In this article we give a survey of the current practice and state-of-theart of recommender services in scientific digital libraries. With the notable exception of amazon.com and CiteSeer which do not qualify as proper scientific libraries our survey revealed that in scientific libraries recommender services are still not in wide use – despite the considerable benefits they offer for students a...

Scientific digital library systems are a very promising application area for value-added expert advice services. Such systems could significantly reduce the search and evaluation costs of information products for students and scientists. This holds for pure digital libraries as well as for traditional scientific libraries with online public access catalogs (OPAC). In this contribution we first ...