• Open access: We support you in making your research data widely available in the spirit of open access. We offer financial support, advice when selecting where to publish your work, and the opportunity to publish your own journals and books through Berlin’s open access publisher “Berlin Universities Publishing.”
• Refubium: We are happy to help you publish your work and results (including research data) on Freie Universität Berlin’s institutional repository, Refubium.
• University Bibliography & SEP: We can also help support you in recording and documenting your publications using the “System zur Erfassung der Publikationen” (SEP) for the Freie Universität Berlin University Bibliography. The Executive Board uses the University Bibliography as a basis for deciding how to distribute performance incentive funds.

We are happy to acquire and catalog electronic and printed media on your behalf, whether this is to expand our holdings in general or for a specific course reserve. We gladly accept any suggestions for media that we can add to our collections, with requests from professors taking precedence over those from other library users.

• Interlibrary loan service: We can find and order any media you need that are not included within the university library collections thanks to the interlibrary loan service.
• Budgetary planning: We can help plan the funds that have been allocated to you for acquiring literature and other media as part of your appointment as a professor.

We at the ADA Lovelace Center for Digital Humanities are your point of contact for the (inter)national and interdisciplinary networking of DH researchers and institutions. We support you in developing a digital strategy in the context of research projects, advise you on digital methods, tools, and standards, and design formats for competence transfer and consolidation such as workshops, training courses, labs, hackathons, etc., according to your needs.

We are happy to advise you when it comes to interviews, for example, on suitable digital formats, interview methods, legal questions, storing and processing research data, etc., and can help you develop sustainable methods of cataloging, developing, managing, and archiving interviews and making them available to others.

Upon request, we can digitize print media from across the university library collections and archives in accordance with German copyright law.

E-journals, E-books, databases, and audiovisual media offer a number of advantages when compared with conventional sources of information and are an indispensable part of modern-day teaching and studying. However, these resources often bring with them complex questions about how they can be acquired, ordered, and funded. We offer support throughout the entire “life cycle” of electronic resources, provide information on media already included within our collections, and survey the market with you to explore feasible options, conclude (syndication) licensing agreements thanks to our know-how, and ensure that the electronic media you acquire can be accessed securely.

Generative AI tools can be deployed in various ways for research and publishing. Talk to us about the aspects that need to be considered when using these tools for your own text production or in the review process, e.g. if you are working with copyright-protected content or personal data.

When it comes to managing your research data, we can advise you on planning and writing proposals for your research projects, as well as on documenting, storing, archiving, and publishing your research data.

• Primo: We can give you an introduction to the library portal Primo, particularly with regard to accessing and using it to borrow media.
• Databases: We are happy to present an overview of the relevant databases and electronic resources available to you as a university library user.

We offer further training on topics such as: specialist information and research (for example, personalized training sessions for advanced researchers on using subject-specific databases, research portals, etc.), research data management, digital humanities/digital scholarship, open science/open access, and good scientific practice.

We can support the individual collections at your department or institute in conserving, developing, digitizing, and presenting their content. We can also provide advice on submitting requests for third-party funding for special collections and can help develop a strategic plan for doing so. In our role as contacts for connecting academic collections both on an international scale and across Germany, we also organize workshops and other networking formats.

We offer personalized tours of specific university libraries and archives in both German and English.