Specialised Information Service Anglo-American Culture

• Applicants: Dr. Andreas Brandtner; Kathrin Brannemann, since 1/2024
• Subject Area: Individual Linguistics, Historical Linguistics ; European and American Literary and Cultural Studies ; Human Geography ; Modern and Contemporary History ; Political Science ; Theatre and Media Studies
• Term: since 2016
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 285690522

Since 2016, the Specialised Information Service Anglo-American Culture has been developing subject-specific infrastructures and services for English / British and Irish Studies, Anglophone Postcolonial Studies, American Studies, Canadian Studies as well as Australian and New Zealand Studies. The project's main objective is to improve location-independent access to literature and information for researchers in their respective fields, thus supplementing the range of existing services. The project is closely aligned with the specific disciplinary requirements, covering a broad spectrum of academic fields of interest.The project’s goals are:• to supply specialised primary and secondary literature through acquisition, licensing or digitisation (on-demand as well as anticipating demand), • to build special collections of television series on DVD and Blu-ray Disc, newspapers as well as comics and graphic novels, • to negotiate licenses for specialised databases which allow location-independent access for all researchers, • to establish the Open Access subject repository The Stacks and its services by obtaining a wide variety of documents for publishing and archiving,• to support researchers in Green Open Access publishing (self-archiving service). • to expand the FID website Library of Anglo-American Culture & History (Library AAC, libaac.de).

• DFG Programme: Acquisition and Provision (Scientific Library Services and Information Systems)
• Co-Investigator: Dorothea Schuller
• Ehemaliger Antragsteller: Professor Dr. Wolfram Horstmann, until 12/2023