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ZBW MediaTalk says goodbye to Twitter (“X”)
Our blog ZBW MediaTalk was present on Twitter for over a dozen years. But the direction that "X" has...
Open Access During the Pandemic: Prelude to a Permanent Change in Publishing Behaviour?
Is the observable increase in preprints during the COVID-19 pandemic a temporary phenomenon or the...
Open Educational Resources: Open Economics Guide now Covers More Topics
The ZBW's Open Economics Guide now offers a new section on Open Educational Resources (OER). Here,...
Back to the Future: Amazing Discoveries in a Futurology Card Index from the 1980s
Card indexes are yesterday’s news and belong in the waste-paper bin? Not everyone agrees: The prospect...
EconStor Survey 2022: Repository Registers Satisfied Users, but More Marketing Efforts Needed
More than 13 years ago, the ZBW launched its repository EconStor. In 2022, the team conducted a survey...
Workshop Retrodigitisation 2022: Do It Yourself or Have It Done?
At the workshop, digitisation projects in cooperation with volunteers, with service providers, in...
Behind the Scenes: UNESCO Declares Bookbinding as Intangible Cultural Heritage
Many people know about UNESCO's Cultural and Natural Heritage from travelling. Few, however, know that...
Happy Birthday, MediaTalk! Our Must-read List from 11 Years of Blogging
It's our birthday! On 22.02.2022, the blog ZBW MediaTalk will be 11 years old. Reason enough to look...
European Open Science Cloud: Small Projects, Big Plans and 1 Billion EUR
The mishmash in relation to research data environments on a national, European and global level is...
Open Economics Guide: New Open Science Support for Economics Researchers
Despite many benefits of Open Science, several barriers still prevent researchers from opening up their...
Libraries as a Place After Corona: Hybrid and Participatory?
If you had the chance now to design a library completely from scratch, what would it look like? Which...