German National Library of Economics

The German National Library of Economics is also the library of the Kiel Institute for World Economics and the World´s largest library for economic literature.

The library´s primary task is collecting literature about economics from all over the world and presenting it to the general public through interlibrary loan, local loan and document delivery..

You can search our collection via our catalogue ECONIS which is freely available on the web. ECONIS contains over a million references to books, journal and book articles, working papers and electronic publications.

The library collection has over 2.6 million volumes in 46 kilometers of shelving. Forty-thousand volumes are added each year, including around 10,000 working papers. There are 16,000 running periodicals in the collection. In addition to that the library has links to 20,000 internet documents in its catalogue.

The library offers a wide range of services.
Including:

• ECONIS with more than one million references to titles (yearly growth, over 80,000 titles)
  
• literature searches
  
• a choice of economic literature to current topics ECONIS Select
  
• links to the fulltext-journals through the Electronic Journal Library EZB
  
• a variety of document delivery services, including inter-library loan, international loan and the online delivery system Subito
  
• EconBiz: a virtual subject library in cooperation with other partner-lbraries (in construction)
  
• the European Documentation Centre (EDC) with a large amount of documents and information to the European Union.
  
• EconDoc: an information-network for economics, in cooperation with other partner-libraries
  
• Digitizing the past issues of important economic journals in the project DigiZeitschriften
  
• Development of a crosswalk between the Standard-Thesaurus Economicst (STW) and the area economics of the subject headings index Schlagwortnormdatei (SWD) in the project Crosskonkordanz STW-SWD
  

  German National Library of Economics
  Düstenbrooker Weg 120
  24105 Kiel
  Tel: +49 (0)431-8814-383
  Fax: +49 (0)431-8814-520
  

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  Further Information: www.zbw-kiel.de/