Specialized Information Service Northern Europe: Continuation of the overall project

• Contact: Dr. Ruth Sindt
• Funding: DFG
• Duration: 01/2019-12/2027
• Description: The Nordic Countries Specialized Information Service (FID Nordeuropa) replaced the “Special Subject Collection Scandinavia,” which had existed since 1948, in 2016 and serves as a bridge between German Nordic studies and the Nordic information landscape. The acquisition of and access to literature on Northern Europe are central priorities, as is the development of highly targeted services for research. In addition to the further development of the research and communication portal vifanord, several research projects - particularly in the areas of metadata and authority data as well as research data management - are currently being supported.
• Further information: vifanord | FID Nordeuropa

Teaching information literacy and teaching scientific working methods and ways of thinking in the study entry phase

Interactive MINTspace workroom

• Contact: Julian Rudnik und Jörn Willers Radke
• Duration: since 2023
• Description: In its position paper “Academic Libraries 2025,” the German Library Association defines eight fields of action, one of which is the “establishment of creative spaces (cultural labs, community-oriented makerspaces)”. Against this background and in response to the needs of students in the early stages of their studies, as well as the opportunity to make science more accessible to the public, the Scientific Work Department of the Central Library is converting a workroom into an interactive group workroom called MINTspace. This interdisciplinary experimental space is intended to provide all library users with low-threshold, needs-based access to knowledge in the natural sciences and to encourage experimentation with analog and digital tools. The resources and services provided will inspire users to discover, try out, discuss, and research, e.g. in small groups.
• Further information: MINTspace

Expanding the Central Library as a learning location

Renovation of the 1st segment of the Central Library

• Contact: Florian Remien
• Duration: since 2023
• Description: In its position paper "Academic Libraries 2025", the German Library Association defines eight fields of action, one of which is the "establishment of creative spaces (cultural labs, community-oriented makerspaces)". Against this background, the Central Library is redesigning the 1st segment on the ground floor. The new usage scenarios are intended to stimulate scientific communication and support inter- and transdisciplinary as well as design-oriented research processes and formats. The offering includes a diverse and digitally supported learning landscape in the form of room-in-room systems and niche solutions, interdisciplinary experimentation rooms, flexible and differentiated furniture, and modern digital equipment. The resources and services provided are intended to encourage users to discover, try out, discuss and research, including in large group formats such as future workshops or design processes.

Introduction of RFID for the library holdings of Kiel University

• Introduction of RFID for the library holdings of Kiel University
• Contact: Arne Klemenz
• Duration: since 2018
• Description: The aim is to introduce RFID as a technology for securing books and preparing for electronic lending, including independent booking by users at so-called self-booking stations.

Promoting Open Access and expanding publication services

Open-access publication services at Kiel University (CAU): further development

• Contact: Arne Klemenz
• Duration: Ongoing
• Description: Through the open-access publication service MACAU, operated by the University Library, scholarly works primarily from the personal, institutional, and thematic context of Kiel University (CAU) are made globally visible in digital form, freely accessible, and available for long-term use. Continuous further development based on the MyCoRe framework ensures the service’s future viability and guarantees that the needs of users as well as those of Kiel University Press are met.

University Press: establishment and transition to routine operation

• Contact: Dr. Kai Lohsträter
• Duration: 08/2019-2026
• Description: The publishing service is intended to support researchers at Kiel University (CAU) in the professional realization of selected publication projects and to make the university’s research findings widely visible and usable. High-quality, quality-assured publications in open access are to be enabled quickly and easily - as a contribution to an open publication culture and to the digital transformation of scholarly communication. Following the conception of an operating model, this includes the development of workflows as well as practical testing through publication projects and the establishment of a publishing program.
• Further information: https://www.universitaetsverlag.uni-kiel.de/en

Open-access transformation agreements

• Contact: Dr. Eike Hentschel
• Duration: 01/2019-12/2028
• Description: Within the framework of open-access transformation agreements with the publishers British Medical Journals, Cambridge University Press, de Gruyter (from 2022), Nature Publishing Group, and Hogrefe (PsyJournals), reading access to a large portfolio of these publishers’ subscription journals is available online within the Kiel University (CAU) network, including UKSH Campus Kiel. In addition, an open-access publishing option in most of these publishers’ subscription journals is offered to all members of CAU, including UKSH Campus Kiel, as corresponding authors through central funding and thus at no additional cost to the authors.
• Further information: Open Access

DFG Open Access Publication Fund

• Contact: Dr. Eike Hentschel
• Funding: DFG
• Duration: 01/2020-12/2027
• Description: From the DFG fund, article processing charges (APCs) for gold open-access articles by corresponding authors who are members of Kiel University (CAU), including UKSH Campus Kiel and affiliated institutes, can be funded in original open-access journals up to an amount of EUR 2,000.
• Further information: Open Access

