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- February 23rd, 2012 -

The 9th EconBiz Newsletter is out.

Read about:

  • EconBiz Open: New Search Engine for Open Access articles
  • Newly integrated database: BASE adds 51,000 full texts to EconBiz
  • Free EconBiz Android App
  • News on Open Access and Scholarly Communication in Economics / Business Studies
  • Search Tipp for EconBiz: Use our Standardized Search Terms!

 

 

- February 15th, 2012 -

EconBiz Open: New Search Engine for Open Access articles

EconBizOpen offers free content. It is the open access portal of EconBiz and contains about 1 million free online full texts for economics, business studies and related fields in social sciences. It includes data from RePEc and other huge databases.

In EconBiz Open we cooperate with UiTM - Universiti Teknologi MARA in Malaysia and other international partners.

Find more information on EconBiz Open in our short introduction: PowerPoint | PDF and see our screencast.

more…

Logo EconBiz Open

 

- February 10th, 2012 -

New: Android App 4 EconBiz

Download the free EconBiz Android App available in the Android Market! The app is designed for smartphones and offers – in addition to search and download functions - e.g. a map showing libraries with economics collections in your area (mostly in Germany).
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- February 10th, 2012 -

Find best search terms

Use the STW - Thesaurus for Economics for your search in EconBiz. The STW is a directory of standardized terms, which helps you find translations, synonyms, broader, narrower and related terms. A search using terms from the STW produces very precise results in EconBiz.
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- Octobre 27th, 2011 -

The new EconBiz Newsletter is out. Read about:

  • Find Events in Business and Economics
  • Are your Events already included in EconBiz?
  • Make your Open Access Publications visible in EconBiz
  • Prezi Introduction to EconBiz
  • Screencast on the EconBiz iPhone App.

 

- Octobre 15th, 2011-

Prezi Introduction to the use of EconBiz.

Learn more on how to use EconBiz and about the functions of the portal. Drag and drop the contents, zoom in and out or just click the arrow to naviate through the Prezi presentation. You can also open it in full screen mode.

 

- August 31st, 2011-

The new EconBiz Newsletter is out. Read about:

  • Find over 660,000 free Full Texts
  • pdf Full Texts marked with pdf Icons
  • Have you heard of Prezi? Prezi Introduction to EconBiz
  • Free EconBiz iPad- and iPhone App: New version

 

- July 15th, 2011 -

Lecture "Accessing the World’s Literature in Economics" by Prof. Klaus Tochtermann

... and presentation of EconBiz and other services of the ZBW in the "Artifical Intelligence special Session on Semantic Technology Applications in Economics"

July 18th, 2011
9.00am - 1.00pm
Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN), Malaysia
http://www.mimos.my/aiss2011/eco_program.html

 

- June 30th, 2011 -

Video Contest: Odd, bizarre, not in the right ballpark – Where research work in business and economics is done

The ZBW raffles off three tickets for the Global Economic Symposium 2011.

Keynotes and presentations will be expected by René Obermann (CEO, Deutsche Telekom AG), Eric S. Maskin (Nobel Laureate; Professor of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton) and Anders Borg (Finance Minister, Sweden).

Post your YouTube-Video up to 25th August 2011 and show us your extraordinary places of work and research in business and economics studies.

More information (in German)

If you cannot read German and would like to participate anyway, please contact us.

 

- June 30th, 2011 -

The new EconBiz Newsletter is out. Read about:

  • Twitter EconBot: Search EconBiz directly via Twitter
  • Video Contest: Odd, bizarre, not in the right ballpark – Where research work in business and economics is done
  • What are RSS Newsfeeds?

 

- June 16th, 2011 -

EconBiz Roadshow: Technische Universitaet Berlin, June 22nd, 2011

Please contact us if you want to meet us and / or take part in the presentations.
Flyer (in German language)

 

- May 24th, 2011 -

As of now EconBiz is directly available via twitter.

The contact for your research questions is the account @EconBot. It accepts your research wishes and presents to you in a matter of seconds relevant results on EconBiz.

more...

