Library from A to Z
Change of address
Please make sure that the contact and address details in your user account are always up to date. Your correct e-mail address is particularly important, as you will mainly receive notifications from us to your personal e-mail address.
We would like to take this opportunity to point out that reminder fees will also be charged if you do not receive reminders and reminders due to outdated data. You can update the address data in our Primo discovery system via
Login → Library card → Personal details → Edit details
to update them yourself. Alternatively, you can also inform us of your changed data on site, by telephone or by e-mail and have us update it for you.
Current information
Current information on changes to opening hours, dates and new features can be found on the library homepage.
Registration
Our university library is open to everyone. Use and borrowing are free of charge. To register, please fill out our registration form.
University members should present their university ID card (digital student ID card with library card folded out or employee or lecturer card, which functions as a library card after registration). Lecturers require a certificate from their own Department confirming the duration of their employment. Registration by e-mail is possible for university members if all required documents are attached as a scan or screenshot.
External university members will receive a chip card (guest card) from us for a one-off nominal fee of € 20.00. To register for borrowing, please bring your valid German identity card or passport/foreign ID with you in addition to the completed registration form, together with official proof of your current place of residence (not older than six months).
By registering, you accept the rules of use of our university library.
Procurement proposals
As a user of our library, you are welcome to make acquisition suggestions. Please first check our discovery system Primo to see if the requested item is already available. Then provide us with as complete bibliographical information as possible on the item you require.
You can also send us acquisition requests by e-mail using the New acquisition suggestion form provided.
Address and directions
Postal and visitor addresses for our branch libraries as well as information on how to find us can be found on our library information page.
Contact
Contact details for general information can be found on our Information about the library page, a list of our contact persons at the two library locations can be found on our Library team page.
Essays
The local and external resources listed in our discovery system Primo include print books from our collection, available e-books, databases, the university library's e-content and journals. An essential component is also the indexing of articles in specialist journals and book chapters in collective works that are available in printed or electronic form. In specialist jargon, articles and book chapters are also referred to as dependent literature.
In addition to searching for articles in the discovery system, the use of specialized databases is recommended, as these often offer more comprehensive and targeted information that may not be available in the discovery system.
To access journal articles that are not indexed and findable in Primo, please check the Electronic Journals Library (EZB) for access to the relevant e-journals. The availability of printed journal articles can be determined via our directory of print journals.
Classification of the collection and indexing (library systematics)
For information on subject classification and the systematic listing of our holdings, please visit our page listing- and indexing-classification.
Information
Contact details for enquiries can be found on our Library information page.
Lending, lending period
The following rules apply to borrowing items from our library's collection:
Items can be borrowed on presentation of a valid library card at the circulation desk or at the self-checkout machine. The majority of our holdings can be borrowed. As a rule, items cannot be borrowed:
- Loose-leaf collections
- newspapers
- tests
- Media with a red adhesive strip (reference collection)
- Books from semester collections
Reserved media are available for you at the circulation desk.
The loan period is usually 28 days. A shortened loan period of 14 days applies to books that have been reserved several times. Once the loan has been booked, you will automatically receive an e-mail confirmation with the due date for the return of the individual items you have borrowed.
The loan period can be extended by a further 28 days as long as no other user has reserved the media unit in question for loan. Borrowed literature and other information media for which the loan period has been extended must be returned at the library's request before the loan period expires.
Extensions can be made after you have logged in to our discovery system Primo. You can also extend loan periods at the self-checkout desk. In justified exceptional cases, you can arrange renewals by telephone or e-mail.
Please remember to extend loan periods in good time before they expire. This way, if a loan period cannot be extended, you have the opportunity to return the media unit in question on time and without incurring overdue fees (see our fee schedule page).
The loan period for professors at Ludwigshafen University of Business and Society is six months. However, if a media unit has been reserved, it must be returned within one week after 28 days.
The loan period of six months can be extended once by 28 days. At the end of this period, the borrowed item must be returned.
Receipts
- Loan and return receipt: When borrowing and returning media - also at our self-checkout machines - you will automatically receive a confirmation by e-mail.
- Fee receipt: You will receive a paper receipt for the payment of fees on site.
