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Friday, 04. March 2016 – Branch Library Main Campus

Weekend of 19 to 20 March 2016

Power Shutdown at the Main Campus

Safety panel with single fuse switched off

Over the weekend of 19 to 20 March 2016, the power will be shut down on the Main Campus in the area of the main building. For security reasons, it is not allowed to enter the buildings. This also effects the Branch Library Main Campus and our server room:

Branch Library Main Campus closed

The Branch Library Main Campus is closed on Saturday, 19 March and Sunday, 20 March 2016.

Regular opening hours apply for the Branch Libraries Mathematics & Informatics in Garching and Life Sciences in Weihenstephan.

Limited Online Services

Already Friday, 18 March 2016 at 4.00 p.m. we will start to shut down individual servers. From this point until Monday around 8.00 a.m. the following services will not be available:

The power shutdown has no impact on: loans, returns, OPAC, e-journals, e-books, databases, eAccess, mediaTUM and the library website.

Thursday, 25. February 2016

Economics and Social Sciences

Database Portfolio expanded

Geschäftsmann auf einem Berg Büchern, der Tabellen und Diagramme in den Himmel zeichnet

The TUM University Library has recently expanded its database portfolio in economics and social sciences. We offer now new and enhanced licences for:

WISO
With WISO you have access to a broad spectrum of primarily German resources in the field of economics and social sciences. The TUM's licence covers 420 academic journals, 2,500 e-books and around 8.5 million references.

Business Source Complete
Business Source Premier, a database we had licenced for many years, is now replaced by the more comprehensive Complete version. It is one of the most relevant databases in economics with references and full-texts. The database offers you access to 3,800 journals and over 900 e-books.

Orbis and Zephyr
The two databases provide corporate data and financial figures of more than 180 million companies throughout the world. Orbis contains now – besides up-to-date financial information on companies including banks and insurance companies – also historical data on listed companies. The newly licenced database Zephyr offers details on mergers and acquisitions as well as upcoming transactions.

Update December 2016
The licensing for Zephyr expired at the end of November 2016. The database is currently not available at TUM.

SocINDEX
The newly licenced SocIndex is the most comprehensive full-text sociology database and provides access to roughly 900 academic journals and 850 e-books as well as full-texts of working papers, dissertations and conference proceedings.

Update January 2024
The licensing for SocINDEX expired at the end of 2023. The database is currently not available at TUM.

... and this is how you can explore the service:

TUM members can access WISO, Business Source Complete and SocINDEX via eAccess. Please log in with your TUM ID. Alternatively, it is possible to log in via institutional login (Shibboleth) or at a desktop PC in the TUM-LAN with proxy configuration. External library patrons can access the databases at public computers in our branch libraries.

For licensing reasons Orbis can only be used on-campus in the TUM-LAN with proxy configuration. Access outside the campus via eAccess is not possible.

Further information on online access and the terms of use for databases

Friday, 19. February 2016

Video Tutorials in English

Lynda.com – Watch. Listen. Practice. Learn.

Two students with notebooks and tablets on a bench photographed from above

Learn where and when you want – and set your own pace with English video tutorials from Lynda.com.

For some time already, TUM members are having the German language platform video2brain with video tutorials on software and design tools, soft skills, office applications and more at their disposal. As video2brain is being received very well, the university library has now licensed the English language training platform Lynda.com.

Update December 2019
The licence for Lynda.com expired at the end of December 2019. The platform is currently not available at TUM.

Friday, 19. February 2016 – Branch Library Main Campus

Library Refurbishment

Main Campus: Quiet Reading Room on the 2nd floor closed

Study areas at the Branch Library Main Campus with carrels in the background

Due to the refurbishment works at the Branch Library Main Campus, access to the Quiet Reading Room and the carrels on the 2nd floor will be closed on the following days:

Friday, 26 Februar until presumably Friday, 18 March 2016

All other areas of the branch library are accessible as usual. Regular opening hours apply.

Friday, 19. February 2016 – Branch Library Straubing

Identification of Wood Types

Xylotheque for Students

Xylothek – Kästen mit verschiedenen Holzproben

Since Februar, students are having a xylotheque at the Branch Life Renewable Resources at their disposal. A xylotheque (greek ξύλον xylon for ‚wood‘ and θήκη theque for ‚repository‘) is a collection of wood from different tree species.

In order to provide students a possibility to practice the identification of different wood types, Dr. Alexander Hölderich and Prof. Dr. Cordt Zollfrank from the Straubing Centre of Science looked for a suitable location for a xylotheque. Now there are two boxes with four sets of wood samples available at the Branch Library Renewable Resources, so that up to eight students can work with it at the same time.

At Prof. Dr. Zollfrank's Chair of Biogenic Polymers you can also find one of the largest wood collections in Germany. Dieter Stojan, the founder of the master school for carpenters at Ebern, donated his collection of 900 different woods to the chair.