Pedagogy specialist portal
The pedagogical specialist portal is a web portal operated by the Education Information Center (IZB) of the DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Educational Research and Educational Information in Frankfurt am Main and offers educational specialist information . With its offer, the portal is primarily aimed at active people from research and practice in the context of educational science, educational research and subject didactics as well as those interested in thematically.
The offer, which can be used free of charge, is divided into the areas of literature, research data and research information. In addition to research access, the literature area offers the option of reporting missing references, publishing publications via pedocs or using the services of the specialist information service for educational science and educational research . The specialist information service offers special procurement options for literature that is not available in Germany (via interlibrary loan) and, after registration, enables free access to selected e-books for research and science. In addition to the FIS Education Literature Database, the relevant bibliographic database ERIC and other evidence such as new publications from the Anglo-American and Italian-speaking regions are available for literature research. The integration of further data sources is planned.
The research data area is editorially supported by the IZB's Education Research Data Center at DIPF. It provides access to comprehensive and permanent documentation of studies in empirical educational research . The offer offers central access to descriptive study information, the survey instruments used and collected research data as well as publications. There is also information material on research data management .
The research information area is set up and maintained in collaboration with the German Education Server. The focus is on the topic-focused compilation of relevant Internet sources for and about science and research in the field of education.
The development of the specialist portal was funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) as the " Virtual Pedagogical Library " . The pedagogical specialist portal has been online since August 2005 and was republished in September 2017 after a complete revision.