The texts are available in PDF or HTML format and can only be accessed within the university network or from home via VPN(Opens in a new tab) .
All e-books are also available via our literature search engine RiO(Opens in a new tab) - in some cases with a time delay. Please note the different terms of use of the individual offers.
Usage information on e-books from individual publishers
beck-eLibrary. The specialist library (Beck, Vahlen, Schäffer-Poeschel & other publishers)
- E-book provider (publisher): beck-eLibrary (various publishers)
- License type: Multi-user license
- Download/print: possible chapter by chapter
- Access: within the university network or from home via VPN
Bloomsbury Collections (Bloomsbury)
- partly financed by the EBooks.NRW initiative
- E-book provider (publisher): Bloomsbury Collections (Bloomsbury)
- License type: Multi-user license
- Download/print: possible chapter by chapter. These are HTML pages that can be printed out or downloaded as a PDF document.
- Special feature: Access only to selected, licensed titles. Personal registration is not required.
- Access: within the university network or from home via VPN
content-select (Beltz, Campus, Lambertus and other publishers)
- E-book providers (publishers): content-select (Beltz, Campus, Lambertus)
- License type: Multi-user license
- Download/print: possible chapter by chapter
- Access: within the university network or from home via VPN
deGruyter.com (Birkhäuser, De Gruyter, Oldenbourg)
- E-book provider (publishers): degruyter.com (Birkhäuser, De Gruyter, Oldenbourg)
- License type: Multi-user license
- Download/print: possible chapter by chapter
- Special feature: Access only to selected, licensed titles
- Access: within the university network or from home via VPN
Duncker & Humblot elibrary
- Partly financed by the EBooks.NRW initiative
- E-book providers (publishers): Duncker & Humblot
- License type: Multi-user license
- Download/printout: Download/printout or online reading is also possible without registration
- Special feature: Access only to the e-books, not to the e-journals
- Access: within the university network or from home via VPN
E-Book Central (various publishers)
- E-book providers (publishers): E-Book Central (various publishers)
- License type: usually single-user license
- Download/printout: in PDF format, a download and printout of max. 40% of the number of pages is possible within 24 hours; in ePUB format, online reading and copying (copy & paste) are possible
- Special feature: Downloading/printing or online reading is also possible without registration. You can read more on the ProQuest platform(Opens in a new tab)
- Access: within the university network or from home via VPN
EBSCOhost (various publishers)
- E-book providers (publishers): EBSCOhost (various publishers)
- License type: Multi-user license/single-user license
- Download/print: up to 100 pages can be printed or downloaded simultaneously
- E-mail dispatch: possible page by page
- Special feature: access only to selected, licensed titles
- Access: within the university network or from home via VPN
elibrary.narr.digital (Narr Francke Attempto Verlag)
- partly financed by the EBooks.NRW initiative
- E-book provider (publisher): elibrary.narr.digital (Narr Francke Attempto Verlag)
- License type: Multi-user license
- Download/print: the complete e-book can be downloaded and/or printed as a PDF document
- Special feature: access only to selected, licensed titles
- Access: within the university network or from home via VPN
elibrary.utb (UTB, Reinhardt, Barbara Budrich and other publishers)
- partly financed by the EBooks.NRW initiative
- E-book provider (publisher): elibrary.utb (UTB)
- License type: Multi-user license
- Download/print: Titles can be read directly in the elibrary e-reader or downloaded as a PDF (utb titles with chapter-by-chapter download, all other titles as a whole)
- Access: within the university network or from home via VPN
Elsevier Publishing House
- E-book provider (publisher): via ScienceDirect (Elsevier Verlag)
- License type: Multi-user license
- Download/print: Online reading is possible without login; a maximum of 10% of the e-book title may be printed, copied or downloaded at one time
- Special feature: Download as PDF document or in ZIP format possible
- Access: within the university network or from home via VPN
Erich Schmidt Publishing House
- E-book providers (publishers): ESV campus (Erich Schmidt Verlag)
- License type: Multi-user license
- Download/print: entire book or chapter by chapter
- Special feature: Access only to selected, licensed titles
- Access: within the university network or from home via VPN
Hanser eLibary (Hanser)
- partly financed by the EBooks.NRW initiative
- E-book provider (publisher): Hanser (eLibary Hanser)
- License type: Multi-user license
- Download/print: possible chapter by chapter
- Special feature: Access only to selected, licensed titles
- Access: within the university network or from home via VPN
hogrefe elibrary (Hogrefe)
- E-book provider (publisher): hogrefe elibrary (Hogrefe)
- License type: Multi-user license
- Download/print: a maximum of 10 pages can be printed at once or a maximum of 50 pages per session can be downloaded as a PDF document
- Special feature: Access only to selected, licensed titles. Only online reading and browsing is permitted. A free, personal account must be created before downloading.
