Research Resources – List

The library of Roman, Medieval and Modern Law At the includes mainly volumes and periodicals of Romanesque area, coming not only from the Legal Institutes but also from the continuous purchases made by the Department over the years, as well as precious legacies and gifts (as in the case of the Arangio-Ruiz, Amirante, Mazzacane, Solazzi funds). It also includes works of History of Medieval and Modern Law, as well as a valuable and substantial collection of precious ancient volumes.

The library of constitutional law of the Department of Jurisprudence of the University of Naples Federico II houses volumes on the discipline of constitutional law, public law and comparative public law. You can find older volumes and treatises and more recent books. There are also scientific journal and review concerning constitutional and public law.

The Study Centre on Reason of State and Democracy (www.ragionidistato.it) is endowed with its own library consisting of a specialised collection on the themes of Reason of State, Tacitism, Machiavellianism in the early modern age, and a selected fund dedicated to democratic political theory.

The ARS RoSA (Archivio della Ragion di Stato / Reason of State Archive) fund consists of more than 2000 volumes that are currently being catalogued and reordered, as well as an important collection of documentary and digital material expressly dedicated to the multiple historical and theoretical declinations of the theme of ‘ratio status’.

The Essen College of Gender Research (EKfG) at the University of Duisburg-Essen studies gender relations and analyses differences and similarities from an intersectional perspective. It considers biological features and their medical consequences, everyday reality, opportunities for social participation, and access to material and immaterial resources. Norms, values and rights are likewise included in the analysis in order to arrive at concrete findings for social practice.

Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research is a central research institute of the University Duisburg-Essen. Our research is focused on four broad themes that we explore in two subsequent periods. During the period 2021–2024, we will focus on legitimation and delegitimation in global cooperation and global cooperation and diverse conceptions of world order. During the period 2018–2021, we focused on pathways and mechanisms of global cooperation and global cooperation and polycentric governance.

CBS Library is university library for Copenhagen Business School and is open to the public. The primary task of CBS Library is to make information, knowledge and services available in a structured and manageable way. The library is an integral part of CBS and attend to tasks regarding information, learning and dissemination for CBS’ students, researchers and lecturers. In addition to this, the library is a public library and make information, services and study facilities available to others than CBS.

Philosophical research carried out in the department can be split up according to the three traditional domains: historical, theoretical, practical. The department houses specialists in freedom and responsibility, integrity, the epistemic role of universities, Enlightened thinking and German Idealism, market ethics, the philosophy of psychiatry, the nature of scientific explanations, epistemology of mathematics, and the history of ancient and medieval metaphysics and scientific philosophy.

The History education and research is distinguishing itself with an approach in which European history is not the obvious starting point, and which includes long-term perspectives. The department’s research is organised primarily in the VU’s Interfaculty Research Institute for Culture, Cognition, History and Heritage, CLUE+. Professors, academic staff and PhD students pursue interdisciplinary collaboration, embedded in the research programmes of the various chairs.

Research groups of Language, Literature and Communication have multiple focuses. One of them is developing new perspectives for adults and children with hearing difficulties. Another group looks at how people communicate issues of science and technology in their everyday lives, using Discursive Psychology and Conversation Analysis. There is also an investigation on language use and cognition from the perspective of multimodal communication.

CLUE+ brings together researchers from a wide variety of academic disciplines, to work on joint projects, reflect upon societal challenges and formulate strategies for addressing those challenges. Following the general VU profile themes, the focus is on challenges in the realm of connectedness, sustainability and governance. CLUE+ aims to provide an inspiring research climate for talented young academics as well as for senior and top researchers.

The Eep Talstra Centre for Bible and Computer (ETCBC) develops and maintains an advanced syntactic database of the Hebrew Bible. The methodology of the ETCBC prioritises syntactic analysis over semantic, literary, or rhetorical analysis. Formal indicators, rather than functional, comprise the framework of the database. Linguistic information is encoded hierarchically at the word, phrase, clause, and text levels.

The center deals with systematic and comparatively focused research on urban issues. The activity of the Center for Urban History (CUH) is mainly focused on the study of urban life in the territory of Central and Central Eastern Europe. Urban society in general represents an ideal subject for analytical research into culture and societal transformations over time, urban issues must be seen as an interdisciplinary research field. CUH is thus not a historical workplace in the traditional sense, but a workplace using the methods and approaches of history, sociology, statistics, demography, cultural anthropology, etc. Research within the Center of Urban History is closely connected with the pedagogical activities of its members and external collaborators, who present the results of their research at lectures and regular seminar classes.

