Profile of Erasmus University Rotterdam Library
Brief history and background
Erasmus University Rotterdam has been in existence in its present form since 1973. Its history, however, dates back to 1913, the year in which the Netherlands School of Commerce was founded through private initiative with broad support from the Rotterdam business community. At that time a library was founded, that would evolve to become the University Library with the foundation of the Erasmus University Rotterdam in 1973.
The University Library moved to its current location in 1968. In 1970 the automated book storage system 'Randtriever' was installed, through which the library drastically reduced the amount of space needed for book storage. An addition to the building was added in 1986. The library serves over 15,000 students and 3,000 faculty and staff.
Collections
The library has over 900,000 books and 5,000 journal subscriptions. Almost all of the subscriptions are available in electronic form. The Library’s core subject areas are Business Administration, Economics, Statistics, Law, European Integration, Healthcare Policy and Management, History and Art, Philosophy, Social Sciences and Medicine and Health Sciences.
The Library is an Institutional Repository for the European Documentation Centre.
The more than 220 databases that the library subscribes to are exemplary of the focus points of the collection, and range from business data to medical information.
More information on EUR's collection profile.
Digital Library Projects
The University Library is involved in a number of projects:
Erasmus Electronic Publishing Initiative
The EEPI project is an initiative to publish all research results of the Erasmus University Rotterdam through the Internet for everyone, 24/7, and without charge. It has a fully functional Institutional Repository called DSpace@EUR. Descriptions of the documents are made available by the use of OAI-PMH, an internationally accepted protocol for the exchange of digital information. It has actively joined DARE to set up services for researchers based on the documents available in the Netherlands.
Research in Semantic Scholarly Publishing
In collaboration with the Free University Amsterdam, the Knowledge Media Institute – Open University UK, Elsevier Science, and faculties at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, the University Library will develop a new model of publishing that is not static and linear, but dynamic and multidimensional. The model allows the visualization of cognitive and semantic relational patterns, and it will have the possibility of domain-specific cases in different areas of science, including an editorial logistic route, authoring instructions, and a prototype of a new publication and communication environment.
Contact Persons
For information regarding resource questions, please contact the information desk:
Paul Plaatsman, Subject Specialist
Tel: +31 - 10 - 408 1227
Fax: +31 - 10 - 408 9049
E-mail: Plaatsman@ubib.eur.nl
For questions regarding Nereus and EUR's involvement, please contact:
Paul Soetaert, Librarian
Tel: +31 - 10 - 408 1211
Fax: +31 - 10 - 408 9049
E-mail: Soetaert@ubib.eur.nl
The EUR Library Website can be found under
http://www.eur.nl/ub/english/
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