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Wie verschaffen sich Forschende Zugang zu Quellen, wenn der Zugriff auf etablierte Informationsangebote wegen Kündigung von Rahmenverträgen nicht mehr gewährleistet ist? Dieser Frage ging die qualitative Interview-Studie „Cancelling the Big Deal" nach, die von der US-amerikanischen Not-For-Profit Forschungsagentur Ithaka S+R in Kooperation mit elf Universitätsbibliotheken in den USA und in Deutschland durchgeführt wurde. Neben der Kurzvorstellung der zentralen Ergebnisse resümiert das Team der Universitätsbibliothek der Freien Universität Berlin im folgenden auch Erfahrungen aus der Projektbeteiligung hinsichtlich der internationalen Zusammenarbeit, der Stärkung von bibliothekarischer Nutzungsforschung und der „Liaison"-Arbeit mit Forschenden. How do faculty members access sources for research and teaching when libraries have cancelled subscriptions? This was the underlying question for the qualitative survey on "Cancelling the Big Deal" conducted by the US-American not-for-profit research organization Ithaka S+R in cooperation with eleven university libraries in the USA and in Germany. The following project report highlights the main findings of the survey as well as reflections of the participating team of Freie Universität Berlin University Library on the international cooperation, the strengthening of library-related user experience research and library-faculty collaboration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this contribution, we present a novel approach for the analysis of cross-reference structures in digital dictionaries on the basis of the complete dictionary database. Using paradigmatic items in the German Wiktionary as an example, we show how analyses based on graph theory can be fruitfully applied in this context, e. g. to gain an overview of paradigmatic references as a whole or to detect closely connected groups of headwords. Furthermore, we connect information about cross-reference structures with corpus frequencies and log file statistics. In this way, we can answer questions such as the following ones: Are frequent words paradigmatically linked more closely than others? Are closely linked headwords or headwords that stand more solitary in the dictionary visited significantly more often? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]