Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswesen und Bibliographie

The establishment of Archivportal-D as a discipline-specific representationof the German Digital Library (DDB) provides, for thefirst time, a national access point through which appropriatelypresented information on German archives, their...

In the sciences as well as in some social sciences disciplines whichmainly rely on empirical methodologies, journals are the preferredpublication channel. In this respect author guidelines areof major importance. These may also include deposit...

The director of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library first recountsthe history of the former Königliche Bibliothek whichbecame the Niedersächsische Landesbibliothek in 1947; later itwas also responsible for servicing the humanities faculties...

Virtual research environments serve as central support structuresfor digital academia. They permit access to and cooperative processingof data and text holdings. They are frequently set up bylibraries and computer centres in conjunction with...

An initiative has been set up in the state of Brandenburg whichis dedicated to improving the involvement of smaller culturalheritage institutions in the presentation of the digital heritage.It is based on four main pillars. The first is the...

This paper uses theoretical expositions and practical examplesto demonstrate how librarians and specialist museum staff arenowadays called upon not only to keep »ready« knowledge andoriginals in their holdings, but also to contribute their...

The permanent preservation of original written cultural heritageworks by archives, libraries and other memory institutions is atask which the institutions concerned are scarcely in a positionto accomplish. Ever since the late 1980s at least,...

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....

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...

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...

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...

»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...

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...

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...