ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics

Mission & Goals

The ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics is the world’s largest researched-based information infrastructure for ecomics. It holds more than 4m media items and enables access to millions of online documents in economics. The repository EconStor gives free access to more than 300,000 articles and working papers. EconBiz, the portal for international economic information, allows students and researchers to search among more than 13m datasets. The ZBW edits two journals in economic policy, Wirtschaftsdienst and Intereconomics, in Gold Open Access. Professors in computer science, economics, and media studies as well as an international group of PhD candidates carry out transdisciplinary research on Open Science. Research at the ZBW is connected to international networks. The main co-operation partners are engaged in projects funded by the EU, the German Research Foundation and the Federal Ministry for Education and Research, and in the Leibniz Strategy Forum on Open Science.