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On time for the end of the 100-year anniversary of the First World War and the November Revolution, the adding of the old subject headings from the time between 1914 and 1981 in the homonymous special catalogue of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek could be concluded.

On 29 July 2019, the starting signal was given for an extended test phase of the project DeepGreen, in which the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek is a participant. The objective of DeepGreen is to distribute publications by publishing houses to authorized repositories automatically and to thus facilitate secondary open-access publication in Germany.

The Specialised Information Service for Russian, East and Southeast European Studies has acquired a license for the database "Ukrainian Publications", granting users free-of-charge access to over 40 newspapers and journals from Ukraine.

In the presence of Bernd Sibler, the Bavarian State Minister of Sciences, Research and the Arts, the analogue photographic archive of the magazine STERN is presented for the first time today at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (BSB), with a number of former STERN photographers taking part as well. Moreover, a small selection of photographs is shown. The Hamburg publishing house Gruner + Jahr donated the analogue photographic archive of the magazine STERN, which comprises 15 million photographs, to the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek at the start of 2019, in order to ensure the long-term existence of the archive and to make it accessible to the public and research.

For registered users, the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek provides free-of-charge access for one year to over 150,000 scholarly e-books of the provider ProQuest, comprising contents covering all academic disciplines.

The Bayerische Staatsbibliothek has acquired a license for a comprehensive reference work on the history of early Christianity. The encyclopaedia offers extensive articles on texts, authors and ideas. The content is intended to bridge the gap between studies of the New Testament and patrology, covering the entire time of early Christianity up to 600 AD.

The Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and the University Library of Tübingen provide Germany-wide access to a special database on Gregory of Nyssa with full texts of the church father in the Greek language as well as a lexicon of authors within the scope of the Specialised Information Service for Classical Studies – Propylaeum and Theology managed by the two institutions and with the support of the German Research Foundation.