Books & e-books

Are you looking for printed or electronic books? Would you like to borrow respectively access them? You may find one of the following starting points useful. Please refer to our site “Doing your literature search" for tips regarding topical search and finding effective search terms.

Our Library Catalogue provides a uniform interface for searching the collection of Bayreuth University Library (and other libraries). You can collect printed books directly from the shelves or order them via the Library Catalogue, depending on whether they are in our open access shelves or kept in our closed stacks. Books that are ordered via the Catalogue will be transferred to your preferred pick-up location. Please note, that waiting periods may occur.

E-Books can be recognized by the button “full text” and the note “e-book” in the list of search results. The button links to the text of the e-book. Please report dysfunctional links to us. University members can access e-books on and off campus. The access to Amadeus from outside campus is not possible due to licensing restrictions.

For accessing digital contents with your electronic devices on campus, set up eduroam; for access from outside campus, install the appropriate VPN/Proxy or Shibboleth.

If the item you are looking for is not available from our collection, you can suggest its purchase or initiate an interlibrary loan.