Vifanord

The vifanord (short for Virtual Library Northern Europe and the Baltic region ) is a virtual library, information and facts to literature and research results about the Nordic countries ( Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden), the Baltic countries (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) - and thus the entire North and Northeast Europe - brings together in one place.

The vifanord offers research opportunities via library catalogs, specialized databases and essay proof, which also includes scientifically relevant sources and documents from the Internet. There are particular sources from the fields of political science, sociology, linguistics and literary science, information and library science, history, human geography and ethnography researched or made ​​available.

This specialized portal is a joint development of three German university libraries with national special collections for this room:

• Greifswald University Library (the Baltic countries, Baltic Sea ),
• Kiel University Library (Scandinavia )
• Goettingen State and University Library (Finland & Estonian philology and folklore ).

On November 1, 2006, that is funded by the DFG project was begun with the construction. The offered since 2005 virtual library baltica -net to the culture of the Baltic countries has been vifanord integrated as part of the offer and expanded content. Since May 6, 2008, the service over the Internet is accessible.

Vifanord is a member of Vascoda.