Important note: Please check the details directly on site or in your inbox. This is the only way we can correct any errors immediately.
User account
By clicking on "Login", you will be taken to your user account in the Primo discovery system after authentication. There you will find information about borrowed or reserved media, the status of availability at our locations and any fees due. You can also use your account to independently extend loan periods and delete reservations.
User group
The library can be used by all members and affiliates of the Ludwigshafen University of Business and Society. Furthermore, our services are also available to guest users in accordance with the user regulations, § 5 and § 8.
Terms of use and fees
Use of the university library is subject to acceptance of our user and fee regulations.
Provision of media
Reserved media from our holdings
As soon as a medium you have reserved is returned, we will inform you immediately by e-mail. The item will remain reserved for you for one week at the circulation desk of the relevant branch library. If the item is not collected within this period, it will be returned to the open stacks.
Inventory
Most of our stock is freely accessible and arranged systematically (see our page on library classification). This enables you not only to select literature via our discovery system, but also to search for suitable books directly on the shelf ("shelf browsing").
The large groups are labelled on the front of the shelves, while the signs on the shelves serve to further subdivide the groups.
Find out more about the stock arrangement in our library introductions.
Library in numbers
Key figures for the Ludwigshafen University of Business and Society Library and comparisons with other libraries can be found in the German Library Statistics (DBS).
Library Committee
Library card
Students use the digital student ID card, on which the library card is folded out, as their library card. Employees use the employee ID card and lecturers use the lecturer card.
When registering for a loan, external university members receive a guest card for a fee, which is required, among other things, to record loans.
Library Tours
Information can be found on our page Teaching information literacy.
Library Profile
The University Library is an information service provider primarily for the teaching staff and students of the Ludwigshafen University of Business and Society. In addition, it is open to all persons whose activities or interests require its use.
The library's collection focuses on
- Business administration and related fields
- Social work, nursing science and nursing education, midwifery science as well as relevant aspects from related disciplines such as sociology, education, psychology, law, medicine, etc.
- Economy of the countries of East and Southeast Asia
Databases
For information about our range of databases and how to use them, please see our Databases page.
In addition, we have systematically compiled the licensed and freely accessible bibliographic, full-text and factual databases relevant to the various Departments on our subject-specific information pages.
Database Information System (DBIS)
The Database Information System (DBIS) is an important and reliable tool for researching information in databases. DBIS lists scientific databases that are available for use within the framework of national licenses and those that are freely accessible online.
There is a description of the content of each database, which you can view freely. However, you can only use fee-based databases if the Ludwigshafen University of Business and Society Library has purchased access or if you have registered to use an online service provided under a national license.
You can search in DBIS via a subject overview or via an alphabetical list.
Database training
Information can be found on our page Teaching information literacy.
Database and internet research
PCs are available in the branch libraries for your database and internet searches and for printing out research results.
A WLAN wireless network is activated for the use of laptops you bring with you. You can access our licensed online resources from off campus using a Virtual Private Network (VPN). You can find more information on our Access to licensed electronic resources page.
Find out about our range of licensed databases, full-text e-journals and e-books on our Databases, Electronic Journals and Electronic Books pages.
On our pages on subject-related information you will find numerous details for your search and procurement of interdisciplinary and subject-specific literature and information, such as contact persons, subject-relevant databases, collections of links to electronic resources and much more.
Privacy policy
The library of the Ludwigshafen University of Business and Society stores the following data in its electronic library management system:
- First and last name
- Address, telephone number, e-mail address
- Status (student, external user, education...)
- Borrowing data (issue and return data, number of borrowings ...)
The personal data is used for the administration of transaction data (local loans). Furthermore, personal data may be passed on in the event of dunning proceedings (to the budget department of the Ludwigshafen University of Business and Society and/or to the Landesoberkasse Mainz) and in the event of criminal proceedings.
After termination of the user relationship, all personal data will be deleted.
Theft
We will report any theft to the police. We will also request a temporary or permanent exclusion from using the library.
Information can be found on our page Copier, Printer, Scanner.
E-books
You can find information on our Electronic books page.
Introductory events
Information can be found on our page Teaching information literacy.
