Specialised Information Service for General and Comparative Literature Studies

• Applicant: Daniela Poth
• Subject Area: General and Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies
• Term: since 2016
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 285761144

The SIS Comparative Literature (Fachinformationsdienst Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, FID AVL) aims to enhance avldigital.de as a user-oriented service portal for researchers in the field of Comparative literature. The SIS Comparative Literature continues to offer services that support the scholarly community in its research, publication, and communication practices. New services that will be offered include a directory of ongoing habilitation projects, a database of translation projects in literary studies, and a reference system for research data in the field of Comparative literature. The cross-catalogue research is being expanded to include further data resources from the research areas of intermediality and translation theory, especially catalogs that are not integrated into German library networks. In addition, a recommendation algorithm based on the Integrated Authority File (GND) will be implemented, which will direct users to related SISs for searches. Subject-relevant data sets from blog, event and project databases are integrated into the portal avldigital.de.The open access culture in the discipline is supported, among other things, by a publication fund and a tool for checking publication lists for opportunities to publish in open access. In addition to classic publication formats, science communication formats such as blog posts and podcasts are also published and cataloged on the CompaRe repository. Due to its profile, the SIS Comparative Literature is particularly suited for transdisciplinary and international collaboration. In the SIS-system, the SIS Comparative Literature will drive interdisciplinary collaboration through the coordination of a philological network. When developing services, the SIS Comparative Literature pays attention to ensuring that they are sustainable and can be reused.

• DFG Programme: Acquisition and Provision (Scientific Library Services and Information Systems)
• Co-Investigator: Dr. Volker Michel