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German National Library of Economics
Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften (ZBW)
ZBW main building in Kiel
Map
LocationDüsternbrooker Weg 120, 24105 Kiel
Neuer Jungfernstieg 21, 20354 Hamburg, Germany
TypeNational library, Research library
ScopeEconomics, Finance, Business
Established1919
Collection
Items collectedbooks, journals, electronic media
Size4.43 million items[1]
27,119 journal titles
Access and use
Population servedresearchers, business clients, students, public
Other information
Budget€ 22.56 million[2]
DirectorKlaus Tochtermann
Employees280[3]
Websitehttp://www.zbw.eu/
ZBW building, Hamburg
ZBW building interior, Kiel
Prof. Dr. Klaus Tochterman, ZBW Director

The German National Library of Economics (German: Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften), abbreviated ZBW, is the world's largest library for economics.[4][5] It also bears the suffix "Leibniz Information Centre for Economics" and is part of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Scientific Community (WGL). The headquarters of the ZBW is in Kiel, Germany with additional offices in Hamburg.[6]

The ZBW is jointly funded by the German Federal Government and States of Germany. Its mission is to procure, index, archive and provide literature on economics and business fields to researchers and the general public. It is a depositary library of the World Trade Organization and maintains a European Union Documentation Centre at both locations.[7] It also collects all official publications of the United Nations, OECD, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.[8] The ZBW is headed by Klaus Tochtermann.

History

The ZBW has its roots in a library established in 1919 at the "Royal Institute for Maritime Traffic and World Economy" (German: Königliches Institut für Seeverkehr und Weltwirtschaft), which later became the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. The institute’s founder, Bernhard Harms, intended for the library to contribute to research in economic geography, trade politics, colonial economics and transport policy. By 1924, the collection had already reached 70,000 volumes.[9]

After the Nazi Seizure of Power in 1933, "Jewish" and social democratic workers were expelled from the Institute under the "Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service." The National Socialist regime did permit the library to keep its collections and even continue the procurement of foreign literature.[10] Unlike many libraries during World War II, it did not suffer any losses thanks to the books being moved to safety into the Cathedral of Ratzeburg. As a result, in postwar-torn Germany it had a uniquely comprehensive and valuable collection. In 1966 the German Research Foundation (DFG) designated the ZBW as the central library for economics in the Federal Republic of Germany. Since 1980 it has been a member of the Leibniz Association.[9]

In 2007 the library of the Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWA) merged with the ZBW, creating the largest economics library and information provider in the world.[11] At the same time, the ZBW was incorporated as a foundation under public law independent of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. Since then, the ZBW is additionally known as the "Leibniz Information Centre for Economics".[9]

Collection mandate

The ZBW is Germany’s central subject library and research infrastructure for economics in Germany. Its mandate is to acquire, to index, and to archive theoretical and empirical literature and subject-specific information from economics and business studies, and to provide access to these materials to the general public on a national basis. The ZBW also acquires all publications from closely related and auxiliary disciplines focussing on economics, in order to accommodate the increasing tendency towards interdisciplinary work in economic research.

The ZBW is part of the system of national literature provision within the German Research Foundation (DFG).[12] [13]

Services

EconBiz

EconBiz is a search portal for economics. It aims to support research in and teaching of economics with a central entry point for all kinds of subject-specific information and direct access to full texts.[14]

EconStor

EconStor is a publication server for scholarly economic literature, provided as a non-commercial public service by the ZBW. The full texts collected here (mostly working papers, but also journal articles, conference proceedings, etc.) are all freely accessible according to the principles of Open Access. Authors and editors can also submit papers to EconStor free of charge.[15]

Research Guide EconDesk

The ZBW offers EconDesk, a free reference desk that will answer short, factual economics questions via phone, email, or online chat. Questions can be about statistical data, economic definitions, or specific country information. This service is available to the public worldwide without charge.[16]

Digital Object Identifier registration

The ZBW operates da|ra, a service operated through the DataCite consortium, to provide Digital Object Identifier (DOI) registration for all German research centers in the fields of social sciences and economics. It also operates a comprehensive metadata schema to ensure proper citation of registered social and economic data.[17]

