While the intramural allocation of resources on the basis of performance criteria is currently being implemented at colleges and universities in several German federal states, central institutions such as their libraries are, as a rule, still...
The intellectual selection and cataloguing of - in many cases dynamic - informational items which can be accessed via Internet is a task requiring intensive use of resources. And due to the lack of any alternatives, it is by and large agreed to be...
In Germany, the provision of literature and information for research is supported by a system of special collection fields, funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Association/DFG). 23 university libraries, 47 special...