Documentation Unit
The Documentation Unit of IFSH is available to scholars
at the Institute as well as to students of the Master
of Peace Research and Security Politics program, attached
to the Institute. It compiles literature references
and bibliographies from written and electronic sources
on all thematic areas of peace research and security
policy and provides written and verbal technical information
for the scholars at the Institute.
Areas of Competency
- Literature Reference Data Bank (FIV)
- OSCE Networking Website
- Systems Data Bank of internet resources on "Politics
and Peace Guide"
1.
Literature Reference Data Bank (FIV): IFSH is a member
in the “International Relations and Area Studies”
(FIV-IBLK) and its Database “World Affairs Online”
(WAO) , a joint professional information infrastructure
for 11 German social science research institutes in
Germany. Together they compile a uniformly structured
and integrated literature and factual data base and
produce joint specialized information products for
the fields of international relations and area studies
under the leadership of the SWP (Foundation for Science
and Politics). The goal of this cooperative is making
professional, comprehensive and differentiated information
accessible for political practice, research and teaching,
business and the general public
Thus the Documentation Unit of IFSH makes available
the thematic field of OSCE and CSCE to the Literature
Reference Data Bank of this cooperative organization.
Relevant articles from monographs, anthologies and
journal articles as well as gray literature and documents
have been filed bibliographically, their content described
as keywords (according to the WAO-Thesaurus) –
to some extent expanded with abstracts – and
put into the joint WAO data bank.
The literature references of the WAO documentation,
which reflect the main themes of the scholarly work
of their respective institutes, are, in this way,
searchable thematically. They are available to all
eleven FIV member organizations for literature research.
In addition, the literature data of the FIV Institutes
are regularly filed in a special catalogue (IBLK)
within the Karlsruhe Virtual Catalogue (KVK) where
they are available at no cost to the interested public.
The Homepage of the Expert Information Network on
International Relations and Area Studies (FIV) is:
http://www.fiv-iblk.de/
Search form for literature references from the FIV:
http://www.ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de/hylib/iblk/
2.
Together with the Graduate Institute of International
Studies (Geneva) the Documentation Unit runs a Website
called OSCE Networking, serviced technically by the
Swiss ISN (Zurich) and financed by the Swiss Foreign
Ministry. Here scientifically relevant information
about the OSCE can be found bundled together. In addition
to an URL-Data Bank on country information about all
56 OSCE participatig states, the Website offerings
include: a data bank with numerous secondary literature
references on the OSCE/CSCE from those in the FIV
stores, complete text publications as well as brief
descriptions of the international Institutes which
concern themselves thematically with the OSCE.
OSCE Networking:
http://www.isn.ethz.ch/osce
3.
Within the framework of the DFG-supported project
of the state and university library of Hamburg „Virtual
Professional Library of Political Science/Peace Research”
(Vitapol), IFSH and its Documentation Unit participate
in the on-going expansion and updating of the Joint
Data Bank Internet sources, the so-called “Politics
and Peace Guide” Topic Overview (Outline) and
a search engine.
http://www.vifapol.de/pp-guide/index.shtml
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