Goettingen State and University Library

Since 1996 the Göttingen State and University library on behalf of the University runs a repository to publish electronic dissertations and has been involved in several projects on electronic publishing such as the founding of the DINI working group (“Electronic Publishing“ - German Initiative for Networked Information e.V.); SPARC Europe; the development of the repository certification “DINI Certificate Document and Publication Services”; has been part of projects like ProPrint (a PoD-Service for electronic documents); Mediaconomy (an interdisciplinary project on scientific communication); IPOA; the German Open Access specific information and communication platform project and DRIVER. The Göttingen State and University Library is associated with the German and international library community through the development of cutting-edge services. Its digital library developments cover digitisation, (represented by the library’s digitisation centre and projects like the online version of a Gutenberg Bible, or cooperative projects like DigiZeit, the German pendant to JSTOR), interoperability and standardisation (several international projects such as Renardus, DIEPER, EULER or national projects like vascoda etc.); subject specific solutions such as subject gateways and Virtual Libraries; virtual workspaces for scientists (TextGrid, GRID-technology for the humanities); and long-term preservation of digital objects represented by projects such as NESTOR and kopal. The library runs the Open Access-oriented Universitätsverlag Göttingen; hosts several Open Access journals and has been the driving force for the university’s Open Access Policy which came into place in the beginning of 2006.

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