Universitätsbibliothek.Newsletter

Compared to the years 2020 and 2021, which were marked deeply by the coronavirus pandemic, the number of library visits has risen noticeably in 2022 after pandemic-related restrictions were largely lifted in February. We’re happy to see the library being used as a place for learning and studying again, as well as the active participation in our various tutorials and events.
While the number of physical items borrowed once again sunk in 2022 compared to the previous year, the use of digital items and services – additionally promoted by the pandemic, and steadily expanded – is stabilizing at a high level.
Please feel free to browse the press release for numbers from the university library’s annual statistic for 2022 as well as interpretations and visible trends.

The university library has licensed numerous e-books published by Springer for 2023. English items from the collections »Engineering« and »Computer Science« are newly licensed.
Items from the licensed Springer Nature e-book packs are listed in BibSearch and the OPAC and are available on the publisher’s platform SpringerLink from across campus. Members of Bauhaus-Universität may access the platform from off campus using Shibboleth or a VPN connection.

Missing the streaming service »Artfilms«? It’s been taken over by Bloomsbury and is being continued as »Bloomsbury Video Library«. One of the new platform’s advantages Shibboleth access, which enables university members to use the service from outside the university network.
Presently there are more than 1800 filmy, documentaries and interviews on offer. The materials are mostly in English and cover a wide spread of topics from the areas of art, music, history, dance, film and media. You can find more information on our database info system DBIS.

Two new large format scanners (up to DIN A2) were made available in the library on February 8th. One of them can be found in the main library building on the same floor as the carrels, the other in the Limona building. These powerful Bookeye scanners can scan at a resolution of up to 600 dpi. Optionally scans can be processed by OCR (text recognition).
Using the scanners is free of charge. You will need to bring a USB drive to save your scans.
This purchase was made possible by funds from the federal and state program »Studium und Lehre stärken«. The same program will enable us to update the public computers in the library in the next few weeks.

Bauhaus-Universität Weimar entered into the new DFG support program »Open-Access-Publikationskosten« on January 1st 2023, which enables cofunding open access articles. The Open Access publication fund continues to completely cover gross publication costs of up to € 2,000 per article. If the total cost ends up above € 2,000, the difference can be made up from the authors‘ own or third party funding. In addition, the new DFG program supports monographs or collections resulting from DFG supported research projects with up to gross € 5,000 per book.
All other monographs or collections can still be supported from the Open Access publication fund with up to net € 2.000 per book according to the OA state fund »Schwerpunktmittel Digitalisierung«.
You can find the current criteria to receive funding for Open Access publications on our website.

Developing technical infrastructure is an important prerequisite for research data management at higher education institutions. The Nationale Forschungsdateninfrastruktur (national research data infrastructure, NFDI) has created consortia and cross-topic sections that work together on subject areas. To support technical developments, the Bauhaus-Universität has now joined the NFDI e.V.. On January 19th 2023 the Fachinformationsdienstes Bau introduced itself and presented options for transregional cooperation. More information can be requested from Kevin Lang, research data management.