SIS Higher Education

National literature supply and specialised information on university topics

The Specialised Information Service for Educational Science and Educational Research (FID), funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), is run by five cooperation partners:

  •     DIPF Education Information Centre | Leibniz Institute for Educational Research and Educational Information
  •     BBF | DIPF Library for Educational History Research
  •     Leibniz Institute for Educational Media | Georg Eckert Institute (GEI)
  •     University Library of Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg
  •     University Library of Humboldt University Berlin

The University Library of Humboldt University Berlin is responsible for providing information on higher education research within the consortium.

The specialised information service offers the following:

Literature research

  • Search for literature in the integrated search and reference room
  • Professional mode for literature research
  • Explore the education knowledge graph

Provision of literature

  • E-books from international publishers
  • Nationally licensed journals and databases
  • Ordering international literature via direct loan
  • Licensing or purchasing international journals
  • Digitisation on demand

 

Acquisition of literature and licensing of non-European digital textbooks

  • Clearing house for licences for digital educational media

 

Open access publishing

  • Publishing e-books through crowdfunding
  • Publishing Diamond Open Access journals through crowdfunding
  • Publication platform for journals

 

Further information

The specialised information service emerged in 2015 from the Special Collection Service (SSG) for Higher Education, which had been maintained at HU Berlin since 1998. The collection can be searched via the University Library Berlin catalogue and is available nationwide. An overview of the specialised information services (and the former special collections) can be found on Webis.  

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