The German Bundestag and the Bundesrat have decided upon changes on the German Copyright Act which will restrict our online interlibrary loan and the document delivery services considerably. As of January 1, 2008 the libraries have to stop their service of electronic document delivery. Sending out scanned material as e-mail attachment is not feasible any more.
That's why, for the time being, your orders can only be fulfilled in print.
The print-outs can be collected as usual at the Central Loan Department of the library (A1-151).
We apologize for this inconvenience.
If you have any questions as concerns the changes and the new procedures, please contact in the Central Loan Department:
Sabine Jonscher and Claudia Jetzke (A1-151, phone: 4039) or via e-mail:
ZentraleLeihstelle.ub@uni-bielefeld.de
Both portals contain full text versions of German-language books on Informatics and Engineering.
Access Springer eBooks InformatikIn INSPEC some 3,850 technical journals, about 2,200 conference proceedings, reports, books and dissertations from all over the world are recorded. It provides access to international literature in physics, electrical engineering, electronics, communications, control engineering, computers and computing, and information technology and more - enhanced by excellent and detailed indexing and abstracts. The contents matches the printed versions of "Physics Abstracts", "Electrical and Electronics Abstracts" and "Computer and Control Abstracts". After a thorough revision of classification codes and thesaurus in 2004, the new Section E "Manufacturing and Production Engineering" was added.
Access INSPECThis database contains about 800 German-language books in full text, published 2006 - 2008 focussing on management, business and administration and macroeconomics. It is part of the SpringerLink portal.
Access Springer eBooks Management, Betriebs- und Volkswirtschaftslehre
Within the digitization project of Bielefeld University Library
"Retrospective Digitization of Scientific Review Organs and Literary Magazines of the 18th and 19th Century in the German-speaking Area"
27 further journals in electronic facsimile form have been made available since the beginning of this year. Both browsing and searching for particular articles contained in the journals is possible:
Currently 71 journals are provided in this project. Until the end of the two-year project in May 2008 (which is already the continuation of a former one), several more will follow. A title list of the journals to come is available on the project website.
In order to improve the comfort of use of our digitization web pages, we added an RSS-Feed option. This feed will supply news regarding newly integrated journals to the project pool as well as notes on new digitized imprints of the library's own collection ("Digitized Imprints").
This project is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). It is implemented in cooperation with the publishing house Georg Olms Verlag AG, who supplied the microfiche editions of the journals and thus form the basis of the digitization and the Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, who supplied the electronic edition of "Index deutschsprachiger Zeitschriften 1750-1815" which is necessary for subject indexing.
In line with the closure of the university during this year's Christmas break, the library will also be closed from 22 Dec 2007 until 1 Jan 2008.
On Friday, 21 Dec 2007 the library will close as early as 18:00 hrs and open again on Wednesday, 2 Jan 2008, 8:00 hrs.
The library wants to support and accommodate researchers, students and examinees as much as possible. For this reason we agreed on exceptional rules for borrowing non-circulating books during the Christmas break. Details of the agreement are as follows:
The scope of digitized imprints has been expanded by five further works in the field of "Literary Studies / German Language and Literature":
Further works from the library's holdings will follow and enhance the existing digital collection.
Table Digitized ImprintsAs part of a cooperation between Bielefeld UL and the "Umweltzentrum" Bielefeld (UWZ), the instituition's library catalogue has been technically dressed and prepared for its use on the web. It is now available online.
This catalogue comprises some 10,000 titles focussing on the subjects environment, energy and society:
Catalogue of the "Umweltbibliothek" Bielefeld
As a special service for university instituitions, the library will continue the service to dress existing bibliographic data collections and prepare them for comfortable web presence.
If you want to draw on us and benefit from our expertise, please refer to
Friedrich Summann, phone: 0521/106-2631 or friedrich.summann@uni-bielefeld.de.
Press Display gives access to more than 400 international daily and weekly papers from more than 70 countries in more than 38 languages. The papers are presented in complete versions with the original layout including advertisements and pictures.
Access Press DisplayThe range of newspapers, which are held ready for use in the Reference Department, has been enlarged.
According to the results of a survey,
the following newspapers have been added: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (WAZ), El Pais and International Herald Tribune. You will find these and some
20 other daily and weekly papers in the reading corner in the Reference Department
(Area B1 - Access via C1).
SocINDEX includes more than 1.6 million subject indexed records from some 4,000 different social science journals. For more than 620 journals abstracts are supplied. SocINDEX with Full Text offers full texts from 289 core journals beginning with their first year as well as selected full texts from 75 "priority" journals. Full texts of 547 books and 6,711 conference papers are added.
