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Citavi Web is now also available to members of the University of Göttingen as part of the re-licensing program. This means that the reference management program can be used independently of the operating system and is therefore also of interest to anyone working with Mac OS or Linux. All you need to work with Citavi Web is an Internet connection and an up-to-date browser.

The long-time director of the SUB Göttingen, Prof. Dr. Wolfram Horstmann, will take over as director of the Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure in Karlsruhe (FIZ) in January 2024. The institute is a member of the Leibniz Association and one of the major infrastructure institutions in Germany.

Academic libraries, including the SUB Göttingen, are launching the major campaign "WEITER WISSEN. Mit uns." to make their unique work for science and society more visible. Academic and research libraries have a shared responsibility to actively shape, promote and drive forward reliable information infrastructures. Open access, research data management, cultural heritage, digital long-term preservation as well as research and development are the central tasks of academic and research libraries.

Der Physiker und „Vater der Atombombe“ Julius Robert Oppenheimer (1904–1967), dessen Geschichte gerade in den Kinos läuft, wurde 1927 an der Universität Göttingen in nur sechs Monaten zum Doktor promoviert. Seine Promotionsakte ist erhalten und gehört als eine von über 9.500 solcher Akten allein aus Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften zu den Beständen des an der SUB angesiedelten Universitätsarchivs Göttingen.

This week, the German Nominating Committee for the UNESCO Memory of the World Program met in the Historical Building of the Göttingen State and University Library. The committee's task is to review, evaluate and select German proposals for inclusion in the World Documentary Heritage.

At the end of April, the New American Studies Journal: A Forum (NASJ) launched its first thematic issue "American Crises" with a new design and a new editorial board. The NASJ is also hosted by a new journal platform provided by Göttingen University Press.

In ihrem Beitrag zu unserem Sammlungsblog beschäftigt sich Sarah Vincent mit dem Text-Bild-Band „Totes Holz“, in dem Günter Grass bereits 1990 auf das Waldsterben und den Klimawandel aufmerksam machte.

Das Blog Waldwissen in alten Akten informiert über ein Erschließungs- und Forschungsvorhaben des Universitätsarchivs Göttingen in der SUB und der Fakultät für Forstwissenschaften und Waldökologie. Erschlossen werden die Akten der Fakultät und ihrer Vorgängereinrichtungen zwischen 1868, dem Gründungsjahr als Forstakademie in Hann. Münden, und dem 1972 abgeschlossenen Umzug nach Göttingen. Am Ende des Projekts werden die Akten mit detaillierten Inhaltsangaben im Archivportal Arcinsys online recherchierbar sein.

Within the framework of the funding program "Forschungskooperation Niedersachsen – Israel" (Research Cooperation Lower Saxony - Israel) two projects of the SUB Göttingen have been approved: The  two projects "The Star and its Universe: Franz Rosenzweig between Past and Future" and "Networked Texts and Images in Early Modern Jewish Mystical Cosmographs" started on 1 May.

SUB Göttingen has received funding from the state of Lower Saxony totaling 800,000 euros for its project “Landesweite Lizenzierung und Open-Access-Transformation von E-Books” (Statewide Licensing and Open Access Transformation of E-Books). The project is one of seven funded collaborative projects of the initiative "Hochschule.digital Niedersachsen".