Media acquisition and indexing, publishing services

The Media Acquisition and Indexing Department acquires and catalogs all conventional and digital media for the ThULB collection. In addition to licensed electronic resources, digitized collections are also indexed in terms of form and content. Another task is to address questions relating to metadata and regulations.

The department organizes access to subscription-based electronic resources, conducts licensing negotiations at the local and regional level, and handles all processes for open access publishing at Friedrich Schiller University Jena.

With regard to the ThULB's state library tasks, the department is responsible for the collection, cataloging, and provision of regional legal deposit copies in all media forms; its area of responsibility includes the compilation of the state bibliography for the Free State of Thuringia.