Access SocINDEX with Full TextOxford Scholarship online offers full-text access (XML and PDF) to some 1,000 selected academic books published by Oxford University Press. The collection covers economics, philosophy, politics, and religion.
Access Oxford Scholarship online
The user survey of autumn 2006 made it clear: one of your desires is the improvement of the working environment in the library.
We fulfilled this desire and now provide chair cushions for 200 chairs in the departmental libraries and the Reference Department.
For a trial we purchased different models. We appreciate your feedback in person, via e-mail info.ub@uni-bielefeld.de, via mailbox or the provided message boxes in the departmental libraries.
When in the Night of Readings the lecturers of Bielefeld University read from their book recommendations, a diversified and exciting mixture is guaranteed. The range is remarkably wide: it varies from history novel to political book and scientific literature.Night of Readings 2007: Programme (PDF-File, in German)
Book Recommendations for Students (in German)
In the foyer of the law library a special shelf was put up, where current editions of relevant books are arranged and tied with chains. These books cannot be taken away for copying etc. For this reason the library has installed a scanning machine right in front of the shelf in order to enable users to scan pages and save them to a memory stick. The handling is simple and free of charge.
You may choose between the options colour, gray-scale and black-and-white (text scans). Colour and gray-scale scans will automatically be saved in JPG format, text scans in TIF format.
Bielefeld University Library is assessed second best in a nationwide university ranking with an excellent overall score of 1,8.
Students assessed twelve different aspects of "their" university library. Bielefeld came off particularly well with the aspects "Availability of Literature", "Access to Electronic Journals", "Online User Service", "User Assistance", "Availability of Work Space in the Library" and "Opening Hours".
These current figures result from a students' evaluation of universities, where they were asked several questions concerning the library. too. The assessment is based on interviews with some 21,000 students from the so-called "scholarly disciplines", which include German Studies, English/American Studies, Romance Studies, History, Educational Science and Psychology.
This excellent assessment means both recognition of our achievements so far and motivation for the future. We will continuously optimize and enhance the concept of services we are committed to: we strive to combine a voluminous and up-to-date scope of information with user-friendly services and a modern learning and working environment. This is also what our new brand mark stands for: Information.plus!
Students assess their libraries
Catalogue of Services "Information.plus!"
Internet access in the library via WLAN and your private laptop is a service, which you are already used to. But from now on you can also send print jobs from your laptop to printers in the library. In order to do so, you need to install a specific TDM print programme on your laptop. Analogous to the payment for your photocopies, the amounts due for the print-outs are debited to your "Mensakarte" or your temporary TDM card. Printing is possible at any photocopier in the library, which is equipped with a card reading device.
Printing from your Private Laptop (in German)
In the foyer of the Law Library (U1) you will now find a coin changing machine. It is located next to the vending machine for temporary TDM cards.
Education Research Complete (ERC) is the most voluminous and complete collection of journals in the field of Pedagogy and Educational Studies worldwide. This database includes indexes and abstracts to some 1,780 journals as well as full-texts of some 870 journals, more than 80 books and numerous conference proceedings.
Access Education Research Complete
More service, better provision, more library: On Tuesday, October 23, from 10:00 to 15:00 hrs. the library will be present in the university hall. You will have the chance to see our complete range of information services and learn about new developments - even the ones that are planned for the future.
We have prepared a competition, which will take place between 10:00 and 14:00 hrs. Join in and win one out of five book gift coupons (worth 10 Euro). The drawing of winners will be at 14:00 hrs. at the information booth.
On top of that our always well-attended book flea market is set up - a chance to browse and get a bargain.
The database Historical Abstracts is one of the most important reference works in the in the field of History. It includes journal articles, collection work articles, books and dissertations in the field of History of all countries (except USA and Canada) since 1450 until today. Abstracts are allocated to all items. The scope of items is international whereas mainly European languages are incorporated.
Access Historical AbstractsThe range of digital imprints has been broadened by five further works in the field of "History":
More works from the library's holdings will follow and enhance the existing collection.
Until 28 Sep 2007 a trial access phase has been agreed upon to make the "Deutsches Gesetzesportal" available. This portal combines information on current legislative procedures, legal changes, new laws plus the entire federal law.
Please use this login data:
Benutzername: UNIBIEXTERN.GPORTAL
Passwort: jurtest
After having completed login successfully, click "Recherchieren".
Start searching "Deutsches Gesetzesportal"Until 28 Sep 2007 a trial access phase has been agreed upon to make Staudingers Kommentar zum Bürgerlichen Gesetzbuch and Fachportal Öffentliche Verwaltung available. The latter includes works on different law fields such as labour, tariff for the public service, building lease, public procurement, environmental law, social, tax and administrative law. Both sources are included in Juris and can be searched via the Juris search interface.
