About Ulrich Herb
University graduations
Degree in Sociology at Saarland University (Diplom-Soziologe, M.A. equivalent), PhD in Information Science at Saarland University.
Main Research Areas
Electronic publishing, science communication & science infrastructure, scientific publishing, science research, scientometrics, social media, media & information journalism, science journalism.
CV
Since 2001 working for the Saarland University and State Library as project manager and Open Access expert and since 2011 freelancing for scidecode science consulting. For a more detailed CV please visit my LinkedIn or ORCID profile, on this website you will also find a list of my publications and presentations.
Projects
University projects
Since 2001 project manager of a number of third-party funded projects (mainly funded by the German Research Foundation DFG) at the Saarland University and State Library (SULB), among others:
- Virtual Library Psychology, funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG)
- Digital Psychology Information, funded by the DFG
- OPUS 4 (Re-Design of a E-Publishing Software), funded by the DFG
- Open-Access-Statistics, funded by the DFG
- JISC Usage Statistics Project, fundedy by the Joint Information Systems Committee (UK)
- Open Access Publishing, funded by the DFG
- Open Access Publication Costs, funded by the DFG
- Summa cum Fraude, funded by the DFG
scinoptica consulting projects
- contract research in the project visOA: Making Open Access publications visible in the holdings of a library, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, methods: literature study, qualitative interviews and two online surveys
- various expert papers and audit studies on scientific publications and research data for OUROUK Conseil
- consulting activities in various Inscico projects
- bibliometric study on Open Access publications for Saarland University of Applied Sciences
- synopsis of recommendations, statements, declarations and activities of science policy actors on shaping the scholarly communication system, commissioned by the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (BBAW)
- contract study on the visibility of the Yearbook of Phraseology, commissioned by the European Society of Phraseology (EUROPHRAS)
- revision of the website Informationsplattform Open Access, commissioned by the Communication, Information, Media Centre (KIM, Konstanz).
scidecode consulting projects
- Risks and Trust in pursuit of a well-functioning Persistent Identifier infrastructure for research
project commissioned by Knowledge Exchange.
Other project-like activities
- Fellow of the innoSci Future Lab of the German Stifterverband
- Fellow of the Road2Openness Programme of the German Stifterverband
- a wide range of workshops on scientific communication, e.g. strategies for scientific publishing and social media in science
Memberships in Committees and Associations
Current Memberships in Committees and Associations
- Working Group Electronic Publishing of the German Initiative for Networked Information (Deutschen Initiative für Netzwerkinformation DINI e.V.)
- Section “Cultural Theory and Cultural Research” of the Austrian Society for Sociology ÖGS
- Association of Higher Education of Information Science in the German-speaking countries (board member since 03/2017)
- Working Group Scientific Publication System of the Alliance of Science Organizations in German, nominated by the German Rectors’ Conference (Hochschulrektorenkonferenz, HRK)
- Advisory Board of the research project “Open Access in Vocational Education and Training Research” of the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training BIBB.
Former Memberships in Committees and Associations
- Sounding Board “Communicating Open Science” of the Max-Planck-Society (2013)
- Open Access Working Group of the Leibniz Association
- Expert group “Copyright for the Information Society” of the Google Collaboratory
- Society for Science and Technology Research /Gesellschaft für Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung e.V. (GWTF)
Publications, Reviewer activities, Memberships in Editorial Boards
- Ongoing publications of a scientific and journalistic character and lectures at scientific congresses and conferences.
- Member of the editorial boards of the journals Information, Wissenschaft & Praxis und Young Information Scientist
- Reviewer for various scientific journals, e.g. Scientometrics, Information – Open Access Information Science Journal, First Monday, Zeitschrift für Hochschulentwicklung, Mitteilungen der Vereinigung Österreichischer Bibliothekarinnen & Bibliothekare, Technikfolgenabschätzung – Theorie und Praxis (TATuP), Young Information Scientist and Information, Wissenschaft & Praxis.
- Reviewer of applications for funding from the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG), the Leibniz Association (Leibniz Competition), swissuniversities and the Tyrolean Science Funding Programme.
Teaching assignments
- Teaching assignment at the Hochschule der Medien (HdM) in Stuttgart 2012, 2013, 2016, 20217
- Annual guest lectures at the University of Applied Sciences of the Grisons (Graubünden, CH) at the Department of Information Science since 2015
- Teaching assignment at Saarland University in the winter semester 2011/12 and summer semester 2012
- Teaching assignment at the University of Applied Sciences of the Grisons (Graubünden, CH) at the Department of Information Science in 2011