EZB Projects & Committees

  1. Working group IT Landscape Electronic Resources
  2. openCost: automated, standardized delivery and open provision of publication costs and publishing agreements
  3. DFG-Projekt: OA-EZB: OA-EZB: Open-Access-Service of Electronic Journals Library
  4. Member of GOKb Steering Commitee
  5. Member of DACHELA, Expert working group KB-Content

1. Working group IT Landscape Electronic Resources

Start: March 2022
Supported by: AG Verbundsysteme, EZB and ZDB
Website: www.ag-systemlandschaft.de

The Advisory Board of the Electronic Journals Library (EZB) established a working group to look at the various application scenarios in the management of electronic resources and to map the systems and processes involved. About 30 library professionals responded to this call and attended the first meeting of this working group on March 24th, 2022. The working group organizes itself via work packages, which are handled in subgroups:
  • WP0: Definitions for a common understanding of terminology and entities
  • WP1: Development of a questionnaire for relevant systems to systematically record data exchange processes
  • WP2: Identify the relevant systems and conduct the survey
  • WP3: Visualization of systems, processes, data flows and identifiers
  • WP4: Public Relations
  • WP5: Regular update
The aim of this working group is to create a system map with as many participating systems as possible that are used to manage electronic resources in academic libraries in German-speaking countries and to visualize their data exchange processes. The working group has an informative character and wants to contribute to system clarification in this complex topic. The working group is open to the participation of other interested parties.

2. openCost: automated, standardized delivery and open provision of publication costs and publishing agreements

Start: March 2021
Project participants: University Library of Regensburg, University Library of Bielefeld, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)
Project funding: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
DFG project number: 457354095
Website: www.opencost.de

Within the scope of openCost we are creating a technical infrastructure that allows us to comprehensively record all costs involved in scientific publishing and subsequently make them freely accessible by means of standardized interfaces. This should enable cost transparency on an institutional, national and international level. The project focus on:
  • Development of a standardized metadata schema for the collection and transfer of data on publication costs
  • Implementation of an open interface for harvesting and querying these data
  • Extension of the EZB to include special functions for managing and displaying information on OA publication costs or for harvesting publication costs

3. DFG project: OA-EZB: Open-Access-Service of Electronic Journals Library

Project period: April 2015 until October 2018
Project participants: University Library of Regensburg
Project funding: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
DFG project number: 266182992

As part of the DFG project, the University Library of Regensburg expanded the EZB to include new services to improve the use of open access publications and to promote the publication of scientific articles in open access. The project focused on:
  • Expansion of the EZB linking service to include OA publications
  • Establishment of a service for information on Open Access rights

4. Member of GOKb Steering Commitee

Since September 2021, Silke Weisheit has been a member of the GOKb Steering Committee, representing the University Library of Regensburg on behalf of the EZB and DBIS. The GOKb is a global exchange platform for metadata of electronic resources. In the GOKb, the electronic resources are organized in packages whose contents are managed cooperatively by a community. The GOKb is currently integrated into FOLIO as a knowledgebase.

5. Member of DACHELA, Expert working group KB-Content

Silke Weisheit has been a member of DACHELA, Facharbeitsgruppe KB-Content since 2021 as a representative of University Library of Regensburg on behalf of EZB and DBIS. DACHELA is the German-speaking Ex Libris user group.