Paper short abstract:

This presentation will give an overview of RelBib and the various services provided to support scholars of religion in research and publishing. We look forward to the exchange with you and your ideas on how we can expand our existing offers for the field of Digital Humanities.

Paper long abstract:

Not only do religions interact with technologies in complex ways, but the study of religion itself relies on and benefits from the use of technologies in research and teaching. The Specialised Information Service for the study of religion is offering various services via the platform RelBib to meet these needs.

In the steadily growing online bibliography of RelBib (https://www.relbib.de) not only subject-specific publications such as monographs, journal articles or chapters from collected works are indexed. More and more other material from diverse - both national and international - origin is added, such as archival records, research data, websites, weblogs, and podcasts. Furthermore, RelBib offers functionalities like filtering for Open Access content or full text search. These features may already prove useful for Digital Humanities projects in the study of religion. In this lecture, special focus is paid to recent activities of the Specialised Information Service for the study of religion, which involve incorporating material from subject-specific archives in RelBib and providing full texts via Open Access. Together with you as part of the international research community in the study of religion, we would like to discuss your needs for support in the field of Digital Humanities and invite your ideas on how to expand and improve our services in this direction.