Since 2010, libraries, archives and museums in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern have been involved in a joint pilot project, laying the foundations for a digital library.More ...
The German Digital Library, the project of the century that is to make Germany’s cultural heritage freely accessible to everyone, is gradually taking concrete shape.More ...
No-cost access to digital media any time, anywhere – that’s the idea behind online lending. More than 300 libraries in Germany are already offering this Internet-based service. The way forward, or a bit of technical tomfoolery?More ...
Starting 2012, the German Digital Library is to be filled with content. This is one of the reasons why Germany needs a digitization strategy, explains Ute Schwens.More ...
Electronic databases are some of the most important filling stations. National licences exist so that as many people as possible can tap into these resources.More ...
Open-access.net offers reliable and comprehensive information on publication forms that enable unlimited, cost-free access to research results and data.More ...
With the online version of the Heidelberg Bibliotheca Palatina, one of the finest collections of German manuscripts has now been fully digitalized and made easily accessible on the Internet.More ...
Seit Mitte 2006 gehört das Sammeln von Netzpublikationen zum Auftrag der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek. Viele Fragen sind dabei allerdings noch offen.More ...
Mona Lisa’s smile, Beethoven’s Ninth, Shakespeare’s sonnets: at Europeana.eu, digitized cultural treasures from Europe’s libraries, archives and museums are just a mouse click away. In 2009, the portal entered its second phase.More ...
Academic libraries in Germany are continuously expanding their range of digital material – and are now able to provide new internet-based services in order to meet the ever growing demands of research and study. The library of the future is without doubt going to be one that is in a constant state of flux.More ...
GetInfo provides scientists, developers and students in technical and scientific disciplines with a convenient research tool that allows high quality information to be located quickly.More ...
Grid computing is opening up new research opportunities for academics. Dr Heike Neuroth, who coordinates the TextGrid project at the Göttingen State and University Library (SUB), explains how it works.More ...
The opportunities and limits for libraries on the internet – Professor Dr. Ulrich Johannes Schneider, Executive Director of the University Library of Leipzig, expounds on the role libraries are going to play in the electronic age.More ...
Dr. Markus Brantl, who runs the Munich Digitisation Centre (Münchener Digitalisierungszentrum), explains in this interview how modern mass digitisation works in the Bavarian State Library (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek; BSB).More ...
The euphoria that opportunities in the field of digitization generate is great. However, Dr. Martin Luchterhandt, senior archives councillor at the National Archives Berlin warns about considering digitization to be a universal remedy.More ...
Anyone who wants to find out about digitisation projects that are being carried out in German libraries, archives and museums, as well as in the field of monument conservation, is in just the right place at kulturerbe-digital.de.More ...
More than three million pages of academic literature from German specialist periodicals are available to users at research institutions all over the world in the DigiZeitschriften online archive.More ...
More than ten years ago a service for libraries and research institutes was launched at the Regensburg University Library which has attracted increasing numbers of users and which is now one of the largest databases for electronic journals in the world.More ...
In July 2007, a project team made up of representatives of European archives, libraries and museums commenced its work – with the ambitious goal of paving the way for the European Digital Library.More ...
That books from the holdings of the great traditional libraries in Europe can be accessed from any computer in the world is a long-cherished vision. With the internet service eBooks on Demand this vision is now becoming reality.More ...
The Bavarian State Library is making more than a million of its books available to Google for digitalisation. We spoke to Dr. Klaus Ceynowa, Deputy Director General of the State Library, about this unique form of cooperation in Germany.More ...
