Vifanord

vifanord (Virtual Library of Northern European and Baltic Studies) is a digital library or internet subject gateway that provides combined access to scientifically relevant information on the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden), the Baltic countries (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania), the Baltic region as a whole and on Hanseatic 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.

Financial funding was offered by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft).

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.