 

- April 14th, 2011 -

The new EconBiz Newsletter is out. Read about:

  • Google Books Preview in the EconBiz Results List
  • EconBiz is available for iPad and iPhone now!
  • Truncation and Phrase Search: Hot Tips for searching in EconBiz
  • EconBiz travels: New Roadshow Dates

 

- April 5th, 2011 -

EconBiz-Roadshow

Please contact us if you want to meet us and / or take part in the presentations.

University Liechtenstein: 07th April 2011

University Freiburg: 17th May 2011

University Tuebingen: 18th May 2011

University Hamburg: 10th May, 24th May, 07th June 2011

 

- March 7th, 2011 -

EconBiz 4 iPad and iPhone is available now

Download free EconBiz 4 iPad/iPhone/iPod-Touch App!

Watch our short film on the App (in German) on Youtube.

More information and support on the EconBiz Apps can be found here.

 

- February 18th, 2011 -

EconBiz on Facebook

EconBiz is available on Facebook now. Click "Like" (Gefällt mir) to become a friend of ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics and keep up to speed.

- February 18th, 2011 -

EconBiz search plugin for your browser:
EconBiz search at your fingertips

Search EconBiz via the search field of your browser – from wherever you are on the internet.
As soon as you start typing into the search box, relevant search suggestions will be made.
 
Integrate the EconBiz search plugin into your browser!
 
Here’s how to do it in 2 easy steps.

 

- February 17th, 2011 -

The new EconBiz Newsletter is out. Read about:

  • EconBiz search at your fingertips: EconBiz search plugin for your browser
  • Find the best results: Refine your search – filter your results list
  • EconBiz on Facebook

 

- January 14th, 2011 -

EconBiz-Roadshow

Please contact us if you want to meet us and / or take part in the presentations.

25 January 2010 Konstanz
26 January 2011 Munich

 

- December 7th, 2010 -

The new EconBiz Newsletter is out. Read about:

  • The EconBiz Challenge: Ideas for Tomorrow's Economists
  • Order Articles via the Document Delivery Service subito
  • EconBiz Roadshow in Germany
  • Integrate the EconBiz Search in your Website
  • Quik Tip: Literature Alert for your Search Query

 

- November 17th, 2010 -

EconBiz Challenge: Ideas for Tomorrow's Economists - Submission Deadline prolonged

Ideas Competition to improve online services for economics.

The search is on for ideas for services or tools, that will (still) perfectly support our customers in their daily work routine five years from now.

Submission deadline prolonged until 19 January 2011.

 

- November 16th, 2010-

EconBiz-Roadshow

Please contact us if you want to meet us and / or take part in the presentations.

17 November 2010 Mannheim
23 November 2010 Lüneburg
29 November 2010 Münster
30 November 2010 Bielefeld
14 December 2010 Ilmenau

 

- November 12th, 2010 -

Order Journal Articles via subito Document Delivery Service

You can order journal articles that are not available in your library on site via the document delivery service subito. In the EconBiz results list you find an order button under every journal article available in EconBiz.

 

- November 5th, 2010 -

Embed the EconBiz Search in your own Website

You find the code for embedding the EconBiz search into your own website in the area About EconBiz -> Download With it you and your customers can start a search in EconBiz from your website.

 

- October 28th, 2010 -

First EconBiz Newsletter published

Contents of the Newsletter:

  • EconBiz - Free Search Engine for Economics and Business Studies with
    new Features and new Design!
  • The EconBiz Challenge: Ideas for Tomorrow's Economists
  • Quick Tip: Ask the Experts
  • Find the best results: Include related terms

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Publications

Pianos, Tamara (2010): EconBiz — Meeting User Needs with New Technology In: Liber Quarterly 20(2010)1, p. 4 - 24

Online at: http://liber.library.uu.nl/publish/issues/2010-1/index.html?000488

 

 

Press Releases

- 04 October 2010 -
The search engine for economics – EconBiz gets a facelift

 

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