Specialised Information Service (Fachinformationsdienst, FID) on Educational Science and Education Research

After successful first and second phases the German Research Foundation (DFG) agreed in 2021 to fund the five partners participating in the ‘Specialised Information Service (FID) on Educational Science and Education Research’ for a third phase. The five partner institutions involved in the FID are: the Information Center for Education (IZB) in Frankfurt am Main and the Library for Research on the History of Education (BBF) in Berlin - both departments of the DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education; the university library of the Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg; the university library of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Leibniz Institute for Educational Media | Georg Eckert Institute (GEI). Working with researchers in the disciplines of education studies and higher education research, the Specialised Information Service (FID) is a location-independent resource providing access to specialist literature and information.

The research library’s membership of this consortium of institutions corresponds with its role as a special subject collection library for textbooks and educational media. In the context of the FID project, the library is able to intensify its efforts to procure non-European textbooks for the subjects researched by the GEI. Since 2021 it has also been developing a clearing house for licences and digital educational media. The aim of this clearing house is to develop licence models for libraries and researchers that will secure long-term access to digital educational media for research purposes. The research library also offers advice to other libraries that wish to procure digital educational media.