Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswesen und Bibliographie

The publication culture of the hermeneutically driven social sciences and humanities (SSH) differs significantly from that of the hard sciences with respect both to publication formats and to the relationship between carrier formats to content. An...

Open access is an important topic at universities in Germany: for the scientists as producers of scientific publications, for the university administration as financial backers, and for libraries as information suppliers. This article gives an...

The Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres was among the first to sign the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities. In order to implement open access within research centers a pragmatic and...

The German Research Foundation (DFG), Germany's largest organisation for the promotion of research, is a strong advocate for free-of-charge access to the results of scientific research. The political support of open access flanks projects which...

Within the framework of sustainable operational planning, a large portion of open access activities depends upon decentralized open digital storage sites in libraries and other types of institutional infrastructures. While the content is maintained...

Formal peer-reviewed publication of research results is seen as a necessity in science. But also, open access to these results is increasingly seen as a necessity. The two are sometimes seen as incompatible, but they are not. But we have to get away...

Knowledge transfer is obviously a key factor for colleges and universities and is directly associated with the provision of scientific information. The traditional (paper-based) process of publication can significantly impair digital provision of...

Unrestricted access to scientific publication is a decisive prerequisite for scientific research. In view of the trend toward concentration in the publishing sector and of inflation, especially in journal publishing, the open access movement...

Institutional repositories are a fundamental instrument for the implementation of open access using either the green road or the golden road. This article provides an overview of the software systems currently being used in Germany to operate...

Since 1999 the German Initiative for Network Information (DINI) - in particular via the Committee for Electronic Publishing - has been endeavoring to advance the set-up of document servers in Germany, to establish examples of best practice, and to...

All of the activities for implementing the work and publishing strategies of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences have been subsumed under the acronym Telota (»The Electronic Life of the Academy«). This article outlines the origins of the...

This article investigates the circumstances under which authors can benefit economically from using the Creative Commons license to make their works available for open access. The methodology applies anthropological techniques that examine the...

Die Konversion der konventionellen Kataloge der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek begann in den 1980er Jahren und wurde mitder Erfassung des Alphabetischen Katalogs 1841-1952, des so genannten Quartkatalogs, abgeschlossen. Etwa 3,5 Millionen Titel wurden...

In diesem Beitrag wird das Veränderungsmanagement an einer einschichtigen, dezentralen Universitätsbibliothek am Beispiel der Neuausrichtung der Teilbibliotheksorganisation an der Thüringer Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek (ThULB) Jena...