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UNIVERSITY LIBRARY KLAGENFURT

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E-Books

Special conditions apply for the use of chargeable electronic resources such as electronic journals, databases and e-books. Please take note of the terms and conditions of use of the respective publisher or supplier.

In general, the following applies:
It is fundamentally forbidden to systematically download or print e-books or large parts of e-books. Individual pages or chapters can be saved or printed out for personal use and for teaching and research purposes.
E-books may not be passed on to third parties in the form of printouts or downloads.

For further questions regarding e-books at the AAU library, please contact ebooks.bibliothek [at] aau.at.

If you are using e-books outside of the university, please check your browser settings for the proxy server. Please note that access to certain e-books (databases) is only permitted within the university campus.

In order to get a list of our e-book-holdings, filtered by subject, please click on one of the scientific-disciplines listed below

All/Economics/Educational Science/Geography/History/Informatics-Technical Sciences-Mathematics/Language and Literary Studies/Law/Media and Communication Studies/Philosophy/Psychology/Sociology/

Springer e-books (incl. lecture notes in computer science)

  • 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 (with the copyright years 2008 to 2019)
  • Social sciences (with the copyright years 2008 to 2019)
  • Psychology (from the copyright year 2017)
  • J.B. Metzler humanities (copyright year 2016 to 2019)
  • Education (from the copyright year 2019)

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 2019)
  • Business and Economics (copyright year 2015)
  • Business and Management (copyright year 2016 to 2019)
  • Literature, Media and Culture (from the copyright year 2019)
  • Behavioral Science & Psychology (from the 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 2016, around 19,800 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.


Springer e-Books

De Gruyter e-books

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.


De Gruyter e-Books

WISO-Net e-books

  • 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 4100 e-books mainly from the field of economic sciences. It includes titles form the publishing houses Duncker & Humblot, Redline, Rudolf Haufe and Rainer Hampp.


WISO-Net e-Books

OECD iLibrary e-books

  • 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 14,600 e-books published by the OECD.


OECD iLibrary e-Books

Linde e-books

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.


Linde e-Books

LexisNexis e-books

  • 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.

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


LexisNexis e-Books

RDB legal database: Commentaries and reference books

  • 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.

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.


RDB legal database

Beck online e-books

  • 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.


Beck online e-books

Elsevier e-Books

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“).

Nomos e-books

  • 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 2019 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.


Nomos e-books

Carl Hanser e-books

  • 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.


Carl Hanser e-books

Vahlen / UVK e-books

  • 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 Vahlen e-library (can be filtered by “Limit choice: “Only display retrievable content”).

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.


Vahlen e-books

Schattauer e-books

  • 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).


Schattauer e-books

Campus e-books

  • 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).


Campus e-books

Bloomsbury e-books

  • 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 bundles “Film + Media Studies 2015” and “Literary Studies 2015” of the Bloomsbury publishing house were acquired. The titles included in these bundles can be accessed via the portal Bloomsbury Collections. In the 2017 summer semester, the “Film + Media Studies 2016” bundle was added to the collection.


Bloomsbury e-books

Beltz e-books

  • 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)


Beltz e-books

Routledge e-books

  • 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.


Routledge e-books

Klett-Cotta e-books

  • 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).


Klett-Cotta e-books

Suhrkamp e-books

  • 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).


Suhrkamp e-books

C.H. Beck e-books

  • 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.


C.H. Beck e-books

Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht e-books

  • 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.


Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht e-books

Hueber grammar-bundles

  • 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 four grammar-bundles (english, french, spanish, italian) were acquired. The titles can be accessed via surf@ubk or the publishers-online-platform.

NEW: Psychosozial publishing company e-books

  • 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.

Open access e-books

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

At present, around 7700 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 500 freely accessible publications are currently available and more are constantly being added.

Other e-books

In addition to the titles/bundles mentioned above, some titles from the publishers Peter Lang, Morgan & Claypool, Narr, Taylor&Francis, Routledge, John Benjamins Publishing, Wiley as well as a number of smaller UTB bundles (“Update Culture 2016 & 2017”, “Update Literature 2016”) have been acquired. These can also be retrieved via surf@ubk.

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