Our operative key activities ensure that essential themes for the future of the ZBW are treated and implemented comprehensively and with the necessary scholarly depth.

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The ZBW aims to enable free and international access for students and researchers to as many onlince documents in economics as possible. We do this through our collection of Open Access documents in economics on the one hand, and through negotiations for national licences, some of which we also host on our own repositories, on the other. 

Open Access
National Licensing
Repositories

With our research focus on research data management we aim to be a competent partner for research data in economics and the corresponding technologies.
Research data management

In collaboration with national and international partners, the ZBW develops strategies and operative measures for the sustained preservation of its digital content.
Digital preservation

The STW Thesaurus for Economics, developed and published by the ZBW, provides the world’s most comprehensive thesaurus for searching and indexing content in economics.
STW Thesaurus for Economics

The automation of various workflows in the indexing process and their seemless integration with intellectual cataloguing and subject indexing is a permanent task at ZBW. We continuously evaluate automated procedures, develop them further in the context of our research activities, and transfer them into productive operations.
Automation of Subject Indexing Using Methods from Artificial Intelligence

Our specialists for metadata standards and formats in the metadata management team of the ZBW work on the integration of heterogeneous metadata for the portal EconBiz.
Metadata management

The EconBiz API offers an application programming interface that gives access to several million datasets about literature and information in economics.
EconBiz API

Linked Open Data offers the chance to freely use and link data from very heterogeneous sources. Where the library world once developed highly specialised formats for the exchange of title data and authority files, open standards and programming interfaces now allow simple re-use of our data by third parties.
Linked Open Data

Information about our research activities