The third barcamp of the open-access.network project was also the first to take place in person, as originally planned. The intensive all-day event brought together participants from all over the German-speaking world to discuss current topics related to Open Access.

by André Vatter The claim that AI language models are here to stay should be irrefutable by now. Although just introduced to the public in November 2022, ChatGPT has made rapid progress in this short time. How rapid? Let’s compare: After its founding, it took Twitter two years and Facebook ten months to build up a base of one million users. ChatGPT managed to reach this milestone in only five days. Two months after its launch, almost forty percent (German) of all Germans said they had heard of the chat robot or had already tried it. A brutal race But […]

Generative language models and AI-supported searches are currently enjoying a rapid triumph. More and more search engines are relying on robotic chats to replace searching with finding. But what are the implications of this – and what does it mean for academic libraries?

The first OERcamp in Germany was held in 2012. The aim was to offer a discussion forum and practical learning for all educational fields and areas of work. In this post, organiser Kristin Hirschmann takes a look back at a decade of Barcamps on Open Educational Resources. She gives an insight into the milestones, her experiences and tips for getting started in OER.

The ETH Library is the largest public science and technology library in Switzerland and the central university library for ETH Zurich. It has also successfully positioned itself on the social web, with channels on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Pinterest and LinkedIn.

More than 13 years ago, the ZBW launched its repository EconStor. In 2022, the team conducted a survey among its users. In this article, three team members share the most interesting results, insights into user behaviour and starting points for making the repository even better.

A “scholarly-owned social network” as an alternative to the major commercial players sounds like the promised land in a science environment that is becoming increasingly more open, transparent and independent. But a few things need to happen for this to become reality.

nestor, the competence network for digital long-term archiving, recently conducted a survey among national and international digital preservation communities and published the results as a community survey. In addition to the anonymous evaluation of the collected data, a series of community profiles also emerged from the survey. In this guest article, three members of the responsible working group present some of the interesting results of the survey.