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

Following three successful work phases, the German research Foundation (DFG) agreed in 2024 to fund the five partners participating in the ‘Specialised Information Service (FID) on Educational Science and Education Research’ for a fourth 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 education scientist and researchers in the disciplines of education studies and higher education research, the FID is a location-independent resource providing access to specialist literature and information.

The GEI 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. It will also continue to set up a clearing house for licences for digital educational media. The aim of this clearing house is to develop and test licence models for libraries and researchers that will secure long-term access to digital educational media for research purposes and university teacher training programmes. The clearing house also offers advice and information packages to other libraries that wish to provide their clients with access to products from educational media publishers. The clearing house works closely with national and state libraries, education foundations and political decision makers in order to represent and promote the needs of the FID community.