Vocational Education and Training Literature Database
Vocational Education and Training Literature Database (LDBB), development
The Vocational Education and Training Literature Database (LDBB) is published by the (BIBB) and may be searched online free of charge. The previous printed and CD ROM versions of the LDBB have now been replaced by this Internet presence. The switchover was financed from funding made available by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) within the scope of the "Communication and Information System Vocational Education and Training" (KIBB) project.
The LDBB is a joint project conducted by the Vocational Education and Training Research Network (AGBFN) under the lead management of the . The cooperation partners involved are the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) and the German Institute for Adult Education (DIE).
The online version of the database, which contains up-to-date references to specialist literature relating to all aspects of the thematic field of vocational education and training research, offers users access at any time and from any place.
Materials evaluated for the literature database include essays published in journals, articles from edited volumes, monographs, conference documentation and grey literature.
The database currently comprises approximately 53,000 literature references dating back to the year of publication 1988. In terms of content, the entries are cross-referenced with bibliographical information including keywords, abstracts and the vocational education and training classification system. Such a classification has enabled the database to be linked in with the BIBB knowledge map. This means that relevant literature will automatically be displayed on every page of the knowledge map in future.
References to online documents are increasingly being made available within the database. Links to the relevant full texts are also provided. The online materials referenced include all Internet publications from the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training and specialist articles from selected online journals. The BIBB Documentation Desk may still be commissioned to conduct research work on payment of a fee.