- Access: within the university network or from home via VPN
IDW-Verlag (WP Handbuch, WPg, IDW-Verlautbarungen, ESG-Navigator)
- E-book provider (publisher): IDW-Verlag (WP Handbuch, WPg, IDW-Verlautbarungen, ESG-Navigator)
- License type: Multi-user license
- Download/print: individual text sections or several text sections can be collected and then printed or downloaded. These are HTML pages that can be printed or downloaded as a PDF document. Section 60c UrhG applies, which states, among other things, that a maximum of 15% of the work may be reproduced for teaching purposes.
- Special feature: Access only to selected, licensed titles. Use only possible after personal registration or login.
- Access: within the university network or from home via VPN
Kohlhammer elibrary (Verlag W. Kohlhammer)
- E-book provider (publisher): Kohlhammer elibrary
- License type: Multi-user license
- Download/print: by chapter
- Special feature: Access only to selected, licensed titles
- Access: within the university network or from home via VPN
Meiner eLibrary (Meiner Verlag)
- partly financed by the EBooks.NRW initiative
- E-book provider (publisher): Meiner eLibrary (Meiner Verlag)
- License type: Multi-user license
- Download/print: by chapter
- Special feature: Access only to selected, licensed titles
- Access: within the university network or from home via VPN
Nomos eLibrary (Nomos, Psychosozial)
- partly financed by the EBooks.NRW initiative
- E-book provider (publisher): Nomos eLibrary (Nomos, Psychosozial)
- License type: Multi-user license
- Download/print: only individual chapters of an e-book may be downloaded and/or printed as a PDF document
- Access: within the university network or from home via VPN
Pearson study (Pearson)
- E-book provider (publisher): Pearson studium (Pearson)
- License type: Single-user license
- Download/printout: Printout page by page via the browser; download only possible page by page as PDF document
- Special feature: Copy&Paste is not possible
- Access: within the university network or from home via VPN
SpringerLink (Springer)
- E-book provider (publisher): SpringerLink (Springer)
- License type: Multi-user license
- Download/print: the complete e-book can be downloaded and/or printed as a PDF document
- Special feature: Access only to selected, licensed titles
- Access: within the university network or from home via VPN
Taylor & Francis eBooks
- E-book provider (publisher): Taylor & Francis (Taylor & Francis Group)
- License type: Multi-user license
- Download/print: Online reading is possible without login; a maximum of 20% of the e-book title may be printed, copied or downloaded at one time
- Special feature: Download as PDF document possible
- Access: within the university network or from home via VPN
VDI eLibrary
- E-book provider (publisher): VDI eLibrary (VDI)
- License type: Multi-user license
- Download/print: only individual chapters of an e-resource may be downloaded and/or printed as a PDF document
- Access: within the university network or from home via VPN
Wiley Online Library
- partly financed by the EBooks.NRW initiative
- E-book provider (publisher): Wiley Online Library (John Wiley & Sons)
- License type: Multi-user license
- Download/print: possible chapter by chapter
- Special feature: Access only to selected, licensed titles
- Access: within the university network or from home via VPN
Wiso eBooks (various publishers)
- E-book provider (publishers): Wiso eBooks (various publishers)
- License type: Multi-user license
- Download/print: the complete e-book can be downloaded and/or printed as a PDF document
- Access: within the university network or from home via VPN