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| EconBiz | |
|---|---|
| Name | EconBiz |
| Type | Academic search portal |
| Founded | 2002 |
| Country | Germany |
| Headquarters | Cologne |
| Languages | English, German |
EconBiz EconBiz is an international research portal for literature in the fields of economics and business studies. It aggregates bibliographic records, full texts, and research guides from numerous institutions and databases to support scholars, students, and practitioners across disciplines. The portal links to institutional repositories, library catalogs, and digital archives maintained by academic and research organizations.
EconBiz indexes resources from institutions such as the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, the Library of Congress, the British Library, and the World Bank. Users can discover content connected to publishers and repositories including Springer, Elsevier, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford University Press, and Cambridge University Press. The portal complements aggregators and discovery services like BASE (search engine), OAIster, Google Scholar, JSTOR, and SSRN. It interoperates with standards and infrastructures promoted by DANS, CLOCKSS, CrossRef, ORCID, and DataCite.
EconBiz originated from initiatives at the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics in cooperation with partners such as the German Research Foundation and the European Commission research programs. Early collaborations involved projects with the GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, the Max Planck Society, and the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Development phases referenced technologies and services from OCLC, Ex Libris, EBSCO Information Services, and the Federation of European Data. Over time EconBiz integrated content from national and university libraries including Harvard University Library, Yale University Library, University of Oxford Bodleian Libraries, Bibliothèque nationale de France, and the National Diet Library.
EconBiz provides keyword search, advanced filtering, citation export, and open access indicators linked to systems like Unpaywall, SHERPA/RoMEO, and OpenAIRE. It offers subject guides, working paper collections, and conference proceedings sourced from entities such as the International Monetary Fund, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the European Central Bank, and the International Labour Organization. Integration with identifier systems includes DOI records via CrossRef and author identifiers from ResearcherID and Scopus Author ID. Support services reference standards and classification schemes like Library of Congress Classification, Dewey Decimal Classification, and the International Standard Serial Number system.
The portal aggregates monographs, journal articles, dissertations, working papers, policy reports, and statistical datasets from repositories maintained by Princeton University, Columbia University, University of Chicago, London School of Economics, University of Cambridge, University of Toronto, University of Melbourne, National Bureau of Economic Research, and CEPR. It indexes journals from publishers such as Taylor & Francis, SAGE Publications, Routledge, Palgrave Macmillan, and De Gruyter. Subject-specific sources include collections from the Institute of Economic Affairs, the Brookings Institution, the Peterson Institute for International Economics, the Asian Development Bank, the African Development Bank, and the Inter-American Development Bank.
EconBiz leverages harvest protocols and metadata formats supported by Open Archives Initiative, OAI-PMH, METS, and MODS to aggregate records from institutional repositories such as HAL (open archive), arXiv, and national portals like Trove, Europeana, and Austrian National Library. The technical stack aligns with discovery frameworks used by VuFind, Solr, and Elasticsearch for indexing and retrieval. Authentication and access management may be coordinated with systems like Shibboleth, eduGAIN, and LDAP when linking to licensed content held by consortia including BIBSYS and CARL (Canadian association).
Governance and funding involve consortia and stakeholders such as the Leibniz Association, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany), the European Research Council, and partnerships with university libraries across Europe and beyond including University of Bonn, University of Cologne, Technical University of Munich, University of Mannheim, University of Zurich, ETH Zurich, and University of Amsterdam. Collaborative arrangements have included data sharing agreements with repositories and content partners like RePEc, IDEAS, EconLit, and national library services such as the Biblioteca Nacional de España.
EconBiz has been cited and used by researchers affiliated with institutions such as Cornell University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, Princeton University, INSEAD, and Bocconi University. Praised in library and information science literature alongside services like WorldCat, Scopus, and Web of Science, it has been evaluated in studies from organizations including IFLA, CERN, and SPARC. Its role in facilitating access to open access materials connects it to policy discussions involving Plan S, Budapest Open Access Initiative, and national open access mandates in countries like Germany, France, United Kingdom, United States, and Netherlands.
Category:Online academic databases