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, since 2020 had of the Publication and Research Support Department, since 2011 freelance science consulting for several consulting companies, since 2022 associate of scidecode science consulting – De Castro, Herb, Rothfritz GbR. 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 several 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
Sci:Debug (formerly 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
- 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).
OUROUK Conseil (Paris) consulting projects
- Expert Paper on the French Open Access journal platform ISTEX (together with Joachim Schöpfel)
- Study on business models and strategies of public and private journal platforms in France and other countries (together with Joachim Schöpfel)
scidecode science consulting projects
- Risks and Trust in pursuit of a well-functioning Persistent Identifier infrastructure for research
project commissioned by Knowledge Exchange - Study to assess the impact of Plan S on the global scholarly communication ecosystem commissioned by cOAlition S
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
- Interest group Advancement of Scientific Publishing of the focus initiative Alliance of Science Organizations in Germany, nominated by the German Rectors’ Conference (Hochschulrektorenkonferenz, HRK)
- 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)
Former Memberships in Committees and Associations
- Working Group Scientific Publication System of the Alliance of Science Organizations in Germany, 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.
- 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 2015–2019
- Reviewers for master’s theses at the University of Applied Sciences of the Grisons (Graubünden, CH)
- 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