If you want to limit your search, say, to Staudinger, login to Juris and click the flag "Kommentare" in the navigation bar on the left, then "Index 2" and then "Staudinger BGB". Clicking on "Alle Dokumente" takes you back to the search option referring to the complete Juris database.
StartIn July 2007, the German Bundestag has decided upon changes on the German Copyright Act which will come into effect in October 2007. As a result, our online interlibrary loan and the document delivery services will probably undergo major restrictions.
Interlibrary loan orders on journal articles (current fee 1,50 Euro) will in most cases only be completed by letter or fax. That means, you will have to collect your orders at the library. The alternative option will be to order the article directly from the publisher. You will get the article online at the price of 25 - 30 Euro.
We will provide more and detailed information on future options as soon as possible.
For further information on this matter, please read:
The new repository "BieColl - Bielefeld eCollections" represents another component in the concept established by Bielefeld University to promote Open Access. Open Access means worldwide and free access to scientific information and, in this particular case, offers public access to publications prepared and issued by scholars from Bielefeld University or publications, Bielefeld University scholars contributed to.
The repository is intended for the publication of conference reports or abstract volumes, that are organized or published by research units or scholars of Bielefeld University. The documents exist mostly as full-text version and are entered and indexed as single documents. They can be searched and displayed as such, but also be presented as "Collection" of a particular event or context. The documents can be searched and found via search engines and other types of scientific indexes.
The range of digitized imprints in the field of "German Studies" was enhanced by five more works:
Further works from the library's holdings will follow and broaden the existing digital collection.
Table Digitized ImprintsThe range of digitized imprints in the field of "European History of Law" was enhanced by four more works:
Further works from the library's holdings will follow and broaden the existing digital collection.
Table Digitized Imprints
In the areas C1, T1 and V1 you will find as of yet desks which are equipped with clamps as locking devices for notebooks. These clamps are intended to help prevent thefts. You only need to bring your own Kensington lock and cable to use it.
We highly recommend to lock notebooks as the university assumes no liability.
This represents a first phase, we intend to supply clamps in all departmental libraries.
The database "Historical Abstracts" represents one of the most important reference works in the field of historical study. It includes journal articles, articles from collective works, monographs and doctoral theses concerning the history of the world (except the US and Canada) since 1450 until today. Most entries are accompanied by abstracts. The range of titles is international, but with a focus on European languages.
Trial Access "Historical Abstracts"Copying and printing processes have been harmonized: as of now, analogous to the payment for photocopies the print jobs can be paid through your "Mensakarte" or your temporary TDM card. The former printing account at TDM is now obsolete.
Printing is possible at any colour photocopier in the library, which is equipped with a card reading device.
The "Mensakarte" can be purchased at the Studentenwerk booth in the hall. The card can be loaded or reloaded there, too, or at the cafeteria or Westend cash desks. Temporary TDM cards can be purchased at the "tdm Kopier- und Service Center" office (room U1-132, Mon - Fri 9.00 - 17.00 hrs.) and from the vending machines located in the entrance area of the law library and the linguistics library.
This new service includes several advantages:
Before you use this service for the first time, please note that the card needs to be registered at one of the card readers provided.
The former TDM printing accounts become invalid on June 4. Library users who have credit left, can either have the amount paid out or transferred to the temporary TDM card. Transfer to the "Mensakarte" is not possible.
Printing in the Library (in German)The trial is confined to e-books in the field of psychology and educational studies and includes only German-language study literature.
Access Ciando LibraryThe Cochrane Library is a collection of databases in the field of health care and public health: it includes the "Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews" (Cochrane Reviews) concerning therapy and prevention issues, the "Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness" (DARE) with quality assessments and abstracts of relevant medical literature written by specialists of the British National Health Service and the "Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials" (CENTRAL). Also included is the "Cochrane Database of Methodology Reviews", a bibliographic index of articles and books on the methodology of research synthesis, a handbook on critical appraisal and the methodology of creating systematic reviews and more.
Access "The Cochrane Library"The range of digitized imprints in the field of "History" was enhanced by five more works:
Further works from the library's holdings will follow and broaden the existing digital collection.
Table Digitized ImprintsFor this trial more than 500 eBooks out of about 4000 titles published by Academic Press, Pergamon, Elsevier Science, North-Holland, JAI Press, Butterworth-Heinemann are released. The focus of this choice is placed on biology, chemistry, mathematics, medicine, physics, psychology and engineering.
Elsevier eBooks
The library contributes to a project funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, which aims at creating a nationwide information platform on Open Access. By means of this resource, scientists and others can get comprehensive information on the subject and access freely available scientific publications on the web.
Open-access.net is a cooperatively created platform, partners in the project are the universities of Bielefeld, Göttingen, Konstanz and the Freie Universität Berlin.