Laboratory of Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) at DiSTAR is equipped with a SEM Jeol JSM5310 and a FESEM ZEISS Merlin VP. They both allow the investigation of the microstructure and morphology of raw inorganic and suitably prepared organic materials, through the acquisition of high resolution magnified digital images.
SEM Jeol JSM5310, in the lab since 1998, provides both 3D images through a secondary electron detector (SE) and topographic and compositional images through a backscattered electron detector (BSE). It is also equipped with an EDS X-Stream Inca Oxford detector that supplies qualitative evaluation of chemical elements starting from fluorine. A well performing reference standardization allows single point analyses of polished samples (resin embedded or thin sections).
The FESEM ZEISS Merlin VP SEM, available in the lab since 2017, works both in high vacuum and in variable pressure and reaches 1 million magnification. The very large vacuum chamber of Gemini 2 apparatus hosts samples up to 15 cm diameter. This SEM is equipped with an “”inlens”” detector of both secondary and backscattered electrons, a normal secondary electron detector and a variable pressure secondary electron detector. It is linked to an EDS Oxford X-Max detector and to a WDS Wave Oxford spectrometer equipped with 4 analytical crystals. The combined use of EDS and WDS analytical facilities allows the quantitative analysis of chemical elements starting from Boron. A dedicated software provides us with compositional maps for the automated evaluation of the mineralogical composition in an unknown sample. The FESEM facility allows non-destructive and non-invasive analyses of large samples, which makes this apparatus the most powerful tool for SEM investigation in cultural heritage and forensic geology fields. The laboratory is officially accredited for SEM analysis of asbestos, on both massive samples and airborne fibers.

The Center Interdisciplinary Gender Studies Innsbruck (CGI) and the affiliated research platform researches, theorizes and deconstructs gender and gender relations in a trans- and interdisciplinary perspective. The CGI and the Research Platform deepen the cooperation of scientists and lecturers in the field of Women´s*, Gender, Feminist and Queer Studies regionally, nationally and transnationally. In addition, they seeks to enhance the links to international research, strengthen Women´s*, Gender, Feminist and Queer Studies through cooperations with non-university actors and organisations and to disseminate research findings to the public, politics and society in order to contribute to the reduction of intersectional inequalities.

EPoS „Economy, Politics & Society“ is an interdisciplinary research area in which economic, organizational, political and social structures, contexts and developments are studied. The scientific diversity of this interdisciplinary research focus facilitates mutual information about new findings across disciplinary and organizational boundaries and inspires the development of new research ideas and collaborations. The disciplines represented in the research area EPoS from the fields of business administration, educational science, media science, work and organizational psychology, philosophy, political science, sociology, statistics and economics deal with the following theoretical, methodological and content-related focal points based on a broad spectrum of competences: We research frameworks, structures and processes, behavior and decisions and their consequences for institutions, markets, companies, organizations, groups, communities and individuals in different cultural, digital and temporal-spatial contexts; We develop new methodological procedures for data collection and data analysis and work with theory-based empirical and experimental approaches as well as mathematical formal modelling; We deal with questions of philosophy of science, reflexivity in the theory of science, scientific practices, relational theory and methodology. This way, we provide relevant information for decision-makers in politics, business and society on how to deal with current and future challenges. The researchers of EPoS “Economy, Politics & Society” strive for high quality research and relevance through interdisciplinary and international cooperation; all scientific questions are examined from multiple perspectives. High-ranking publications, the quality of the submissions of competitive research proposals as well as in the promotion of young researchers in the established doctoral programs reflect our efforts.

“The Research Area Scientific Computing integrates all scientific activity at the University of Innsbruck in information technology (IT) and computer-aided research. High-end computing facilities allow the simulation and optimization of complex processes, as well as the organization, analysis and presentation of big data to solve increasingly complex compute- and data-intensive problems in many different fields such as science, engineering and life-science.

Aims of the Research Area SC are to use the inherent synergies between various research areas and different fields by cooperating within the university, as well as between different universities and other institutions in Austria and all over the world. Thus fruitful interdisciplinary research is fostered by exchanging knowledge and information, by sharing resources, by coordinating funding for keeping and developing the necessary infrastructure, as well as by enhancing science oriented teaching.”

