Das Team von avldigital.de gönnt sich vom 23. Dezember 2023 bis 2. Januar 2024 seine alljährliche Auszeit. Eingereichte Meldungen werden wir erst wieder ab dem 3. Januar 2024 bearbeiten und verbreiten. Wir freuen uns darauf, Sie auch im nächsten Jahr wieder mit Nachrichten und Informationen aus dem Fach zu versorgen und wünschen schöne Feiertage und alles Gute für das Jahr 2024!
Read MoreIm Februar 2022 führte das Institut für Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in Kooperation mit der Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg in Frankfurt am Main erfolgreich eine User-Experience-Studie in Form eines Think-Aloud-Tests für das Portal "avldigital.de" durch.
Read MoreMit dem Relaunch des zentralen Open-Access-Portals im deutschsprachigen Raum, dem open-access.network, kuratieren wir jetzt eine Seite, auf der fachspezifische Informationen zum Open-Access-Publizieren in der AVL zusammengetragen sind: https://open-access.network/informieren/open-access-in-fachdisziplinen/allgemeine-und-vergleichende-literaturwissenschaft. Damit hat jetzt auch die AVL als "kleines Fach" neben anderen großen Philologien wie der Germanistik und Romanistik ihren eigenen Platz als Fachdisziplin beim open-access.network.
Read Moreavldigital.de is a supra-regional portal that serves to supply the Comparative Literature research community with scholarly publications and information. The catalogue index of the "Finding literature" module contained in the portal has recently been considerably expanded by almost three million bibliographic references of scholarly publications. This selection reflects the Comparative Literature collections of all university libraries in Germany. A focus is on the collections of two renounced libraries in Berlin.
Read MoreThe new registry of dissertations on avldigital.de enables you to present your doctoral thesis project and to network with other PhD students. All PhD students whose thesis project has a focus on Comparative Literature are invited to enter their project into the registry!
Read MoreThe Networking module is the interactive information and community platform on avldigital.de. We have now updated the way posts on Networking are being displayed. Posts can now be filtered by various criteria. Individual categories (CfP, Events, Vacancies, Institutions, Projects and Websites) now offer a better overview thanks to advanced sorting options. And you can now subscribe directly to our newsletter while registering for the Index of Researchers.
Read MoreWith the Finding literature module, avldigital.de offers a specialised catalogue for research literature and information in Comparative Literature. To support comparatists in their work, this catalogue now includes a means to export bibliographical references for use in reference management software. It can be found in the new Tab "Export".
Read MoreThe project Digi20 makes digitised versions of research literature available online. The focus is on the humanities and social sciences. Titles come from the publishing houses Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Wilhelm Fink / Ferdinand Schöningh and Otto Sagner. On avldigital.de, all 5.250 titles have now been added to the "Finding literature" module's catalogue.
Read MoreDue to the Covid-19 pandemia, all university teaching needs to be realised digitally on very short notice. Even though there is no lack of local and online support for the teaching staff of universities, everybody is confronted with the same questions: How to start teaching digitally, what tools to use, which guidelines to observe, how to support students? On avldigital.de, the Specialised Information Service Comparative Literature supports teaching scholars in Comparative Literature in finding answers to these questions. To this end, it has formed a close cooperation with the initiative "Digital Teaching German Studies" and its information platform.
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