New for economics:
Business Source Premier - more than 2,300 E-Journals in fulltext
New for psychology:
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection - more than 500 E-Journals in fulltext
To start these database "cookies" must be enabled in your web browser.
From now on it is possible to print documents in your departmental library.
To use this service, you have to open a printing account in the "Copy Service Center" of the firm Thiesbrummel situated on the Galery (U1-132). One printout will cost you 5 cents and the amount will be taken off your printing account.
Opening hours of the "Copy Service Center":
Monday - Friday, 9.00 hrs - 17.00 hrs.
The Bielefeld 2002 Conference will take place at the Stadthalle in Bielefeld, Germany, from 5 - 7 February 2002. The European symposium on current issues in the area of scholary information supply has now become a classic among events on the subject.
EMBASE is a biomedical and pharmacological database (particularly with medical and drug-related subjects).
It gathers information from over 4,000 journals published in 70 countries and contains over 8 million records from 1974 to the present.
In our guide to search services you will find more than 40 services for searching the internet and numerous information about searching effectively (e.g. how to use search services effectively, websites and literature about search services and current numbers about the web). The guide is nearly completely available in English now.
Search Services (Compass Guide).
The subject portal philosophy now offers an extensive selection of important internet ressources (as before mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, and English studies). You can not only find licenced offers of the Bielefeld University Library, but dictionaries / references in the internet, learning material, news, jobs, search engines, information about studies and training among other things.
Our document supply system JASON now contains more than 900,000 journal titles. The data of the "Journal database" (ZDB) was integrated completely. Now all journal titles available in German libraries are searchable.
Via the personal login for the meta search, members of the university now have the possibilty to directly read and/or print out journal articles from Elsevier's database, even off-campus (for example from home or via a private provider). Elsevier contains more than one million articles in full-text.
After searching in the meta search, a link to the full-text version will be offered if the sought-after article is available in Elsevier.
Via the personal log-in you also have access to licensed databases and Other services even off-campus.
A few new and freely available catalogues and databases specialized in certain subjects have been integrated:
Catalogues GermanyThese databases can be accessed through the Metasearch Catalogues or the Subject Portals.
During the integration of these databases, special subject views have been generated for the subjects
- Law
- Geograhpy / Environment
- Art
These can be selected in the metasearch via the "databases profiles" menu on the right-hand side.
There are several new functions integrated to the metasearch:
User Profiles
Do you want to establish your own database selection? Then you now have the chance - after the personal login for the Metasearch - to set up your own selection of databases by clicking on the menu item "My Metasearch". The "user profile editor" will assist you in the process. First, you name the desired view, for example after a topic or subject. Then, you produce the categories accordingly and select those databases you would like to be searched in your profile.
Receiving the hit list via e-mail
You now have the possibility to receive your search result - up to a hundred hits - via e-mail. Simply give a name to the list and indicate your e-mail address.
Sorting the hit list
You can sort your search result by author/corporation, title and publication year in an ascending or descending order.
Selection of views
On-campus users and looged in off-campus users can choose between the following views:
With the help of the function "Metasearch: Internet" you have the possibility to search 4 German and 8 international search engines simultaneously.
You can also create your own profiles (see above), when you
Off-campus users who are not logged in can only choose between
since they are not entitled to access the licenced services included in the "full service" and the "subject portals".
We have redesigned our web pages to make it easier to find our services, including these new ones:
Search for some subjects we offer a structured collection of Internet sources, the so-called subject portals. We will complete this service for all subjects in the future.There are eleven new freely accessible databases integrated into the Metasearch, which allow the simultaneous search of a huge number of databases:
Books which are not available in the Bielefeld University Library can be ordered directly from your personal computer. Please fill out the online form.