News Archive

Springer Ebooks in Library Catalog

February 10, 2012:

You can now find all Springer Ebooks licensed by HHL in our library catalog – that is, if you search the catalog for a book using an author’s name, words from the title or just keywords you will have the relevant Springer Ebooks in the hit list. They are marked with an e-icon.

At the end of each screen with the book details we provide the permalink to the full text of the resource.

Today, we have full text access to 5,225 Springer Ebooks, the range will grow in the course of the year, new books will be added monthly.

New Databases for Doctoral Theses

February 01, 2012:

The new licensed database >> ProQuest Dissertations and Theses, Collection Humanities and Social Sciences

contains doctoral and final theses published at more than 1,000 universities worldwide, among them e.g. the theses by Milton Friedman and Noam Chomsky
includes the Library of Congress collection of digital doctoral theses and electronic publications of more than 450 European universities

is growing by 60.000 new theses every year, currently offering access to 500.000 texts.

Together with the collection of online doctoral theses of the German National Library
>> dissonline.de you now have almost 60 % of the publications of the top 200 universities worldwide at your fingertips.

The databases can be found in the "ebooks" category in our e-Library, for some time we list it in “New resources added”.

>> www.hhl.de/e-library

Relaunch Library Web Site

January 17, 2012:
The HHL Library has relaunched its web pages (optimized for IE9). The aim of the relaunch was to offer easier access to the resources of the library. www.hhl.de/library

Click on the button Library Catalog to find books and journals at HHL.
The button e-Library opens a new guide to all licensed databases offered by HHL supplemented by a steadily growing selection of free internet resources. You can browse through categories or search directly for a resource.
Use the search slot for a quick one-stop search in ERIC - 11 licensed databases (e.g. Springer and Sciencedirect), the library catalog and Googlebooks.The keywords of the Library Guide at the bottom of the page present background information about library routines and the services.

The above mentioned e-Library is a very comprehensive knowledge base. Currently, it contains more than 70 links. Here you can find information on companies, markets, people, statistics but also see links to journal rankings, publishers’ archives or writing style guides. Click on “All resources” to see the whole content of the e-Library.

Databases marked with an HHL Logo are licensed by HHL. For complete access to these resources a connection to the HHL network is required – from off-campus via VPN (Virtual Private Network). Databases marked with a globe can be used for free from all over the world.

The e-Library was set up and is maintained by the HHL Library. New links will be added permanently. Feel free to send us your recommendations for links to be integrated.

New Book Scanner in the Reading Room

January 6, 2012:

The HHL Library team is happy to provide you with a new bookscanner, the Bookeye 4.

Highlights of the Bookeye 4:

V-cradle variable as a 120 ° angled plate or as a flat plate
formats up to DIN A2
color system (24 bit color), available also: 8 bit gray scale, monochrome, photo mode
data formats: JPEG, TIFF, PDF
2 x USB 2.0 ports + email (limited to 10 MB)
foot pedal for hands-free operation
intuitive touch screen operation