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Library directors sign Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation from 2016 to 2018
GÖTTINGEN/HANNOVER, 17 March 2016 – Göttingen State and University Library (SUB Göttingen) and the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB) in Hannover have signed a Memorandum of Understanding for a three-year collaboration from 2016 to 2018. In this Memorandum of Understanding, the two partners express their common interest in working together closely and in exchanging information regularly on topics specified therein.
“The planned cooperation focuses on the areas of licensing and literature provision, mathematics, research services and digital preservation,” stated TIB Director Uwe Rosemann, explaining the content of the Memorandum of Understanding. “We will also work together more closely in future to examine the demands placed on the local library system,” Rosemann continued. Examples of concrete topics of cooperation specified by the partners in their Memorandum of Understanding include the Open Access Publishing Fund, the continuation of the Scientific Information Service (SIS) Mathematics, research data management and digital research methods (e-Research).
By signing their Memorandum of Understanding, Göttingen State and University Library and TIB are actively further developing their cooperation. “By cooperating together, our libraries wish to exploit our considerable similarities with regard to our interests, duties and fields of activity, such as virtual research environments or access to research resources, and to pool our expertise. Together, we will be in a better position to achieve our strategic objectives,” stated Dr. Wolfram Horstmann, Director of Göttingen State and University Library.
About TIB
The German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB) in Hannover is the Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology and University Library. As the German national library for all areas of engineering, as well as architecture, chemistry, information technology, mathematics and physics, it provides in its specialist fields national and international researchers and industry practitioners and – as a University Library – students, researchers and teaching staff from all faculties of Leibniz Universität Hannover as well as interested local citizens with literature and information in both printed and electronic form. As the world’s largest specialised library in its subject areas, TIB has outstanding collections of fundamental and highly specialised literature on science and technology. In order to optimise the services it offers, TIB conducts applied research and development. TIB is a public-law foundation of the Federal State of Lower Saxony. It is a member of the Leibniz Association.
About Göttingen State and University Library
Göttingen State and University Library (SUB), one of most important research libraries in Germany, plays a leading role in a large number of national and international projects involving the optimisation of literature and information provision and the establishment and development of digital research and information infrastructures. Its scope of activities include the cooperative development of a Germany-wide service infrastructure for the acquisition, licensing and provision of electronic resources; the coordination of large-scale joint research projects for developing research infrastructures in the humanities and cultural sciences in Germany; and the consortial establishment of Open Access research infrastructures linked across Europe and the world.
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