FID4SA - Scientific Information Services South Asia

• Applicant: Dr. Jochen Apel, since 10/2023
• Term: since 2016
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 285910634

The aim of the FID4SA project is to further expand and consolidate the services for the South Asian Studies scholarly community that were established in the first two funding phases. In order to make the regions that have so far been part of the regional focus of the FID Asia (2016-2021) more visible as an independent FID and to provide researchers with customised access to the resources they need for research and teaching, these services are to be brought together in a new portal to be created, FID4SA. This will offer scholars in the field of South Asia studies and Indologists an integrated access to all information from and about the South Asian region. The focus is on linking collection, reference and access through digital services. Special emphasis is also placed on a sustainable consolidation of the services with regard to interoperability and user proximity. The creation of added value for research focuses primarily on the fields of competence "Provision of Information Resources", "Electronic Publishing", "OCR for non-Latin scripts" and "Scholarly Communication", which have been developed by the applicants in recent years. The FID4SA promotes and supports digital research and publication practices and with offers Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing, a publication portfolio for journals, monographs and individual publications tailored to the needs of scholars. Based on the already existing networking with the specialist community, the FID is accompanied by an academic advisory board. Additional coordination processes with subject representatives regarding the expansion of the FID4SA's information services will be continued throughout the project and supplemented by a workshop.

• DFG Programme: Acquisition and Provision (Scientific Library Services and Information Systems)
• Ehemaliger Antragsteller: Dr. Veit Probst, until 10/2023