The three major digital services Database Information System (DBIS), Electronic Journals Library (EZB) and Regensburger Verbundklassifikation (RVK) are a mainstay of German and international information infrastructure. The three services have been operated by the University Library of Regensburg together with its communities for decades.

In 2022, the services united to form the UR Library Services product family. UR library services is the focal idea that will shape the development of DBIS, EZB and RVK for the next years and decades. The idea of community is the core idea of the product family. What all three services have in common is that they are jointly operated by hundreds of libraries and only live through these large communities: URL Services – You are Library Services.

The product family manifests itself on several levels:

• common visual identity through common design
• synergies on a technical level, e.g. in perspective through joint user and institutional user management
• standardization, e.g. by coordinating the specialist fields
• adaptations in the administrative area, e.g. when drafting contracts

In addition to the use of synergy effects and mutual creative stimulation, this long-term strategy is primarily aimed at increasing the spread, use and networking of the services.

Besides the internal networking, the product family will increasingly network externally. Close cooperation already exists with library networks, local systems, further library services (such as GND) and ERM-systems (such as LAS:eR). The product family also cooperates within the framework of the AG Systemlandschaft E-Ressourcen, the DFG-funded project openCost and the DFG-funded DBIS project.

The Logo Family

The connected circles express the close networking and common identity of the different services without negating their autonomy. The chain-linking image stands for the dynamic development which also implies that the family can be expanded to include further products and circles. And finally, the colored circular structures echo the EZB traffic lights as well as the signature feature of the University of Regensburg, the sphere on campus.