Current activities

News

Aristoteles | © BSB/M. Müller

The international specialised bibliography on research on Aristotle offers over 50,000 relevant literature entries. It contains monographs, articles from journals and omnibus works, dissertations and reviews in European languages.

Read more
Mosaik: Kaiser Justinian und Bischof Maximian mit Gefolge, San Vitale (Ravenna) | Lizenz CC BY-SA 2.0, Carole Radato, Quelle: https://www.flickr.com/photos/carolemage/24076831650/

Constituting the single existing specialist bibliography for all disciplines of Byzantine studies, the Byzantine bibliography is an indispensable and unrivalled tool for all Byzantinists, historians, medievalists, theologians and Greek scholars. The data stock has now been made accessible online as well for the first time.

Read more
© vege – fotolia.com

Since the beginning of July 2017, users can suggest book acquisitions for the areas of collection emphasis of classical studies, historical studies, musicology and Russian, east and south-east European studies. We appreciate receiving your requests and indications regarding gaps in our collections, web contents of scholarly relevance and research trends and will check whether we can incorporate them in our spectrum of media and services.

Read more
© Yewno

The Bayerische Staatsbibliothek is testing the discovery service Yewno as an additional topical search engine for digital full texts. The software works on the basis of artificial intelligence and machine learning. The Bayerische Staatsbibliothek is the first European institution to make this new search technology available to its users within the framework of a three-month pilot phase. Users can send their feedback to the project team by means of a response form. The service is available at: https://www.bsb-muenchen.de/en/search-and-service/searching-and-finding/yewno/

Read more

Propylaeum blog

In the weblog of Propylaeum, the website of the specialised information service for classical studies operated by the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and the University Library of Heidelberg, information is available about current activities of Propylaeum and inspiring classical-studies projects worldwide.

https://www.propylaeum.de/blog/

my.propylaeum

The SDI service my.propylaeum includes several services, providing you with the option of accessing classical-studies contents individually and in a manner that is custom-tailored to your interests and main fields of research. For example, you can receive information about the current new acquisitions of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich and the University Library of Heidelberg matching your research topics, about newly digitized historical research literature or new open-access publications on the publication platforms of Propylaeum. The services of my.propylaeum are expanded continuously.

my.propylaeum

Events

Propylaeum.de also offers a calendar of events for the field of classical studies.

https://www.propylaeum.de/veranstaltungskalender/

Projects and cooperations

Specialised Information Service for Classical Studies – Propylaeum

Within the framework of the DFG programme "Fachinformationsdienste für die Wissenschaft" ("specialised information services for scholarship and science"), the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek has been developing its existing services into a joint specialised information service for classical studies in cooperation with the University Library of Heidelberg. The Bayerische Staatsbibliothek continues to be in charge of the subject areas of Byzantine studies, ancient history, classical philology, medieval and new Latin philology and prehistory and early history.

In tune with the academic field, the following areas will form particular focal points during the project term:

  • Provision of information resources
  • Enhancement of the subject-specific information infrastructure of Propylaeum/ PropylaeumSEARCH
  • Electronic publishing in open access – Propylaeum e-publishing
  • Sustainability for excellent specialist information
  • Linked Open Data – "Digital Classics"
  • Scholarly communication, public relations activities, marketing

For further information please visit the website of the project.

https://www.propylaeum.de

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and Munich graduate school Distant Worlds intensify cooperation

On 23 August 2016, the graduate school Distant Worlds of the Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich and the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek signed a cooperation agreement which will intensify their cooperation in the field of classical studies. The graduate school Distant Worlds has been supported by funds from the excellence initiative of the German Research Foundation (DFG) since 2012 and innovatively supports the research of young scholars. Through the cooperation agreement, they will, among other things, gain comprehensive access to the great variety of services offered by the specialised information service "classical studies" operated by the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek together with the University Library of Heidelberg.

Top
https://www.bsb-muenchen.de/en/collections/antiquity/current-activities/?tx_news_pi1%5B%40widget_0%5D%5BcurrentPage%5D=2&cHash=53d5b52434fdc2e8df6b29061dfabdca
www.bsb-muenchen.de
crawl=CC-MAIN-2019-47
57478
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:EMGGBB5I5SZD4ZUGT3EJE6K3PQXXDYKT
<urn:uuid:3adbeb2c-9d61-4a36-9ded-f599e922f534>
2019-11-18T03:31:54Z
129.187.236.27
text/html
sha1:FK5CJT7HESQMBM3AQ2EQ6ZTCRST5BP4O
<urn:uuid:c0119971-956c-412c-a949-e7c0c3142c2e>
https://www.bsb-muenchen.de/en/collections/antiquity/current-activities/?tx_news_pi1%5B%40widget_0%5D%5BcurrentPage%5D=2&cHash=53d5b52434fdc2e8df6b29061dfabdca
response
<urn:uuid:a6970b60-9e3a-48f0-a80f-924526fd0ab2>
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-47
publisher: Common Crawl
description: Wide crawl of the web for November 2019
operator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)
hostname: ip-10-67-67-161.ec2.internal
software: Apache Nutch 1.16 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)
robots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)
format: WARC File Format 1.1
conformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/