Profile of the German National Library of Economics (ZBW)
Brief history
The German National Library of Economics (ZBW) is also the library of the Kiel Institute of World Economics. It has a staff of 98 FTE, serving ca. 7000 students. The Kiel Institute was founded in 1914, and the library became an independent department in 1919. The amount of material collected grew very fast and it was already in the 1930s when it belonged to one of the world's most comprehensive collections in economics. In 1966 the library received the status as "German National Library of Economics". With 2,7 million volumes of books and periodicals today, it is the worldwide largest special library dedicated to the field of economics.
Collections
The collection comprises 2,7 million volumes and 16.000 current periodicals. The library collects material from all over the world in all of the major languages. Strengths of the collections are working papers, statistics and dissertations. The ZBW also maintains extensive collections from international organisations such as the OECD, the UN (incl. CEAP, FAO, ILO, UNCTAD, WHO), the WTO, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund and hosts a European Documentation Centre.
Accumulation date range: 1914-
Contents date range: 1814-
The ZBW's collection profile can be found under http://www.zbw-kiel.de/ueberbib/info_az/sammelprofil.html In German!
Institutional Repositories
The ZBW runs a document server for archiving economics online material. At the moment the server mainly contains working papers from German universities and research institutes, with which the library has deposit agreements.
Digital Library Projects
The ZBW is involved in several digital library projects. EconBiz is a subject gateway for economic information, including a database with internet resources. EconDoc is an information portal mainly concerned with fulltext articles to German economics and business studies journals. Digizeitschriften deals with the digitization of important journals from the first volume onwards and making it available to researchers.
Contact Persons
The Library Website can be found under
http://www.zbw-kiel.de
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