Specialised Information Service Romance Philology

• Applicants: Dr. Ulrich Meyer-Doerpinghaus; Professor Robert Zepf
• Subject Area: Individual Linguistics, Historical Linguistics ; European and American Literary and Cultural Studies
• Term: since 2016
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 285674928

The goal is to provide information and services for the whole field of Romance studies tailored to the needs of researchers and covering Romance linguistics, literature, media, cultural and translation studies as well as didactics. Regarding the acquisition and indexing of literature along with providing access to it, the Specialised Information Service focuses on Franco-Romance studies, Italian studies, Iberian studies (continental Spanish and Portuguese), Catalan and Occitan studies as well as Galician, Rhaeto-Romance and Sardinian studies. Bibliographic References for Latin American and Balkan Romance studies are being provided by related Specialised Information Services.The acquisitions scheme follows the requirements of highly specialised research in Romance studies in Germany and includes both electronic publications and films. A multitude of in-house indexing activities warrant that acquired literature is easily findable. This will also improve the still insufficient traceability of articles and specific ressources in the field of Romance studies. The priorities both in acquisitions and specialised services will be continuously developed in close contact with the academic experts according to their needs. In addition to the project’s own web-portal, fid-romanistik.de, the library services will also be presented via the established communication platform romanistik.de, and relevant contents will be interlinked with information on researchers and projects provided there. Sustainable research data management and open access publication services are being developed in close cooperation between the Specialised Information Service and the AG Digitale Romanistik (Working Group on Digital Romance Studies). Moreover, an open access repository for publications in the field of Romance language studies will be created.

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