UNIVERSITY LIBRARY KLAGENFURT

on Monday, 04.05.2020, the University Library takes another step towards the restoration of its services for all user groups (AAU members and external users):

• The online search engine surf@ubk will be fully active again on 01.05.2020: it is possible to order and reserve books. As the reading rooms are still closed, a new service is offered: books from the reading rooms (“open shelves” and so on) can also be ordered and reserved via the search engine surf@ubk.

• Inter-university loan is activated again. Books from other universities can be ordered using the corresponding online form. Please note that a quick processing of orders depends on other libraries’ willingness/readiness to forward items.
• Ordered items can be collected starting Monday, 04.05.2020, in the entrance area of the library after you have received an email confirming availability.
• Media can be returned again at any time, but exclusively via the return kiosk outside the entrance to the library.
  (Inter-university loans and other items not accepted by the return kiosk can only be returned to a table near the loan desk during opening hours.)

Until further notice, shortened opening hours:

Mon, Tue, Wed, Fri 12:00-15:00, Thu 15:00-18:00

When picking up items, please comply with the following hygiene and safety measures:

• Only one person at circulation desk.
• The use of protective face masks is compulsory when entering the buildings and the library.
• Please keep your distance when waiting on “bridge” (pay attention to markings on floor).
• Please hold up your student card to the glass panel of the first desk.
• Your items will be handed over.

Until further notice, the special borrowing conditions apply:

For students and external users, up to 6 items can be borrowed from the open shelves until June 9^th, 2020. Items in other locations can be borrowed as usual. The borrowing conditions for people with extended borrowing rights still apply. All information regarding number of items and duration can  be found here: https://www.aau.at/universitaetsbibliothek-klagenfurt/benuetzung-und-service/entlehnung/#entlehnbedingungen

• It is not yet possible to pay fees
• Existing accounts of external users extended until 30.09.2020

Please make more extensive use of our wide range of e-resources!

PROXY-SERVER: In order to use the electronic resources outside the university (via Surf@ubk, DBIS etc.), please check your browser settings for the so-called proxy server (instructions available in German only).

For questions, please contact us Mon – Fri 08:00-16:00

Tel.: +43 463 2700 9580, E-Mail: schalter [dot] bibliothek [at] aau [dot] at

Stay healthy!

Your UL team

We would like to support you by offering you extended access to electronic resources during these critical times.

Many publishing houses unlock parts of their electronic offers temporarily for free and also extend remote access. Location independent as well as time independent access is possible– please check your proxy settings.

Please find here a current overview of the extra offers which are made available as well as information on remote access:

Remote Access:

Remote access to

• LexisNexis,
• Linde Digital,
• RDB,
• Juris,
• Beck-Online: instructions on how to configurate remote access can be accessed via this link
  Whenever VPN is mentioned in this context the instructions actually refer to the university’s proxyserver. Please note that you need to be connected to the proxyserver before starting your registration, otherwise the “Kostenlos registrieren”-button won’t show up.

The following contents are freely accessible for the time being:

• Elsevier: All e-books (access available until end of june)
• EBSCO Academic Search Ultimate: Database-access (until 04th of August)
• EBSCO Business Search Ultimate: Database-access (until 04th August)
• EBSCO eBook Academic Collection: 180.000 e-Books (until 04th August)
• EBSCO Harvard Business Publishing Collection: approximately 630 E-Books (until 15th July)
• Beltz: All e-books (until end of june)
• De Gruyter: 75.000 E-Books up to CY 2016 incl. titles of partner-publishers like transcript or Iberoamericana/Vervuert (access available until end of june)
• UTB: All E-Books (access available until end of june)
• Springer: over 500 online-textbooks covering various disciplines (access available until end of july). Title lists can be accessed via this link
• Schäffer + Poeschel: All e-books (until end of june)
• Hogrefe: approximately 2.000 e-books covering the topics psychology/psychiatry/psychotherapy (until end of june)
• Bloomsbury: All titles of the e-book collections „Film & Media Studies“ and „Linguistics“ (until end of june)
• LexisNexis: All briefings und podcasts (for the time being)
• JSTOR: All journal collections (until end of june)
• Project Muse: E-Books and journals of various University Presses i.a. Ohio State, California, Georgia, Maryland (until end of june)
• Erich Schmidt Verlag (ESV Campus): All journals (until end of june)
• Royal Society: All journals (for the time being)
• World Scientific: All journals (until end of june)
• Nomos: Over 4.000 e-books focussing on social sciences (until end of july )

A detailed list of further freely accessible online resources is available here: Vendor Love in the Time of COVID-19

For further information on electronic ressources at the University Library of Klagenfurt please visit our homepage.

If you have additional questions please contact info[dot]bibliothek[at]aau[dot]at or ebooks[dot]bibliothek[at]aau[dot]at

SEMESTER BREAK (Feb 1 – 29, 2020)

Mon – Wed, Fri: 08:30 – 16:00
Thu: 08:30 – 19:00
Sat/Sun: closed

University members have unrestricted access to the library‘s reading rooms.

Registration for the 24-hour library is possible via the campus system under “My settings” >> 24-hour library.
Please register at least one day before you plan to use this service for the first time. Accounts are activated every day at midnight.

Loan desk opening hours of the University Library during the summer break (01.07.2019 – 30.09.2019):

July and September:

Mon – Wed, Fri: 08:30 – 16:00
Thu: 08.30 – 19:00

August:
Mon to Fri: 08:30 – 12:00

Saturday: closed (July – September)

Normal opening hours start: Tuesday, 01.10.2019

University members have unrestricted access to the library‘s reading rooms.

Registration for the 24-hour library is possible via the campus system under “My settings” >> 24-hour library.
Please register at least one day before you plan to use this service for the first time. Accounts are activated every day at midnight.

Please use our self-service kiosks and the automatic return drop box when loan desk is closed!