The Research Area “Cultural Encounters – Cultural Conflicts” is an association of disciplines from the humanities and the social sciences that investigates diverse forms of cultural contact. We understand ‘culture’ as a dynamic system concerned with the creation of meaning. These dynamics are analyzed as places of both creativity and the continuous emergence of new formations, but also of conflict-laden relations that may culminate in violence and warfare. Mobility, migration, and transfer – thus our working hypothesis – not only constitute the crucial challenges of our times, but are experiences fundamental to all epochs. These processes affect the evolution of groups, societies, religions, and behavior patterns, the creation of art and literary works, as well as practices of everyday life. As cultural phenomena, they are historically contingent and thus complex and potentially modifiable. They reflect current power structures and social inequalities; at the same time, they are intrinsically tied to the search for orientation and order.

Digital procedures, methods, and media are transforming all aspects of our society including science, economy, and social relations, a process known as digitalization. Growing capacities of data processing and progress in analytical methods and artificial intelligence are motivating entire branches of science to raise new questions and to develop new approaches. This transformation requires progressive, interdisciplinary synergies between computer science and related scientific disciplines such as mathematics and statistics on the one hand, and virtually all other scientific disciplines on the other Hand. The objective of the Digital Science Center at the University of Innsbruck integrates and promotes digitalization of scientific research, spearheading new research directions and supporting high-quality science. To this end, it employs staff researchers from diverse scientific disciplines with high competence in digital science. It forges new interdisciplinary research synergies and offers courses to promote competence in digital science in all scientific disciplines.

The research area benefits from a broad field of expertise with a special focus on mountain areas. Based on the idea of a multi-faculty University, we have experts from 8 research centers working in natural and technical sciences, in social, economic as well as in cultural, sport and health sciences. Thanks to the different disciplines involved, our research focus is able to address topics relevant to mountain areas from various perspectives. This is becoming more and more important, as mountain regions are considered especially vulnerable to increasing climate change impacts and globalization. We react to these issues by merging results from all embedded disciplines and extending the output in interdisciplinary research frameworks. Beyond fundamental research, the interdisciplinary strategy should help to contribute to smart solutions for sustainable development in mountain areas, and to pursue outreach activities in mountain communities.

Research and data management software for open science. OSF is a free, open platform to support your research and enable collaboration. OSF Institutions enhances transparency and increases the visibility of research outputs, accelerating discovery and reuse. Institutional members focus on generating and sharing research, and let OSF Institutions handle the infrastructure.

READ-COOP SCE with limited liability was established as a European Cooperative Society to sustain and further develop the Transkribus platform. Transkribus is a comprehensive platform for handwritten text recognition used by thousands of scholars, archivists, librarians and family-historians worldwide. Transkribus was developed within the Horizon 2020 project READ (Recognition and Enrichment of Archival Documents) by a consortium of leading research groups from all over Europe, headed by the University of Innsbruck.

The CCCA is a contact point for researchers, politicians, the media, and the public for all questions concerning climate research in Austria. Thus, the CCCA promotes a sustainable climate dialog. The term “climate research” encompasses the scientific examination of climate change, its physical, political, economic, cultural and social causes, the consequences of climate change for society, the economy and the environment, climate mitigation and adaptation strategies and identification of vulnerabilities and capacities.

The ASEAN European Academic University Network (ASEA-UNINET) is a network of universities, consisting of European and South-East Asian universities with the goal of promoting the continuous internationalization of education and research. Every year more than 100 bilateral and multilateral research projects are conducted. Furthermore, PhD and Post-Doc scholarships are granted to students and researchers. In addition, international workshops, conferences, summer/winter schools as well as networking events are organized on a regular basis.

The UniNEtZ partner institutions take on so-called (co-)sponsorships for the SDGs. A sponsorship means that the institution coordinates and compiles all knowledge and activities throughout Austria on the respective SDG. Participation describes the content-related collaboration on a specific SDG. Through these intensive collaborations and professional engagement with the SDGs, all contributions are collected, critically examined and coordinated with each other in order to work on the development of an options paper in the period 2019-2021. This is intended to support the Austrian government in implementing the Sustainable Development Goals.

The Austrian-African Research Network Africa-UniNet was initiated to create a long-term, stable basis for cooperation between Austrian and African universities and research institutions. It intends to promote new contacts, deepen scientific cooperation and provide excellent opportunities for innovative joint research projects.

DANS is the Dutch national centre of expertise and repository for research data. We help researchers make their data available for reuse. This allows researchers to use the data for new research and makes published research verifiable and reproducible. With more than 180,000 datasets and a staff of 60, DANS is one of the leading repositories in Europe.

