Funding organisation: DFG Funding level: Personnel and physical resources Running time: 2007 – 2009   Project description: The Journal of the German Orientalist Society (ZDMG) is the most tradition-steeped, ongoing publication in the field of German Oriental Studies. Since its start of publication in 1847, the articles published have examined the languages and cultures of the regions of Europe, Asia and Africa subsumed under the term “Orient” from various perspectives.   Three other journals ,published by the DMG in the past, further complement the contents of the ZDMG, all especially focusing on individual orientalist disciplines.   In the course of the project, 132,000 digital images of approx. 150 volumes of these journals (published up to 2006) were created. Following this, the text elements written in Latin letters were indexed via OCR for providing a full-text search. Additionally, all these digitised journal contents were made available in the MENAdoc repository, a segment of the Digital Library of the ULB Halle based on the DMS Visual Library. Access to the digitised journals thus is possible without restriction.   The project was realised within the framework of the Virtual Library of the Middle East MENALIB. The resulting metadata was made available for transfer to other portals such as DigiZeitschriften, SAVIFA and ZVDD.   Supplementary information and publications:   Access to the digitised journals is possible via the homepage of the full-text repository MENAdoc http://menadoc.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/.