E-Learning
With the digital media compiled for you on our e-learning page, we would like to support you in familiarizing yourself with important tools for literature and information research and with the requirements of scientific work in a flexible manner in terms of time and location, possibly in addition to our training and advisory services.
Electronic journals
Via our Electronic Journals Library (EZB) you have access to electronic scientific journals that are activated in the campus network (and can also be accessed via VPN ) or are generally freely accessible.
Electronic Journals Library (EZB)
You can use our Electronic Journals Library (EZB) to search for a large number of international electronic full-text journals in all subject areas and access the full texts of e-journals that are activated on the campus network and those that are generally freely accessible on the web. In the case of electronic full-text journals that are not accessible, you often at least have the option of viewing abstracts and tables of contents.
To search for specific electronic journals, please use the simple search offered in the Electronic Journals Library (search slot "quick search") or the advanced search.
Please note: From off-campus, you can only access licensed e-journals that are available campus-wide by dialing into the campus network via Virtual Private Network (VPN). You can find out more about VPN on our page External access to electronic resources.
Electronic newspapers
Electronic newspapers to which you have access can be found on our Departmental Information > General / Interdisciplinary Information page under Selected Press Sources, via our Database Information System (DBIS) and via our Electronic Journals Library (EZB).
Evaluation
The last library evaluation took place in 2019. You can find a brief overview of the results in our results flyer. You can view the full results report here.
In the March 2020 issue of our university magazine SPEKTRUM, you will find an article entitled "Eva(luation) & the tree of knowledge" by library director Torsten Haß on pages 78 to 80, which also discusses the implementation of the measures defined following the evaluation.
The facilities and services of our three branch libraries were previously evaluated in 2013. You can view the results of the user survey at the Ludwigshafen University of Business and Society Library here.
External access to licensed digital offerings
University members can also use licensed library resources from outside the campus.
Library users who are not members of the university can access all online services after registering at the information desk at the library's PC workstations.
For more information, see our page External access to licensed digital services.
Specialized information
For your search and procurement of interdisciplinary and subject-specific literature and information, you will find relevant databases, collections of links to electronic resources and much more on the following subject-related pages.
Interlibrary Loan
Through the interlibrary loan service, you can request nearly all the reference books and journal articles you need from other libraries if they are not available locally and cannot be acquired for our university library’s collection.
Procedure and Contact:
The Ludwigshafen University Library does not offer its own interlibrary loan service. Users of our library can use the partner library, the University Library of Mannheim, for this purpose (detailed information on interlibrary loans at the University Library of Mannheim). Requests are generally submitted electronically by the user. The UB Mannheim team provides support for questions or difficulties and is responsible for the rest of the service process.
- Registration: One-time registration via the UB Mannheim registration form.
- Ordering: You can place your interlibrary loan order directly via the Mannheim University Library’s order form .
- Fees: The Mannheim University Library currently charges a fee of €1.50 per interlibrary loan request.
Subito Document Delivery Service:
For particularly urgent requests, the Subito document delivery service can be used. This service is used independently and outside the library’s services, at the user’s own expense. Articles are usually delivered directly to the user’s personal address within 72 hours (plus postal delivery time if sent by mail).
Freehand setup
Our book and journal collections are, as far as possible, freely accessible. This is known as open access shelving. The systematic arrangement of the holdings allows you to "browse" the stock groups and discover literature that you were not actually looking for.
Tours
Information can be found on our page Teaching information literacy.
Fees
The use of the university library is generally free of charge. However, you will incur costs if you exceed the loan period. External users require a guest card, which they can obtain for a one-off fee.
If you were unable to extend loan periods or return borrowed media on time due to illness, we will waive any reminder fees incurred on presentation of a medical certificate.
Please refer to our fee schedule for the amount of our fees.
Library fees can only be paid cashless with the multifunctional electronic chip card(StudiCard, employee ID card, guest card) of the Ludwigshafen University of Business and Society. The card can be topped up at cash top-up machines in the B-building on Ernst-Boehe-Straße (only with banknotes) and at the cafeteria cash desks in the B-building.
