vifabio

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The Virtual Library of Biology (vifabio) provides integrated access to scientific information and literature for biologists via the Internet. Via vifabio, catalog data, selected Internet sources, articles, journals, databases and full-text documents are combined in one virtual place. The use of vifabio is free of charge; the specialist portal is available in parallel in German and in English.

The Virtual Library of Biology is a project of the Johann Christian Senckenberg University Library , Frankfurt am Main, with the participation of several cooperation partners. The specialist portal is set up on the basis of the special collection areas biology / botany / zoology and funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The vifabio website went online in March 2007 and is being expanded step by step.

The most important offers

The comprehensive search functions of vifabio ("virtual catalog") allow a simultaneous query of the following databases:

  • the catalogs of currently eight biologically relevant libraries from Frankfurt, Berlin, Hamburg, Jena, Gatersleben, Müncheberg, Seewiesen and Vienna,
  • a database with quality- controlled and library-accessible internet sources as well as the BioWebSearch service based on it,
  • several bibliographic databases with data on a total of around 20 million biological journal articles,
  • a biological extract from BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) ,
  • the bibliographic data of the digitization projects Biodiversity Heritage Library and Animalbase ,
  • the catalogs of currently two German state / regional bibliographies .

As far as possible, the research results are linked to electronic full texts or to ordering options. Other offers from vifabio include, for example, an overview of digitization projects for historical biological literature as well as special information on biological online databases. A notification service enables users to subscribe to tables of contents for newly appearing journal issues free of charge by email.

literature

  • Judith Dähne: A treasure trove for biologists. The "vifabio" internet portal makes research easier. In: Research Frankfurt 26, issue 1/2008, pp. 66–68. Frankfurt / Main (Johann Wolfgang Goethe University) ( online version PDF file, 1.4 MB ).
  • Imma Hinrichs: Report on the advanced training event for specialists in biology and related areas from April 21 to 23, 2009 in Frankfurt am Main. In: Bibliotheksdienst 43, 2009, pp. 917–921.
  • Gerwin Kasperek: Establishment of a virtual specialist library for biology - vifabio in the making. In: ABI-Technik, magazine for automation, construction and technology in archives, libraries and information systems 27, 2007, pp. 78–95 ( online version PDF file, 1.8 MB ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Klaus Gantert, Rupert Hacker (2008): Basic library knowledge. 8., completely rework. u. exp. Ed., 414 pp .; to vifabio there p. 339.