Specialized information center for chemistry
The Fachinformationszentrum Chemie GmbH (FIZ CHEMIE) was an information and documentation center for chemical experts until June 2013. FIZ Chemie was based in Berlin .
Its main task was to provide information services in the field of chemistry and related sciences to government agencies, universities, industry and the public. For this purpose, specialist literature was collected, scientifically evaluated, digitized and then processed into electronic and printed information services.
history
FIZ Chemie was founded on December 11, 1981 as part of the first government program to promote information and documentation ( IuD program ).
It emerged from the former GDCh department “Chemical Information and Documentation Berlin”, which in turn arose from the western editorial office of the Chemisches Zentralblatt , which was discontinued in 1969 . This first scientific department was founded in Leipzig in 1830 as Pharmaceutisches Central-Blatt .
facts and figures
FIZ CHEMIE was funded (institutionally) within the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Scientific Community until December 31, 2012 as part of the fulfillment of its statutory tasks as an infrastructure facility.
The shareholders of FIZ Chemie are the Federal Republic of Germany, represented by the BMBF , the State of Berlin (on behalf of all federal states) and the three German chemical societies, Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker e. V. (GDCh), the Forschungsgesellschaft Kunststoffe e. V. (FGK) and the Society for Chemical Technology and Biotechnology e. V. (DECHEMA).
FIZ Chemie had around 65 employees, around two thirds of whom were scientists. The institute was certified according to DIN EN ISO 9001: 2008 until 2011 .
Range of services
Databases
FIZ Chemie produced databases in the field of synthetic chemistry and thermophysical material data.
The ChemInform provided Abstracts to rated articles from journals of the regions organic and organometallic chemistry, inorganic chemistry and physical chemistry . A search in the ChemInform reaction schemes was made possible by the ChemInform RX (CIRX) reaction database . A subset of the ChemInform RX is the Current Synthetic Methodology (CSM) database , which contains general methods for organic synthesis.
SPORE (Solid Phase Organic REactions) is a database for synthetic routes via polymer-bound organic compounds with data on individual reactions.
Infotherm is a database with thermophysical experimental data on industrially important substance mixtures and pure substances as well as bibliographical information on the respective literature sources.
Retro digitization
FIZ Chemie has digitized the Chemisches Zentralblatt and transferred it to a full-text database. Originally founded as “Pharmaceutisches Central-Blatt” and later renamed several times, from 1830 to 1969 the Chemisches Zentralblatt was the most important reference work in chemistry.
Learning and training systems
Chemgaroo is an e-learning system for teaching chemistry as well as for professional training and further education in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries. It emerged from the BMBF lead project "Networked Studies - Chemistry", in which 16 working groups from 13 universities were involved.
search engines
FIZ Chemie is developing its own search engine technology, for example for the ChemGuide , a subject-specific search engine for specialist information on chemistry and its related areas published on the web.
Specialized portals
The information and knowledge platform Chem.de is a joint offer of FIZ Chemie, Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker e. V. (GDCh) and the Technical Information Library (TIB) Hanover. Chem.de is intended to promote the supply of information and scientific exchange.
GetInfo is a cooperation between the German specialist information centers and the Technical Information Library in Hanover with the aim of providing information for technology and natural sciences. GetInfo provides literature references from natural sciences and technology, offers access to electronic full texts and supplies copies of printed full texts from magazines, books, conference reports, reports and university publications.
management
The lawyer Christian Köhler-Ma has been managing director of FIZ Chemie since 2012. René Deplanque headed FIZ Chemie from 1994 to 2011. From 1981 to 1994 Christian Weiske was the head of the facility.
completion
On March 16, 2011 the Senate of the Leibniz Association recommended the end of the joint funding of the Berlin Specialized Information Center for Chemistry (FIZ Chemie). According to the Senate, FIZ Chemie would have had to strategically reposition itself "in order to be able to survive on the rapidly developing specialist information market". A realignment was approached too hesitantly. In November 2011, the Supervisory Board and the shareholders' meeting of FIZ Chemie decided to withdraw the previous owners from the federal and state levels and to wind up FIZ Chemie. The FIZ Chemie should be advertised for sale. The processing is administered by a new managing director. On January 30, 2012, the announcement regarding the sale of the holdings of the State of Berlin and the federal government in FIZ Chemie appeared in the Federal Gazette .
On January 8, 2013 it was announced that FIZ Chemie would be partially taken over by the publishing house Wiley-VCH and otherwise liquidated. On January 1, 2013, a transfer company was founded from which part of the original FIZ CHEMIE workforce could switch to Wiley-VCH. According to a communication from the Wiley-VCH publishing house on January 15, 2013, after acquiring the rights to the FIZ chemistry offers, the publishing house will in future continue to offer some of the services and offer them on the information market. About 30 of the original 65 jobs were saved.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Heike Kreutzer: VS-C - Networked Studies - Chemistry. (No longer available online.) BIBB , November 21, 2005, archived from the original on July 22, 2012 ; accessed on July 13, 2017 .
- ↑ Imprint . fiz-chemie.de
- ↑ Christian Weiske . tu-harburg.de
- ↑ DJG
- ↑ Leibniz Senate comments on institutions in Saarbrücken, Dortmund and Berlin . Press release of the Leibniz Association , March 16, 2011; Statement (PDF; 1.2 MB)
- ^ FIZ CHEMIE Berlin before dissolution. Berlin working group information
- ↑ FIZ CHEMIE: Wiley VCH wants at least to continue ChemInform . BAK News
- ↑ Wiley acquires assets from FIZ Chemie Berlin . Wiley-VCH