The Margherita von Brentano Center at Freie Universität Berlin is coordinating the new Specialized Information Service (FID) for Gender Studies, which for the first time creates a central infrastructure for inter- and transdisciplinary gender studies in Germany. The consortium of the Margherita von Brentano Center, the Center for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies and the University Library of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, the GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences and the Qualiservice Research Data Center of the University of Bremen is being funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) for three years with 1.75 million euros. The FID supports the Berlin University Alliance’s OpenX initiative by promoting Open Access and Open Science in gender research.

The FID bundles research infrastructures, improves the supply of literature and research data services and strengthens networking. A central specialist portal, which will go online in 2026, will make research findings more accessible and visible. The Digital German Women’s Archive (DDF) with its feminist database META, supported by the umbrella organization i.d.a., plays a key role by making collections on women’s and gender history digitally accessible and expanding them as part of the FID. The FID also integrates the specialist repository GenderOpen, which enables researchers to make publications freely accessible and to archive data.

Through subject-specific advice, training on research data management and support for open access publications, the FID focuses on the needs of researchers. It contributes to the visibility and innovative strength of gender research and supports the goals of the Berlin University Alliance for Open Science.

Further information:

The OpenX initiative – Berlin University Alliance

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