Mobile
Cell phones must be muted. Cell phone calls are not permitted in the library.
Information Services
Information can be found on our page Teaching information literacy.
International interlibrary loan
Our university library does not actively or passively participate in international interlibrary loan.
If a book you need that has been published abroad is not available in any German library that participates in interlibrary loan, you have the option of placing a corresponding interlibrary loan order via another library, for example Mannheim University Library.
Catalog
The holdings of our two branch libraries are listed in our discovery system Primo. You can use this to find out whether the media you require are currently available or on loan, for example, and you can reserve borrowed materials for yourself.
You can also use Primo to view your loan account and extend loan periods yourself.
You can find more information about our catalog on our Primo online library catalog page.
Catalogs from libraries in the region, among others, can be found on our Other catalogs page, subject-specific catalogs on our subject-specific information pages.
Contact
Our postal, delivery and visitor addresses as well as our telephone numbers can be found on the library information page.
Copy
Information can be found on our page Copier, Printer, Scanner.
Site plan
Use our map to find the two branch libraries of Ludwigshafen University of Business and Society.
Study and work rooms
The university library offers six group study rooms and eight cubes - free-standing, soundproofed room-in-room modules that create a quiet environment for concentrated work. Seven of these cubes are designed for groups and are equipped with standard media technology. The eighth cube is designed for individual work and is equipped with a power socket.
They are reserved in units of 45 minutes each. In order to ensure a fair distribution of workstations, we ask you to keep the booking duration per day moderate. A media set with the necessary utensils for using the technology - such as whiteboard markers, remote control, adapter cable and instructions - can be borrowed from the lending desk.
Please use the corresponding links for your booking:
Literature management
Information and links to tools for literature management can be found on our page Scientific work and literature management.
Loose-leaf collections
Loose-leaf collections are constantly being added to and are therefore very up-to-date. They are generally excluded from lending.
Reminders, overdraft fees
Shortly before the loan period expires, we will send you a free e-mail reminder that the items you have borrowed are due for return. This reminder e-mail is an additional service provided by the library, which we offer without guarantee and which does not release you from the obligation to ensure that you return items on time.
Shortly after the loan period has expired, you will receive a first reminder by e-mail , followed by any further reminders at seven-day intervals. The last reminder will be sent by post.
Media replacement
If a medium you have borrowed is lost, please inform us immediately. This will prevent you from incurring (further) overdue fees.
We have to replace lost and severely damaged media at your expense.
Since June 2014, media replacement costs can only be paid cashless with the multifunctional electronic chip card(StudiCard, employee ID card, guest card) of the Ludwigshafen University of Business and Society. The card can be topped up at rechargers in the B-building on Ernst-Boehe-Straße (only with banknotes) and at the cafeteria cash desk in the B-building.
Media return box
Media units that you have borrowed from the Central Library can be returned to the media return box outside opening hours. This is located in the entrance area of the pedestrian passage of the C-building, opposite the short sentence "ICH WEISS" (I KNOW) in blue illuminated letters at eye level (note: this short sentence is part of the art-in-architecture work "ES WIRD, ICH WEISS - ICH WEISS, ES WIRD", which was inspired by the main work "Das Prinzip Hoffnung" (The Principle of Hope) by the Ludwigshafen-born philosopher Ernst Bloch).
The return box is emptied in the morning before the library opens and the contents are returned. As a user, you are responsible for returning borrowed media on time.
Please do not put any media in the box that you have borrowed from the library collection at the East Asia Institute. Please make sure that supplements cannot fall out of books. When the return box is full, it closes automatically.
Employees of the university library
You can find the names and e-mail addresses of our university library staff and information on their responsibilities on our library team page.
National licenses
In order to sustainably improve the supply of electronic specialist information at German universities, research institutions and scientific libraries, the German Research Foundation (DFG) has been funding the acquisition of national licenses for electronic media since 2004.
Notation (subject group)
We use the Regensburg Union Classification (RVK) to classify the contents of our physical holdings. The former classification system of the Central Library and the former classification system of the former Social and Health Services Library now only apply to stacks.
