Ralf DeppingUniversity- and City-Library

of Cologne

Vasdoca.de vas

avasdoca

vasdoca.de and the system of the German Virtual Subject Libraries

German National Distributed Library Plan

German National Library: deposit copies from all publications published in Germany

23 scientific libraries and some special libraries have the task to collect the foreign highly specialized research literature in all academic disciplines

access to this special collections via inter-library-loan

The system of the German virtual subject libraries

Expansion of the system of the national distributed library plan to electronic information resources

More than 30 virtual subject libraries with:

subject guide of internet resources

simultaneous search in different databases, library catalogues and other information resources

availability check

Virtual subject libraries in the social sciences

Economics

and Business

Sociology

Politics

Law

Psychology

Education

Social

Anthropology

Sports

EconBiz, the virtual library of economics and business administration

subject guide: more than 20.000 internet resources

meta search engine: more than six million title records form databases, library catalogues, the EconBiz Internet resources as well as free internet databases

calendar of events, helpdesk and online reference option

Metasearch

Internet-Resources

EconBiz: a cooperative project …

... by the German National Library of Economics in Kiel and the University and City Library of Cologne ...

... with a lot of additional international cooperation partners in the field of cataloguing the internet resources ...

… and a cooperative technical infra- structure (Academic Linkshare ).

Metadata Sharing of internet resources by Academic Linkshare

cooperative cataloguing of internet resources

Members: Virtual libraries in the field of humanities and social sciences and other internet portals

Joint metadata used by all and specific metadata (i.e. browsing classification) for each virtual library

ViFaPlus: add an internet resource to the database with only two clicks

VIFAPlus: 1. Click

VIFAPlus: 2. Click

vascoda.de the interdisciplinary internet portal

more than 100 million data from ...

... more than 35 virtual subject libraries

... union catalogues

... ZDB (journal union catalogue) and EZB (electronic journals library)

Facilitate Access to Quality Information

Worldwide access to electronic and printed material through integration of databases and library OPACs

One central point of access

Easy search and navigation

Integration of quality controlled resources only

Combination of search and access to full-text

intelligent search-engine technology

choose between subject-specific or interdisciplinary search

Different ranking and sorting options

Drill downs to reduce the result-set by a great range of different categories

Linguistic features

Search

browse

Drill-downs

Access to the full – text …

… by the electronic journals library ….

… by local detection systems …

… and document delivery services.

Name und Kontaktdaten in Folienmaster einfügen

EZB

Access to the full – text

In preparation: nationwide system of authentication, authorization and digital rights management

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