The Imagebase presents highlights from the University Library of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. It contains high quality images and detailed descriptions of various collections, a valuable source for both national and international research. What may you find in the Imagebase? On offer are: clay tablets and other objects from the Near and Middle East, engraved portraits of protestant leaders (ca. 1500), historical maps (before 1900), and many other resources. The images are of high quality with detailed descriptions which make them suitable for national and international researchers.

The special and historical collections comprise 26 separate collections (see overview, soon available in English: https://vu.nl/nl/over-de-vu/meer-over/zwaartepunten).
Focal points include Reformation prints, English prints, pamphlets and portraits.

Digital Humanities: because of their size, some sub-collections can be interesting for computational methods of research. We have made an overview of potentially interesting collections for digital humanities.

CLARIN-IS is part of CLARIN ERIC. The main goal of CLARIN ERIC is that all digital language resources and tools from all over Europe and beyond are accessible through a single sign-on online environment to support researchers in the humanities and social sciences, and for use within language technology. The repository of CLARIN-IS (repository.clarin.is) contains a lot of resources – tools for language processing, corpora, lexica and language descriptions of various kinds. All the products of the Language Technology Programme for Icelandic (2019–2023) were uploaded to the repository as well as the resources that used to be on www.malfong.is. The repository has a powerful search engine but in order to provide a simple overview, most of the data are shown here.

The Centre for Digital Humanities and Arts (CDHA) is a platform for construction, hosting, consultation about development and access to digital databanks in the humanities and arts, and for research based on digital databanks. The databanks cover both language resources, i.e. texts and languages, and resources in other formats, such as images, videos, 3D models, sounds and visual arts in digital formats. CDHA will coordinate international collaboration in digital research infrastructure in humanities and arts, and work in the spirit of providing open access to research data.

Since its existence, the Brenner Archive Research Institute has endeavored to expand its collections in order to create or expand the basis for research projects. Normally, this is done through donations, but if it is not possible otherwise, also through purchases.

The Scientific and Technical Resources Service (SRCiT) provides technical support to the research, development and transfer activity that takes place at the URV and also to the companies and institutions.

This is a state-of-the-art project that makes analysis protocols available to the scientific community and professionals using the most advanced infrastructures in the field of mass spectrometry. These are three state-of-the-art high-resolution mass spectrometers, which allow the detection, confirmation of organic compounds and the analysis of unknowns in different types of samples. Fields of application range from metabolomics to the environment and industry. The three technologies that the HRMS CATSUD-URV Platform incorporates are: GC-HRMS (Exactive GC is a high-resolution system consisting of a mass spectrometer and a gas chromatograph); UHPLC-HRMS (Orbitrap ID-X Mass Spectrometer ™ Tribrid ™ is an integrated mass spectrometer consisting of the combination of three mass analyzers (quadrupole, a double cell ion trap and the Orbitrap) with dual fragmentation techniques (CID and HCD), coupled to the Vanquish high-resolution liquid chromatograph Flex UHPLC, for very sensitive and ultra-high resolution MSn analysis); MALDI-HRMS (Exploris 120 Mass Spectrometer from Thermo Scientific with a Spectroglyph MALDI source, combines a high-resolution mass analyzer for accurate mass detection, coupled to a matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization source (MALDI))

This is an innovative project that aims to provide the scientific community and professionals with advanced infrastructures for work and analysis at the nanometer or lower scale. The Platform uses two high-resolution electron microscopy equipment that are integrated into the Microscopy and Nanometric Techniques Area. The two technologies that make up the CATSUD-URV Nanotechnology Platform are: High-resolution scanning electron microscope (FESEM-FIB) and FETEM – Transmission Electron Microscope of atomic resolution.

Equipment of the archaeology laboratory for cleaning finds, restoration of ceramics, preservation of metals and glass, records of finds, drawing and photographic documentation of finds.

Share Journals is the platform for the management and publication of open access scientific journals on behalf of the SHARE Interuniversity Consortium. Share Journals has been created by the University of Naples “Federico II “- Centre for Libraries. Since 2015 hosts the research publications of the Universities participating in the SHARE alliance, which involves the collaboration of 11 Universities of Southern Italy. Research publications are submitted to a double – blind peer – review process and are published in Italian and in English.

The IT platform is employed to publish and disseminate e-book series in Open Access. Share Books has been created by the University of Naples “Federico II “- Centre for Libraries. Since 2015 hosts the research publications of the Universities participating in the SHARE alliance, which involves the collaboration of 11 Universities of Southern Italy. Research publications are submitted to a double – blind peer – review process and are published in Italian and in English. The University of Naples Federico II owns a digital publishing brand, FedOA Press.