DigiZagazin
DigiZeitschriften is a digital journal archive that offers retrospectively digitized scientific journal holdings. The focus is on core journals of German research with a long research tradition and constant publication history. The articles are accessed via libraries and research institutions that DigiZeitschriften have subscribed to for their users. However, all bibliographical data and the articles are freely accessible in the freely accessible "Open Access" area.
There are currently over 700 magazine titles with over 8 million pages available (as of 2017). The magazines will be completely retro-digitized from their first year of publication. To protect the publishers' current subscriptions, the last years are not included (so-called moving wall ).
history
At the end of the 1990s, nine special collection area libraries joined forces to implement the “DigiZeitschriften” project with financial support from the German Research Foundation . After a feasibility study between 1999 and 2001, the first project phase followed. On February 12, 2002, the DigiZeitschriften eV association was founded. The office is located at the Göttingen State and University Library . In spring 2004, Digi-Magazines went online with a free test phase for all interested institutions. Since January 1, 2005, the archive is chargeable. Since the project funding by the DFG ended in 2006, the association has been self-supporting.
aims
Supported by the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels , the Verwertungsgesellschaft Wort and the Verwertungsgesellschaft Bild-Kunst , DigiZeitschriften wants to set up a German counterpart to JSTOR that enables access to the most important journals, especially those in the humanities and social sciences, via the Internet. This is intended to support research on the one hand, and to promote the distribution and acceptance of German-language publications on the other. At the same time, libraries can be relieved in times of sometimes drastic price increases in the journal sector.
areas of expertise
The focus of the archive is on humanities journals from the fields of Egyptology / Coptology, English studies, books and libraries, German studies, history, art history, musicology, oriental studies, philology, philosophy, religion and Romance studies. The inventory is supplemented by journals in other subject areas, such as educational sciences, geosciences, mathematics, natural sciences, law, sociology and economics.
Contributions
The annual fees are based on the number of full-time equivalents of an institution and thus also on the size. Smaller institutes therefore pay a lower fee than, for example, a large university library. The price range is between 600 and 4,500 euros. In addition, there are discounts for consortium contracts and thus for institutions that join together to form a consortium from the outset.
criticism
University and state libraries that are not currently subscribed to DigiZeitschriften criticize the costs on the one hand and the fact that searchable full texts are not yet completely available, as is the case with JSTOR, on the other.
The terms of use are considered too restrictive. It is not entirely clear whether the distribution of magazine articles permitted under Section 60c of the Copyright Act is contractually excluded. Only the member libraries of the association are currently allowed to use articles from DigiZeitschriften for interlibrary loan .
The use of the open access term is misleading, as there is no uniform time limit before which all contributions are accessible free of charge. The aim is to activate it for all years up to 1925. A large number of articles in the public domain whose authors have been dead for more than 70 years are only offered in the paid version. For example, 31 articles by the historian Georg von Below, who died in 1927, are included in DigiZeitschriften, but only 17 of them are accessible free of charge. It was also criticized that DigiZeitschriften are not generally made available under a national license.
See also
literature
- Nancy L. Maron, K. Kirby Smith, Matthew Loy: Sustaining Digital Resources: An On-the-Ground View of Projects Today. In: Ithaka Case Studies in Sustainability. 2009, pp. 45-52. (PDF)
- Caren Schweder: DigiZeitschriften: A Service Provided by Libraries for the Academic Community: The Retrospective Digitization of Journals from Specialized Collections in Germany. In: The Serials Librarian. 47, no 1/2, 2004, pp. 181-190.
- Norbert Lossau , Stefan Cramme: DigiZeit (Digitization of journals) - a joint effort of special subject collection libraries in Germany. In: Digitizing journals. Conference on future strategies for European libraries, 13.-14. March 2000 Copenhagen; proceedings. Danish National Library Authority, Copenhagen 2000, ISBN 87-87012-65-0 , pp. 19-23. (PDF)
Web links
proof
- ^ DigiZeitschriften Website - Information. Retrieved May 22, 2017 .
- ↑ Jeannette Derdau: digitization in academic libraries. Supplement to the information supply for natural scientists . VDM, Saarbrücken 2008, ISBN 978-3-8364-3889-6 , p. 83 .
- ^ Margot Wiesner: Electronic journals and interlibrary loan. A handout from GASCO1 . In: Library Service . tape 39 , no. 3 , 2005, p. 379-380 ( PDF, 125 kB ).
- ^ Klaus Graf: Remote Access and Open Access. In: Archivalia. October 27, 2019, accessed on October 28, 2019 (German).