Cibera
cibera was the virtual library for Ibero-America / Spain / Portugal. It was online from November 2004 to 2017 and represented a central point of entry for Internet research for specialist information on the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking cultural area. The web portal made it possible to identify and find digital full texts, Internet sources , magazines and entries in specialist databases free of charge, as well as to search through Specialist catalogs and a press archive.
cibera was operated jointly by the following institutions:
- Ibero-American Institute
- State and University Library Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky
- GIGA Institute for Latin American Studies in Hamburg
- State and University Library Bremen
- Westphalian Wilhelms University , Münster
The project was funded by the DFG ( German Research Foundation ) and was a partner of vascoda .
It was replaced by the two specialist information services Romance Studies and Latin America, Caribbean and Latino Studies.
The most important offers
- the catalogs of nine specialized libraries
- a collection of selected, library-accessible and quality-controlled internet sources
- a collection of digital full texts , mainly gray literature, university publications and articles from e-journals
- a directory of research on Latin America, Spain and Portugal with the biographical and bibliographical data of over 1,000 scholars and experts in German-speaking countries
- a press archive of selected articles from the internet offer of mainly Latin American daily and weekly newspapers since 1974
- a scientific weblog , the ciberaBlog, which provides information about research options as well as topics of the virtual library
- a research course on Hispanic Studies with information on academic work and sources of Hispanic studies
- various databases with magazine tables of contents
- Metasearch : cibera searches all resources at the same time.
Publications
- Annette Karl, Ulrike Mühlschlegel , Ralf Ullrich, cibera: Virtual Specialized Library Ibero-America / Spain / Portugal, in: Bibliotheksdienst 39th year (2005), no. 2, p. 162f. https://doi.org/10.1515/bd.2005.39.12.1588
- Annette Karl, Wiebke von Deylen, Brigitte Farenholtz, Ulrike Mühlschlegel, Regine Schmolling, Christoph Strosetzki, Markus Trapp, Ralf Ullrich, Brigitte Waldeck, cibera: Virtual Library Ibero-America / Spain / Portugal. - Part 2: The individual elements, in: Bibliotheksdienst 40th Jg. (2006), no. 1, p. 27f. https://doi.org/10.1515/bd.2006.40.1.27
- Annette Kolbe, Cross-Sections and Interfaces: Regional History Latin America, Spain, Portugal, in: History on the Net: Practice, Opportunities, Visions. Volume 10 • 2007 • Part II: Virtual specialist libraries for historical research, articles in the conference proceedings
- Markus Trapp, cibera 2.0: The extension of the virtual library Ibero-America / Spain / Portugal with Web 2.0 functions. in: Bibliotheksdienst 43rd vol. (2009), no. 5, p. 517f. https://doi.org/10.1515/bd.2009.43.5.517