CROSSASIA KEY FIGURES

The project Specialised Information Service Asia (FID Asia) entered its fourth funding phase (2025–2027) in 2025. Through the CrossAsia portal, it aims to operate and continuously develop an information service that meets highest academic standards of Asia-related research in Germany. For this the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin receives financial support from the German Research Foundation (DFG). The East Asia Department regularly monitors the development and usage of its services. Key figures show a strong acceptance of the service within the academic community and also provide an insight into the project’s activities over recent years.

Licenses completed between January 2014 and Mai 2020, grouped according to product type and region covered. Product types include the following materials:

E-Book databases and packages,
Journal databases and packages,
Newspaper databases,
Text corpora, incl. archive materials, legal texts, theses, conference proceedings, etc.,
Dictionaries,
Other databases, incl. bibliographies, statistical data, multimedia content, and mixed content, etc.

Licenses completed earlier than 2014 and renewals of those resources are not included. Individual titles are counted for e-book and journal databases and packages as well as newspaper databases. Not included in the number of titles are e-books, journals and newspapers in mixed databases (to be found in the type “other databases”).

You can find a list of all licensed digital resources and databases on our website.

Licenses completed between January 2014 and May 2020, grouped according to the internal guidelines for licensing, by material types e-books, journals, newspapers, text corpora, and other databases (incl. dictionaries). The internal guidelines for licensing include: