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Overview E-Book Collections
Use the fold-out menus to find out more about our collection of e-books.
The best way to search for individual titles available outside of the packages is to use the advanced search in the library catalog locally, limited to the media type e-book.
List of E-Book Collections
We provide access to 15 APA handbooks.
In 2022, all e-books (all subjects, all years) will be available on Cambridge Core as part of an EBS model. The most used titles will be permanently added to the collection in 2023. Titles are fully searchable in our OPAC.
Physik Online is a platform containing german textbooks in all relevant study fields in physics.
The reference works for medical professionals - here in a digital version that is constantly updated: Pschyrembel and Herold
All titles (Urban&Fischer) from 2017 on including upcoming titles are available via Science Direct. All titles are listed in the catalogue.
- Beck Online E-Books. Use only on site in the campus network without VPN (see notes in DBIS).
- Juris: various e-books, loose-leaf editions and commentaries are included in the database ("Zusatzmodul"). Search and access directly via the database. The titles of the "Zusatzmodul" are also searchable via the OPAC.
- TvöD context
The offer includes language and technical dictionaries for languages such as English, French, Russian, Spanish and others, as well as the most important Duden editions.
All titles are listed in the catalogue. Direct access to O'Reilly for Higher Education via the following link:
https://learning.oreilly.com/accounts/login-academic-check/?idp-slug=universitaet-ulm
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- For relevant search results within the platform, please access the preferences section first and add your preferred languages. Only titles in your preferred language will show up in your platform searches.
We offer e-books that we cannot license directly through the publishers on the Ebook Central platform.
Please see our brief instructions on how to use Ebook-Central.
Purchase suggestions: in the library catalogue you will also find a large number of titles of e-books with a five-minute reading sample from the following subject areas:
Education, Health & Medicine and Science & Technology.
You can suggest these titles for purchase in a simplified procedure - without filling out the purchase request form. Activation usually takes place within one working day upon purchase. You can search the available titles not only in the library catalogue, but also systematically directly in the EBC platform via the "advanced search" or via the "browse subject" tab. Titles marked in green are already licensed, titles marked in yellow can be suggested for purchase.
From 1 May 2025, the German Pearson e-books will be available as part of an EBS model. The acquisition titles will be selected in April 2026. The e-book package is available via the Ressource Discovery System.
In 2022 selected German Pearson textbooks from the EBS 2021 access are made permanently available. The titles are searchable via the Ressource Discovery System.
Access to all SIAM E-Books until Copyright Year 2022. All titles can be searched in our catalogue or accessed directl on publisher's platform.
Overview of available Springer e-books by copyright year and collection.
| Copyright-Jahr | Kollektion | Sprache | Zugriff |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-2025 | Computer Sciences inklusive Lecture Notes | en | Dauerhaft |
| 2021-2022 | Technik & Informatik | dt | Dauerhaft |
| 2021-2022 | Natur- und Basiswissenschaften | dt | Dauerhaft |
| 2021-2022 | Medizin | dt | Dauerhaft |
| 2019-2025 | Psychologie | dt | Dauerhaft |
| 2019-2022 | Wirtschaftswissenschaften | dt | Dauerhaft |
| 2018-2021 | Biomedical and Life Science | en | EBS-Auswahl dauerhaft |
| 2018-2021 | Chemistry and Material Science | en | EBS-Auswahl dauerhaft |
| 2018-2021 | Mathematics and Statistics | en | EBS-Auswahl dauerhaft |
| 2018-2021 | Professional and Applied Computing | en | EBS-Auswahl dauerhaft |
| 2018-2021 | Behavioral Science and Psychology | en | EBS-Auswahl dauerhaft |
| 2021 | Sozialwissenschaften & Recht | dt | Dauerhaft |
| 2021 | Erziehungswissenschaften & soziale Arbeit | dt | Dauerhaft |
| 2021 | Geisteswissenschaften | dt | Dauerhaft |
| 2021 | Biomedical & Life Sciences | dt | Dauerhaft |
| 2021 | Chemistry & Material Sciences | dt | Dauerhaft |
| 2017 | Mathematics and Statistics (12 Titel) | en | EBS-Auswahl dauerhaft |
| 2017 | Engineering 2017 (39 Titel) | en | EBS-Auswahl dauerhaft |
| 2009-2010 | Business and Economics (Titelliste als PDF) | en | Dauerhaft |
EBS=Evidence Based Selection: access for 1 year, then takeover of selected titles.
Access to the years since 2005. Comprises:
- Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)
- Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics (LNBI)
Access to protocols from 1980 onwards.
Call up the e-book package in the catalogue: Springer Protocols
Search the database: Springer Nature Experiments
A campus licence for via medici is available as cross tool (kreuzen) for students of human medicine and dentistry from April 2024.
Registration for via medici can be accessed via the following link: https://viamedici.thieme.de/landing-page/campuslizenz-ulm
All e-books for human medicine and dentistry available in via medici are also available in parallel via the e-book platform eRef:
The following Thieme textbooks are available on the e-book platform eRef:
- Package Humanmedizin: Show Titles via Ressource Discovery System
- Package Zahnmedizin
- Chemie: Das Basiswissen der Chemie
- Mikroskopisch botanisches Praktikum
The following Wiley textbooks are available via the VitalSource platform:
- Halliday Physik
- Lehrbuch der Biochemie
- Halliday Physik für natur- und ingenieurwissenschaftliche Studiengänge
- Lehr- und Arbeitsbuch Physikalische Chemie
- Physikalische Chemie
- Organische Chemie
- Materialwissenschaften und Werkstofftechnik
- Molekularbiologie der Zelle
- Botanik
- Optik und Photonik
- Lehrbuch der Molekularen Zellbiologie
- Technische Chemie
All contents are also listed in the catalogue.
From 1 May 2025, the German e-books will be available as part of an EBS model. The transfer titles will be selected in April 2026. The e-book package can be searched via the catalogue.
After a one-year test of Wiley e-books in 2016/17, 85 of the most frequently used titles were added to the library. Click here for the title list. All titles are listed in the catalogue.
Springer Publishing House "Medicine" 2005-2008
The collection includes 1,306 English-language e-books published by the Springer Publishing House from 2005 to 2008. In addition, some French and Spanish titles are included.
Springer Publishing House "Chemistry and Materials Science" 2005-2008
The Springer E-Book Collection of "Chemistry and Materials Science" is an extensive collection of monographs, manuals and encyclopedias. With 641 titles from 2005 - 2008, it provides a very good insight into current research in chemistry and materials science
Springer Publishing House "Lecture Notes in Computer Science" 1973-1996
The book series contains research results of computer science, mostly as conference proceedings and monographs. The years 2005 - 2015 are also licensed from the kiz.
Karger eBooks Collection Archive 1997 - 2013
E-Books by Medizin-Verlag Karger from the years 1997 to 2013, covering a large biomedical spectrum, of 38 book series, some of which have been published for many years, as well as 10 completed series.
Elsevier eBook collection on ScienceDirect - Mathematics 1949-2008
This collection contains numerous series, including titles from both the backlist (1949-2006) and frontlist (2007-2008).
RSC eBook Collection (1968 - 2009)
The eBook Collection of the Royal Society of Chemistry is an extensive collection of facts with over 1,300 titles. It is completely searchable in pdf format and shows mainly important and basic literature from the field of chemistry from 1968-2009
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