About

Focus areas: electronic publishing, science communication & infrastructure, scientific publishing, scientometrics, science research, social media, media & information journalism, science journalism.

Editorial board member  (Information, Wissenschaft & Praxis), Reviewer for several scientific journals (including Scientometrics, Information – Open Access Information Science Journal, First Monday, Zeitschrift für Hochschulentwicklung, Mitteilungen der Vereinigung Österreichischer Bibliothekarinnen & Bibliothekare, Technikfolgenabschätzung – Theorie und Praxis“ (TATuP) and Information, Wissenschaft & Praxis).

Currently:

  • Saarland University (SULB), project manager  & scientific publishing expert

  • 2012, 2013, 2016, 2017:  Visiting lecturer in Information Science at the Stuttgart Media University (HdM)

  • 2011, 2015, 2016, 2017: Visiting lecturer in Information Science at the University of Applied Sciences in Chur/Switzerland

Education

German diploma (MA equivalent) in Sociology from Saarland University, PhD in Information Science at Saarland University.

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    Projects

    Since 2001 project manager for several third-party funded projects (funded mostly through the German Research Foundation DFG) at SULB (Saarland University and Saarland State Library) including:

    • Virtual Library Psychology

    • Digital Psychology Information

    • OPUS 4 (Re-Design of an E-Publishing Software)

    • Open-Access-Statistics

    • JISC Usage Statistics Project, funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (UK)

    Memberships

    Ulrich Herb

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