Scholarly Information Service for Historical Studies

• Applicants: Dr. Johannes-Geert Hagmann; Dr. Dorothea Sommer
• Subject Area: Early Modern History ; Medieval History ; Modern and Contemporary History ; History of Science
• Term: since 2016
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 285868070

The Scholarly Information Service for Historical Studies (FID), a digital information system covering the whole range of historical research, will be enhanced and further developed. In addition to the local basic supply, the FID creates and sustainably secures optimal conditions for historical research. This includes the acquisition and indexing of special literature, which is available to interested parties throughout Germany via interlibrary loan and document delivery services. An integral part of this concept are also the so-called FID licences for e-books, e-journals and databases of historical sources. The website historicum.net serves as an entry point for all digital services of the FID: via historicumSEARCH, several dozen relevant library catalogues, subject bibliographies and full-text data sources can be searched simultaneously for historical research literature. The research portal on the history of natural sciences, technology and the environment (GNTUsearch) provides the option to search in library catalogues as well as subject, object and article databases. The FID is working with partners to operate the German Historical Bibliography (DHB), which combines conventional article indexing with digital methods of data collection. In addition, a reporting option enables the history community to contribute titles themselves. The FID portfolio is rounded off by a review platform of the most important journals of regional history in Germany, by a service for the demand-oriented digitisation of out-of-copyright and unavailable works of the 20th century, and by information and advice on questions of historical research data management.

• DFG Programme: Acquisition and Provision (Scientific Library Services and Information Systems)