The online portal avldigital.de offers a platform for finding literature, publishing and networking in Comparative Literature Studies. Funded by the German Research Foundation, it aims at the German speaking research community – nevertheless, its services are open for all researchers in Comparative Literature to use, and to address their colleagues in Germany.
A beta version is available on http://www.avldigital.de. Its features include:
- Open Access for Literary Studies: Digital publishing for researchers, research institutions and academic publishers on our repository CompaRe: http://www.avldigital.de/CompaRe/.
- E-Journals made easy: We host your periodicals, such as open access journals, working papers and research papers. Our hosting service offers state of the art online publishing with Open Journal Systems (OJS): http://avldigital.de/publizieren/e-journal-hosting/.
- Comparative Literature Researcher Index: Make yourself and your research known and find out who shares your research interests. Register now: http://avldigital.de/vernetzen/forscherInnen/.
- Who is who in Comparative Literature: A register of institutions, research projects and websites: http://avldigital.de/vernetzen/ – Is your institution listed yet?
- Communicating in Comparative Literature: Announce calls for papers, jobs and grants, conferences and much more: http://avldigital.de/vernetzen/neuigkeiten-melden/. All items are also published on twitter Twitter https://twitter.com/avldigital and on the avldigital BLOG https://avldigital.wordpress.com/.
- avldigital.de is a service provided by the Specialised Information Service for Comparative Literature, a project under development at the University Library of Frankfurt since 2016. It is funded by the German Research Foundation. Find out more on http://www.avldigital.de/ueber-uns/.
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Please direct any questions to Jakob Jung at info@avldigital.de.
Jakob Jung, M. A.
Fachinformationsdienst Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft (FID AVL)
Universitätsbibliothek J. C. Senckenberg
Bockenheimer Landstraße 134-138
60325 Frankfurt am Main
E-Mail: j.jung@ub.uni-frankfurt.de
Tel: +49 (0)69 798 25163
P.S. What are current research interests in Comparative Literature? Please take our poll "Eight Answers for Comparative Literature" (German language only): http://tinygu.de/hd76.