The ZBW is the world’s largest specialist library for economics.
Figures of the ZBW (2022):
- Holdings: 4.27 million books and other publications.
- Number of current journal subscriptions: 25,107 titles.
- Book acquisitions: 533,009.
- Newly acquired working papers: 501,264.
- Number of titles in EconBiz: 11.9 million.
- Number of documents in the repository EconStor: 245,000.
- Number of staff: 270.
- Seat: The ZBW has two branches, one on the Firth of Kiel, the other on the Binnenalster in Hamburg.
- Legal form: foundation under public law.
- Founding year: 1919.
- Director: Professor Klaus Tochtermann
- Financing: The ZBW is financed jointly by the federal and state governments.
- Budget: 27.06 million EUR.
- The ZBW is a member of the Leibniz Association.