Science portal b2i
The science portal b2i book, library and information sciences was the project supported by the German Research Foundation since 2006 to set up a virtual specialist library for the fields of book, library and information science (funding period January 2006 to December 2007).
Interested parties from science, studies and practice were offered extensive research options in subject- relevant library catalogs , relevant specialist databases, quality-controlled Internet sources, solid factual information and full-text offers via a search mask . The service often also included ordering options for the specialist literature required.
b2i was designed as an open and expandable project that should take up current developments and offer interested parties space to collaborate. The project was therefore set up and expanded in close contact with the specialist community, and a scientific advisory board was set up as an interface to the community.
In February 2015, the b2i portal was shut down due to a lack of funding.
Project partner
- Lower Saxony State and University Library Göttingen (project coordination as a special collection library for the subject "Information, book and library affairs, hosting the portal")
- Information science department and information center for information science and practice at the Potsdam University of Applied Sciences
- Book studies at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg
- Competence network for libraries KNB at the German Library Association
Full texts
- E-LIS - Open Archive for Eprints in Library and Information Science
- Full text server INFODATA-eDepot
- Electronic special collection area catalog "Information, Book and Libraries (SSG 24.1)" from the OPAC of the Göttingen SUB
Magazines
- Electronic journals on SSG 24.1 from the EZB Regensburg (via b2i-Guide)
- Electronic special collection area catalog SSG 24.1
- Electronic catalog from IZ / FH Potsdam
Bibliographies and databases
- Bibliographic database on information science "INFODATA"
- "Information, book and library science" section from the online content database (OLC)
- Current Contents Service (CC) for information science journals
- Bibliographic database "Documentation Service Library" (DOBI)
- Bibliographic database "Book and Paper" (BuP)
- Sources of information about metadata ("Metaguide")
- Technical excerpt for SSG 24.1 from the database information system DBIS
- Specialized database for book studies consisting of the bibliography on book and library history (BBB) digitized at the SUB Göttingen and the OPAC of the German book archive “St. Gallen Center for the Book "
- Wolfenbüttel bibliography on the history of the book industry in the German-speaking area (WBB)
- Fabian-Handbuch (Handbook of the historical book inventory in Germany, Austria and Europe, digitized by Günter Kükenshöner, edited by Bernhard Fabian, Hildesheim: Olms Neue Medien 2003)
Catalogs
- Electronic special collection area catalog SSG 24.1
- Electronic catalog from IZ / FH Potsdam
General information
- Information on a wide range of library-related topics ("KNB library portal")
- Subject gateway "b2i-Guide": Collection of accessible subject-relevant internet sources
Functions
The following portal functions were e.g. In some cases never fulfilled, but were aimed for by the end of the first project period:
- classic search function (author, title, etc.), across databases
- Meta search in various specialist resources (Internet sources, specialist databases, library catalogs with printed and electronic materials, etc.) using the iport portal software (OCLC PICA)
- Development of Internet resources via Subject Gateway (technical basis is ALS - Academic LinkShare , managed by SUB Hamburg)
- Export of records in RIS, ASCII and BibTex format
- Browsing via GOK and possibly DDC
- Full text search and full text display
- Hit list with shopping cart function
- Availability display / interlibrary loan
- Print on demand
- Authentication / billing
- Alerting Service (RSS)
- Integration in vascoda
- Document delivery
future
After the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek announced its withdrawal from the information portal b2i, the new application for a specialist information service for book, library and information science at the DFG was pursued under the leadership of the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel and the Leipzig University Library. The application was approved in 2017.
Web links
- Archive of: Wissenschaftsportal b2i, 2013, January 24th-2014, December 19th [seen Jan. 16, 2018]
- Communication forum science portal b2i
Follow-up project FID Book, Library and Information Science