Essential reference work containing about 1,500 articles covering all aspects of international slavery research. Grundlegendes Nachschlagewerk mit rund 1.500 Sach- und Personenartikeln zu allen Aspekten der internationalen Sklavereiforschung. Along with the classic occurrences of slavery, other types of bondage and dependance in different non-European civilizations such as Ancient Orient, Egypt, Carthage and India or China are included. Articles on the history of reception and science complete this work.
Handwörterbuch der antiken Sklaverei (HAS)
The exhibition "Buch & Kunst" was organized by the university library and took place from 10 Jan. to 21 Febr. 2007. It showed artistically designed book covers created by our bookbinders as well as large-sized oil paintings by the Bielefeld artist Achim Hellmann. Now, the exhibition catalogue containing pictures of these works is available online, too.
The range of digitized imprints in the field of "Literary Studies / German Language" was enhanced by five more works:
Further works from the library's holdings will follow and broaden the existing digital collection.
Table Digitized ImprintsThis Portal contains more than 30 dictionaries and terminology databases in English, French, German and Spanish.
Access Acolada Edition UniLex
On Tuesday, April 17, another library information day will take place. Come and see the library's presentation stand in the hall in front of the UniQ stage from 10 to 15 hrs. The library staff will be ready to demonstrate the library's multifaceted range of services and to answer all your questions concerning literature and information search as well as document delivery. Moreover we will present the results of the latest user survey in the winter of 2006.
And again: we have prepared our traditional well-assorted book flea market - a chance to browse and get a bargain.
The range of digitized imprints in the field of German History was enhanced by five further works:
Table of Digitized ImprintsBielefeld University Library takes a top position in terms of user satisfaction.
From Nov., 15 to Dec., 15 a user survey was conducted among 11 university libraries in North Rhine-Westphalia in order to find out about the user's satisfaction concerning the library services.
Main focus was on:
In most of the examined categories, Bielefeld UL takes a top position and is significantly ahead of all other competitors. 2968 questionnaires from Bielefeld UL analysed and 561 persons expressed praise and criticism.
In cooperation with the university we will make all efforts to improve the work place conditions for our users.
We'd like to thank you for your numerous comments. After the evaluation is completed we will provide a detailed summary
Bielefeld University Library provides a collection of printed works as digitized reconstructions.
This collection is a choice of works from the library's holdings dating from the 15th to the beginning of the 20th century. It includes some rare works and will grow continuously.
Meanwhile, the number of works in this collection has risen above 100 items. In order to optimize the presentation, the webpage has been redesigned:
Recently added were some law works by Johann von Hoya, Bishop of Münster: Münstersche Hof- und Landgerichtsordnung (1571) and Münstersche Gemeine Ordnung (1571).
This database provides detailed information concerning more than 225,000 of the most renowned companies and instituitions in Germany. Contact information of more than 700,000 top and middle management staffers is included. Companies with annual sales of 1 Mill. € and up and/or at least 20 employees are represented. Thus this database covers the same range of companies the Hoppenstedt Datenbank Großunternehmen does.
Hoppenstedt Firmendatenbank für HochschulenDatabase of the American Psychological Association including book and other media reviews
Access PsycCRITIQUESLecture notes by Alpmann Schmidt and Hemmer can now be borrowed from the law library collection. This was made possible by financial support from the Friends of the Law Faculty, the fund-raising campaign Ex Libris organized by "Wissen schaffen" as well as the Law Revision Course Alpmann Schmidt. Thanks to all donators for their generousity!
If you feel motivated to support the acquisition of current study literature, please refer to:
Ex Libris - Neue Bücher braucht das Land! (in German)Our collection of digitized imprints has been enhanced by five works in the field of constituitional law and town charter:
Table of Digitized ImprintsThe Metasearch is an easy-to-use search tool. It facilitates simultaneous searches in a multitude of different library catalogues and databases. The range of searchable sources has been expanded by three more databases:
Humanities:
International Catalogues:
Including these, we now provide 67 library catalogues and subject databases for simultaneous searching.
MetasearchHistorische Bibliographie Online comprises almost 220,000 bibliographical entries of history literature published since 1990: monographic publications, journal articles and contributions from collections. Added to this database is the "Jahrbuch der historischen Forschung" containing more than 11,000 entries indicating research works in progress.
Historische Bibliographie und Jahrbuch der Historischen Forschung Online starten (in German)The collection of digitized imprints has been enhanced by five works from the library's own holdings:
Further works will follow and thus expand the existing digital collection.
Digital Full-Texts Page
The eLearning platform Stud.IP was upgraded. We now provide the newest version (1.4.0-4), which is also available in English.
An overview to the new features is given in German on: