Online Inter-Library Loans
Online-Fernleihe: the portal for online inter-library loans, officially known in German as “Deutscher Leihverkehr”, is a cooperative establishment by libraries in the Federal Republic of Germany for sharing and providing media. It is based on the principle of reciprocity, i.e. every library contributes to and makes u
Search Methods
Handbuch Internet-Recherche: the focus of this German-language online guide for internet research is on searching for academic information.
Suchdienste-Kompass: the Suchdienste-Kompass (Search Services Finder) of the Bielefeld University Library explains in a user-friendly way how to achieve your internet search goal
Search Engines
Google Scholar: on Google Scholar, you can search for academic texts.
BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine): is one of the world's largest search engines for online academic documents. The index spans over 100 million documents from over 4,000 sources. Some 60% of the documents included in the BASE directory are fu
Portals
ViFa-Math: the Virtuelle Fachbibliothek Mathematik (Virtual Specialist Library for Mathematics) aims to facilitate research for information related to mathematics. Here, you can search for conventional media and electronic resources.
TIB-Portal: is the portal for specialist and research data for technical life science subjects. I
Networks and Central Libraries
KVK: The Karlsruher Virtuelle Katalog (Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog) allows for parallel searches in several catalogs at once, as well as in bookstore directories, for example. Currently, it can direct you to approximately 100 million books and journal titles worldwide.
HBZ: the Hochschulbibliothekszentr
