E-book platforms
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Searching for e-books
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American Psychological Association (APA PsycNET)
Specialist area: Psychology
beck-eLibrary.DIE FACHBIBLIOTHEK
Specialist areas: business administration; investment and financing; cost accounting and controlling; marketing and trade; HR management; corporate management and more
beck-eLibrary.DIE FACHBIBLIOTHEK (German)
CABI (Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International)
Specialist areas: agriculture; animal and veterinary sciences; human, food and nutrition sciences; plant sciences; leisure and tourism; environmental sciences
Cambridge Core
Specialist areas: humanities; natural sciences; social sciences; medicine
Please note: access to the textbooks is limited to six users at a time.
Content-Select
Various publishers are represented on Content-Select.
Beltz
Specialist areas: psychology; pedagogy; social work; nursing; sociology
Campus
Specialist areas: business and management; career guides; economics; history; philosophy; political science; sociology; cultural studies
Haufe
Specialist area: economics
hep Verlag
Specialist areas: pedagogy; didactics
Herder
Specialist areas: pedagogy; psychology
Junfermann
Specialist area: psychology
Klett-Cotta
Specialist areas: psychology; pedagogy; psychoanalysis; humanities
Kohlhammer
Specialist areas: psychology; pedagogy; theology; history; nursing; medicine
Lambertus
Specialist areas: social work; social law and social policy; pedagogy; special education; nursing; palliative care; Caritas studies; ethics; theology
Linde
Specialist areas: Austrian and international tax law; finance and accounting; law (especially business law); business administration; guides
Logos
Specialist areas: psychology; social sciences
Medizinisch Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft (MWV)
Specialist areas: psychiatry; psychotherapy; medicine
oekom Verlag
Specialist areas: economics; environment; sociology; politics; social sciences
Psychiatrie Verlag
Specialist area: psychiatry
Schäffer-Poeschel
Specialist area: economics
Schattauer
Specialist areas: medicine; psychotherapy; healthcare
Suhrkamp
Specialist areas: sociology; systems theory
Ulmer
Specialist areas: agriculture; forestry; viticulture; horticulture
VDE Verlag
Specialist areas: electrical engineering; building technology; refrigeration and air-conditioning technology
Vogel
Specialist areas: electronics; automation; mechanical engineering; chemistry; physics
W. Bertelsmann Verlag
Specialist area: social sciences
Walhalla
Specialist areas: social studies; health, careers and applications; economics and management
WBG
Specialist areas: educational studies; world religions and interreligious dialogue; history; philosophy
de Gruyter Online
Licensed e-books can be downloaded chapter by chapter in PDF format.
Birkhäuser
Specialist areas: architecture and design
De Gruyter
Specialist areas: humanities and natural sciences
DETAIL
Specialist areas: architecture and design
Oldenbourg
Specialist areas: architecture; civil engineering and surveying; electrical engineering; measurement and control engineering; history; computer science; mechanical engineering; materials science; production engineering; mining and metallurgy; traffic engineering; precision engineering; mathematics; natural sciences in general; technology in general; economics
transcript
Specialist areas: cultural and social sciences; history; philosophy; cultural management
DOAB - Directory of Open Access Books
Search portal for e-books from more than 30 academic publishers (e.g. De Gruyter, Taylor & Francis and Palgrave) that have been published with an open access licence and subjected to a peer review process.
Specialist areas: multidisciplinary (focus on historical and social sciences)
Ebook Central
Platform with e-books from various publishers. The e-books are subject to usage restrictions.
Specialist areas: multidisciplinary
Emerald
Specialist areas: economics and management; information sciences; social sciences; technology; linguistics; transport
Erich Schmidt (COMPLIANCEdigital.de)
Specialist area: management
Hanser eLibrary
Specialist areas: civil engineering; electrical engineering; computer science; construction; plastics technology; mechanical engineering; natural sciences; quality management; economics
Please note: the licensed content is indicated by a green tick mark. Many textbooks are included.
IET Digital Library (Institution of Engineering and Technology)
Specialist areas: engineering; technology
IET Digital Library (Institution of Engineering and Technology)
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins - LWW (Ovid)
Specialist areas: social science; humanities; behavioural science; clinical medicine; health professions; nursing; pharmacology
Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
Specialist areas: linguistics; literary science
Nomos eLibrary
Specialist areas: law; politics; economics; media studies; communication research; history; sociology; educational research; cultural studies; Europe; health
Nomos eLibrary (German)
Oxford Scholarship Online (OSO)
Specialist areas: biology; mathematics; physics; neuroscience; business administration; economics; finance; philosophy; politics; psychology and more
Routledge Handbooks Online RHO
Specialist areas: psychology; communications engineering; materials engineering
SAGE Knowledge
Specialist areas: counselling and psychotherapy; geography and environmental science; healthcare; communication and media studies; criminology; pedagogy; political science; psychology; sociology; economics
SAGE Research Methods Online (SRMO)
Specialist areas: social science research methods in the fields of sociology; pedagogy; political science; media and communication studies; journalism; film; theatre studies
ScienceDirect
Please note: it is possible to download and print chapter by chapter. Under “More Options”, you can select either Mobi or ePUB format for mobile devices.
Elsevier
Specialist areas: natural sciences; technology; medicine; social sciences; economics
Urban & Fischer (imprint of Elsevier)
Specialist areas: medicine; healthcare
Springer (SpringerLink)
Specialist areas: natural sciences; technology; economics; humanities
MyCopy: For English-language titles, the use of MyCopy, a print-on-demand service for EUR 24.95 plus VAT per book, is possible in some cases.
Taylor & Francis
Specialist areas: humanities and social sciences; natural sciences; technology
Titles from the publishers Routledge and CRC Press are licensed (imprints of Taylor & Francis).
Torrossa
Specialist area: Romance studies
Please note: titles can be downloaded and saved for 14 days, after which time they are automatically deleted . They can then be downloaded again. Some titles can only be read online.
UTB
Platform containing the range of UTB textbooks as well as e-books from Scholars, transcript and Waxmann.
Specialist areas: economics; media and communication studies; natural sciences; social sciences; linguistics
UTB (utb-studi-e-book) (German)
UTB (other publishers) (German)
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht eLibrary
Specialist areas: theology; religious studies; Jewish studies; Assyriology; classical studies; German studies; history; interdisciplinary humanities; philosophy; psychology; other humanities; social sciences
Wiley Online Library
Specialist areas: natural sciences; technology; medicine; economics; humanities; information technology
ZHAW digitalcollection
Specialist areas: architecture; design and civil engineering; health; applied linguistics; life sciences and facility management; applied psychology; social work; engineering and computer science; business; management and law; interdisciplinary and university-wide topics.
Please note: all titles are open access