FIV - The German Information Network
International Relations and Area Studies
FIV - The German Information Network International
Relations and Area Studies is a government-financed, cooperative
model for the operation of a scholarly database, unique in
Germany.
The Network is a cooperation between the libraries and
documentation departments of twelve
German research organisations, coordinated by the
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik - German Institute for
International and Security Affairs (SWP). All member institutes
are largely publicly financed and active in the fields of
international relations, foreign and security policy or area
studies.
Cooperation between the members consists of:
- shared responsibility for the evaluation and provision
of relevant scholarly literature
- the common use of a central database for input and
research
- the joint development and use of resources such as the
multilingual thesaurus International Relations and Area Studies,
which evolved out of a European cooperation initiative
- flexible uses of the database for the Network and its
individual members
The aims of the Network are:
- the provision of information services to the German
federal government, parliament and ministries
- the provision of high-quality, comprehensive and
relevant bibliographic information to the member institutes
- the provision of a publicly accessible bibliographic
database as an infrastructure measure, as described in the German
federal government’s information programmes
The German federal government has financed the FIV
continuously since 1986, originally as a project and since 2001
with an annual grant, which is anchored in the budget of the
coordinating institute.
Current projects
include:
The FIV database uses the MySQL-based system DOMESTIC V,
developed by KTS Informations-Systeme, Munich.
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