EZB Projects & Committees
- Working group IT Landscape Electronic Resources
- openCost: automated, standardized delivery and open provision of publication costs and publishing agreements
- DFG-Projekt: OA-EZB: OA-EZB: Open-Access-Service of Electronic Journals Library
- Member of GOKb Steering Commitee
- Member of DACHELA, Expert working group KB-Content
1. Working group IT Landscape Electronic Resources
Start: March 2022Supported 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
2. openCost: automated, standardized delivery and open provision of publication costs and publishing agreements
Start: March 2021Project 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 2018Project 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