News from the Library

This year all library locations will be closed for the public between Christmas an New Year. We wish you a Merry Christmas and a happy and healthy New Year!

On 9 December 2021, an online panel discussion on the commodification of Open Research will take place from 4.30pm – 6.30pm. Titel is: If you are not paying for the product, you are the product?

In time of the 75th anniversary of Hessia, the digital archive for the history of Hessian parliamentarism has been released.

Due to the renewed increase in the number of infections, masks will be compulsory from Monday, 22. November for the entire duration of stay in the ULB.

As a member of COAR the ULB aims to reinforce the international cooperation with providers of scientific repositories and to enhance the visibility of its own repositories TUprints and TUdatalib.

You need hints on searching, support in scientific citation, an introduction to literature management, or assistance working with LaTeX or WORD? Then join our online seminars or make an appointment for an individual coaching.

In accordance with the Coronavirus Protection Ordinance of the State of Hesse of 25.09.21 as well as corresponding resolutions of the Presidential Board of the TU Darmstadt, the previously applicable restrictions on use in the ULB can be gradually lifted.

At www.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/owo freshers can find further information about the ULB during the digital winter term 2021/22, for instance helpful flyers, virtual tours, video tutorials and information on upcoming events.

In der „Weiterbildungsreihe Bestandserhaltung“ möchte die ULB Darmstadt ihre Kompetenzen im Bereich der Bestandserhaltung von Bibliotheks- und Archivgut durch vielfältige Vorträge ausgewiesener Experten teilen.

The DEAL contract with the Wiley publishing house has been extended by one year. Until 31 December 2022 you can publish your research results Open Access in Wiley journals free of charge or at reduced fees and have online access to the entire journal portfolio.

Die Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt hat die Bibliothek des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins Darmstadt übernommen. Der Einzug der Bestände fand am 09.08.21 statt.

The next Open Access Talk will take place on 19 August 2021 from 2pm – 3pm. The talk “Open Access Requirements in EU Projects” is aimed at project coordinators, researchers and students.

A corona-related exception previously allowed copies of articles ordered through interlibrary loan to be forwarded digitally by mail to the person ordering them. On 31 July this exception will end.

Starting now the literature managing system Citavi is also available in a web based version called Citavi Web .

Publishing Open Access: How to evaluate a journal's quality is the current topic of the Open Access Talk. It will take place on 29 July 2021 from 2pm – 3pm.

The stocks held in the municipal archive in Stolberg have been severely damaged by the recent flood in North-Rhine-Westfalia. In facebook the archive has pledged for more helpers and materials to rescue the soaked and silted books and documents and to render first aid.

Starting now the comlete platform of OECD iLibrary is available at ULB Darmstadt. Among the 17 subject areas included are the topics Agriculture & Food, Economics, Education, Energy, Environment, Social Issues & Health, and Urban, Rural & Regional Development.

Join the author webinar “Open Access for Germany – All you need to know about the German DEAL agreement!” on 20 April and learn how you can benefit from Open Access publications under the German DEAL agreement and how the “author journey” from submission to publication of an article works.

On 1 April 2021 the ULB Darmstadt starts a project to collect, register, and comment on love letters. The project is launched in joint venture with partners at the TU Darmstadt, the University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt, and the University Koblenz-Landau and is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. The focus is set on Citizen Sciences , that is to say in integrating the interested general public in indexing, describing, and analysing the sources.

You need hints on searching, support in scientific citation, an introduction to literature management, or assistance working with LaTeX or WORD? Then join our online seminars or make an appointment for an individual coaching.

In Germany “DVGW – German Technical and Scientific Association for Gas and Water" is the competence network for all questions related to gas and water supply and a recognized standardization body for the gas and water industry. The single user licence on site for the database segment „water“ has now been extended to a campus-wide licence.

Starting 1 February 2021 and supported by the business finances working group, the ULB offers a new online service EIKON. The EIKON platform provides current data on raw materials, share prices, fixed-rate securities and hedge fonds as well as information on exchange and money markets and on wealth management.

There is no medium in engineering for discussing issues of research data. This gap will be closed in 2021 with the “Journal of Research Data in Engineering Science”.

The next public session of the Open Access Working Group takes place digitally on 14 December 2020, 11am to 12.30am. All persons interested are welcome to join the meeting!