Virtual specialist library for Eastern Europe
The Virtual Specialist Library for Eastern Europe ( ViFaOst ) was a virtual specialist library that brought together various scientific offers for research on Eastern Europe. Specialized information on the history, language, literature, politics and culture of the countries and regions of Eastern, Central Eastern and Southeastern Europe was made available or accessed using a search function .
Specifically, the CIS countries in Eastern Europe ( Russia , Belarus , Ukraine , Moldova ), the Caucasus ( Georgia , Armenia , Azerbaijan ) and Central Asia ( Kazakhstan , Uzbekistan , Turkmenistan , Kyrgyzstan , Tajikistan ), the Baltic states ( Estonia , Latvia , Lithuania ), East Central Europe ( Poland , Czech Republic , Slovakia , Hungary ) and Southeast Europe ( Slovenia , Croatia , Bosnia-Herzegovina , Serbia , Montenegro , Macedonia , Albania , Bulgaria , Romania ).
Four cooperation partners took part in the establishment of ViFaOst - the Bavarian State Library , the Herder Institute (Marburg) , the Eastern Europe Institute Munich and the Department for the History of Eastern and Southeastern Europe at the History Seminar of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , which worked in close cooperation prepared the offers with numerous other projects and institutions. In 2008 the Goettingen State and University Library was added to the cooperation structure.
ViFaOst is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). In 2018 it was replaced by Osmikon .
Web links
- ViFaOst - online since June 18, 2003
Individual evidence
- ↑ Osmikon replaces the Virtual Specialized Library for Eastern Europe (ViFaOst). Retrieved April 24, 2019 .