GMS Medizin – Bibliothek – Information (Dec 2007)
Nationallizenzen: Konzept, Umsetzung und Perspektiven eines Programms der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft zur Lizenzierung von digitalen Textsammlungen für den Wissenschaftsstandort Deutschland: 10 Fragen von Bruno Bauer an Berndt Dugall, Direktor der Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main und Vertreter einer der neun den Ankauf der Nationallizenzen organisierenden Informationseinrichtungen / National licenses: concept, implementation and prospect of a scheme of the German Research Foundation to licence digital text collections for the scientific community of Germany: Bruno Bauer presents 10 questions to Berndt Dugall who is head of the university library at Frankfurt on the Main and agent of one out of nine institutions which act jointly in order to organise the purchase of national licenses
Abstract
In 2004 the German Research Foundation (DFG) drafted a plan for national licenses (http://www.nationallizenzen.de/). License agreements with scholarly societies, comercial publishers and other information providers should be valid for the whole area of Germany. Hence scientists, students and people with interest in science should be able to access databases, digital text collections and e-journals free of charge within Germany.In this interview Berndt Dugall informs on the concept of a national license and talks about its funding and its organisational environment. He will explain the course from picking an electronic resource to licensing it. Finally the significance of national licenses for science in Germany will be discussed and the future of libraries will be reviewed in the light of the fast-paced development in the information industry.
