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
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
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
Networks and Central Libraries
KVK: The Karlsruher Virtuelle Katalog (Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog) allows for parallel searches in several catalogs at once, as well as in bookstore directories, for example. Currently, it can direct you to approximately 500 million books and journal titles worldwide.
HBZ: the Hochschulbibliothekszentrum (University
About us
The University Library is a central establishment of the Hochschule Kaiserslautern at the three campuses; Kaiserslautern, Pirmasens, and Zweibruecken. As a service center for print and electronic information services, we provide university members with academic literature and information. We are also open to external users.
The Universi
Our Research Profile
With the establishment of the applied research focus areas, the Hochschule Kaiserslautern has been on the way to improving its research profile for many years now. These research focus areas involve university-wide cooperations between Professors that work on externally funded projects. They are designed to be interdisciplinar
We contribute to
Transferring scientific expertise into practice Enabling a successful transfer of knowledge and technology, based on a level of trust instilled by personal contact Enhancing the region’s economic development and ensuring a supply of academically qualified future employees Making the university’s potential more transparent Op
