The library of the Institute for Southeast European Studies is one of the largest libraries specialising in southeastern European research. It cooperates with the libraries of the Institute for East European Studies, the Institute for East European Law and the Hungarian Institute within the library of the Research Centre for Eastern and South Eastern Europe. From the more than 120 000 bibliographical items in the SOI library, nearly all of them are listed in the Regensburger Katalog (Regensburg Catalogue). The library has developed great activities in digitizing their stocks. So more than 30 travelogues from the 17th to 19th century were digitized and made accessible on Europeana travel. The project "German periodicals from Central and Eastern Europe. The virtual merger of dispersed stocks" aims at providing scholars with selected German periodicals of the 19th and early 20th century, accessible on the Digital Forum on Central and Eastern Europe.
The deep subject cataloguing includes also research articles on international relations and area studies, searchable on the IREON gateway.
Since its move to Regensburg in 2007, the library has cooperated with its partners within the Research Centre for Eastern and South Eastern Europe as well as with Regensburg University Library under the auspices of the Regensburg Library Assocation (Regensburg Bibliotheksverbund: RBV). Together, the Institute and the Regensburg University Library are also responsible for the Slovenian Reading Room, which is partly funded by the Republic of Slovenia.
Selected details of the collection (special collections, etc) are available on the homepage of the Research Centre for Eastern and South East Europe. Of particular interest is the great number of German-wide unique copies (titles which are only listed in the library of the SOI) which constitute up to a quarter of the collection. The collection of journals from southeast Europe, some of them very rare even internationally, is unusually large. The great number of unique copies includes the extensive written exchanges which the Institute for Southeast European Studies maintains with around 200 exchange partners in the region and throughout the world.

Opening hours:
Monday - Thursday          9.00 - 17.30
Friday                             9.00 - 16.00

Contact:
Tel. +49 (0) 941 94354-82
Fax +49 (0) 941 94354-85
bibliothek[at]suedost-institut.de