German National Library of Science and Technology, TIB

The innovative competence and service centre

for literature and information supply

Martin Boemeke, Annual IATUL conference 02– 05 of June 2003, Ankara, Turkey

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Contents:

1. Introduction

2. History and Background

3. Three major ways to access scientific information

3.1. Electronic Journals Library

3.2. Information Alliance

3.3. Virtual Libraries

4. The future, one central way to access, Vascoda 

5. Summary

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• Vascoda will go online in August 2003

• Central access point for all fields of science

• Allows interdisciplinary searches as well as complex navigation

• Offers access to all types of documents

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The Idea behind VascodaVascoda: • facilitates access to quality information • will help users find information more quickly• offers access to all kind of materials important

for research• offers one-stop-access-point to scientific

information in germany

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History and Background

1996 the German research foundation (DFG) supports Virtual Libraries,

1999 the federal Ministry for education and research of germany, BMBF, supports the constitution of four information networks, the information alliance.

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History and Background

2001 cooperation agreement between the german research foundation (DFG) and the federal ministry for education and research (BMBF) to centralize the sponsoring for virtual access to scientific information

2002 decision of the involved parties to build up one Portal to scientific information in germany, Vascoda

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At present there are three major ways to access scientific information:

the electronic journals library (EZB) the Information alliance 23 virtual libraries

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EZB - Electronic Journals Library

Offers an effective use of academic journals Offers fast, structured and standardized access

to scientific and academic full text journalsContains 14,975 journal titles, among them

1,758 online-only journals, covering all subjects 4,812 journals can be read free-of-chargeThe participating libraries offer full text access to

the journals they subscribe to

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The Information Alliance

Focusses on providing digital full-texts, published materials and grey literature

Combines the search results of databases with the electronic full-texts provided either by publishers, grey-literature- or preprint-servers etc.

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The Information Alliance - Partners

EconDoc (Economics and Business)GBI Munich, HWWA Hamburg, ZBW Kiel, USB Cologne

GetInfo (Science and Technology)FIZ Karlsruhe, TIB Hannover

infoconnex (Pedagogy, Psychology, Social Sciences)DIPF Frankfurt, Informationszentrum Sozialwissenschaften Bonn, Zentrum für Psychologische Information und Dokumentation (ZPID) Trier etc.

Medpilot (Medical Science)DIMDI, ZBMed Cologne

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Virtual Libraries

Offer access to information and documents relevant for research in a specific field of study

Integrate searching and the delivery of documents - stored and scattered around the world

Cover electronic as well as printed material Offer evaluated and commented internet

sources of high quality

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Examples for Partners of Virtual Libraries

Anglo-American Culture (SUB Göttingen)

Contemporary Art (SLUB Dresden) Engineering (TIB/UB Hannover)Geo-Sciences (Göttingen) etc.

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The future:

Vascoda offering a search across

the electronic journals

the products of the information alliance,

the databases

the subject guides of the virtual libraries

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Second release at Vascoda:

Complex metasearch across the data of all participating partners dependent on xml-interface

Some joined catalogue services might be offered

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Martin BömekePhone: ++49/(0)511/762-3449

Email:martin.boemeke@tib.uni-hannover.dehttp://www.vascoda.de/