Electronic books
The library of the Ludwigshafen University of Applied Sciences has an extensive range of subject-relevant licensed e-books for you to choose from
The media offer of the Ludwigshafen University Library includes a constantly growing number of e-books (which are usually electronic parallel editions of printed books) and other full texts of different formats, providers and with different terms of use and technical requirements for use.
How to find our e-books
A large proportion of the licensed e-books we offer (most e-books from Springer, titles licensed via ProQuest, Ciando or Content Select and many more) are listed in our Primo library catalog. The links in the catalog records of the individual titles will take you directly to the full texts.
Please note, however, that not all full texts that you can use via our library can be found in the OPAC!
Find and use full-text databases with e-books in DBIS, Springer e-books via miliBib eOPAC from Missing Link.
You can search and use all licensed full texts via the databases in which they are contained. - Our database information system (DBIS) provides you with information on all full-text databases with content that we have licensed (campus or national license), including those containing e-books.
Access to licensed full texts
Full-text e-books can be accessed from any computer connected to the campus network of the Ludwigshafen University of Business and Society.
Non-university members can only access our licensed e-books on the designated computers in the library.
University members can access most licensed e-books (including those from Springer) from home or while on the go after setting up a Virtual Private Network (VPN) client and authenticating via VPN.
Instructions for setting up the VPN client are available on the relevant page of our IT Service Center.
To use our e-book full texts licensed via ProQuest, university members can set up an account once. They then log in to the ProQuest platform - both within and outside the university's IP address range - using their user name and password, after which they can access the e-books.
You have free access to our e-books licensed through the aggregator Ciando on campus via IP authentication. In order to use Ciando e-books outside the university, a user account is required. As a university member, you can create this account as described in our instructions. Afterwards, you log in to the Ciando platform outside the IP address range of the university with your university email address and password and can then access the e-books.
Terms of use
When using our electronic resources subject to licensing, please observe copyright law and, in addition, the terms of use of the respective providers.
Propose e-books for licensing
If you can't find a specific academic publication in our collection and would like to read it in digital format, please let us know by filling out the "Acquisition Request" form on our website. Whenever possible, we will make the books available in digital format.
