All books at Bielefeld University Library are indexed by a classification. Each work or item is allocated to a particular subject, regardless of its language or wording.
You can choose the subject you are interested in from the online classification scheme.
If you click the subordinate class mark, you can browse the classification tree. Start with general ("broad") search terms and proceed to more special ("narrow") ones.
Then click on the number of documents. You will be shown the titles of all items dealing with this subject which are available in the library.
You can find the classification browsing option through the tab Advanced Search in the library catalogue (“Classification”) or directly via: http://www.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/english/databases/systematik/
You can also jump from a single hit which you found in the library catalogue into the classification scheme (“Weitere Treffer zum gleichen Sachgebiet” at the bottom of the page):
Happy searching!
Illustrated dictionaries? The library holds a lot of them. The Dorm Illustrated Dictionary by the Studentenwerk Bielefeld is something special, though. Students can look up important terms for everyday life situations at the dorm or at the university in German, English and Chinese. Of course, we do hold the Bielefeld edition, but the nationwide edition as well.
Students who attended the seminar "Vorsicht Mobile Marketing!" have now developed an app for iPhones and androids. It is called idormdict.
A search in our library catalogue for scientific documents includes a parallel search on the internet with the academic search engine BASE. As of now, a search with the EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) is added as well.
The matching results from these resources are displayed to the right of the search form, titled “Hits from external resources”. BASE retrieves records of and links to predominantly free of charge academic documents on the internet (Open Access).
When you click “Artikel und mehr” (articles and more), you will find a huge amount of full text articles and bibliographic data of articles retrieved from the most important subject data bases by different publishers, but book chapters, reviews, conference proceedings and such as well. The article database JADE is substituted by this significantly more comprehensive EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS).
“Artikel und mehr” (articles and more) includes mainly licenced data and full texts so that for the time being the result list is only accessible on campus. However, university members may use the new option externally via VPN connection.
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The university library and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) will carry out a first trial run for the new "Forschungsort_ZiF".
Get out of everyday life! "Forschungsort_ZiF" is intended to give academics and postdocs the opportunity to compare notes - intellectual, social and interdisciplinary in an easy, concentrated and relaxed ambiance.
Two discussion rooms on the first floor of the ZiF building and the ZiF Library on the ground floor build the core of the new research space. Each can be used by up to 12 people.
The two discussion rooms are equipped with computer, data projector and presentation utensils (screen, flip chart). If you want to use the rooms, you need to make a reservation first. (Contact: Trixi Valentin at the Conference Office, – 2769 and Martina Hoffmann, – 2768) and can only be booked by academics. These rooms can not be used for lectures or courses.
The ZiF Library is open Monday to Friday from 9:00 hrs to 12:00 hrs. It can also be used by academics as a place for communication without prior notice. Talking is explicitly welcome here - comparable to the Lernort_B1 in the university main building which has been established in cooperation with the Department of Teaching, Learning and Student Counselling SL_K5 in November 2011 and which became a great success ever since. The ZiF Library offers: ten working places, librarian advice, print and electronic literature, internet access and a photocopier.
The "Forschungsort_ZiF" is a cooperation of Bielefeld University Library and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF).
Contact person in the library: Barbara Knorn, barbara.knorn@uni-bielefeld.de