Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften ist Bibliothek des Jahres 2014: Exzellenz und radikale ...

[From Google's English] "German National Library of Economics is Library of the Year 2014: excellence and radical innovation convinced the jury Berlin, 30.06.2014 The German Library Association (dbv) gives the "ZBW - German National Library of Economics - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics" price "Library of the Year 2014 ". The ZBW receives the single national library award at a formal ceremony on 24 October 2014 on the day of the libraries. The price "Library of the Year" is awarded this year for the fifteenth time. With the ZBW a library is honored to meet the challenges of technological change arises and binds up their excellent digital services with the highest quality of service for researchers, teachers and students. The library is treading with the use of social media self-confident new ground in service for the provision of information and thus goes far beyond the usual standards library addition. The ZBW is a radically modern library, their customers and can serve innovation orientation as a model for other libraries. Your knowledge is the ZBW to libraries at home and abroad and further contributes to the development of the entire library area ... The ZBW initiated the 2013 Leibniz Research Network Science 2.0 to interdisciplinary to explore changes in research and publication processes through social media. In addition, a separate international research group was dedicated to science 2.0 set up to investigate the effects of these changes on the supply of scientific information and, based on new library offers to develop. optimizations All their offerings developed the AEO in close dialogue with customers.It focuses on the areas of open access publication processes, the integration of heterogeneous expert information, personalization of offerings and services in collaborative environments and user research and long-term archiving. using the portal EconBiz the ZBW offers free international economic scientific information to. International research has also access to more than a million free online documents - ideal for mobile use with the EconBiz App . The Open Access publication server DSpace is with over 70,000 economics documents the largest repository in Germany, which is used by about 250 facilities for the digital distribution of their publications. The sustainability of access to these documents ensures the ZBW through its commitment to digital preservation. In addition to the classic text medium also research data in the field of activity of the ZBW increasingly be integrated. too, for their own communication with their target audiences is the ZBW on the social media Facebook, Google+ and Twitter ..."