The Institute for Ethnic Studies houses a specialised Information and Documentation Centre (INDOC) which serves as the central hub for collecting materials on ethnic and minority studies in Slovenia. Its collection includes approximately 22,000 items of literature. In addition to its comprehensive book collection, INDOC also provides users with a cartographic collection and an archive of major Slovene daily and weekly newspapers, as well as various Slovene publications from neighbouring countries.
Within its current capacities, the Institute applies the principles of open science in the publication and digitisation of archival materials, and to a lesser extent, in the management of research data. The digitisation of rare and valuable materials began during the international MINDOC project (2011–2013), through which over 200,000 pages of newspapers and other periodicals were digitised. More than 70,000 individual articles were extracted, processed with OCR (optical character recognition), and bibliographically catalogued. From these, 2,000 key articles were selected and supplemented with abstracts in Slovene and German. Digitisation efforts continued even after the project’s completion, focusing on archival maps, the personal archive of university professor Dr. Karl Stuhlpfarrer, and the archive of Dr. Ing. Peter Merkù. All digitised materials are provided with metadata and available in a digital repository, accessible to the wider public via the indok.si website since December 2021. Digitisation is currently underway for older materials stored in the library’s depository, which contains around 11,000 items, primarily in German, Italian, Slovene, and Serbo-Croatian. This collection covers topics concerning Slovenes in Austria and Italy (including scholarly and literary works), the history of the Habsburg Monarchy, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, and the Kingdom of Italy, and issues related to borders, peace conferences, and historical censuses.
The Institute is affiliated with several consortia—including COSEC – EBSCOhost, Emerald, and SAGE—and its scholarly output is indexed in Scopus for Slovenia. Its publications are included in dLib and Biblos, and the Institute participates in the DiRRos project. Selected research data have been deposited with the Social Science Data Archives (ADP).