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The ZBW is member of the Leibniz-Association

Open Source Initiatives for Promoting

Economics Research

- A case study from ZBW, Germany

Thorsten Meyer

ETBL – Global Conference on Emerging Trends in Business Libraries

Ahmedabad, December 4, 2015

ZBW – Fact Sheet

Founded in 1919

Specialised in Economics and

Business Studies

4,3 Mio Books

31.000 Periodica, Journals

4,8 Mio catalog items

5,5 Mio downloads of digital full texts

~ 260 employees

23 Mio Euro Budget/Year

Areas of Competencies

Library

Academic Services

Cataloging

Customer Services

Economics

Journals

Publication Services

Information Provision

Research

Publishing Technologies

Social Media

Science 2.0

Public Consultation on Science 2.0

of the European Commission

• ~500 responses to the questionnaire

• 28 position statements

Website of the EC: http://scienceintransition.eu/

Qualitative Analysis of ZBW: http://www.zbw.eu/en/research/science-2-0/

http://scienceintransition.eu/



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2. New ways for disseminating output

3. New ways of collaboration

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3. Lack of integration in the existing

infrastructure

1. Open Access

2. Open Research Data

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Cross-Linking Sciences durch LoD

Science in Transition = Science 2.0

Investigate how participatory web technologies will impact on research and publication processes

Innovate scientific library services

New ways for disseminating output

New ways of collaboration

Research Questions

• How does the Social Web impact on working

habits of researchers?

• How does the Social Web impact on research and

publication processes in different research

disciplines?

Traditional Feedback Channels

Social Feedback Channels

Comment

Bookmark

Like Recommend

Connect

Lack of integration in the existing

infrastructure

Research Questions

• How do Science 2.0 tools support research and

publication processes?

• What Science 2.0 tools are needed to innovate

research and publication processes?

Yesterday Take the user to the content

CATALOGUE

(OPAC)

Today Take the user to the content

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Discovery

Services

Tomorrow

Take the content to the User

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gy6V1M2R9M

Logics of the Web *.0

Search Engine Optimisation

Social Media Optimisation

Specialised

Ressources,

Digital Libraries,

Museums Archives

A.-L. Barabasi, R. Albert, and H. Jeong. Scale-free characteristics of random networks: the topology of the world-wide web. Physica A: Statistical

Mechanics and its Applications, 281(1–4):69 – 77, 2000.

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How to reduce the distance

between users and content?

Open Access

Open Research Data

Openess/Open Access in a broader sense

Accessibility of publications, data, texts, …

for (re-)usage without barriers

Prerequisite: Partnering with researchers

EconStor - Open Access of Publications

• more than 100,000 publications

• Working/Discussion Papers

• Conference Proceedings

• Books out of print

• ….

• Self-upload-service

• direct disemination service to RePEc

• 12th largest repository worldwide

Research Data Management – Our Principles

• …we act in close cooperation with the economic research community

and orient our activites to the needs of this community as well as seek

constant feedback from them,

• …we act with a strong subject-specific view, without neglecting overall

developments and discussions,

• …we think it is useful to have a division of responsibilities in RDM,

which are based on complementary skills (e.g. storage of and access to

data)

ZBW’s role: support discovery, citability and sharing of

data as well as provision of guidelines and best practices

Some of ZBW‘s activities in RDM

International Collaboration

• Research is

• getting more and more interdisciplinary

• getting more and more global

• more self-organized

• changing its way of being performed

• in need of complementary quality criteria for its output

To support research , librarians should collaborate even

more, regionally and globally

The EconBiz-Partnernetwork…

• is supposed to enable top research in economics & business studies

• promotes transfer of knowledge & cooperation among members

• helps to disseminate the service on an international level and to

enhance the visibility of research output and conferences in all

partner countries

• provides a forum for the discussion of topics relevant to the partners

• partners for joint projects can be found through the network

• 25 partners in 25 countries (October 2015, list of countries)

http://www.econbiz.de/eb/en/about/econbiz-partner-network/partner-countries/overview/




EconBiz-Partner Network

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EEXCESS: http://eexcess.eu/

EconStor: http://www.econstor.eu/en

EconBiz-Partner-Network:

http://www.econbiz.de/eb/en/about/econbiz-partner-network/econbiz-

partner-network/

Thorsten Meyer

ZBW Kiel/Hamburg

[email protected]

Thank you very much!

http://eexcess.eu/

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