Library
The library at the University of Applied Sciences Mainz is the central service centre for electronic and printed information services. It procures, documents and provides the entire teaching and research media available at the University of Applied Sciences.
The library is one of the central university facilities and offers its comprehensive services to members of the University of Applied Sciences for studies, teaching, research and further education. Apart from this it is also available to external users.
The library is currently situated at the two locations Holzstraße and Campus. The libraries at these locations provide the media for the faculties situated there: engineering and design at the location Holzstraße, economics at the location at Campus.
The library is supervised by the library committee. Each faculty is represented by 2 professors and 1 student and the library by the head of the entire library. To obtain an up-to-date list of persons, please refer to the download “library committee”.
Media inventory
The library provides books, journals, electronic media and videos for the subject areas taught at the University of Applied Sciences. In addition, it offers daily and weekly newspapers, general reference books etc. The inventory is as a rule freely accessible to everyone. Exceptions are CDs, DVDs, videos, DIN standards which must be asked for at the counter.
The inventory can be looked up online under OPAC .
The setup of the media inventory is the responsibility of the professors. Any suggestions made by students are much appreciated. Please use the forms in downloads “literature suggestion by students” and “order form for teachers”. Monthly lists of new acquisitions in the local libraries can also be found under downloads.
Databases
The library provides access free of charge to various databases.
Location Holzstraße:
- RSWB
- SCHADIS
- Art forum
- WISO
- Business databases
Location Campus:
- Beck-online (reference and full text database for legal literature)
- WISO (Genios full text database for economics)
- Business Source Elite (EBSCO full text database economics)
- Econbiz (reference database economics)
- Hoppenstedt (company database)
Lending
The library is mainly intended to be used as a reference library. The majority of the inventory can, however, be borrowed, with the exception of general reference books, loose paperwork, standards, journals and newspapers. The lending period for books is 3 weeks, for audiovisual and electronic media 1 week, for media from the textbook collection 6 weeks. An extension of the lending period and advance bookings are possible, except for the collection of textbooks.
On registration all users receive a user account in OPAC, where they can view, for example, lent items and any prebookings and extend the lending period.
To view the special regulations for lending, please refer to downloads “library rules” and “terms of use”.
Interlibrary lending
Within the framework of the Hessische Bibliothekssystem (HEBIS) (Hessian library system) the library is part of the national interlibrary lending system. All members of the University of Applied Sciences are entitled to interlibrary lending.
Orders via interlibrary lending are subject to charge.
Information on interlibrary lending can be found in downloads “interlibrary lending order form” and “interlibrary lending information”.
Fees
Using the library is free of charge. On exceeding the lending period, default fines will be imposed, which are due without further reminder. The default fine amounts can be taken from the terms of use.
Library catalogues
University of Applied Sciences Mainz
Media inventory and user accounts of the libraries at the locations
UB Universitätsbibliothek Mainz, Central Library
Lokalsystem Rheinhessen
Scientific Libraries in Rheinhessen
HEBIS Hessisches Bibliothekssystem
– Hessian Library System
Network of all Hessian and Rhine Hessian scientific libraries.
Online-Catolgue of the Library of the Institute of Global Economy
KVK Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog
– Virtual Catalogue of Karlsruhe
All major German and international library networks including the German national library, journal database and also lists of bookshops.
SWB Südwestdeutscher Bibliotheksverbund
GBV Gemeinsamer Bibliotheksverbund
HBZ Hochschulbibliothekszentrum Köln
DDB Die Deutsche Bibliothek
National Library of Germany