vifanord (Virtual Library of Northern European and Baltic Studies) is a

digital library A digital library, also called an online library, an internet library, a digital repository, or a digital collection is an online database of digital objects that can include text, still images, audio, video, digital documents, or other digital me ...

or internet subject gateway that provides combined access to scientifically relevant information on the

Nordic countries The Nordic countries (also known as the Nordics or ''Norden''; literal translation, lit. 'the North') are a geographical and cultural region in Northern Europe and the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic. It includes the sovereign states of Denmar ...

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Denmark ) , song = ( en, "King Christian stood by the lofty mast") , song_type = National and royal anthem , image_map = EU-Denmark.svg , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = Danish Realm, Kingdom of Denmark ...

Finland Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of B ...

Iceland Iceland ( is, Ísland; ) is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic Ocean and in the Arctic Ocean. Iceland is the most sparsely populated country in Europe. Iceland's capital and largest city is Reykjavík, which (along with its s ...

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...

Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on ...

), the

Baltic countries The Baltic states, et, Balti riigid or the Baltic countries is a geopolitical term, which currently is used to group three countries: Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. All three countries are members of NATO, the European Union, the Eurozone, ...

(

Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...

Latvia Latvia ( or ; lv, Latvija ; ltg, Latveja; liv, Leţmō), officially the Republic of Latvia ( lv, Latvijas Republika, links=no, ltg, Latvejas Republika, links=no, liv, Leţmō Vabāmō, links=no), is a country in the Baltic region of ...

Lithuania Lithuania (; lt, Lietuva ), officially the Republic of Lithuania ( lt, Lietuvos Respublika, links=no ), is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea. Lithuania ...

), the

Baltic region The terms Baltic Sea Region, Baltic Rim countries (or simply the Baltic Rim), and the Baltic Sea countries/states refer to slightly different combinations of countries in the general area surrounding the Baltic Sea, mainly in Northern Europe. ...

as a whole and on

Hanseatic The Hanseatic League (; gml, Hanse, , ; german: label=German language, Modern German, Deutsche Hanse) was a Middle Ages, medieval commercial and defensive confederation of merchant guilds and market towns in Central Europe, Central and Norther ...

topics. It offers free and simultaneous browsing in Internet resources collections, in specialized German and international library catalogues and articles databases and leads as well to electronic journals, to congresses and to related academic events. Resources apply from the fields of political science, history, sociology, literature and linguistics, geography and folklore. ''vifanord'' was developed as a scientific gateway from a joint project of three German university libraries in the duty of special interest collections on this cultural area (

Greifswald University Library Greifswald University Library (german: link=no, Universitätsbibliothek Greifswald) is the official library of the University of Greifswald, situated in Greifswald, Germany. Its earliest days go back to the founding of the university in the year 1 ...

Kiel University Library Kiel () is the capital and most populous city in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein, with a population of 246,243 (2021). Kiel lies approximately north of Hamburg. Due to its geographic location in the southeast of the Jutland pe ...

and

Göttingen State and University Library The Göttingen State and University Library (german: Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen or SUB Göttingen) is the library for Göttingen University as well as for the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and is the state li ...

). Financial funding was offered by the

German Research Foundation The German Research Foundation (german: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft ; DFG ) is a German research funding organization, which functions as a self-governing institution for the promotion of science and research in the Federal Republic of Germ ...

(Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft). The project has been under progress since November 2006 and the virtual library went online in May 2008. Before that, in 2005, Greifswald University Library had already launched a digital library “baltica-net”, only dealing with the cultural topics of the Baltic states, having now become an integral part of ''vifanord''. ''vifanord'' is partner of

vascoda vascoda was, until 2011, a German web portal which offered access to scientific information in various disciplines. The name ''vascoda'' is often associated with the medieval explorer ''Vasco da'' Gama, as this implies the connotation of navigatin ...

References

*Hoffmann, Tim. 2007. "Die Virtuelle Fachbibliothek ''vifanord'' – Literaturrecherche mit innovativer geographischer Suche". ''Europa regional : Zeitschrift des Leibniz-Instituts für Länderkunde e.V.,'' 4:227-228. *Sindt, Ruth, and Friedrichsen, Eiken. 2007. "Virtuelle Fachbibliothek Nordeuropa und Ostseeraum, Teilbereich Nordische Länder, und das Sondersammelgebiet Skandinavien". ''Skandinavistik : Zeitschrift für Sprache, Literatur und Kultur der nordischen Länder,'' 37/1:50-53. *Sindt, Ruth, and Friedrichsen, Eiken. 2008. "Virtuelle Fachbibliothek Nordeuropa und Ostseeraum". ''Norrøna : Zeitschrift für Kultur, Geschichte und Politik der skandinavischen Länder,'' 42:6-10.

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Greifswald University Library
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