SIS Gender Studies

The Specialised Information Service (FID) Gender Studies is the first central infrastructure in Germany to provide scientific information for interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary gender studies, thereby increasing the visibility and innovative power of the discipline. The FID is supported by a consortium consisting of the Margherita von Brentano Centre at Freie Universität Berlin, the Centre for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies at Humboldt University of Berlin, the University Library of Humboldt University of Berlin, GESIS – Leibniz Institute for Social Sciences, and the Qualiservice Research Data Centre at the University of Bremen.

The Specialised Information Service Gender Studies brings together existing research infrastructures and improves the provision of literature, research data services and networking opportunities in this field of research. The new Specialised Information Service will make research results more accessible, easier to find and more visible. To this end, a centralised online portal for gender studies will be launched in 2026. The Digital German Women's Archive (DDF) plays a central role in this with its feminist database and search engine META, which makes central collections on women's and gender history digitally accessible. The META catalogue provided by the DDF will be expanded as part of the FID. The DDF is supported by the umbrella organisation of German-language lesbian/women's archives, libraries and documentation centres (i.d.a.) and contributes its many years of expertise in the development and dissemination of feminist knowledge to the Specialised Information Service.

The FID also develops subject-specific consulting and training services for sustainable research data management, supports research projects and highlights potential opportunities for the reuse of research data. The specialist information service will also promote the open access transformation of gender studies, among other things by integrating the GenderOpen repository. Researchers benefit from this by making their own publications freely accessible, archiving their data, and accessing quality-assured, subject-specific information sources.

Contact

Simon Schmiederer

E-Mail: simon.schmiederer@ub.hu-berlin.de 
Phone: +49 30 2093-99226

Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum
Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 1-3
10117 Berlin