E-Books

• The titles are also included in surf@ubk
• Access off-campus is also permitted (exclusively for members of Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt)

The AAU university library offers its users German-language e-books from the subject areas

• Economics (copyright years 2008 to 2021)
• Social sciences (copyright years 2008 to 2021)
• Psychology (copyright years 2017 to 2021)
• J.B. Metzler humanities (copyright years 2016 to 2021)
• Education (copyright years 2019 to 2021)

This includes the publishing houses Gabler, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften and DUV.
In addition, the university library offers access to the following English-language e-book bundles from the Springer publishing house:

• Lecture Notes in Computer Science (with the copyright years 2005 to 2021)
• Business and Economics (copyright year 2015)
• Business and Management (copyright year 2016 to 2021)
• Literature, Media and Culture (copyright year 2019)
• Behavioral Science & Psychology (copyright year 2019)

The English-language e-book bundles also include titles from the Palgrave Macmillan publishing company

Insofar as they have already been published, the e-books have been made available for the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt and are available via SpringerLink. In due course, they will also be searchable via surf@ubk. Please note that books are imported each month – this means that new titles are continually being made available. In total, as of the end of 2020, around 35.700 Springer titles are available for users of the university library.

You can find the e-books via the platform SpringerLink – books that are not licensed by the library are marked with a yellow padlock.

De Gruyter e-books

• The titles are also included in surf@ubk.
• Access off-campus is also permitted (exclusively for members of Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt).

Selected e-books from the De Gruyter publishing house are available via the platform De Gruyter Online.
This includes titles from DeGruyter imprints and partner publishing houses, for example media, social and cultural sciences publications from the transcript publishing company. In 2015 and 2017, larger DeGruyter bundles were acquired from the fields of cultural and social sciences – each of these bundles now contains several hundred titles. In 2018 the bundle “Media Studies 2018” from the transcript publishing company was added to the library’s collection. The university library is constantly increasing the number of its licensed De Gruyter-ebooks.

• The titles are partly included in surf@ubk.
• Access off-campus is also permitted (exclusively for members of Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt).

Within the WISO database, you have access to around 4.850 e-books mainly from the field of economic sciences. It includes titles form the publishing houses Duncker & Humblot, Redline, Rudolf Haufe and Rainer Hampp.

• The titles are partly also included in surf@ubk.
• Access off-campus is also permitted (exclusively for members of Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt).

The OECD iLibrary is the portal of online publications of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The portal offers access to studies, statistics, research papers, electronic journals and more than 16.000 e-books published by the OECD.

Linde e-books

• The titles are also included in surf@ubk.
• Access off-campus is permitted for students and employees at Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt after logging in via Shibboleth (“Anmelden mit Institution”)
• For students the number of accessed documents is limited to 1.000 per month

Linde Digital is an online database of the Linde publishing house and consists of a range of content-related modules.
The AAU library has licensed the modules

• “Tax & Economics”
• “Law”
• “International”

– in addition to numerous reference books, these also include journals, legal texts and commentaries.

You can watch an online-tutorial on how to use Linde Digital by clicking on this link

• The titles are also included in surf@ubk.
• Access off-campus (via Shibboleth-login) is only permitted for employees at Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt.
• According to legal-restrictions off-campus access is not available for students.

LexisNexis offers access to Austrian and European legal standards, Austrian decisions, commentaries, specialist books and specialist journals.

Because of the current restrictions due to the COVID-19-pandemic, LexisNexis has permitted off-campus access for all students until end of June 2021 

For authentification on the new platform Lexis360 the following steps are required:

• please choose “Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt” to get to the Shibboleth-login page
• login with your AAU-account-data
• accept the terms of use

• The titles are partly included in surf@ubk.
• Off-campus access is only permitted for employees at Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt.
• Students who wish to access the RDB within the framework of their Diploma/Master’s dissertation via remote access have the option to obtain limited remote access. If they wish to do so, the following form must be completed, scanned and sent to hotline(at)manz.at.

