JGEOR Catalogued in ZDB and Listed in EZB
The Journal of Green Economy and Optimization Research (JGEOR) has reached another important milestone in strengthening its international scholarly visibility and library discoverability. The journal is now catalogued in the Zeitschriftendatenbank (ZDB) and listed in the Electronic Journals Library (EZB).
These services play an important role in the scholarly information infrastructure used by libraries, universities, researchers, and students to identify, locate, and access academic serial publications.
Zeitschriftendatenbank (ZDB)The Zeitschriftendatenbank (ZDB), or German Union Catalogue of Serials, is one of the world’s largest bibliographic databases dedicated to journals, newspapers, series, databases, and other continuing resources. It covers publications from all countries and languages and serves as a central source of standardized serial bibliographic information for library networks and institutions in Germany and Austria. According to ZDB, thousands of participating libraries contribute serial records and holdings information to the service, and ZDB data are also supplied to regional and local library catalogues.
JGEOR now has a dedicated bibliographic record in ZDB, including information on its title, publisher, publication history, language, country of publication, subject classification, online availability, and open-access status.
For JGEOR, this is significant because a standardized ZDB record improves the journal’s identification and discoverability within established library information systems. It also strengthens the journal’s bibliographic presence and facilitates its recognition as a continuing scholarly publication within library cataloguing environments.
JGEOR ZDB-ID: 3253530-2
Electronic Journals Library (EZB)The Electronic Journals Library (EZB) is a cooperative academic library service operated by the University Library of Regensburg together with a large community of participating institutions. It provides structured access to information on more than 120,000 electronic journals across academic disciplines, including tens of thousands of freely accessible journals. More than 650 institutions participate in the service.
EZB is designed to help researchers and library users quickly determine whether an electronic journal and its full-text content are accessible. Its well-known traffic-light system indicates journal availability, with green identifying freely available full-text journals.
JGEOR is listed in EZB as an Open Access journal, with full-text content freely available beginning with Volume 1, Issue 1 (2026).
For the journal, inclusion in EZB increases the likelihood that researchers, students, and academic library users can discover JGEOR while searching for electronic scholarly literature. It also places the journal within a cooperative library discovery infrastructure used by institutions beyond the journal’s own website.
Why this matters for JGEORBeing catalogued and listed in established scholarly library services contributes to several important aspects of journal development:
- Greater international discoverability: researchers can encounter JGEOR through external academic and library discovery systems rather than only through the journal website.
- Improved bibliographic visibility: standardized catalogue records make the journal easier for libraries and information systems to identify and describe consistently.
- Enhanced access to open research: EZB connects users directly with freely available electronic journal content.
- Library integration: ZDB records form part of the bibliographic infrastructure used by German and Austrian library networks and catalogues.
- Stronger scholarly infrastructure: the journal becomes represented across additional independent systems used for academic literature discovery.
The relationship between ZDB and EZB is also important. The two services exchange information and jointly support tools for determining journal and article availability, connecting bibliographic description with electronic access information.
Continuing to strengthen JGEOR’s visibilityJGEOR will continue developing its presence across appropriate scholarly catalogues, discovery services, metadata infrastructures, abstracting services, and indexing databases as the journal grows.
This development reflects our continuing commitment to open access, accurate scholarly metadata, international discoverability, and accessible research in green economy, sustainability, environmental economics, optimization, and related interdisciplinary fields.
It is important to distinguish library cataloguing and discovery from citation indexing. ZDB and EZB are valuable scholarly library and bibliographic services, but their coverage should not be interpreted as equivalent to inclusion in citation indexes such as Scopus or Web of Science.
