Göttingen – Information infrastructures location

As a fundamental requirement for sustainable science, information infrastructures are an integral part of the overall strategy for the University of Göttingen and the Göttingen Campus. Activities in Göttingen in this area have structural and substantial effects both nationally and internationally.

We support science locally, in Germany and worldwide through

• the development and operation of infrastructures for e-research
  • Göttingen State and University Library (SUB Göttingen)
  • Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen (GWDG)

• focused inter-institutional co-operation for the implementation of e-research projects in digital infrastructures and the co-ordination of IT and information infrastructures on the Göttingen Campus
  • Campus Institute Data Science (CIDAS)
  • Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities (GCDH)
  • Göttingen eResearch Alliance

• the co-operative development of a Germany-wide service infrastructure for the acquisition, licensing and provision of electronic resources
  • Kompetenzzentrum Lizenzierung

• the co-ordination of large-scale joint projects for the development of research infrastructures in the humanities and cultural studies in Germany
  • Digital Research Infrastructures for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH-DE)
  • TextGrid - Virtual Research Environment for the Humanities

• the trans-disciplinary and inter-institutional promotion of the development of information infrastructures in education and science in Germany
  • Office of the German Initiative for Network Information (DINI)
  • Office of the Council for Information Infrastructures

• the syndicate establishment of Open Access research infrastructures networking throughout Europe and worldwide
  • Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe (OpenAIRE)
  • Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR e. V.)