Specialist information service Romance studies
The specialist information service Romance Studies is an infrastructure project to support Romance studies research.
activities
With funding from the German Research Foundation, the FID supplements the offerings of the local libraries by providing supraregional provision of special literature in Romance languages, licenses for access to specialist electronic publications and other research-related offers. For example, it provides a research portal for all Romance studies on its website and offers information and advice on the topics of research data management and open access, including legal information. A Romance repository is currently being set up. In addition, the Romance Studies blog (until 2019: ciberaBlog ) and the FID Twitter account report on the project as well as on Open Access, research data management and the cultures of the Romance-speaking countries.
Project partners and collaborations
The service is operated by the University and State Library Bonn and the State and University Library Hamburg . Its activities are carried out in close coordination with a scientific advisory board made up of seven representatives from the Romance specialist associations and one representative from the romanistik.de platform. Another partner is the Digital Romance Studies Working Group of the German Romance Association. Acquisition agreements are made with the neighboring specialist information services, in particular with the FIDs Latin America, Caribbean and Latino Studies, African Studies, Eastern, Central Eastern and Southeastern Europe and Anglo-American Culture .
Previous projects
The previous special collection areas General Romance Studies, French Romance Studies and Italian Studies (ULB Bonn) and Spain / Portugal (SUB Hamburg), which were looked after by the two libraries from 1949 to 2015 until the program was discontinued by the DFG, are included in the FID . After switching to the DFG program Specialized Information Services for Science , the service has been supplying literature for the top Romance literature in Germany since 2016.
In addition, the FID portal brings together the functions of the previous virtual specialist libraries Vifarom and cibera . The new search portal is a central point of contact for all Romance studies and therefore also integrates other Romance studies, such as those of the Ibero-American Institute . The collections of internet sources from both platforms were also taken over and continued, as were the “Pilot” online tutorials. The ciberaBlog , which was established as part of the cibera virtual library , has been continued since 2008, in 2017 its focus was on the whole of Romania as well as on Open Access and research data, and in 2019 it was renamed Romance Studies Blog .
literature
- Wiebke von Deylen and Doris Grüter: “Launch of the FID Romance Studies website.” Romance Studies Blog May 24, 2017: http://blog.fid-romanistik.de/2017/05/24/launch-der-website-des- fid-romance studies /
- Wiebke von Deylen and Markus Trapp: "The ciberaBlog will become the FID Romance Studies blog ." Romance Studies Blog May 24, 2017. http://blog.fid-romanistik.de/2017/05/24/das-ciberablog-wird- to the blog of fid romance studies /
- Christoph Hornung / Jan Rohden: “The contribution of the specialist information service Romance studies to Romance digital culture.” In: Julia Montemayor / Vera Neusius / Claudia Polzin-Haumann (eds.): Digitalkulturen / Cultures numériques. Challenges and interdisciplinary research perspectives / Enjeux et perspectives interdisciplinaire. Yearbook of the France Center of Saarland University Volume 16. Bielefeld: transcript 2019, pp. 51–76.
- Markus Trapp: "ciberaBlog is now called Romance Studies Blog." Romance Studies Blog July 24, 2019. http://blog.fid-romanistik.de/2019/07/24/ciberablog-heisst-nun-romanistik-blog/
- Markus Trapp: "DFG renewal application for FID Romance Studies approved." Romance Studies Blog January 9, 2019. http://blog.fid-romanistik.de/2019/01/08/dfg-fortsetzungfrage-fuer-fid-romanistik-bewilligt /
Web links
- Portal of the FID Romance Studies: https://www.fid-romanistik.de/startseite/
- WEBIS collection focus at German libraries - overview: https://wikis.sub.uni-hamburg.de/webis/index.php/Webis_-_Sammelschwerpunkte_an_deutschen_Bibliotheken
- German Research Foundation: Specialized Information Services for Science: https://www.dfg.de/foerderung/programme/infrastructure/lis/lis_foerderangebote/fachinfodienste_wissenschaft/index.html