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Since 10 July 2018, at the University of Göttingen - as well as at around 200 other well-known German scientific institutions - access to current full texts from Elsevier and Cell Press journals has been suspended by the publishers. At the University of Göttingen 440 Elsevier journals and another 12 titles belonging to Cell Press are affected.

University of California San Diego Library and the Göttingen State and University Library extend their cooperation agreement after a successful first term from 2016 to 2019.

Staff exchange enabled the libraries to share expertise about supporting researchers on campus in data curation, to exploit complementary skills for mutual assessments of digital infrastructure, give trainings in digital humanities and experiment on transatlantic digital preservation.

On sammlungen.uni-goettingen.de 20.000 objects from university collections are available online. The public all over the world can access concise information and high-resolution images on the objects and reuse them. Göttingen University is one of the first universities in Germany to publish its scientific collections openly online. Göttingen State and University Library has published two collections on the portal: Collection Family Schlözer and Collection of Seals by Paul Arnold Grun.