  Because of the current restrictions due to the COVID-19-pandemic, RDB has permitted off-campus access for all students until 1st of march 2021 

Instructions regarding registering and logging in can be found here.

The RDB legal database is an online product from the MANZ’sche Verlags- und Universitätsbuchhandlung GmbH and offers an exceptionally wide collection of specialist journals, commentaries and standards.

• The titles are also included in surf@ubk.
• Access off-campus is not permitted.

The beck-online legal database of C.H. Beck publishing house contains commentaries, manuals and journals, as well as an extensive collection of legal texts from the fields of law and economic sciences.

In 2017 the library purchased several e-book-collections of the Elsevier publishing-company. The collections are covering the subjects informatics, psychology and business (computer science 2017 + 2018, psychology 2017 + 2018, finance 2018) and contain approximately 150 titles.

• The titles are included in surf@ubk  and can also be accessed via ScienceDirect („Books“: „All access types“: „Full-text access“).

• The titles are also included in surf@ubk.
• Access off-campus is also permitted (exclusively for members of Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt).

Via the Nomos e-library, the university library has been offering access to selected individual titles from the fields of history and sociology since 2014 (can be filtered by “Limit choice”: “Only display retrievable content”).

The “Media and Communications Science” bundle with the copyright years 2015 to 2020 was purchased as well as the bundle “Study Literature Media and Communications Science 2017/2018” plus the accompanying update-bundles.  Other recent purchases are the bundles “Philosophy 2019” and “Sociology 2019”.
All Nomos-e-books can be called up via the platform and will, in due course, also be made available in surf@ubk.

• The titles are also included in surf@ubk.
• Access off-campus is also permitted (exclusively for members of Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt).

Since the end of 2014, selected titles from the Carl Hanser publishing house in the fields of economic sciences and information technology have been available for the university library.

• The titles are also included in surf@ubk and in the local online catalogue.
• Access off-campus is also permitted (exclusively for members of Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt).

Since the end of 2014, selected titles from the field of business administration have been licensed for the university library. In addition, in 2016 and 2017 the “General business administration 2016” and “Business leadership, management, organisation 2017” update packages were purchased. These e-books are also available directly via the Beck e-library.

2017 the bundle “Update management and organization 2017” as well as the complete e-book collection of the UVK-publishing company (specializing in economics and covering the areas “management & marketing”, “finance”, “accountancy & controlling”) was aquired. In 2018 the update-bundles “Human rescource management 2019” and “Marketing & business 2019” were added to the portfolio of the university library. Since then the university library is constantly increasing the number of its licensed Vahlen/UVK-ebooks.

• The titles are also included in surf@ubk.
• Access off-campus is also permitted (exclusively for members of Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt).

In 2014, the “Psychotherapy” bundle of the Schattauer publishing house was acquired. This set can also be accessed directly via the platform “content select” (can be filtered by “access”: “only retrievable content”, “media type”: “e-book” and then “publisher”: Schattauer).

• The titles are also included in surf@ubk.
• Access off-campus is also permitted (exclusively for members of Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt).

Since the end of 2014, selected titles from the fields of history and social sciences have been licensed for the university library. These e-books can also be accessed directly via the platform “content select” (can be filtered by “access”: “only retrievable content”, “media type”: “e-book” and then “publisher”: Campus).

• The titles are also included in surf@ubk.
• Access off-campus is also permitted (exclusively for members of Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt).

Until today, the bundles “Film + Media Studies 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019”, “Literary Studies 2015” and “Linguistics 2017, 2018, 2019” of the Bloomsbury publishing house were acquired. The titles included in these bundles can be accessed via the portal Bloomsbury Collections.

• The titles are also included in surf@ubk.
• Access off-campus is also permitted (exclusively for members of Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt).

In the 2015/2016 winter semester, the “Psychology 2015”, “Basics in Psychology” and “Applied Psychology” bundles of the Beltz publishing house were acquired. The titles included in this can also be accessed directly via the platform “content select” (can be filtered by “access”: “only retrievable content”, “media type”: “e-book” and then “publisher”: Beltz). The university library is constantly increasing the number of its licensed Beltz-ebooks.