Open Access

With its publication server EconStor the ZBW provides an infrastructure for the free publication of scholarly literature in economics and business administration. The mission of EconStor is to make research findings in economics accessible in Open Access and thus internationally visible. In addition, the ZBW produces the peer-reviewed journal Economics in cooperation with the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. The Journal is based on the principle of Open Access and Open Assessment and listed in SCCI. The ZBW is active in national and international bodies in order to foster the idea of free dissemination of research findings. Among these bodies are COAR, DINI or the Priority Initiative "Digital Information".[18]

ZBW Journal Data Archive

The ZBW Journal Data Archive is a service for editors of journals in economics and management. It offers the possibility for journal authors of papers containing empirical work, simulations or experimental work to store the data, programs, and other details of computations, to make these files publicly available and to support confirmability and replicability of their published research papers.[19]

Official depository library

The ZBW is a depository library of the World Trade Organization. All WTO publications are collected and made available.[20] It is also designated a European Documentation Centre (EDC), receiving all official publications of the European Union and its organs, including the European Commission, European Central Bank (ECB) and European Court of Justice (ECJ).[21] The ZBW also collects and makes available the publications of the United Nations Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank.

Publications

Since 1 January 2007 the ZBW serves as editor of two economic journals:

Wirtschaftsdienst

Wirtschaftsdienst, edited by the ZBW

Wirtschaftsdienst – The Journal for Economic Policy (German: Wirtschaftsdienst – Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik) is an academic journal that has existed since 1916. It is published monthly by Springer Science+Business Media (ISSN 0043-6275) in German. The journal presents articles on current issues in German and European economic and social policy.[22]

Intereconomics

Intereconomics, edited by the ZBW

Intereconomics – Review of European Economic Policy publishes papers dealing with economic and social policy issues in Europe. It has existed since 1966 and is one of the oldest journals covering macroeconomics. It is published bimonthly by Springer Science+Business Media (ISSN 0020-5346) in English. Since 2009 it is edited in cooperation with the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels.[23]

Partnerships

International cooperation

Among others:

EconBiz Partner Network:[24]

  • ADA University Library, Azerbaijan
  • AIM - Asian Institute of Management, Philippines
  • American University, Nigeria
  • Bank of Finland, Finland
  • BIBADM - School of Management's Library of the Federal University of Rio Grande Do Sul, Brasil
  • CIRANO, Canada
  • Corvinus University Library, Hungary
  • Cranfield University, UK
  • Harvard Business School, USA
  • Economic Faculty of the "St. Kliment Ohridski" University in Sofia, Bulgaria
  • Graz University of Technology and Graz University, Austria
  • HongKong Polytechnic University, China
  • IAE Business School, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Institute of Economic Research IER, Hitotsubashi University HIT, Japan
  • Instituto de Empresa Foundation, Madrid
  • International Balkan University, Library, Macedonia
  • Jaipuria Institute of Management, India
  • Koç University Suna Kiraç Library, Turkey
  • Library of Economic Faculty "St Kiril & Metodius", Skopje
  • National and University Library Skopje
  • Peking University, China
  • Peking University Library, China
  • Singapore Management University
  • SMU Libraries, Singapore
  • Sogang University, South-Korea
  • South East European University-SEEU, Macedonia
  • S P Jain School of Global Management, Australia, Dubai Singapore
  • Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, USA
  • Trakya University, Turkey
  • Universiteti i Prishtines, Kosovo
  • Universiteti i Shkodres, Albania
  • Universiteti i Tiranes, Albania
  • University Library of Svetozar Markovic, Serbia
  • University of Latvia
  • University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Administration, Slovenia
  • Universiti Teknologi Mara, Malaysia
  • Vesalius College, Belgium
  • WU Vienna - Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria

Cooperation partners in the EU project MOVING (Training towards a society of data-savvy information professionals to enable open leadership innovation):[25]