The content of each physical medium is classified using at least one notation. A notation marks a precisely defined subject area within a classification system and thus assigns the medium to a subject group. The structure of the notations in detail:
- Notations of the Regensburg Union Classification (RVK):
These consist of two capital letters and a three- to five-digit number sequence.
Example: AK 39540 = General: Science studies and science organization: Introduction to scientific work. - Notations of the former classification system of the Central Library:
These consist of a capital letter followed by a number.
Example: U 9 = Marketing: distribution costs. - Notations of the former classification system of the former Social and Health Services Library:
These consist of a capital letter followed by one to two lower case letters and, if necessary, one to three numbers.
Example: Fmk 2 = Law: Youth employment law.
The notation forms the core of the content of each shelfmark. The latter can be found both in the copy data of our discovery system and on the spine of the book and enables the systematic, thematic organization of the media on the shelf.
Use RVK notations for a targeted search in our discovery system Primo to find media in a specific subject group. This gives you an overview of all titles that are grouped together thematically in our open stacks.
Opening hours
The current opening hours of the sub-libraries can be found on our Opening Hours page, where you will also find information on changes to the opening hours.
Open Access
Open Access stands for free access to qualified scientific publications, i.e. the texts are free of charge and publicly accessible on the Internet. They can be read, downloaded, copied, distributed and printed without financial, legal or technical barriers. The author always retains the copyright to his or her contribution.
Local Lending
Local lending is the traditional method of borrowing media directly from our collections on site. In contrast to interlibrary loans, you simply take the books or journals you want from our branch libraries home with you.
Password
Access to your user account in the Primo discovery system is via a password. This will be sent to you by e-mail as part of your registration.
Security
A secure password consists of at least eight characters and combines upper and lower case letters with numbers and special characters. To increase security, you should not use real names or common words.
Tip: Complex passwords can be easily generated using the first letters of a sentence (e.g. "My favorite book has 600 pages!" results in "MlBh600S!").
Forgot your password?
If you need to reset your password, just send us a short message. We will then send you a link where you can choose a new password.
Mailing
You can also return borrowed media to us by post. Please note, however, that you bear the shipping risk and must replace any media lost in the post.
Presence stocks
The following items are not available for loan and can only be used in the rooms of the respective branch library:
- important reference works and one copy each of multiple textbooks that should be permanently available
- Loose-leaf collections
- Journal issues of the current year
- bound journal volumes
- newspapers
- Tests (loaned to education staff only)
- Books from semester collections
- all holdings of the East Asia Institute Branch Library
Reference collections are identified by a red band on the upper spine, a red stripe above the shelfmark or a red shelfmark.
In the copy display in the Primo discovery system, you can recognize these holdings by the loan status "Not available for loan".
Overnight or weekend loans of reference collections may be possible. Loose-leaf collections are excluded from this option.
Publications by educators
You can find a list of publications by full-time lecturers in the University Library's collection on our page Publications by our lecturers.
Public workstations
Our library users have numerous public workstations at their disposal for learning and working. These are mainly located in the open access area, the group study rooms and the room-in-room modules of the Central Library. While power connections and Internet access via WLAN are available for mobile devices, fixed research stations enable targeted searches in the Primo discovery system and databases. In addition, university members will find two PC workstations in the print and copy room for extended use (login via campus account).
Legal basis
The use of the library is based on our user and fee regulations.
Regensburg Composite Classification (RVK)
Since mid-2012, our library has been using the Regensburg Union Classification (RVK ), which is widely used in academic libraries, to catalog and systematically list its holdings. The reclassification and arrangement of the majority of our media units according to the RVK, which has been ongoing since 2012, was completed in 2015. The previous classifications of our three library locations have thus been completely or largely replaced; two of the previous classifications are still used to list a small part of our total holdings (older, little-used books from the Central Library and the Social and Health Sciences Library) in our closed stacks.
The RVK is an instrument with which we can carry out subject indexing in a more modern and rational way than was possible on the basis of the three old in-house classifications. For example, we can now make newly acquired books available to you even more quickly than before because we often use external services for our classification work.
By switching to the RVK as the only classification system and common basis for our open access collection, we are making it easier and quicker for you to find literature. In the planned new university building, in which the sub-libraries will then be brought together, literature that belongs together in terms of content will ultimately not be presented in different places, but as close together as possible.
