EconBiz
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| founding | 2002 |
| Duration | approx. 10 million data records from 8 data sources (ECONIS, USB catalog, RePEc, Online Contents Wiwi, EconStor, BWL full texts, BASE, ArchiDok) |
| Library type | Virtual specialist library |
| place | Hamburg and Kiel |
| operator | ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics |
| Website | www.econbiz.de |
EconBiz is a specialist research portal for economics and is operated by the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics . It offers the search for journals, working papers and conferences in business administration and economics.
history
EconBiz was developed jointly by the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics and the University and City Library Cologne (USB Cologne) as part of a DFG-funded project. The portal went online for the first time in September 2002. Since 2013, EconBiz has been operated under sole responsibility by the ZBW.
During a revision in October 2010, the metasearch was replaced by a search engine index ( Lucene / SOLR). In addition, the Standard-Thesaurus Wirtschaft (STW) was integrated in order to enable an automatic search for synonyms and translations of a term. By integrating various web services such as B. the electronic journals library and the journals database can be checked where a source is available. The Open URL Gateway of the University Library Center of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (hbz) can also be used to check for libraries registered there whether z. B. a book is available in your own library.
The open source search system VuFind has been used for EconBiz since 2013. In 2017, a visual and technical revision was made. Since then, all areas of EconBiz have been optimized for mobile devices. With this optimization, the loan functions for registered users of the ZBW have also been integrated into EconBiz.
deals
As a specialist portal, EconBiz offers a range of services:
- Literature research : The search engine index allows access to international economic literature references and full texts, whereby several German and international databases are searched simultaneously per request. Both printed and electronic articles, books, working papers and magazines are taken into account.
- Access to the full text and availability service : There is access to the freely available full text for many online sources. Integrated web services also enable the availability of a printed or (chargeable) electronic source in your own library to be determined. Most of the publications can be ordered via the document delivery service subito .
- Event calendar: An overview of current national and international events in the field of economics such as B. Conferences, meetings and summer schools . Further relevant events can be reported using a form.
- Online information: As part of the integrated online information Research Guide EconDesk , users have the option of obtaining information from the library on economic topics free of charge by e-mail, chat or telephone while researching.
- Online research course: In the "Scientific work" area, videos and tutorials are offered to improve information literacy. The offers are intended to support students in all research tasks involved in academic work and are available to teachers for subsequent use.
- Nobel Prize Winners in Economics: In the beta area of EconBiz there is a list of the winners of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics.
EconBiz is offered in German, English, French and Spanish.
New services are presented in the beta area and can be tested there.
Cooperations and partnerships
As part of the EconBiz partner network, various foreign educational and research institutions have integrated the portal as a search option on their homepage.
literature
- Pianos, tamara; Klemenz, Arne Martin (2017): EconBiz-Experiences: Creating our own discovery system for business & economics. IFLA WLIC 2017 Wroclaw, Satellite Meeting - Reference and Information Services & Information Technology Sections: Innovation and the User Experience: Evaluating and Implementing Discovery Systems. (accessed November 30, 2017)
- Tamara Pianos (2010): EconBiz - Meeting User Needs with New Technology . In: Liber Quarterly 20 (2010) 1, pp. 4–24 (accessed February 24, 2011).
- Alexandra Ersfeld, Birgit Fingerle (2003): EconBiz, the virtual specialist library for economics: a joint project of the USB Cologne and the ZBW . In: Bibliotheksdienst, Volume 37, 2003, No. 3, pp. 320–329 (accessed December 11, 2017).
- Jürgen Christof, Birgit Fingerle, Katja Heyke (2004): Metadata sharing: Union cataloging of Internet sources . In: ZfBB, vol. 51, 2004, no. 3, pp. 152–158 (accessed on December 11, 2017).
Web links
- EconBiz
- STW - Standard Thesaurus Economy
- Prize winners Nobel Prize in Economics
- Webis - Collection focus at German libraries