E-book platforms
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ACS Publications
Specialist areas: biology; physics; engineering
Downloads: PDF, by chapter
American Psychological Association (APA PsycNET)
Specialist area: psychology
Downloads: PDF, by chapter
beck-eLibrary.DIE FACHBIBLIOTHEK
In addition to Beck-Verlag, titles from Vahlen-Verlag are also licensed via the beck-eLibrary.
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)
Vahlen-Verlag (German)
Biblioscout
Specialist areas: humanities; medicine; natural sciences; pharmacology; law; social sciences; economics
Downloads: PDF, complete download possible
Bloomsbury
Specialist areas: linguistics; architecture; sociology; philosophy and others
Downloads: PDF, by chapter
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
Downloads: PDF/ePub, complete download possible
Cambridge Core
Specialist areas: humanities; natural sciences; social sciences; medicine
Downloads: PDF, by chapter
Please note: access to the textbooks is limited to six users at a time
Content-Select
Various, predominantly smaller publishers are represented on Content-Select.
Downloads: PDF, by chapter
Aisthesis Verlag
Specialist areas: literary science; philosophy; history; media theory; psychotherapy
Balance
Specialist areas: psychology
Beltz
Specialist areas: psychology; pedagogy; social work; nursing; sociology
Beltz Juventa
Specialist areas: pedagogy; social work; sociology; psychology; humanities; medicine; nursing; guidebook
BMU Verlag
Specialist areas: information technology
Campus
Specialist areas: business and management; career guides; economics; history; philosophy; political science; sociology; cultural studies
Deutscher Psychologen Verlag
Specialist areas: psychology
dpunkt Verlag
Specialist areas: information technology; economics
Frank & Timme
Specialist areas: humanities and social sciences
Gabal
Specialist areas: economics
Global Rail Group
Specialist areas: technology; natural science
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
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
mitp-Verlag
Specialist areas: information technology; economics
oekom Verlag
Specialist areas: economics; environment; sociology; politics; social sciences
O’Reilly Verlag
Specialist areas: information technology; economics
Psychiatrie Verlag
Specialist area: psychiatry
Rudolf Müller
Specialist area: technology; natural science
Schäffer-Poeschel
Specialist area: economics
Schattauer
Specialist areas: medicine; psychotherapy; healthcare
Schlütersche
Specialist areas: medicine; nursing
Schüren Verlag
Specialist areas: media studies; social sciences;
Suhrkamp
Specialist areas: sociology; systems theory
VDE Verlag
Specialist areas: electrical engineering; building technology; refrigeration and air-conditioning technology
Vogel
Specialist areas: electronics; automation; mechanical engineering; chemistry; physics
Walhalla
Specialist areas: social studies; health; careers and applications; economics and management
WBG
Specialist areas: educational studies; world religions and interreligious dialogue; history; philosophy
WTM
Specialist areas: didactics; mathematics
Ziel Verlag
Specialist areas: pedagogy; social work
de Gruyter Online
Birkhäuser
Specialist areas: architecture and design
Downloads: PDF, complete download possible
De Gruyter
Specialist areas: humanities and natural sciences
Downloads: PDF/ePub, complete download sometimes possible
DETAIL
Specialist areas: architecture and design
Downloads: PDF, by chapter
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
Downloads: PDF/ePub, complete download possible
transcript
Specialist areas: cultural and social sciences; history; philosophy; cultural management
Downloads: PDF, by chapter
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)
Downloads: PDF/ePUB, by chapter or complete download possible depending on publisher
Ebook Central
Platform with e-books from various publishers. The e-books are subject to usage restrictions.
