AMAD - Archivum Medii Aevi Digitale. Repository and science blog for Medieval Studies

• Applicants: Professorin Dr. Julia Burkhardt, since 8/2022; Professor Dr. Andreas Kuczera; Dr. Uwe Risch
• Subject Area: European and American Literary and Cultural Studies ; German Medieval Studies (Medieval German Literature) ; History of Philosophy ; Principles of Law and Jurisprudence ; Art History ; Medieval History ; Musicology
• Term: from 2018 to 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 391407293

After 10 years of elaborate funding, Open Access is still a challenge for the humanities' predominantly conservative publishing culture. Various natural sciences heavily rely on arXiv.org as a well-accepted service; for the humanities, however, an archive that even begins to compare with arXiv.org does not exist. Medieval research in particular is short of a professional and interdisciplinary publishing service with contents that are both permanently available and effectively disseminated, thus generating a high impact of modern medieval scholarship. The project AMAD aims to set up an interdisciplinary open access-repository for the publication of medieval studies. Together with the "Medieval Studies Blog" (mittelalter.hypotheses.org) and the renowned research institution of the Regesta Imperii (RI) the repository functions as a publishing service with an academic editorial board, subject indexing, various marketing instruments and a well-connected, searchable archive; it will bei embedded into the Hessian library services system (HeBIS).

• DFG Programme: Science Communication, Research Data, eResearch (Scientific Library Services and Information Systems)
• Ehemalige Antragstellerin: Professorin Dr. Claudia Märtl, until 8/2022