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The MPI Library in the Historical Building has been closed since September 5, 2022. Holdings not available at the SUB Göttingen have been transferred to the stacks of the SUB Göttingen Central Library and are currently being prepared there for local lending.

Since 10 July 2018, at the University of Göttingen - as well as at around 200 other well-known German scientific institutions - access to current full texts from Elsevier and Cell Press journals has been suspended by the publishers. At the University of Göttingen 440 Elsevier journals and another 12 titles belonging to Cell Press are affected.

Seit Ende November 2017 ist die Website des Fachinformationsdienstes Finnisch-ugrische / uralische Sprachen, Literaturen und Kulturen (FID FINNUG) online.
Eine der zentralen Aufgaben des FID FINNUG ist die bedarfsorientierte Erwerbung bzw. Lizenzierung hochspezialisierter originalsprachiger gedruckter und digitaler Medien, die sonst in Deutschland nicht verfügbar wären. Dazu gehören die Sprachen Estnisch, Finnisch, kleine finnisch-ugrische / uralische Sprachen und Ungarisch.

As part of the agreed cooperation on the ‘Göttingen Campus’ the collection of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (MPI-MMG) will temporarily move to the Historical Building of Göttingen State and University Library. The library of MPI-MMG has not been accessible since 2019 due to construction work. The MPI-MMG and the Göttingen State and University Library are currently preparing the installation of the library in the Historical Building at Papendiek.

As the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic have made it impossible to access printed content, some providers and publishers are opening up parts of their online content for access for a limited period of time without licensing agreements.
We compile the current offers for you and update them continuously.

Neben den bereits zugänglichen rechtwissenschaftlichen Lehrbüchern des Verlags Franz Vahlen sind ab sofort auch eine Vielzahl der Lehrbücher des Verlags C.H.Beck über die Datenbank beck-eLibrary lizenziert. Dieses Angebot löst die bis zum 30.11.2019 zugängliche beck-eBibliothek ab.

The e-book package utb-studi-e-book Geschichte has been newly acquired for history students.
It supplements existing textbooks that are licensed as e-books like the Cambridge Histories Online which are also available as e-books for members of the University of Göttingen.

The full texts of more than 1.600 German-language e-books published between 2017 and 2019 are now available on the Göttingen campus. Springer e-books in the social sciences and law offer a comprehensive range of books on sociology, political science, media and communication studies, law, criminology and criminal justice. View the complete list of titles here.

Göttingen State and University Library has licensed the majority of the e-books of the Wiley Online Library until 31 December 2019.
This gives you access to over 21,000 Wiley e-books, with a focus on life sciences, physics, medicine, technology and economics. In the course of the year further current titles will be added.
The e-books can be found in the Göttingen University Catalogue (GUK).

From now on, you can access the Romance Studies Bibliography Online Database from the University of Göttingen network. The Romance Studies Bibliography is the most comprehensive specialist bibliography in Romance languages and literature. It lists independent literature as well as articles in journals and anthologies on Romance literature and linguistics and is updated annually. Access is via the database information system DBIS.