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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.

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).[9] [10]

Library holdings

Services

The ZBW maintains the search portal EconBiz containing more than 10 million datasets of bibliographic references for economics and business studies. The ZBW also offers an online reference service, Research Guide EconDesk, which provides guidance for literature and data searches in economics and business studies.[11] 

The ZBW is an active player in the Open Access movement which aims for free access to scholarly research output. It is the chief negotiator for national licences in economics in Germany.[12]

The repository EconStor serves as a platform for the free publication of research output in economics. Authors and publishing institutions can publish without charges on EconStor.

More than 400 institutions use EconStor for the digital dissemination of their publications in Open Access. It is an input service for RePEc and one of its most frequently used archives. All titles in EconStor are indexed by search engines such as Google, Google Scholar and BASE, and distributed to databases such as WoldCat, OpenAire and EconBiz.[13]

The ZBW Journal Data Archive is a service for the editors of scholarly journals in economics. Editors can deposit datasets and other material relating to empirical articles and provide access to them in order to enable reproducibility of published research findings.[14]

The ZBW publishes two journals of economic policy, Wirtschaftsdienst and Intereconomics.[15]

The ZBW also provides support for researchers dealing with the different aspects of the digitisation of the science system, such as publishing in Open Access or research data management.[16]

Wirtschaftsdienst, edited by the ZBW


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).[17]
  • 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.[18]
  • 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.[19]
  • 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. [20]

Networks and cooperations

Research at the ZBW

Activities in science policy

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.[21]

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.[22] 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.[21]

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.[23] 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".[21]

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. ^ "Who is the ZBW?". ZBW. Retrieved 2017-03-17.
  10. ^ "Collection guidelines". ZBW. Retrieved 2017-03-17.
  11. ^ "About EconBiz". EconBiz - Find Economic Literature. 2013-06-19. Retrieved 2017-03-17.
  12. ^ (ZBW), Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften. "Simply. Share. Research. ZBW". Simply. Share. Research. ZBW. Retrieved 2017-03-17.
  13. ^ "EconStor: About EconStor". www.econstor.eu. Retrieved 2017-03-17.
  14. ^ "Welcome - ZBW Journal Data Archive". www.journaldata.zbw.eu. Retrieved 2017-03-17.
  15. ^ "Publishing of economic research". ZBW. Retrieved 2017-03-17.
  16. ^ (ZBW), Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften. "Simply. Share. Research. ZBW". Simply. Share. Research. ZBW. Retrieved 2017-03-17.
  17. ^ GeRDI: MOVING retrieved 22-November-2016
  18. ^ LOC-DB: LOC-DB retrieved 22-November-2016
  19. ^ metrics: metrics retrieved 22-November-2016
  20. ^ The German National Library of Economics: MOVING retrieved 22-November-2016
  21. ^ a b c German National Library of Economics: History retrieved 28-May-2012
  22. ^ Ash Working Group: Antifaschistische Stadtführungen: Kiel 1933-1945. Stations in the History of National Socialism in Kiel. Kiel 1998, p. 38f
  23. ^ 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
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