• The titles are also included in surf@ubk and in the local online catalogue.
• Access off-campus is also permitted (exclusively for members of Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt).

In 2017, the English-language e-book bundles “Psychology 2016” and “Communication, Journalism, Media & Culture 2014” of the Routledge publishing house were acquired. In 2018 the university library also licensed the bundles “Linguistics 2017 & 2018”. Furthermore, other titles from the fields of literature, communication and economic sciences were purchased.

• The titles are also included in surf@ubk.
• Access off-campus is also permitted (exclusively for members of Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt).

In 2017, the bundles “Psychotherapie” “Systemische Psychotherapie” and “Trauma” of the Klett-Cotta publishing house were acquired. The titles included in these bundles can be accessed directly via the platform “content select” (can be filtered by “access”: “only accessible content”, “media type”: “e-book” and then “publisher”: Klett-Cotta Verlag).

• The titles are also included in surf@ubk.
• Access off-campus is also permitted (exclusively for members of Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt).

In the 2015/2016 winter semester, the “Cultural and Social Sciences 2013/2014” and “Cultural and Social Sciences 2014/2015” bundles of the Suhrkamp publishing house were acquired. In addition, the “Cultural and Social Sciences 2015/2016” bundle was purchased in late 2016. In 2018 the bundle “Philosophy 2017/2018” was acquired as well. All titles can also be accessed directly via the platform “content select” (can be filtered by “access”: “only retrievable content”, “media type”: “e-book” and then “publisher”: Suhrkamp).

• The titles are also included in surf@ubk.
• Access off-campus is also permitted (exclusively for members of Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt).

In late 2016, the C.H. Beck e-book “Philosophy 2016” and “Literature & Language 2016” bundles were purchased. The e-books can also be called up in the C.H. Beck eLibrary directly.

• The titles are also included in surf@ubk and in the local online catalogue.
• Access off-campus is also permitted (exclusively for members of Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt).

In 2016, seven bundles from the Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht range were purchased. The bundles comprise the following fields: “Applied Psychology”, “Industrial and Organisational Psychology”, “Psychotherapy and Psychology”, “Systematics”, “Humanities” and “Literature and Linguistics”. The acquired titles are progressively added to surf@ubk and the local online catalogue. All titles can also be called up directly via the V&R eLibrary.

• The titles are also included in surf@ubk and in the local online catalogue.
• Access off-campus is also permitted (exclusively for members of Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt).

Starting with 2017 the university library has aquired several grammar-bundles (english, french, spanish, italian). The titles can be accessed via surf@ubk or the publishers-online-platform.

• The titles are also included in surf@ubk and in the local online catalogue.
• Access off-campus is also permitted (exclusively for members of Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt).

In 2018 the bundles “Psychotherapy 2018” and “Psychotherapy 2019” were acquired. The titles can be accessed via surf@ubk and/or the Nomos e-library.

• The titles are partly included in surf@ubk.
• Access off-campus is also permitted (including for external users).

At present, around 44.000 titles including the complete e-book-collections of the OAPEN online library and the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) as well as selected titles from the Kubon & Sagner publishing house, the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the open access initiative Knowledge Unlatched are included in surf@ubk.

Another interesting source for open access e-books is the FWF-E-Book-Library web page of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). Almost 600 freely accessible publications are currently available and more are constantly being added. You can also visit the online-platform of the open access-publishing company “Open Book Publishers” if you are looking for other freely accessible monographs.

In addition to the titles/bundles mentioned above, many titles from the publishers John Benjamins Publishing, Brill, Ferdinand Schöningh, Franz Steiner, Iberoamericana/Vervuert, Peter Lang, Mohr-Siebeck, Morgan & Claypool, Narr, Oxford University Press, Pearson, Routledge, Sage, Tectum, Taylor & Francis, Wiley and UTB have been purchased. These can also be retrieved via surf@ubk.