5th EICOLC Conference Elsinore, Denmark Country Report Germany

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5th E-ICOLC Conference Elsinore, Denmark
Country Report Germany

• Werner Reinhardt
• Siegen University Library and Chairman GASCO

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German, Austrian and Swiss Consortia Organisation
http//www.hbz-nrw.de/kunden/gast/konsortien/konso
rtien.html
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States of the Federal Republic of Germany
Siegen
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Some Statistical FiguresGermany / North
Rhine-Westphalia

• Universities (mostly state funded)
  98NRW 16

NRW 15 (2003 Merger of two Universities)

• Students at these universities (FTE)
  1.330.000NRW 407.000

• Scientific staff (FTE)
  172.000NRW 35.000

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Cataloguing Cooperatives in Germany

Joint library network (GBV)
Library information system of HesseHeBIS
Cooperative library network of Berlin-Brandenburg
(KOBV)
Bavarian library network (BVB)
Library network of North Rhine-Westphalia (HBZ)
South-West German library network(SWB)
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ACTIVE CONSORTIA

• Baden-Württemberg

• Bavaria

• FAK

• HeBIS

• Lower Saxony

• North-Rhine Westphalia

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Division of Labour (Examples)

• FAK
• ACS 43 (12) participants
• LWW 20 ( 2) participants

• HeBIS
• ACM 30 (5) participants

• NRW
• Beck-Online 49 (15) participants

• Managed by a single colleague
• Nature 70 participantsScience 54 participants

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Central Funding for e-Content in Germany
2001
2002
2003
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Central Funding (Examples)
- ?
- ?
nothing
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Archiving Questions
Reason 1 Academic Press (merger with
Elsevier)Reason 2 ACS (time frame licensing)
Preferred option NO change of server
Second best option Data delivery and storage on
ONE server within Germany (Distributed
Network) Second best option Use at other
providers (OCLC)
Third best option Data delivery to the single
participants
Worst option No access
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NRW-ways to new licensing models
Experiences so far Elsevier, Kluwer
Future target Usage based agreements
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Questions ?