AMAD - Archivum Medii Aevi Digitale. Repository and science blog for Medieval Studies

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After 10 years of elaborate funding, Open Access is still a challenge for the humanities' predominantly conservative publishing culture. Various natural sciences heavily rely on arXiv.org as a well-accepted service; for the humanities, however, an archive that even begins to compare with arXiv.org does not exist. Medieval research in particular is short of a professional and interdisciplinary publishing service with contents that are both permanently available and effectively disseminated, thus generating a high impact of modern medieval scholarship. The project AMAD aims to set up an interdisciplinary open access-repository for the publication of medieval studies. Together with the "Medieval Studies Blog" (mittelalter.hypotheses.org) and the renowned research institution of the Regesta Imperii (RI) the repository functions as a publishing service with an academic editorial board, subject indexing, various marketing instruments and a well-connected, searchable archive; it will bei embedded into the Hessian library services system (HeBIS).