6. Tagung "Digitale Bibliothek" – "Vernetzte Welten – Digitales Kulturerbe als öffentliches Gut" (Graz, 26. Februar 2016)

Cooperative Report of the 6th Conference "Digitale Bibliothek" in Graz on February 25, 2016

6. Tagung "Digitale Bibliothek" – "Vernetzte Welten – Digitales Kulturerbe als öffentliches Gut" (Graz, 26. Februar 2016)

Cooperative Report of the 6th Conference "Digitale Bibliothek" in Graz on February 25, 2016

Das E-Medien-Angebot österreichischer Universitätsbibliotheken

Austrian university libraries offer an increasing part of their information resources and full text documents in electronic form. The present paper does not only describe the range of resources offered and their intensive use. It also deals with the change in the tasks and the work flows of libraries and addresses the issue, whether a far-reaching switch to digital information can optimize costs as well as personnel and space requirements of scientific information resources

Schwerpunktthema "ODOK 2014"

Editorial of issue 1/2015 of "Mitteilungen der Vereinigung Österreichischer Bibliothekarinnen und Bibliothekare

Schwerpunktthema "ODOK 2014"

Editorial zum Schwerpunktthema "ODOK 2014".Editorial for special issue "ODOK 2014"

Bericht der AG Primo-Implementierung an die Vollversammlung des österreichischen Bibliothekenverbundes zum möglichen Einsatz des Dienstes Primo Central

Applicability of the discovery service Primo Central for Austrian academic libraries. A Report of the task force PrimoImplementation for the Austrian Library Network. In winter 2010/11 the task force PrimoImplementation of the Austrian Library Network evaluated Primo Central, the Discovery and Delivery Service from Ex Libris, by means of a three month test account and several Q&A sessions with product developers from Ex Libris. Primo Central integrates hundreds of millions of metadata from various data vendors with local holdings. The product was found to be comprehensive in many areas of research (mainly scholarly journal articles), well representing the holdings of a large as well as a medium multi-faculty university library. The lack of national (German) and regional titles severely affects searches for Austrian and German law, it partly affects searches in the fields of economics, psychology and civil engineering, too. Primo Central is updated regularly, but has to be less up-to-date than publisher platforms or PubMed or real time federated search engines like Meta-Lib. Perpetual availability of records from publishers or database vendors cannot be guaranteed by Ex Libris. Currently, metadata of resources indexed in Primo Central mainly do not come from the publishers themselves, but from CrossRef or IngentaConnect. Therefore subject indexing is often missing for these records. Search functionalities and display of relevance ranked search results are comparable to Google Scholar, additional features of Primo Central being faceted search and the opportunity to show only those results available at the particular library. Implementation of Primo Central has been smooth and quick. Preliminaries for the use of Primo Central are the use of Primo as library search engine or MetaLib as federated search engine and a link resolver (not necessarily SFX)