Specialized information service for Eastern, Central Eastern and Southeastern Europe
The Specialized Information Service (FID) East, East Central and Southeast Europe supports German research in the humanities and social sciences on the region with infrastructure and is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
history
Since 1949 the German Research Foundation (DFG) has supported the Bavarian State Library (BSB) as a reference library for German research on Eastern Europe. 1949–2015 this took place within the framework of the “ Special Collection Areas ” funding program , and since 2016 within the framework of the “ Specialized Information Services for Science ” program.
profile
The FID profile includes the following countries: Albania , Bosnia-Herzegovina , Bulgaria , Estonia , Kosovo , Croatia , Latvia , Lithuania , Macedonia , Moldova , Montenegro , Modern Greece , Poland , Romania , Russia , Serbia , Slovakia , Slovenia , the Czech Republic , Ukraine , Belarus , Cyprus .
In terms of content, the following subjects are covered: History including prehistory and early history, politics, education and higher education, media, information, book and librarianship, anthropogeography , church history , theology , sociology , Romanian philology and folklore, Albanian philology and folklore, Baltic Philology and Folklore, Greek Philology and Folklore.
Access to the media and information (print and digital) of the FID takes place via the OPAC of the Bavarian State Library and the research portal for East, East Central and Southeast Europe, osmikon . Osmikon is also the portal of the specialist information service for Eastern, Central Eastern and Southeastern Europe.
offer
acquisition
As part of the FID, the BSB acquires and indexes around 18,000 monographs, several thousand journal volumes and a variety of electronic media every year. In order to make this scientific literature and sources available for research throughout Germany, services such as interlibrary loan and document delivery are used, wherever possible also direct digital provision.
In-depth development to improve research and access options
In order to make it easier for scientists to find the approx. 1,500 monographs and anthologies acquired per month for the Eastern European Collection as part of the FID, further information is made available in addition to the title data and keywords: lists of contents and references, summaries, place, person and others Registers, links to reviews and additional information on selected special prints or extensive databases are linked to the catalog entries of the individual titles. All of these so-called catalog enrichment data can be searched in full text via the library OPAC of the Bavarian State Library and the osmikon portal, thus making it easier to find relevant literature.
Article database ARTOS
Since 2016, ARTOS has been coordinating the article indexing operated at various institutions for the content area of the FID Eastern, Central Eastern and Southeastern Europe in German-speaking countries (in part using indexing data since 1947) and expanded it into a comprehensive article database. More than 350 current journals and selected edited volumes are currently being evaluated. The database is integrated as a data source in osmikonSEARCH and can be searched via the portal.
Publishing in Open Access
Today, the BSB makes a substantial part of its holdings on Eastern and Southeastern Europe freely available digitally, including the entire holdings up to the year of publication 1875 (approx. 80,000 volumes). In addition, many copyrighted scientific monographs, anthologies and specialist journals are made available digitally in the OstDok repository .
In the context of originally electronic publishing, two series of anthologies and graduation papers are currently being published. There is also the option of publishing topic dossiers on osmikon.
Research data and ego documents
The FID provides a wide range of information for securing, processing and re-using research data via osmikon and is working on the establishment of a corresponding platform for Eastern European research that takes into account the subject-specific requirements.
With the establishment of a section for ego documents or self-testimonies, the historical-anthropological research approach in East and Southeast European research will be taken into account in the FID. The main focus is on the digitization and provision of autobiographies, diaries, memoirs, interviews, photo negatives and letters relating to Eastern Europe.
Archiving and provision of free internet resources (electronic journals and websites)
However, the online presence of a large number of these magazines must be classified as unsafe because it can be assumed that they will not be available in the long term for technical, organizational or political reasons. For this reason, these journals are archived as far as legally possible and the archived version is provided if the website is no longer accessible. Similar to electronic journals, endangered research-relevant websites from the countries of Eastern and Southeastern Europe are regularly archived.
Web portal osmikon
Osmikon, as the successor to the Virtual Specialized Library for Eastern Europe (ViFaOst), serves to bundle the service offerings of German Eastern European research and as the portal of the FID Eastern Europe. In cooperation with the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, the Collegium Carolinum , the Herder Institute (Marburg) and the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Research , it offers the most comprehensive possible evidence of information resources with the associated availability and access services.
Web links
- Webis - FID East, East Central and Southeast Europe
- osmikon - Research portal on Eastern, Central Eastern and Southeastern Europe and FID portal
Individual evidence
- ^ East, East Central, Southeastern Europe - Webis. Retrieved January 18, 2019 .
- ↑ osmikon: osmikonSEARCH. Retrieved January 18, 2019 .
- ↑ research data. Retrieved January 27, 2020 (American English).