Return of media
You can only return borrowed items to the library location where you borrowed them. This regulation can be deviated from after consultation with the head librarian.
You may incur overdue fines if you return items late.
Media can be returned at the circulation desk or at the self-checkout machine (only available in the Central Library and in the Social and Health Services Library).
A media return box is available in the Social and Health Services Library for returning media outside opening hours.
If you return borrowed media by post after consultation with the library (!), please note that you bear the shipping risk and must replace any media that are lost in the post. Please also note that the loan period will continue to run for the duration of the postal delivery and you may incur overdue fines.
Scan
Information can be found on our page Copier, Printer, Scanner.
Keyword
Keywords describe the content of a document on the basis of a standardized list of terms. They are assigned on the basis of a content analysis by experts in compliance with agreed regulations (e.g. RSWK = rules for the subject headings catalog). Subject headings offer the possibility of carrying out systematic research on a topic, e.g. in a library catalog or a bibliographic database. Subject headings do not have to appear in the documents themselves and therefore often differ from keywords.
Self-booking
A self-checkout terminal is available in the Central Library and in our library in the East Asia Institute. During opening hours, you can check out and return media and extend loan periods for borrowed books.
You will need your valid StudiCard, your employee ID card or your guest card to book loans and extend loan periods. Loan bookings are not possible if your account is blocked due to overdue media returns or outstanding fees.
A receipt is automatically sent to you by email for all bookings. In case of doubt, you can only prove that a borrowed item has been returned by means of the corresponding receipt.
If you have any questions about self-checkout, please contact the library staff.
Signature
The shelfmark is the "address" of a book or medium in our library. You can find it both in the Primo search portal and directly on the spine of the book.
The shelfmark has two functions to guide you to your destination:
- Thematic assignment(The notation): As the core of the shelfmark, the notation ensures that the medium is in the correct subject group. This allows you to find thematically related books directly next to each other.
- Exact placement: The overall shelfmark enables the alphabetically correct classification within this group. It therefore tells you the exact location on the shelf.
Subito
Subito is a fee-based and fast document delivery service for academic libraries in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Subito offers access to copies of printed journals or books as well as (via participating libraries or directly to the end user) the delivery of books for loan.
The Ludwigshafen University of Business and Society Library is not involved in Subito, i.e. its holdings cannot be ordered via Subito and it does not act as an intermediary.
Partial libraries
The library of the Ludwigshafen University of Business and Society consists of two sub-libraries:
| Location | Collection focus | |
|---|---|---|
| Central Library | Ernst-Boehe-Straße 4, Building C, first floor | Business administration and related fields, Social work, nursing, nursing education, midwifery and related fields |
| Library in the East Asia Institute | Rheinpromenade 12, 2nd floor | Economies of the countries of East and Southeast Asia |
You can find our contact details on our library information page.
Overnight and weekend lending
Reference collections from our specialist libraries for Business (Ernst-Boehe-Straße) and Social and Health Sciences (Maxstraße) can be borrowed overnight or over a Sunday or public holiday from one opening day to the next.
To ensure that these media are accessible to users on site, they can only be collected immediately before closing and must be returned on the next opening day immediately after opening.
The reference collections of the library in the East Asia Institute (Rheinpromenade) cannot be borrowed overnight, over the weekend or on public holidays!
Use Mannheim University Library
Members of the Ludwigshafen University of Business and Society can borrow materials from the Mannheim University Library at no charge and access the databases and electronic full-text resources licensed by the library on the University of Mannheim campus.
Please refer to our brief information sheet about the Mannheim University Library and its use by members of the Ludwigshafen University of Applied Sciences.
Copyright
Individual reproductions of a work by a natural person for private use on any medium are permitted, provided they do not serve either direct or indirect commercial purposes(Section 53.1 UrhG). Further information on the reproduction of protected works for your own non-commercial academic research in accordance with Section 60c UrhG can be found in the relevant information sheet from the Legal Commission of the German Library Association. Please refer to the chart of Osnabrück University to find out which materials may be made available electronically in university teaching.
