Open Economics Guide: New Open Science Support for Economics Researchers
by Birgit Fingerle and Guido Scherp Open Science represents the best practice for academic work and is a toolkit for “good scientific practice”. In addition to the general benefits of Open Science for...
View ArticleEuropean Open Science Cloud: Small Projects, Big Plans and 1 Billion EUR
by Claudia Sittner Prof. Dr Klaus Tochtermann is Director of the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, Member of the German Council for Scientific Information Infrastructures (RfII) and board...
View ArticleHappy Birthday, MediaTalk! Our Must-read List from 11 Years of Blogging
The categories in our birthday article range from factual such as Open Science or Social Web to the most curious/weirdest contributions, the (still!) most requested added-value blogposts, a few ZBW...
View ArticleBehind the Scenes: UNESCO Declares Bookbinding as Intangible Cultural Heritage
by Claudia Sittner What is „Intangible Cultural Heritage“? The United Nations Educational, Scientific, Cultural and Communication Organization (UNESCO) defines this as “oral traditions, performing...
View ArticleWorkshop Retrodigitisation 2022: Do It Yourself or Have It Done?
by Ulrich Blortz, Andreas Purkert, Thorsten Siegmann, Dawn Wehrhahn and Monika Zarnitz Workshop Retrodigitisation: topics Under the workshop title “Do It Yourself or Have It Done? Collaboration With...
View ArticleEconStor Survey 2022: Repository Registers Satisfied Users, but More...
Guest article by Ralf Toepfer, Lisa Schäfer and Olaf Siegert Back in 2009, the ZBW launched its disciplinary Open Access repository EconStor. Now in 2022, it provides more than 240,000 academic papers...
View ArticleBack to the Future: Amazing Discoveries in a Futurology Card Index from the...
Guest article by Anna Kasprzik The principle of knowledge organisation Semantics is the study of meaning, and knowledge organisation is semantics made explicit. A great deal of the time I have spent...
View ArticleOpen Educational Resources: Open Economics Guide now Covers More Topics
by Birgit Fingerle The Open Economics Guide has been online for about two years and offers information on Open Science, especially Open Access and Open Data. The Open Economics Guide contains practical...
View ArticleOpen Access During the Pandemic: Prelude to a Permanent Change in Publishing...
by Kristin Biesenbender and Ralf Toepfer At the Open Access Days 2023, which took place at the FU Berlin at the end of September, Kristin Biesenbender and Ralf Toepfer from the ZBW presented selected...
View ArticleZBW MediaTalk says goodbye to Twitter (“X”)
Bye, goodbye, ciao, adiós – ZBW MediaTalk is turning its back on “X” (formerly Twitter) after more than twelve years of network activity. The team did not take the decision lightly. In all this time,...
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