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Literature: research - supply - documentation

On this page we give an overview of the library services about scientific literature - research and supply - and about documentation. Direct links to our services you find on the library's home page.

Loose-leaf collections

Loose-leaf collections can be subscribed to through the library. New issues are routed through the library where they are being registered and then sent to the subscriber.

Data bases

Access to the literature data bases Web of Science (Thomson Reuters), SCOPUS (Elsevier) and to SpringerMaterials (Landolt-Börnstein) is provided across HZB. The library staff is happy to give support.

There is also access to more data bases which are paid for on a pay-per-use basis. Here you need to approach the library staff and formulate your needs. The data base specialist translates your request into data base language, starts the search procedure and transmits the result to you.

Documentation of HZB publications

  • For the documentation of publications by HZB authors library staff searches Web of Science for publications in ISI indexed journals.
  • Library staff also evaluates the entries which HZB authors make in the PASTA system of documentation of publications.
  • The library collects copies of publications, which the authors provide in the PASTA process.
  • In the documentation of publications, there is no space for records for which there are no copies of the actual published paper, nor is there space for records which do not meet agreed standards (e.g. no mere conference abstracts, no progress reports for funding agencies).

Open Access to publications by HZB authors

The library promotes Open Access to publications by HZB authors as agreed upon in the whole of the Helmholtz Association, with these steps:

  • Authors keep copies of copyright agreements which they have signed.
  • Authors provide, after their work has appeared in print, electronic copies of their publications in an approriate form.
  • The library checks on the copyright situation (It is allowed by german law 12 months after the date of publication in a at least two times a year published periodical generally) and will put the electronic copy on the institute's repository.
  • An appropriate form usually is the form of the pdf file which the authors have generated on their computer, post-refereeing pre-publication. It may well look different from the publisher's version but must have the identical content.

Internal archive of HZB documents

The library maintains an archive of records from HZB administrative bodies. Records are included here which are no longer needed on a daily of weekly basis and which may be of interest at a later time, e.g. for documentation of the history of HZB. Records are checked and registered in the library, duplicates are destroyed and records of interest are catalogued and securely stored. The origin unit of any record may ask back the record but also historians and other individuals may be granted access to files of the archive if there is some legitimite interest in opening the files and if the embargo time of 30 years or more has passed.

Archiving research data

  • Research data which have formed the base of any publication are documented and stored (archived) by the authors for at least 10 years, under the authority of the department or institute of their origin.
  • If any HZB scientific unit is discontinued and if no other scientific unit can take care of archived research data, such data is transferred to the library if it is in paper form, and to IT services if it is in digital form.