Electronic Products for the Academic Community
The Specialized Information Service Middle East, North Africa and Islamic Studies provides access to electronic products such as databases, e-books and e-journals that are subject to licensing.
Depending on the demand and the licence agreement, these products are available to a subject-specific circle of users or to all German research institutions.
The licenses are funded by the German Research Foundation.
Trial Access
These products are provided for a limited period of time to be evaluated by the academic community. We need your feedback as a mandate, for or against the acquisition of a permanent license.
Middle East Newspapers
more5 Arabic Newspapers from the MENA Region The digital archives of 5 newspapers from the Middle East are ready for testing. These are mainly issues from the second half of the 20th century. ...
Cumhuriyet
moreDigital Archive of the Influential Turkish Daily Newspaper The archive contains all available issues from 1980 - 2019. Digitisation of all available newspapers from 1924 onwards is planned. ...
Al-Ahram (الأهرام)
moreDigital Archive of the Egyptian Newspaper The archive contains all available issues of the important and influential newspaper from Egypt from 1875 - 2018. ...
Licenced Products
These products are made permanently available by the Specialized Information Service Middle East, North Africa and Islamic Studies.
Kavkaz
moreThe newspaper Kavkaz (Caucasus) was published during 1846-1918. It was the first Russian-language newspaper in the Caucasus, published in Tiflis (Tbilisi), Georgia. ...
Social Movements, Elections, Ephemera
moreElection related material from the countries of the former Soviet Union The collection "Social Movements, Elections, Ephemera" provides an extensive pool of primary sources on elections and political movements in the countries of the former Soviet Union ...
Afghan Serials Collection
moreRare Newspapers and Journals from Afghanistan The Afghan Serials Collection is anessential collection of partisan serials from the Wahdat Library, the most comprehensive ...
Russian Islamic Studies
moreTopical Russian newpspapers and academic journals on Islam ...
Al Manhal Islamic Studies E-Book Collection
moreWe have licensed the "Islamic Studies E-Book Collection" of the Arabic provider Al Manhal for German research. The collection includes 2,035 e-books about Islamic law, Islamic studies and Islamic theology mainly written in Arabic. ...
Licence Services
Acquisition Request
moreIs there a book, a journal or access to a database not yet available in Germany? Please make a acquisition request. ...
Feedback on FID Licenses
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