Union catalogs
A union catalog lists the holdings of several libraries in one database or under one interface. There are regional, national and subject-specific union catalogs. The participating institutions are predominantly academic libraries. Union catalogs are particularly interesting for finding location references and facilitate and accelerate the process of interlibrary loan requests.
Behavior in the library
The library should be a pleasant and quiet place to learn and work for all users.
Your behavior has a significant influence on the working atmosphere in the library. We therefore ask for your personal support by observing a few basic regulations:
- Overclothing, umbrellas and bags may not be taken into the library and must be stowed in the lockers provided before entering the library.
- Eating and drinking from open containers is not permitted in the library.
- Smoking is prohibited in the entire university library.
- Cell phones must be muted. Making calls on cell phones or via IP telephony (e.g. Skype) is prohibited within the library premises.
- In the interest of everyone, conversations must always be conducted quietly.
- Please behave in such a way that library media, facilities and equipment are not damaged or soiled.
Shortened loan period for multiple reserved books
The loan period is usually 28 days. A shortened loan period of 14 days applies to books that have been reserved several times.
Extension of the loan period
The loan period of a media item borrowed from our holdings can be extended by 28 days as long as no other user has pre-ordered the item in question.
You can extend the loan period yourself via our discovery system Primo. To do this, log in to Primo with your user ID and password. Then click on your name in the top right-hand corner to open the pull-down menu. Select the option "My loans" to get to the place where you can view your loan account and extend loan periods. You can also extend loan periods at the self-checkout machines in the Central Library and in the library of the East Asia Institute. In justified exceptional cases, you can extend loan periods by telephone or e-mail.
Items borrowed from our collections for which the loan period has been extended must be returned before the end of the loan period if the library requests them.
Virtual private network (VPN)
To access our licensed databases, electronic journals and newspapers, and e-books from off-campus, you need access to the university network. Our IT Service Center provides this access to university members via a VPN connection. For more information on installing the client and logging in, please refer to the IT Service Center’s guide on setting up a VPN. If you have any questions or problems with your VPN connection, please contact the IT Service Center directly.
Prebooking
If you have found an item in our catalog that is currently on loan, you can reserve it for yourself ( Reserve button in the item list). By placing a hold on the item, the current borrower of the item will no longer be able to extend the loan period.
If there are several reservations for a borrowed item at the same time, the possible loan period for this item is reduced to 14 days.
If you would like to borrow an item that we have ordered from a bookseller and is not yet available, we will be happy to reserve it for you. Please let us know your reservation request by telephone, e-mail or in person.
As soon as an item you have reserved is available, it will be made available for you to borrow for one week. You will be informed automatically by e-mail that you can collect it and at which of our library locations.
You can delete reservations that you no longer need yourself via your user account.
Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN)
Education roaming (eduroam) offers you secure access to Wi-Fi at our university and other educational institutions.
You can find instructions on how to use eduroam WLAN for members of the Ludwigshafen University of Business and Society on the page Instructions for setting up eduroam in our IT Service Center.
Scientific work
Information and links to resources for your scientific work can be found on our page Scientific work and literature management.
Magazines
The issues of the current year of subscribed specialist journals are mainly located on the journal shelves. Some of the older holdings are in the stacks.
Our Print Journals Directory page provides you with comprehensive information about our holdings of printed journals, including precise location details. Information on our range of electronic journals can be found on our Electronic Journals page.
Newspapers
The current issues of the following newspapers are available in the reading rooms of the branch libraries. Newspapers from the Central Library are archived for at least a few weeks and for up to the current year; newspapers from the other branch libraries are not archived.
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You can find the electronic newspapers you have access to on our page “Department-Specific Information > General / Interdisciplinary” under “Selected Press Sources,” via our Database Information System (DBIS), and via our Electronic Journal Library (EZB).
Access to licensed digital offerings
You can use our licensed resources - databases, e-books, e-journals, e-papers - on all PCs on campus as well as within the university's IP address range with your own terminal devices via the Wireless Local Area Network (W-LAN).
University employees can also access licensed resources (with a few exceptions) from home.
For more information, see our Access to Licensed Digital Resources page.