openaccess actually realised in practice? This article explores the issuebased on a subsection of the projects financed by...

The State and University Library Bremen (SuUB) is responsible forsupplying academic literature to all public colleges and universitiesin the state of Bremen. The single-tier SuUB library systemserves the University of Bremen, the two universities...

Compared to the »established« libraries, the libraries of the universitiesof applied sciences have a relatively short history. Inthe case of the Fulda University of Applied Sciences, which onlycelebrated its 40th anniversary in 2014, a major...

This article describes a political process which affects the futureof all Thuringian university libraries. In 2012, the Thuringian auditoffice recommended that the state should set cross-libraryobjectives regarding the structural development and...

Duisburg-Essen University Library (UB) was created in 2003 asa result of the merger of the Duisburg and Essen universitiesto create the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE). The mergercould be regarded as enforced change, yet the UB viewed it asan...

RDA has always been a continually evolving standard that aimsto reflect the requirements of the cataloguing community. SimonEdwards will highlight the steps towards a further internationalisationand exploration of wider cultural heritage...

If the RDA is to honour its claim to be the resource standard for allcultural institutions, further development is needed in order toachieve compatibility with the documentation requirements ofother heritage sectors. The essay provides three...

In August 2015, the first data record was entered into the networkdatabase of the Austrian Library Network (OBV) using thenew Resource Description and Access (RDA) standard. From Octoberthe German National Library will be conducting its...

The Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (DDB) and the directly linkedArchivportal-D play a crucial role for the archive community. Thepossibility for cross-institution exchange that they have createdmeans that they can support many positive new...

Seldom have political appeals had such a profound impact oncultural and educational institutions as the declarations issuedsince 1998 on the handling of assets looted by the Nazis. Thescope and significance of the collection management...

The Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (DDB) networks the digitizedcollections of German museums, archives, research institutes,print and multi-media libraries and monument-preservationorganizations, thereby providing unrestricted online accessto...