Imparting cultural heritage / services for digital humanities

Medium and monument. Arthur Haseloff's photographic archive and research campaigns in Italy (1904–1915)

• Contact: Andreas Christ
• Funding: DFG
• Duration: 2025-2028
• Description: Since 1920, the Institute of Art History (KHI) at Kiel University has housed the extensive photo collection of the art historian Arthur Haseloff (1872–1955), which documents, among other things, a research campaign to record Staufer architecture in southern Italy. The DFG-funded joint project between KHI, DDK – Bildarchiv Foto Marburg and Kiel University Library aims to analytically record, describe and investigate the scientific history of Haseloff's southern Italy project – in particular, the critical examination of the specific use of photography as an art historical research instrument in the form of a differentiated digital representation and evaluation of the campaigns based on the material. The photographs and selected additional archive material are being digitised at the Kiel University Library's Digitization Center and indexed by the DDK in its Image Index of Art and Architecture. The University Library's Digital Humanities & Research Data Management Department also enables digitally supported in-depth art historical indexing and research of the collection using DH tools (in particular fylr and nodegoat).
• Further information: Project website Medium and monument - GEPRIS

SHareDH – Synergistic DH infrastructures in Schleswig-Holstein

• Contact: Andreas Christ, Patrick Nehr-Baseler
• Funding: Ministry of General Education and Vocational Training, Science, Research and Culture (MBWFK), Schleswig-Holstein
• Duration: 04/2025-12/2026
• Description: Together with the European University of Flensburg (EUF), the University Library is promoting the expansion of the Digital Humanities (DH) infrastructure in Schleswig-Holstein. While the University Library has already begun to establish such an infrastructure, researchers, lecturers and students at the EUF do not yet have access to institutional DH support. The aim of the project is therefore to establish a synergistic infrastructure for DH by expanding the foundations already in place in Kiel and promoting competence building and acceptance of DH. The EUF will expand Kiel's efforts to develop its own perspectives and competencies while gaining access to Kiel's technologies and experience. To this end, cross-university DH interaction and networking platforms are to be established, teaching and learning modules and digital research workflows developed, and concrete advisory and support services for researchers and teachers designed and established. The project is funded by the state government of Schleswig-Holstein as part of the Digitalisation Program 4.0 and is based on the guidelines of the Schleswig-Holstein Digital Strategy.

Digitisation and cataloguing of the estate of Jens Baggesen

• Contact: Dr. Ruth Sindt
• Funding: DFG
• Duration: 2021-10/2026
• Description: Jens Baggesen (1764–1826) was a Danish-German poet and translator. As a well-connected European, he travelled extensively and took up the first professorship in Nordic studies in Kiel between 1811 and 1813. A large part of his estate is held in the University Library archives and is now being re-sorted, digitised and catalogued in collaboration with international partners.

Colophons in German-language manuscripts of the Middle Ages (as cooperation partner)

• Contact: Andreas Christ
• Funding: DFG
• Duration: 2021-2024 / Continuation project: 2024-2027
• Description: The project of the Department of Early German Literature (JProf. Dr. Margit Dahm/Prof. Dr. Timo Felber) aims to systematically record and research colophons, i.e. scribal additions that are usually found at the end of manuscripts or the texts they contain, in German-language manuscripts of the Middle Ages. The modelling of the data and the construction and operation of the database are being carried out in cooperation with Kiel University Library.
• Further information: Project website "Colophons"

Services for Schleswig-Holstein

Expansion of services within the framework of the joint local library system for academic libraries in Schleswig-Holstein

• Contact: Arne Klemenz
• Duration: ongoing
• Description: Due to the library and IT expertise of Kiel University Library, we have long been responsible for state-related tasks in the management of the joint local library system for Schleswig-Holstein's academic libraries (LBS-SH). The group of academic libraries served and the services provided for these libraries are expanded continuously.

Open access publication services: provision for additional libraries in Schleswig-Holstein

• Contact: Arne Klemenz
• Duration: ongoing
• Description: Based on the technology of the CAU's open access publication service developed at Kiel University Library, open access publication repositories will be operated for other interested academic libraries in Schleswig-Holstein in the future.
• Continue to MACAU

Deacidification of collections of literature published in Schleswig-Holstein (‘deposit copies’)

• Contact: Anja Steinhauer
• Funding: Coordination Office for the Preservation of Written Cultural Heritage (KEK), State of Schleswig-Holstein
• Duration: since 2020
• Description: In a process spanning several years, the entire acidic book and magazine collection of the university library, which is collected and archived in accordance with the legal deposit law for printed publications from Schleswig-Holstein, is to be deacidified. The funds for this are provided by the Coordination Office for the Preservation of Written Cultural Heritage and the State of Schleswig-Holstein. In the long term, mass deacidification is intended to permanently secure the perservation status of these collections, which are of great importance to the state.