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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.

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.

In the past, lecturers and students at the University of Göttingen could only access e-media from off-campus via our HAN server.
From now on, you can also use e-media worldwide via the Virtual Private Network (VPN) of the GWDG.
The introduction of the GWDG Identity Management and adaptations to the VPN infrastructure of the GWDG were the prerequisites for this new service.

Der Heimzugang zur juristischen Volltextdatenbank beck-online ist ab sofort auch für Studierende möglich und erfolgt über ein gesondertes Authentifizierungsverfahren.
Hierzu ist zunächst ein persönlicher beck-online-Account sowie eine spezielle Authentifizierungs-App („Authenticator“) für das Smartphone erforderlich.

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.

Alle Angehörigen der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen haben Zugriff auf die digitalen IT-Handbücher des HERDT-Verlags.
Die Handbücher stehen als druckbare PDF-Dateien zum Download zur Verfügung. Zudem haben Sie direkten Zugang zu abgestimmten digitalen Zusatzmaterialien wie z. B. Lernvideos, Wissenstests und Übungen.