  • Ernst & Young GmbH, Germany
  • Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
  • Know-Center Graz, Austria
  • Institut Jozef Stefan, Slovenia
  • The University of Manchester, UK
  • GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany
  • Fundacja Progress and Business, Poland


Other affiliations

The ZBW is a member of a variety of national and international organizations, including:[26]

Projects

As part of the German national research infrastructure, the ZBW also conducts its own applied research. Some of the more notable projects include:


  • GeRDI GeRDI – Generic Research Data Infrastructure: The project aims to develop a distributed and linked infrastructure system for research data, Generic Research Data Infrastructure (GeRDI).[27]
  • LOC-DB Linked Open Citation Database (LOC-DB): The project LOC-DB will develop tools and processes based on linked data technologies that will enable individual libraries to participate in an open, distributed infrastructure for the indexation of citations.[28]
  • metrics metrics: MEasuring The Reliability and perception of Indicators for interactions with sCientific productS: The main focus of “*metrics” is on gaining a deeper understanding of alternative indicators for measuring scientific performance. It looks at the quality and reliability of indicators, but also whether they take account of discipline-specific characteristics.[29]
  • MOVING The vision of the MOVING project is to develop an innovative training platform that enables people from all societal sectors (companies, universities, public administration) to fundamentally improve their information literacy by training how to use, choose, reflect and evaluate data/text mining methods in connection with their daily research tasks. [30]

See also

References

  1. ^ Facts and figures about the ZBW [1] retrieved 16-February-2017
  2. ^ Facts and figures about the ZBW [2] retrieved 16-February-2017
  3. ^ Facts and figures about the ZBW [3] retrieved 16-February-2017
  4. ^ DataCite retrieved 28-May-2012
  5. ^ Dagmar Giersberg: Wherever the User Is – The ZBW. (Munich: Goethe-Institut, 2011) online Template:En icon retrieved 28-May-2012
  6. ^ German National Library of Economics: Facts and Figures retrieved 22-November-2016
  7. ^ Innovations Report: The German National Library Economics online summary retrieved 02-Jun-2012
  8. ^ German National Library of Economics: Collection Criteria retrieved 24-June-2015
  9. ^ a b c German National Library of Economics: History retrieved 28-May-2012
  10. ^ Ash Working Group: Antifaschistische Stadtführungen: Kiel 1933-1945. Stations in the History of National Socialism in Kiel. Kiel 1998, p. 38f
  11. ^ Weltweit größte Zentralbibliothek jetzt noch größer. Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften integriert die Bibliothek des Hamburgischen-Welt-Wirtschafts-Archivs, in: Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswesen und Bibliographie, 54, 2007, 3, p. 143 Template:Icon de
  12. ^ "Who is the ZBW?". ZBW. Retrieved 2017-03-17.
  13. ^ "Collection guidelines". ZBW. Retrieved 2017-03-17.
  14. ^ EconBiz retrieved 24-June-2015
  15. ^ EconStor: EconStor retrieved 09-February-2017
  16. ^ Research Guide EconDesk retrieved 24-June-2015
  17. ^ dara: dara retrieved 09-February-2017
  18. ^ Access retrieved 24-June-2015
  19. ^ [4] retrieved 22-November-2016
  20. ^ World Trade Organization: Depository Libraries online listing retrieved 28-May-2012
  21. ^ German National Library of Economics: European Documentation Centre retrieved 28-May-2012
  22. ^ Springer Verlag: Wirtschaftsdienst – The Journal for Economic Policy retrieved 28-May-2012
  23. ^ Springer Verlag: Intereconomics retrieved 28-May-2012
  24. ^ EconBiz Partner Network retrieved 09-February-2017
  25. ^ Cooperations retrieved 09-February-2017
  26. ^ The German National Library of Economics: Affiliations retrieved 24-June-2015
  27. ^ GeRDI: MOVING retrieved 22-November-2016
  28. ^ LOC-DB: LOC-DB retrieved 22-November-2016
  29. ^ metrics: metrics retrieved 22-November-2016
  30. ^ The German National Library of Economics: MOVING retrieved 22-November-2016
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