Study and research in Germany

Online Libraries

Karlsruhe Virtual Catalogue (Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog)
www.ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de/kvk.html
Provider: Karlsruhe University
Description: The Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog (KVK) lists 75 million books and journals registered in library and book trade catalogues worldwide. Users can search in up to 14 German-language and up to nine foreign-language library catalogues, plus in up to five book trade catalogues simultaneously.
Languages: German, Spanish and English

Higher Education Library Centre of North Rhine-Westphalia
(Hochschulbibliothekszentrum Nordrhein-Westfalen – HBZ)
www.hbz-nrw.de
Provider: The Hochschulbibliothekszentrum (HBZ) is an institution managed by the Ministry of Schools and Continuing Education and Training, Science and Research (Ministerium für Schule und Weiterbildung, Wissenschaft und Forschung) of the federal state of North Rhine- Westphalia (NRW).
Description: The HBZ provides access to a number of literature search services offered by digital libraries, for example, the Digital Library of NRW. It contains services which can be used free of charge by everyone, such as a wide range of German and foreign library and library association catalogues which list the scientific and academic books available across whole regions.
Languages: German and English

Document Delivery Service subito
www.subito-doc.de
Provider: Subito is a document delivery service operated by the German libraries.
Description: Fees are charged for deliveries; domestic and foreign orders are charged a minimum of four to seven euros per article, depending on the supplier in question (at present around 28 libraries in Germany, Austria and Switzerland) for the first 20 pages and between 0.10 and 0.30 euros for each additional page. Delivery can be made by e-mail, fax or post. However, files are not delivered in Text-format, but rather as graphic files (TIFF, Postscript or, in some cases, PDF), which may be very large. Payments are made by bank transfer, although payment by credit card or direct debit is being planned. The subito service also offers a book loan service (8 euros per book); most suppliers will also send book loans abroad.
Languages: German and English, plus basic information in Spanish, French, Russian, Japanese and Chinese

Thesis Online (Dissertationen Online)
www.dissonline.de
http://www.dini.de/projekte/oa-netzwerk/
Provider: Humboldt University Berlin, Department of Education and Computer Science; Osnabrück University
Description: Publication of a doctoral thesis is a legal requirement in the Federal Republic of Germany. As a rule, this requirement is met by printing the thesis. Some universities have recently begun to accept delivery of the thesis in electronic format. This means that the thesis can be made electronically accessible via the Internet and is therefore regarded as meeting the publishing requirement. At present, users can search the thesis archives of 43 participating institutions with the search mask "TheO”.
Languages: Dissonline - German and English, TheO - German

Infoball – Portal for Specialist Information
(Infoball – Portal für Fachinformationen )
www.infoball.de
Description: You can use Infoball to search for specialist literature in library catalogues and databases and can then order the topics found direct from the various providers. All in all, more than 600 databases are available, including many catalogues from US-American institute libraries.
Languages: German

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