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| German National Library of Science and Technology | |
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| Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) | |
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52°22′53″N9°43′11″E / 52.381262°N 9.719848°E /52.381262; 9.719848 | |
| Location | Welfengarten 1 B 30167Hanover, Germany |
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| Scope | Engineering, architecture,chemistry,computer science, mathematics,physics |
| Established | 1959; 66 years ago (1959) |
| Collection | |
| Items collected | Books,journals,electronic media |
| Size | 8.9 million media units[1] 17.3 million patents |
| Legal deposit | Yes[2] |
| Access and use | |
| Population served | Researchers, business clients, students, general public |
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| Director | Sören Auer[3] |
| Employees | 500 (2022) |
| Website | www |
TheGerman National Library of Science and Technology (German:Technische Informationsbibliothek), abbreviatedTIB, is thenational library of theFederal Republic of Germany for all fields of engineering, technology, and thenatural sciences. It is jointly funded by theFederal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the 16German states. Founded in 1959, the library operates in conjunction with theLeibniz Universität Hannover.[4]: 72–74 In addition to acquiring scientific literature, it conductsapplied research in such areas as the archiving of non-textual materials,data visualization and thefuture Internet. The library is also involved in a number ofopen access initiatives. With a collection of about 8.9 million items in 2012,[1][needs update] the TIB is the largest technology and natural science library in the world.[5]
The TIB acquires literature in all engineering fields as well as architecture, information technology, chemistry, mathematics, physics and otherbasic sciences. It is a particular specialist in the acquisition of "gray literature";[5] that is, literature difficult to obtain and not available via the standard book or journal trade.[6] It also holds a large number of standards, norms, patents, source data, scientific conference proceedings, government research papers and dissertations. Special collections include the "Albrecht Haupt Collection" of digitally rendered architectural drawings, and a regional focus on technical literature from East Asia and Eastern Europe.[7] The film and audiovisual material held previously by IWF Knowledge and Media (IWF Wissen und Medien) is now held by TIB.[8]
The TIB's holdings total 10 million media units (as of December 31, 2022):[citation needed]
In 2010, the physical collection occupied 125 kilometres (78 mi) of shelving.[9]
To counteract the flood of publications in the sciences, TIB is developing the Open Research Knowledge Graph,[10] with which the scientific contributions from scientific publications can be organized in a flexible database (the Knowledge Graph). In 2024, the TIB published the ORKG ASK service,[11] which enables AI-supported scientific questions to be answered on the basis of a corpus of 80 million scientific publications.
In 2005 the TIB became the world's firstDigital Object Identifier (DOI) registration agency for research data sets in the fields of technology, natural sciences and medicine.[12] It offers registration for the results of any publicly funded research conducted in Europe.[13]
The TIB is alegal deposit library for research projects sponsored by various agencies of the German Federal Government, in particular:[2]
The TIB is a member of theLeibniz Association,[4]: 74 [14] a consortium of 87 non-university research institutes in Germany. In support of the Association'sopen access goals, the TIB operates the Leibniz Open Access Repository in cooperation with Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure (formerlyFachinformationszentrum Karlsruhe). The TIB advises the Leibniz Association's various member organizations, scientists and staff on depositing publications in the repository according toopen access guidelines.[15][16]
The amount, usage and importance of non-textual materials such as3D models,AV media and research data is continually increasing and only a small proportion can be searched at the present time.[17]: 270 The goal of theTIB Competence Centre for Non-Textual Materials (Kompetenzzentrum für nicht-textuelle Materialien, abbreviated to KNM) is to fundamentally improve access to, and the use of, such non-textual materials. The TIB also develops new multimedia analysis methods such as morphology, speech or structure recognition to create indexing and metadata to help researchers and educators make better use of these complex materials. In addition, the competence center is dedicated to the preservation of multimedia objects, the assignment of DOI, and knowledge transfer.[18]
TIB operates the GetInfo portal for science and technology with interdisciplinary search capabilities for the other German National Libraries as well as access to more than 150 million data sets from other specialized databases, publishers and library catalogs.[19][20] The TIB also makes scientific videos of lectures, conferences, computer animations, simulations and experiments available via GetInfo. These video items can be searched free-of-charge and can be downloaded viaFlash Player.[needs update][21]
The TIB partners with a variety of national and international libraries, institutions and associations.[22]
The TIB is one of three partners in the Leibniz Library Network for Research Information consortiumGoportis, the others being theGerman National Library of Economics (ZBW) andGerman National Library of Medicine (ZB MED). This initiative develops and operates online search services, online full-text delivery services, licensing agreements, non-textual materials, document preservation efforts, data storage, and open access.
The TIB is also the scientific information provider for researchers in the newly independent states of the formerSoviet Union, includingAzerbaijan, Georgia,Kazakhstan,Kyrgyzstan,Tajikistan andUkraine. It also collaborates with numerous organizations in China, Japan and Eastern Europe. Notable institutional partnerships include:
As part of the German national research infrastructure, the TIB conducts its ownapplied research, particularly in the field ofinformation science. In cooperation with a variety of other institutions, these projects focus on the areas of visual searching, data visualization, theSemantic Web, and theFuture Internet.
PROBADO is a project to develop tools for the automatic indexing, storage and delivery of non-textual documents such as 3D models. Its goal is to enable academic libraries to deal with multimedia objects just as easily as with textual information. Tools include searching by intuitive drawing in 2D and 3D and delivery of results while drawing. For this initiative the TIB partnered with the Technical University of Darmstadt, the University of Bonn and the Technical University of Graz.
This project, funded by theLeibniz Association, is a joint effort of the TIB, the GRIS Darmstadt (Interactive Graphics Systems at theTechnical University of Darmstadt) and the IGD (Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics). It deals with developing approaches to the interactive, graphical access to research data in order to make it easily represented and searchable. The project is tasked with developing methods for data analysis, visual search systems, metadata-based searching and prototype implementation.[23]
SCOAP3 (Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics) is a global consortium of organizations in high energy physics, physics research centers and leading international libraries. Its goal is to convert essential journals in particle physics that are presently financed by subscriptions intoopen access journals with the support of the publishers.[24] SCOAP3-DH is funded by theGerman Research Foundation, working in cooperation with theGerman Electron Synchrotron (DESY) and theMax Planck Society (MPS).[25][26]
Additional TIB research projects include:[27]
One of whom was TIB Director Prof Dr Sören Auer.
Als weltweit größte Spezialbibliothek für Technik und Naturwissenschaften und wesentlicher Teil der nationalen Forschungsinfrastruktur [...].
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