Repositories

EconStor Survey 2024: High user satisfaction, but ‘room for improvement’ in understanding how it works
EconStor, the ZBW's open access repository for economics, enjoys a high level of satisfaction among its...

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...

Anniversary of re3data: 10 Years of Active Campaigning for the Opening of Research Data and a Culture of Sharing
re3data, the largest directory for research data, is celebrating its tenth birthday. We interviewed two...

COAR Annual Meeting 2018: Repositories as Central Infrastructure of Open Scholarly Communication
From 14 - 17 May 2018 the 7th Annual Meeting of the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) was...

Blockchain: Could Libraries and Open Science Benefit from this Technology?
At least since Bitcoin began its rally, blockchain technology gained a lot of attention. Jason Griffey,...