Specialist areas: multidisciplinary
Edward Elgar
Fachgebiete: economics; management; law; sociology and others
Downloads: PDF, by chapter
Emerald
Specialist areas: economics and management; information sciences; social sciences; technology; linguistics; transport
Downloads: PDF, by chapter
Hanser eLibrary
Specialist areas: civil engineering; electrical engineering; computer science; construction; plastics technology; mechanical engineering; natural sciences; quality management; economics
Downloads: PDF, by chapter
Hogrefe eLibrary
Specialist areas: psychology; nursing; healthcare
Downloads: PDF, complete download possible
IET Digital Library (Institution of Engineering and Technology)
Specialist areas: engineering; technology
Downloads: PDF, complete download possible
IET Digital Library (Institution of Engineering and Technology)
IOP (Institute of Physics)
Specialist area: physics
Downloads: PDF, complete download possible
John Benjamins
Specialist area: linguistics
Downloads: PDF/ePub, complete download possible
Kohlhammer eLibrary
Specialist areas: medicine, nursing, pedagogy, psychology, sociology, economics
Downloads: PDF, complete download possible
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins - LWW (Ovid)
Specialist areas: social science; humanities; behavioural science; clinical medicine; health professions; nursing; pharmacology
Downloads: not possible, HTML format
Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
Specialist areas: linguistics; literary science
Downloads: PDF/ePub, complete download possible
Nomos eLibrary
Specialist areas: law; politics; economics; media studies; communication research; history; sociology; educational research; cultural studies; Europe; health
Download: PDF, by chapter
Nomos eLibrary (German)
OECD iLibrary
Specialist areas: economics; economic development
Downloads: PDF/ePub, complete download possible
Oxford Academic
Specialist area: psychology, medicine, technology, economics, politics, philosophy and more
Includes the following series: Oxford Handbooks, Oxford Scholarship Online, Oxford Library of Psychology, Treatments That Work
Downloads: PDF, by chapter
Pearson eLibrary
Specialist areas: Textbooks of various specialist areas
Downloads: PDF, by chapter
Peter Lang
Specialist area: linguistics
Downloads: PDF/ePub/mobi, complete download possible
Routledge Handbooks Online RHO
Specialist areas: psychology; communications engineering; materials engineering
Downloads: PDF, by chapter
SAGE Knowledge
Specialist areas: counselling and psychotherapy; geography and environmental science; healthcare; communication and media studies; criminology; pedagogy; political science; psychology; sociology; economics
Downloads: PDF, by chapter
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
Download: PDF, by chapter
ScienceDirect (Elsevier)
Platform of Elsevier and their imprints (Urban & Fischer, Academic Press, Butterworth-Heinemann etc.)
Specialist areas: natural sciences; technology; medicine; social sciences; economics
Note on use: it is possible to download and print chapter by chapter. Under “More Options”, you can select either Mobi or ePUB format for mobile devices.
Springer (SpringerLink)
Specialist areas: natural sciences; technology; economics; humanities
Downloads: PDF, complete download possible
Taylor & Francis
Specialist areas: humanities and social sciences; natural sciences; technology
Downloads: PDF, complete download possible
Titles from the publishers Routledge and CRC Press are also licensed (imprints of Taylor & Francis).
Thieme eRef
Specialist area: medicine
Downloads: PDF, by chapter
Selected medical textbooks are licensed.
Torrossa
Specialist area: Romance studies
Downloads; PDF, complete download possible
Note: There are only a few titles licensed with Torrossa.
UTB / UTB Scholars
Platform containing the range of UTB textbooks as well as their associate publishers and the scholars-e-library.
Specialist areas: economics; media and communication studies; natural sciences; social sciences; linguistics
Downloads: PDF, complete download possible
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
Downloads: PDF, by chapter
VDI-Verlag
Specialist areas: technology; engineering; building; construction/production; logistics; energy and environment
Downloads: PDF, by chapter
Wiley Online Library
Specialist areas: natural sciences; technology; medicine; economics; humanities; information technology
Downloads: PDF, complete download possible
WISO
Specialist areas: economics and social sciences
Downloads: PDF, complete download possible
WISO (German)
Terms of use (in German)
World Scientific Publisher
Specialist area: engineering
Downloads: PDF/ePub, complete download possible
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.
Downloads: PDF, complete download possible
Note: all titles are open access