German National Library of Science and Technology

The Technical Information Library ( TIB ), the German National Library for technology, architecture, chemistry, computer science, mathematics and physics in Hannover, as well as the world's largest specialist library for science and technology. She has to supply the order, especially the national and international research and industry literature and information. The TIB is part of the national research infrastructure and the largest specialized library in their fields. At their core competencies include the full text supply.

The TIB is a dependent institution of Lower Saxony at the Leibniz University of Hannover and a member of the Leibniz Association.

  • 6.1 PROBADO 3D
  • 6.2 ViFaChem II
  • 6.3 Visual access to research data
  • 6.4 SCOAP3 DH

Collection emphasis

The TIB collects literature from the fields of technology, architecture, chemistry, computer science, mathematics and physics in various languages ​​and in different media. TIB also has a large number of standards and patents. A regional focus is placed on the technical and scientific literature from East Asia and Eastern Europe. The hard -to-find, not available in bookstores so-called gray literature, is a specialty of the TIB. This includes, inter alia, conference proceedings, research reports and dissertations.

Stock

The stock of the TIB contains a total of 8,900,000 units of media (as of early 2013 ):

  • 5,600,000 books
  • 3,400,000 microforms
  • 78,000 Digital Single documents ( such as e- books, e - thesis)
  • 46,000 electronic journals
  • 17,000 journals (print )
  • 3,500 specialized databases
  • 15.76 million patents, standards, standards

Full text service GetInfo

GetInfo is the portal for technical, scientific technical and research information. GetInfo bundles access to specialized databases, publishing services and library catalogs with integrated full -text delivery. Advanced information services such as chem.de and Virtual Libraries Engineering, Physics and Mathematics complement the GetInfo offer. Available are currently more than 135 million records, including 20 million TIB own. Various multimedia objects such as research data, audiovisual and 3D models are integrated into GetInfo.

Services

DOI registration agency for research data

Since 2005, the TIB is the world's first DOI registration agency for research data sets from the field of technology / natural sciences and medicine. In addition, the registration of every kind of scientific content, the result of publicly funded research in Europe are possible with the TIB. It secures by awarding Digital Object Identifier ( DOI ) and their detection and access GetInfo quality assurance and continued availability and referencing of research data.

DataCite

2009 was the TIB founding member of the international consortium DataCite, an association of the world's leading research libraries and information centers. The association aims to scientists to improve access to research data on the Internet and to ensure global standards. The allocation of DOI for research data is the focus. DataCite would increase acceptance of research data as independent, citable scientific objects and thus ensure compliance with the rules of good scientific practice. The consortium is based on the work of TIB as the world's first registration agency for research data. The office of DataCite is run by the TIB in Hannover.

Depository Library

The TIB is depository library for research reports of projects by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF ), the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi ) ( in the areas of energy, aviation research, multimedia, aerospace and InnoNet ), the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety ( BMU ) ( in the areas of energy research and energy technologies), of the Agency for Renewable resources (FNR) (on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection (BMELV ) ), by the German Federal environmental Foundation ( DBU) and the Federal Environmental Agency (UBA ) were promoted. The reports are shown and provided on GetInfo.

Leibniz Open Access Repository

To implement the Open Access Guideline of the Leibniz Association, the TIB operates in cooperation with FIZ Karlsruhe, which belongs in the professional competence of the TIB WGL repository. She advises and supports both the scientists and the staff of the Institute libraries to make the publications of the Leibniz Association available and visible.

Competence Centre for Multimedia Objects KMO

With the aim to improve the conditions of access to and use of multimedia objects in research and teaching basic and enable new uses of existing stocks, the TIB establishes a competence center for multimedia objects. First, an AV - portal is developed on the basis of technologies from the field of video retrieval, while a web-based access to scientific films such as Simulations, animations, recorded experiments, lectures and conferences in the field of science and technology allows. The AV media should be linked via the TIB Fachportal GetInfo with further research information, such as digital full texts, numeric data and facts as well as research data. Interfaces for more multimedia objects to follow. In addition, the competence center dedicated to the long-term archiving of multimedia objects, the allocation of DOI and the transfer of knowledge.

Library Network Goportis

As National Library in their fields, the TIB is one of three partners of the Leibniz Library Network for Research Information Goportis. The other two partners are the German National Library of Medicine (ZB MED) and the German National Library of Economics - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics ( ZBW ). Goportis in Germany is the central contact for full-text service, licenses, non- textual materials, long -term archiving and Open Access. The aim of Goportis is to combine the knowledge in these areas and to stimulate further developments.

Research / Projects

The TIB is part of the national research infrastructure in the field of information management. It conducts applied research in the field of digital library. In cooperation with research institutes, the main focus is especially on the topics of Visual search, data visualization, Future Internet and Semantic Web.

PROBADO 3D

PROBADO is a project funded by the DFG project in the discharge area centers of excellence for research information. The project deals with the development of tools for the prototypical operation of a service for automatic indexing, storage and supply of non- textual documents such as 3D models. Probado 3D is designed to enable academic libraries with multimedia objects as self-evident how to deal with textual news. Tools like looking through intuitive drawing with 2D and 3D Sketch tools and the delivery of the results already while drawing you to a specific retrieval of 3D models. PROBADO is realized together with the Technical University of Darmstadt, the University of Bonn and the Technical University of Graz.

ViFaChem II

The Virtual Library of Chemistry II - personalized information services for chemical research and industry is to March 2010 funded by the DFG joint project of the TIB and the Forschungszentrum L3S Hannover. The goal was the development of concepts and tools to actively support the user in capturing, indexing and linking of document collections. Developed in the project Virtual Library of Chemistry II tools are provided on the chemistry platform Chem.de. This adds as the General Service Getino the portal of the TIB.

Visual access to research data

Funded by the Leibniz Association joint project of the TIB, the GRIS Darmstadt ( Interactive Graphics Systems Group, TU Darmstadt ) and the IGD Darmstadt ( Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics ) deals with the approaches to the interactive, graphical access to research data to this optimally represented and to make searchable. There are techniques for analyzing data and for visual search systems studied and developed, and its prototypical implementation evaluated in the specialist portal GetInfo. The aim is to search the metadata-based and the direct search in the research data.

SCOAP3 DH

SCOAP3 DH ( Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics ) is a global consortium of national and international research funding organizations in high energy physics, high energy physics research centers and leading national and international libraries and library consortia. It has set itself the objective of transforming essential periodicals in high-energy physics, with the support of publishers in open access journals. SCOAP3 DH is supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft ( DFG) funded project and deals with the preparation of the participation of German universities and other institutions in the international consortium. SCOAP3 DH works in cooperation with the German Electron Synchrotron (DESY) and the Max Planck Society ( MPG).

Since the beginning of January 2014, all articles in relevant journals for high -energy physics are freely accessible.

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