The Slavistik-Portal
The Slavistik-Portal is the central research platform of the Specialised Information Service for Slavic Studies (FID Slawistik) at the Berlin State Library. It brings together scholarly literature, specialised databases, journals, digital sources and research tools for the study of Slavic languages, literatures and cultures.
Since 2016, the portal has been continuously developed with funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG) and in close dialogue with the academic community. It connects the collections of the Berlin State Library with national and international data sources, licensed resources and open-access services.
Search across many sources
The central search provides simultaneous access to more than 70 data sources with approximately 6.5 million records. It covers monographs, edited volumes, journal articles, conference proceedings, dictionaries, bibliographies, digital sources and other scholarly materials.
Specialised search methods support different alphabets and spelling variants, particularly Cyrillic and historical forms.
Bibliographies and databases
The Slavic Bibliographies data pool comprises 16 retro-converted and curated bibliographies with around 875,000 records. It documents German-language Slavic studies since 1876 and includes publications from the International Congresses of Slavists, translations into German and continuously indexed journal content.
The SLAW-DE translation database adds more than 26,000 translations and information on over 7,000 translators.
Journals and new acquisitions
The journal services provide coordinated access to electronic and printed titles, holdings information and article content. OLC Slavistics indexes more than 500 relevant journals and contains approximately 390,000 article records.
New acquisition services provide up-to-date information on recently acquired monographs and newly indexed journal articles.
Open Access and publishing
SlavDok is an open-access publication and archiving platform for research in Slavic studies. Researchers can submit their publications and make them permanently available. The SlavDok team advises on copyright, secondary publication and the deposit process.
Publications from publishing partnerships and retro-digitisation projects are also made available and indexed in the Slavistik-Portal search.
Dictionaries, corpora and tools
MultiSlavDict connects twelve dictionaries containing around twelve million word forms and 450,000 lexicographical entries in ten languages. Church Slavonic collections and corpora make historical printed works, OCR data and linguistically annotated texts available for research.
SP-LAB offers tools for transliteration, Unicode normalisation, language identification and morphological analysis. BibVPar allows users to search and compare 38,403 biblical verses in seven languages and eight text corpora.
Research support
The FID Slawistik supports researchers beyond literature searching: through specialised licences, acquisition requests, digitisation on demand, workshops and individual consultation on research, publishing and digital resources.
Scholarly exchange is strengthened through cooperation with the academic community, professional networks and administrative support for the Slavlist mailing list.
From the subject collection to a digital research platform
The Slavistik-Portal grew out of the Virtual Library of Slavic Studies, established in 2005. Its specialist foundation was the Slavic Languages and Literatures subject collection maintained by the Berlin State Library from 1998 to 2015.
Since 2016, the portal has been a central component of the FID Slawistik. Historically developed data collections are combined with current search technologies, standardised interfaces, open-access services and new digital research tools.