The mission of the Specialised Information Services (Fachinformationsdienste, FID) for the academic community, established by the German Research Foundation (DFG), is to provide researchers at German universities and non-university institutions with nationwide, demand-driven, discipline-specific information and infrastructure services—beyond the basic resources offered by local libraries.
With the aim of adapting both its thematic focus and its acquisition profile—originally designed in accordance with the perspectives for legal scholarship in Germany outlined by the German Council of Science and Humanities—to current trends in legal research, the Specialised Information Service for International and Interdisciplinary Legal Research intRecht, hosted at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, continuously documents ongoing research funding activities as well as the most recent launches of academic journals and publication series.
Since only publicly accessible sources and data sets defined by specific criteria can be taken into account, the mappings of developments in the legal research landscape in Germany, proposed since 2017, should be understood as a possible approach—or an exploratory attempt—without any claim to completeness.
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