The Specialized Information Service (FID) Ancient Studies - Propylaeum is a collaborative project of the Bavarian State Library in Munich and Heidelberg University Library, with financial support from the German Research Foundation (DFG). Since 2016, the FID Ancient Studies has been providing researchers and students from all fields of ancient studies with a comprehensive range of services. The subject-specific and interdisciplinary services complement each other as part of our subject and acquisition profile:

• The temporal scope of the profile encompasses the period from the Paleolithic Age to the early modern era.
• The regional focus is on the Old World, with a particular emphasis on the Mediterranean region and Central Europe.

The FID Ancient Studies is part of a supra-regional and coordinated information infrastructure. Additional information, including details on specialized FIDs, can be accessed here.

The portal Propylaeum provides access to the integrated information infrastructure of the FID Ancient Studies - Propylaeum. All services are developed and made available for use in close alignment with the needs of the target groups. In its current project funding phase (2025-2027), the FID Ancient Studies is further expanding its research-supporting services in five fields of action:

• Needs-based inventory development and supraregional provision (purchase of printed literature, FID licences)
• Services for open access publications (Propylaeum e-publishing)
• Information infrastructure for Ancient Studies: portal and research (Propylaeum subject portal, PropylaeumSEARCH and Gnomon Bibliographic Database (GBD) search services)
• Data space for Ancient Studies: quality, connectivity & openness (bibliographic metadata, linked open data, authority data service, standardised interfaces)
• Communication and cooperation (subject communities and information infrastructures)