The DFG-funded Fachinformationsdienst für Materialwissenschaft und Werkstofftechnik (Specialised Information Service for Materials Science), or FID Materials Science for short, is aimed primarily at researchers and institutions in the fields of materials science and materials engineering. The aim of the project is to provide rapid and effective information and networking to support research and initiate cooperations. For this purpose a couple of services are provided: FID Portal, Material Hub, Connection to TIB’s catalog, Materials Guide and Materials Map.

• The portal of FID Materials Science (materials-science.info) gives an overview of the tools and services to find specialised information.
• Material Hub is a data base for finding characteristic materials properties and it combines material information from industry and research and thus enables intuitive and efficient research. It was developed at the SLUB in the ERDF-funded project of the same name and will be further developed in the FID.
• Materials Guide lists external specialist information databases in materials science. This way, required materials properties or further material class-related information can be found even if they are not yet available in the Material Hub.
• Using Materials Map it is easy to find experts in the interdisciplinary field of materials science. Based on publicly available information, the Materials Map provides an overview of the research community, its actors and their expertise and publications.
• The connection to the TIB’s catalog holdings enables access to scientific information and thus supports further research. Scientific publications and textbooks as well as audiovisual media, research data, patents and standards can be searched via the TIB portal.

The FID Materials Science is jointly operated and further developed by the Saxon State and University Library Dresden (SLUB) and the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB).