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Within the last fortnight, the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics has been awarded funding for three research projects addressing the digitisation of the science system from different perspectives. The projects look at (1) setting up a linked infrastructure for research data, (2) alternative indicators for measuring scientific performance and (3) usage of semantic technologies for indexing citations. The German Research Foundation (DFG) contributes 1.3 million Euros to these projects.
The ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics has been actively researching the digitisation of the science system for several years. Three professors and their teams address questions such as: What are the changes in the daily work of scientists? By which new means do researchers publish their findings? Are there new forms of presenting scholarly findings and how can they be published?
The research group of ZBW professors Klaus Tochtermann, Isabella Peters and Ansgar Scherp has now acquired third-party funding to the amount of 1.3 million Euros from the German Research Foundation (DFG) to put their research activities on the digitisation of the science system on a new footing. With these funds six junior researchers can be employed over the next few years.
One of these projects is “GeRDI – Generic Research Data Infrastructure” overseen by Klaus Tochtermann. GeRDI aims to develop a distributed and linked infrastructure system for research data that allows scientists all over Germany to search for research data without barriers and across disciplines. The partners of the ZBW in GeRDI are the University of Kiel and renowned institutions in computer science such as the German National Research and Education Network (DFN), the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Technical University of Dresden. The ZBW coordinates the project.
Isabella Peters works on the second project, “*metrics”. The main focus of “*metrics” is on gaining a deeper understanding of alternative indicators for measuring scientific performance. Here the questions are: What is the quality of the data on which these alternative indicators are based? How do researchers and research funders perceive and assess which indicators? How far are these indicators able to map discipline-specific differences from astronomy to zoology? The project partners are the Head Office of the GBV Common Library Network, the Goettingen State and University Library and the GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences.
The third project, headed by Ansgar Scherp, is named “LOC-DB” and 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. The partners of the ZBW are the Technical University of Kaiserslautern, the Stuttgart Media University and the University Library in Mannheim.
Klaus Tochtermann, director of the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics said: “The ZBW has one of the largest research groups in Germany addressing the digitisation of the science system in a coordinated and transdisciplinary approach. The fact that we could raise these third-party funds in such a short time vindicates our strategy and acknowledges our achievements in research.”
About the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics
The ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics is the world’s largest information centre for economic literature. The institution holds more than 4 million volumes and enables access to millions of online documents in economics. In 2015 alone, 6 million digital full-texts were downloaded. In addition, the ZBW provides a fast-growing collection of Open Access documents. EconStor, the digital publication server, currently gives free access to more than 120,000 articles and working papers. EconBiz, the portal for international economic information, allows students and researchers to search among nine million datasets. The ZBW edits two journals in economic policy, Wirtschaftsdienst and Intereconomics. The ZBW is a research-based academic library. Three professors and an international group of PhD candidates do transdisciplinary research on Science 2.0. Research at the ZBW is connected to international networks. The main co-operation partners are engaged in the the EU projects EEXCESS and MOVING and in the Leibniz Research Alliance Science 2.0. The ZBW is a member of the Leibniz Association and a foundation under public law. The ZBW was honoured several times for its innovative library work with the international LIBER Award for Library Innovation. In 2014, the ZBW received the German “Library of the Year” award.
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