E-Books

Using the online catalogue (OPAC) you may access licensed e-books published by Duncker & Humblot from the subject areas of law, political science and philosophy. Printing is limited to 50 pages. Once you complete a one-time registration process, you may download files and print from them indefinitely.

As an aggregator, Ebook Central offers e-books by many national and international publishers from all relevant subject areas. Licensed items are listed and can be searched in the online catalogue (OPAC).
E-books may usually be read online directly. University members may access materials from outside the university network via Shibboleth as well as use additional options: printing, downloads, bookmarks, comments and highlighting.
The average quota for printing and saving is 40% of the full text, or 20% for copying and pasting. These quotas may deviate according to publishers' terms. If you are registered as a »guest« without using your own login data, these quotas will be halved.
Downloaded chapters will remain available indefinitely but may not be searched.
You will often be able to download an entire e-book and read it offline in epub/PDF/A format for 7 days. This requires Adobe Digital Editions to be installed on your device. Bluefire Reader is an alternative app for smartphones. Once one user downloads an e-book, it will be locked for all other users for the rest of the day.
E-books previously available on MyiLibrary have been merged completely into Ebook Central as of April 6th, 2018. Updated terms apply accordingly.
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The University Library has licensed different publishers' e-books with the provider EBSCO, mainly from the subject area of economics. University members may access these e-books from home via Shibboleth.

The platform ScienceDirect offers access to a large number of e-books published by Elsevier. Titles are also listed in the online catalogue (OPAC). Individual chapters are available in HTML or PDF format; contents available in HTML format are additionally provided in epub or mobi format. Shibboleth ensures access from off campus for university members.

The online catalogue (OPAC) enables you to access e-books from the subject areas of law and economics published by Erich Schmidt Verlag. The collection is being expanded continually. You will be able to download full text PDF files.

The University Library has licensed e-books from the subject areas of computers, technology and economy published by Hanser Verlag. You will be able to search for them both in the online catalogue (OPAC) and in the Hanser e-Library. You may download items as PDF files by chapter as well as print them with no limit. Bibliographic data may be carried over to common reference management software. Access via Shibboleth is available to university members.

Engineering science e-books by the Institution of Civil Engineers that are licensed to the University Library may be searched for in the Online-Katalog (OPAC). Items may be downloaded by chapter and printed. A way of creating citations is provided. In addition, university members may access items from off campus via Shibboleth.

E-books previously available on MyiLibrary have been merged completely into Ebook Central as of April 6th, 2018. Updated terms apply accordingly.

see also: Ebook Central

The Nomos e-library contains specialist literature from the areas of political, media, cultural and social science as well as law and economics. Individual titles are listed in the online catalogue (OPAC) and may be downloaded as PDF files and printed. Additionally, titles published by partner company Wallstein-Verlag are licensed through the Nomos e-library.
Shibboleth ensures access from off campus.

Individual titles published by Peter Lang Verlag may be searched for in the online catalogue (OPAC). They are provided as full texts in PDF format and may be printed with no limitations.

Titles contained in e-book bundles published by Verlagsgruppe Springer Nature are available on the publisher's own platform SpringerLink. The University Library has licensed the following bundles: »Engineering 2010«, »Technik und Informatik« (technology and computer science),  »J.B. Metzler Geisteswissenschaften« (humanities), »Springer Wirtschaftswissenschaften« (economics) sowie »Sozialwissenschaften und Recht« (social science and law). In addition, selected titles from the collection »Engineering 2015-2017« are available, as well as - on a temporary basis - the bundles »Engineering 2017-2018« and  »Computer Science 2018«. The e-books are available across the whole campus. University members will be able to access items from off campus via Shibboleth. E-books may be downloaded in full or by chapter and printed, and full texts be searched. The e-books are identical to their respective printed equivalent. You will be able to cite page numbers correctly.

The Tectum e-library contains reference literature from the subject areas of philosophy, law and economics as well as political, social and media and communication science. Individual titles are listed in the online catalogue (OPAC) and may be printed and saved as PDF files. The collection is being expanded continually. Shibboleth ensures access from off campus for university members.

You may search for e-books from the subject areas of material science and engineering published by Swiss company Trans Tech Publications in the online catalogue (OPAC). Items may be downloaded in full as PDF files.

Vahlen e-Library allows access to textbooks and reference literature on economics. You may search for them in the online catalogue, print them and save them as PDF files. Shibboleth ensures access from off campus for university members.

The University Library provides access to e-books published by Wiley and Ernst & Sohn. These e-books can be accessed on the publisher's own platform Wiley Online Library from across the whole campus. University members may access them from off campus via Shibboleth. The e-books are identical to their respective printed equivalent. You will be able to cite page numbers correctly.

E-books licensed by the University Library are available in PDF format. You will generally be able to download single chapters or entire books as a PDF file. To read the documents, you will need a PDF reader installed. PDF files may be saved locally to your device or printed, even if your device is offline. Several providers also offer e-books in epub oder mobi (Kindle) formats.

You will be able to read e-books in PDF format at library terminals or on your own desktop PC, laptop, e-reader, tablet or smartphone, as long as they have PDF reader software installed. There will be no additional cost to you.

A great amount of software is available to view and work with e-books, including many free readers (also known as viewers). These applications allow you to open and read PDF files. Additional options may include higlighting, setting bookmarks and managing your own library. Not every software is able to edit, convert or merge PDFs.

Some popular free applications for your desktop or laptop PC are Adobe Reader, PDF-XChange and Foxit Reader. E-readers like the Amazon Kindle range, Kobo or Tolino will display PDF files using onboard software. Depending on the operating system, different apps are available for tablets and smartphones. For Apple devices, Goodreader or iAnnotate are recommended.

Please note that highlights and bookmarks may be lost changing from one application to another.

PDF readers will enable you to save comments, notes and bookmarks in a document. This allows you to mark and retrieve important information.

Many publishers and providers make their e-books available on their own platforms, which allows access to additional options other than downloads. For example, you may export citations and add them to reference management software (›Export Citation‹). An article's or chapter's own footnotes or references may be linked to additional sources (›References‹). If you register an account with a provider, you will be able to set up your own ›bookshelf‹. This allows you to find all ›your‹ books at once without the need to download them one by one.

The use of e-books and other electronic materials is subject to special legal conditions. Please note and comply with the terms and conditions listed on the publishers' and providers' own websites. Access to electronic materials requires your agreement. Generally, the use and distribution of licensed materials is only allowed for personal, educational and research purposes. Systematic mass download of items is prohibited, as is distribution in P2P networks or on similar platforms.