Specialised information services
Specialised information services
Specialised Information Services (FID)
Information supply for science
The "Specialised Information Services for Science" programme of the German Research Foundation (DFG) replaces the special subject collections at scientific libraries in Germany.
The programme is explicitly aimed at scientists and academics. Its aim is to provide them with specialised literature and research-relevant information quickly and directly, regardless of their location. As a nationwide system, specialised information services complement the information infrastructures of universities and research institutions.
"In order to do justice to the different subject interests, the specialised information services are supported by a large number of high-performance libraries and research institutions, which are of particular importance for the respective subjects or regional focal points."¹
Access to the resources of the specialised information services is provided directly via the responsible libraries.
Specialised Information Services (FID)
In the following list you will find the FIDs funded by the German Research Foundation according to their subject designations.
- African Studies (University Library Frankfurt am Main)
- General and Comparative Literature (University Library Frankfurt am Main)
- Classical Studies (Heidelberg University Library and Bavarian State Library Munich)
- Anglo-American Culture (Göttingen State and University Library and Library of the J. F. Kennedy Institute of the Free University of Berlin)
- Asia (Berlin State Library - Prussian Cultural Heritage and Heidelberg University Library)
- Benelux / Low Country Studies (Münster University and State Library)
- Biodiversity Research (Johann Christian Senckenberg University Library, Frankfurt am Main and Chair of Text Technology and Senckenberg Research Institute and Nature Museum at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main)
- Book, library and information science (Leipzig University Library and Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel)
- Performing Arts (University Library Frankfurt am Main)
- Educational Sciences and Educational Research (German Institute of Educational Sciences Frankfurt am Main, Library for Educational History Research Berlin, University Library Erlangen-Nuremberg, Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research Braunschweig and University Library of Humboldt University Berlin)
- Finno-Ugric / Uralic languages, literatures and cultures (Göttingen State and University Library)
- Geosciences of the Solid Earth (Göttingen State and University Library and German Research Centre for Geosciences Potsdam)
- German Studies (University Library Frankfurt am Main)
- Historical Studies (Bavarian State Library Munich and Library of the German Museum Munich)
- Jewish Studies (Frankfurt University Library and Stuttgart Media University)
- Cartography and basic geodata (Berlin State Library - Prussian Cultural Heritage)
- Criminology (Tübingen University Library)
- Art (Heidelberg University Library and Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library)
- Latin America, Caribbean and Latino Studies (Library of the Ibero-American Institute Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage)
- Linguistics (University Library Frankfurt am Main and Institute for Computing Science - Working Group Applied Computational Linguistics at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main)
- Mathematics (Göttingen State and University Library, Hanover Technical Information Library and Mathematical Research Institute Oberwolfach)
- Media and Communication Studies (Leipzig University Library)
- Mining and metallurgy (Freiberg University Library)
- Musicology (Bavarian State Library Munich)
- Middle Eastern, North African and Islamic Studies (University and State Library Halle/Saale)
- Northern Europe (Kiel University Library)
- Eastern, East-Central and South-Eastern Europe (Bavarian State Library Munich)
- Pharmacy (Braunschweig University Library and Institute for Information Systems at Braunschweig University of Technology)
- Political Science (Bremen State and University Library and GESIS - Leibniz Institute of Social Sciences, Cologne)
- Law (Berlin State Library - Prussian Cultural Heritage)
- Religious Studies (Tübingen University Library)
- Romance Studies (Bonn University and State Library and Hamburg State and University Library)
- Slavic Studies (Berlin State Library - Prussian Cultural Heritage)
- Social and Cultural Anthropology (University Library of the Humboldt University of Berlin)
- Sociology (University and City Library of Cologne and GESIS - Leibniz Institute of Social Sciences, Mannheim)
- Theology (Tübingen University Library)
Status: January 2020