menalib.de

MENAlib is the web portal of the Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Nahost-, Nordafrika- und Islamstudien, a subject information service that supplies German academic research with specialised materials from the MENA region. It acquires hard-to-access publications, mostly in regional languages, through interlibrary loan for print items and as open access or licensed digital offers. MENAsearch is its discovery system for literature searches.

Its users are researchers in Middle Eastern, North African and Islamic studies in Germany. The service provides access to licensed electronic products such as databases, e-books and e-journals across Germany. It also creates philologically specialised authority records for the GND and acts as a contact point for Near and Middle East libraries in the D-A-CH region. It is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and operated by the Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt.

The FID has been funded by the DFG since 2016. Its subject coverage includes religious studies, history, political and social sciences, and linguistics and literature, with a regional focus on the Middle East, North Africa, and parts of Central Asia and the Caucasus. Its branch library for the Near East is located in Halle.

Product: MENAsearch discovery system, interlibrary loan of print materials, and licensed digital resources for Middle East and Islamic studies research.