FIZ Karlsruhe — Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure, formerly Fachinformationszentrum Karlsruhe, is a not-for-profit company with the public mission to make sci-tech information from all over the world publicly available and to provide related services in order to support the national and international transfer of knowledge and the promotion of innovation. The service institution is member of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Scientific Community, a union of German research institutes. The institute provides information services and infrastructure for the academic and research community and maintains a collection of scientific databases. Business areas: # STN International, the online service for sci-tech research and patent information, offers a wide array of databases, the FIZ AutoDoc full-text delivery service, and retrieval, analysis, and visualization functions. STN is developed and operated by FIZ Karlsruhe in cooperation with CAS (

Chemical Abstracts Service Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) is a division of the American Chemical Society. It is a source of chemical information and is located in Columbus, Ohio, United States. Print periodicals ''Chemical Abstracts'' is a periodical index that provid ...

, Columbus/Ohio). The Scientific & Technical Information Network, offered in partnership with the

(CAS), resells over 200 scientific and

patent A patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an sufficiency of disclosure, enabling discl ...

databases including CAS REGISTRY and CAplus, INSPEC, Compendex, Derwent World Patents Index, INPADOC, the USPTO Genetic Sequence Database ( USGENE), and GENESEQ. In May 2009,FIZ Karlsruhe now markets in-house version of USGENE, the USPTO Genetic Sequence Database, in Europe.
/ref> FIZ Karlsruhe became the European marketing agent for the SequenceBase data subscription version of USGENE. # KnowEsis comprises e-Science solutions, e.g. digital infrastructures, independent of scientific disciplines, that support the process of research in all its stages, from idea to experiment, analysis, data aggregation, and publication. The activities focus on virtual research environments, hosting, and long-term availability. # Databases and Information Services comprises both conventional database production and the development and operation of science portals in the following subject areas: #* Mathematics and computer science: The main product here is zbMATH (Zentralblatt für Mathematik), an abstracting service in mathematics research, offering detailed abstracts and reviews dating back to 1868. The computer science portal io-port.net provides access to computer science publications from all over the world. #* Crystallography and chemistry: The

Inorganic Crystal Structure Database Inorganic Crystal Structure Database (ICSD) is a chemical database founded in 1978 by Günter Bergerhoff at the University of Bonn in Germany and I. D. Brown at McMaster University in Canada. It is now produced by FIZ Karlsruhe in Europe and t ...

(ICSD). FIZ Karlsruhe also indexes scientific publications for the CA database on behalf of Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS). #* Energy: On behalf of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) FIZ Karlsruhe represents Germany in the international co-operations ETDE and INIS producing the databases ENERGY (energy and energy technology) and INIS (peaceful use of nuclear research and nuclear technology). On behalf of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi), FIZ Karlsruhe’s BINE information service supports the targeted dissemination of research results in the fields of energy efficiency and renewables. FIZ Karlsruhe also conducts applied research on data management, information mining and information retrieval in close collaboration with academic institutions and research organizations and offers professional training and support to young scientists.

Databases

* Zentralblatt MATH zbMATH Database (formerly Zentralblatt für Mathematik - Mathematics Abstracts) * MathEduc Database (formerly ZDM: Zentralblatt für Didaktik der Mathematik / International Reviews on Mathematical Education) * ''io-port'', an informatics portal and

computer science Computer science is the study of computation, information, and automation. Computer science spans Theoretical computer science, theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, and information theory) to Applied science, ...

database, also containing entries from the Computer Science section of Zentralblatt MATH *

* ETDEWEB, Energy Technology Data Exchange (ETDE) * ENERGY, a bibliographic database on energy research and energy technology. "The (FIZ Karlsruhe) ENERGY database is produced in collaboration with the Energy Technology Data Exchange (ETDE), a program of the

International Energy Agency The International Energy Agency (IEA) is a Paris-based autonomous intergovernmental organization, established in 1974, that provides policy recommendations, analysis and data on the global energy sector. The 31 member countries and 13 associatio ...

(IEA)."

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External links

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STN home page

MathEduc Database

io-port.net/ informatics portal

BINE Informationsdienst / portal for energy research applications

USGENE home page
{{Authority control Mathematical institutes Research institutes in Germany Organisations based in Karlsruhe Education in Karlsruhe Scientific organizations established in 1977 1977 establishments in West Germany

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