Goportis: a new service for document supply in Germany

Abstract

PurposeThis paper seeks to describe Goportis, the new German service for document supply.Design/methodology/approachThe paper describes the environment for obtaining high quality information in Germany and the approach of Goportis.FindingsThe advantages of Goportis are described. Goportis will be the host of the 11th ILDS conference in Hannover, Germany, in 2009.Originality/valueGoportis is a new service that started in 2008 and this is the first article to describe its origins and characteristics.

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“…A positive initiative describes how:Three of Germany's leading libraries have joined forces to try and make their document supply services more efficient by cooperating and offering just one single service for all three libraries. The TIB (German National Library of Technology and Science, Hannover), the ZB MED (German National Library of Medicine, Cologne/Bonn), and the ZBW (German National Library of Economics, Kiel/Hamburg) have cooperated to create a service called Goportis, which started its service in April 2008 (Burblies, 2008). The authors also advertise that these institutions, via Goportis, are the sponsors for the 11th ILDS conference in October 2009 in Hannover.…”