Digitized Collections
Many libraries have already digitized rare books, maps, historical and current scientific journals and publication series. Here is an overview of a number of important websites.
Biodiversity Heritage Library
biodiversitylibrary.org
A consortium of natural history, botanical, research and national libraries that make their natural history literatur feely available.
HathiTrust
hathitrust.org
An association of libraries worldwide, that make digitized collections available.
Europeana
europeana.eu/en
Europeana is a virtual library that makes the scientific and cultural heritage of Europe available to the public in the form of images, text, audio and video files.
Hamburger Kulturgut Digital
digitalisate.sub.uni-hamburg.de
Digitized collection of the Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg
Münchner DigitalisierungsZentrum
digitale-sammlungen.de/en/
digitized collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and other institutions
digitized collections of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de
Specialised Information Services (SIS)
The Specialised Information Services (SIS) bring together publications, research data and other resources that are relevant for research. Each SIS focuses on a certain field or a group of related fields/subjects.
They are the continuation of the former special subject collections anf funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation). Due to the mostly digital nature of the services they can be used nation wide and independent from the libraries and institutions that provide them.
The SIS for Geosciences (FID GEO) is a joint project of the GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences in Potsdam and the Göttingen State and University Library. The offered services include repositories for text and data publications as well as the digitization of old texts and maps, to preserve them and ensure their usability.
Overview of the Specialised Information Services programme
Nationale Forschungsdateninfrastruktur (NFDI, National Infrastructure for Research Data)
Preserving research data is of grave importance to comprehend and verify existing scientific insights, but also to generate new ones.
To remove the data from the possession of singular institutions and to ensure their permanent archiving and accessibility, the German government has developed the NFDIs.
The earth system sciences fall into the NFDI4Earth, which has more than 50 participants, ranging from universities to research institutions, authorities and more from all over Germany.
