Portals
TIB-Portal: is the portal for specialist and research data for technical life science subjects. In the TIB Portal, you have access to more than 170 million data sets from specialist databases, publishers, and library catalogs. Researching is free of charge.
EconBiz (Virtual Specialist Library for Economic Sciences): EconBiz originated as
Resources for full texts
EZB: Access to more than 47,000 academic publications and e-journals, half of which are freely available in their entirety. It also contains online publications for which the Hochschule Kaiserslautern’s University Library is licensed, so they are available across the whole campus. You can search for publications alphabetic
Search Engines
Google Scholar: on Google Scholar, you can search for academic texts.
BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine): is one of the world's largest search engines for online academic documents. The index spans over 100 million documents from over 4,000 sources. Some 60% of the documents included in the BASE directory are full texts avail
Portal Applied Life Sciences
Networks and Central Libraries
KVK: The Karlsruher Virtuelle Katalog (Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog) allows for parallel searches in several catalogs at once, for example in bookstore directories as well. Currently, it can direct you to approximately 100 million books and journal titles worldwide.
HBZ: the Hochschulbib
Databases
DBIS: A cooperative project for the usage of scientific online and CD-ROM databases. Campus wide free access to specialized databases licensed by the university library and 4,500 free online databases.
Sciencedirect: Elsevier offers its journal archive in subject-specific collections. The national licence contains a total of around 1,5
Networks and Central Libraries
KVK: The Karlsruher Virtuelle Katalog (Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog) allows for parallel searches in several catalogs at once, for example in bookstore directories as well. Currently, it can direct you to approximately 100 million books and journal titles worldwide.
HBZ: the Hochschulbibliothekszentrum (University Lib
Online Inter-Library Loans
Online-Fernleihe: the portal for online inter-library loans, officially known in German as “Deutscher Leihverkehr”, is a cooperative establishment by libraries in the Federal Republic of Germany for sharing and providing media. It is based on the principle of reciprocity, i.e. every library contributes to and makes use o
Portals
LIVIVO: The ZB MED search portal for life sciences offers access to a wide range of specialist information. The search results can usually be accessed online or can be ordered directly.
TIB-Portal: is the portal for specialist and research data for technical life science subjects. In the TIB Portal, you have access to more than 170 milli
Resources for full texts
EZB: Access to more than 47,000 academic publications and e-journals, half of which are freely available in their entirety. It also contains online publications for which the Hochschule Kaiserslautern’s University Library is licensed, so they are available across the whole campus. You can search for publications alphabetic
