Fachinformationszentrum Karlsruhe

Fachinformationszentrum (FIZ) Karlsruhe is a non-profit organization set up to provide information and information services for academic and industrial research & development, as well as for business and administration.

In cooperation with its partners in the USA and Japan, FIZ Karlsruhe is operating the host STN International, offering public access to databases with scientific, technical, and supplementary business information. As European STN Service Center, FIZ Karlsruhe offers access to more than 200 electronic databases in almost every field of science and technology.

Formation

FIZ Karlsruhe was founded in 1977 when a number of scientific publishers and institutions in nuclear energy, aeronautics and astronautics, mathematics and physics were amalgamated.

Goals and responsibilities FIZ Karlsruhe provides scientific and technical information services for universities, scientists, economists, industry and administrative organisations.

Activities

• Operation of the STN International online service
  
• Literature supply and library services
  
• Search service
  
• The production of databases and data compilations in electronic and printed form
  
• Publishing
  
• Internet developments and electronic publishing
  
• IT services
  
• The training of documentalists and information technology specialists

Partners

• The government of the Federal Republic of Germany
  
• The governments of the German states (with the exception of Brandenburg and Mecklenburg- Vorpommern)
  
• Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften (MPG)
  
• Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung (FhG)
  
• Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (DPG)
  
• Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI)
  
• Deutsche Mathematikervereinigung (DMV)
  
• Verein Deutscher Ingenieure (VDI)

Chairman of the Supervisory Board: Dr. Peter Krause Director-General, Information and Communication, New Technologies. The Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF)

Director: Sabine Brünger-Weilandt

Staff: 330, one third of which are scientists and engineers

FIZ Karlsruhe is a member of the Leibniz Association (Wissenschaftsgemeinschaft Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz)

Fachinformationszentrum Karlsruhe
Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1
76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen
Tel: +49 (0)72 47 / 8 08 - 0
Fax: +49 (0)72 47 / 8 08 - 114
E-Mail: FIZKA@fiz-karlsruhe.de

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Further Information: www.fiz-karlsruhe.de/