The Bayerische Staatsbibliothek has enlisted eleven renowned specialist journals on German regional history as cooperation partners right at the start, totalling in 830 reviews. Among them are the Rheinische Viertelahresblätter, the Neues Archiv für sächsische Geschichte and the Zeitschrift für Württembergische Landesgeschichte.

The goal of recensio.regio is to provide the community of experts on regional history with a central access point for reviews. The portal thus makes it possible to observe beyond one's own region which prevailing topics are being researched and discussed in other regions. In addition, recensio.regio also increases the visibility of German regional-historical research on an international level.

recensio.regio complements the successfully introduced platform recensio.net, whose focus is on European history. Since its launch in the year 2011, recensio.net has achieved to more than double the number of cooperating specialist journals, offering almost 31,000 reviews from 47 European history journals today. recensio.regio constitutes a service for the history of countries and regions with a sharpened profile that meets the specific requirements of this expert community. Further portals with different orientations of content are being planned.

The platform has been developed in the context of the Specialised Information Service for Historical Studies (Fachinformationsdienst Geschichtswissenschaft) domiciled at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and funded by the German Research Foundation. The Working Group Regional History of the German Historical Association (Verband der Historiker und Historikerinnen Deutschlands, VHD) is acting in an advisory capacity.

Dr. Klaus Ceynowa, Director General of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek: "The successful concept of recensio.net shows clearly that carefully devised digital services offer a substantial added value to the expert community. This is continued by recensio.regio on a regional level."

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Contact

Dr. Eva Kraus
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
Department Acquisition, Collection Development and Cataloguing 2
Center for Electronic Publishing
Phone  +49 89 28638-2189
eva.kraus@bsb-muenchen.de
Ludwigstr. 16
80539 Munich

Peter Schnitzlein
Press and Public Relations
Phone  +49 89 28638-2429
presse@bsb-muenchen.de

About the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek:
Founded in 1558 by Duke Albrecht V, the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek is an international research library of world renown. With more than 10.3 million volumes, around 59,000 current journals in electronic and printed form and almost 131,000 manuscripts, the library ranks among the world's most important centers of knowledge and heritage institutions. With more than 2 million digitized works, the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek holds the largest digital data stock of all German libraries. The library offers a broad range of services in the field of innovative digital use scenarios.