Additional e-media offers
In light of past library closures, many publishers temporarily expanded access to their electronic media to support studies, research and teaching. Below you will find an overview of all offers that have to date been made accessible for KU members. Some offers still exist, some have been additionally licensed by the University Library. An overview of the offers available for KU members can be found below.
You can find more than 159.300 additional e-books easily in OPAC. Here you will find the entire temporary e-book offer that is currently available in OPAC.
In order to be able to access most content provided by the publishers, you must be logged onto the university network via VPN. For individual licensed online media, access is also possible via Shibboleth or HAN.
Additional E-media
⇒ De Gruyter
Access to all e-books from De Gruyter and the imprints (including the frontlist and textbooks) as part of an EBS project, provided e-book rights are available for these titles. Numerous publishing partners are also involved (without participation: Bristol University Press (incl. Policy Press), Manchester University Press, RWS Verlag, Stanford University Press, University of Chicago Press, Verlag Dr. Otto Schmidt). Includes the book archive of Akademie-Verlag.
Until December 31. 2024. Access via Shibboleth. Also available in OPAC.
⇒FAZ
Currently external access via VPN possible. Access is also made via DBIS and Shibboleth.
⇒ HERDT Campus - All YOU CAN READ
Access to a large number of learning documents (e-books and digital Book with additional media) on current topics related to IT, such as Windows and Office including Microsoft 365, teams, programming, image processing, web development and much more. Until December 31, 2024. Also available in OPAC.
⇒ Meiner
Access to all e-books published by Felix-Meiner-Verlag (excluding the publishers Helmut Buske and Zu Klampen) as part of an EBS project.
Until December 31. 2024. Access via Shibboleth. Also available in OPAC.
⇒ MIT Press: HSS Backfile Monographs | Direct to Open (D2O)
Access to 1.335 e-books (incl. open access titles) as part of MIT Press's participation in the open access model "Direct to Open" (D2O) in the field of humanities and social sciences (HSS).
Until December 31. 2024. Access via Shibboleth. Also available in OPAC.
⇒ Nomos + Partner | Science + Textbook | Humanities and Social Sciences
Access to e-books from Nomos + partner publishers (both academic titles and textbooks) in the humanities and social sciences as part of an EBS project.
Until December 31. 2024. Access via Shibboleth. Also available in OPAC.
⇒Taylor & Francis
Access to e-Books of Taylor & Francis as part of an EBS projects: Behavioral Sciences, Computer Sciences and Politics & International Relations (2017–2023). Until 28.02.2025. Access via Shibboleth. Also available in OPAC.
⇒ utb-studi-e-books
Teaching and study literature from the academic publishers from Germany, Austria and Switzerland that are members of UTB. Access until August 31,2024, also via DBIS and Shibboleth. Also available in OPAC.