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PRESS RELEASE: Index Theologicus : A Fount of Information on The ology and Religious Studies – Tü bingen University Library and De Gruyter Announce Cooperative Ag reement
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Mon, 19 Nov 2012 09:46:23 +0100 |
PRESS RELEASE
Index Theologicus: A Fount of Information on Theology and Religious Studies – Tübingen University Library
and De Gruyter Announce Cooperative Agreement
Berlin/Tübingen, 19 November 2012 –
The academic publishing house De Gruyter has signed a cooperative agreement making its entire collection of journals in theology and religious studies available to Tübingen
University Library’s Index Theologicus. This comprehensive database contains article information taken from more than 600 periodicals and from numerous Festschriften and conference publications from all over the world.
“A database like this is not static; to flourish, its volume and quality must grow constantly,” says Dr. Martin Fassnacht, director of theological collections at Tübingen University
Library. “In the past, we were only able to index part of De Gruyter’s journals, so we are delighted to receive this abundance of new material. The cooperation allows our users to access complete articles online directly after performing a search.”
The scholarly importance of the
Index Theologicus is reflected by its popularity, with over 10,000 individual searches each week. The database features universal authority files (Gemeinsame Normdateien, or GNDs), which assign individual numbers to each author, making it significantly
easier to find a specific publication.
“De Gruyter
uses global abstracting and indexing services to guarantee its authors large distribution and long-term content availability,” says Dr. Anke Beck, Vice President of Humanities at De Gruyter. “The data of the
Index Theologicus are linked via the Südwestverbund (SWB) to most state libraries in Germany and can be accessed internationally, making this cooperation a cornerstone in our strategic orientation.”
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Contact
Ulrike Lippe
De Gruyter
Public Relations Manager |
Contact
Dr. Martin Fassnacht
UB Tübingen
Director, Index Theologicus
Telephone +49(0)7071-29 74029 |
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De Gruyter: For more than 260 years the name De Gruyter has been synonymous with
high-quality academic publications. The independent Berlin-based publishing group releases some 800 new titles each year in the social sciences, natural sciences, medicine, and law, and also offers over 600 journals and an extensive range of digital media.
http://www.degruyter.com/ |
Index Theologicus: Created in 1975, the database contains information and abstracts from nearly 500,000 articles. Now with monographs being added to the collection, the database is
set to become a comprehensive bibliography for theology and religious studies.
http://www.ixtheo.de/ |