Digital preservation at TIB
Producers and users of scientific materials place high demands on the information they use in terms of integrity, authenticity, consistency and citation. The TIB has assumed responsibility for the long-term preservation and availability of the digital materials it collects and documents, as well as their interpretability for use by different target groups. To this end, it has created the necessary infrastructure and guarantees the permanent provision of both material and human resources.
Detailed information on digital long-term preservation at the TIB can be found in the TIB Preservation Policy and on our wiki page (only in German).
Digitally preserved objects
TIB digitally preserves objects from various sources, and helps the respective data producers to submit these to the library. This includes
- Grey literature
- German research reports
- Dissertations of the Leibniz Universität Hannover
- Open Access publications
- Open Access available objects of the institutional repository of Leibniz Universität Hannover
- Non-textual media
- Retro-digitised copies produced by the TIB
- USB and CD images
Preservation-as-a-Service
If you are cannot or do not want to take care of digital preservation yourself, we offer this as a "Preservation-as-a-Service" across institutions and disciplines.
Advice on digital preservation
As part of our TIBgefragt service, we offer you individual and personal consultations on the topics of:
The target groups of our offers are
- Libraries, museums, archives regardless of their collection focus,
- Libraries and museums in Lower Saxony (state solution),
- Scientific institutions such as universities, colleges, institutes,
- Scientific and academic societies,
- Collections and scientific archives.
The long-term digital archive of TIB received the nestor Seal for Trustworthy Digital Archives again in 2022.
