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Monday, 28. April 2014 – Branch Library Mathematics & Informatics

Summer Party in Garching

Branch Library Mathematics & Informatics will close earlier on May 8, 2014

On May 8, the student summer party Unity will take place on the Garching Campus. The party is organised in cooperation by the Mathematics, Physics, Informatics Student Union and the Chemistry Student Union.

Due to this event the Branch Library Mathematics & Informatics will close already at 8.00 p.m. on Thursday, May 8, 2014.

Tuesday, 08. April 2014

We are there for you!

Opening Hours at Easter 2014

We will be there for you on Easter. Our Branch Libraries Main Campus in Munich, Mathematics & Informatics in Garching and Life Sciences in Weihenstephan will be open over the Easter weekend:

Main Campus from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Mathematics & Informatics from 10 a.m. - 8 p.m.
Life Sciences from 10 a.m. - 8 p.m.

For all other branch libraries the public holidays apply. Thus, they will be closed from Good Friday, 18.04.2014, through Easter Monday, 21.04.2014.

Opening Hours Overview

Thursday, 03. April 2014

New Training Programme for Medical Students

Ticking, Learning, Looking-up

TUM now offers AMBOSS, a training programme for medical students during the clinical part of their studies. AMBOSS combines multiple choice tests for the state examination with feedback and reference material which helps you to prepare for the second part of the medical exam.

Your online access

AMBOSS can be used free of charge by students of human medicine at TUM as well as employees and lecturers of the medical faculty of TUM. Personal registration is required (registration instructions). Once your registration has been confirmed, you can access AMBOSS from any computer, tablet, or smartphone.

Further information
Database information AMBOSS
FAQ eAccess

Monday, 31. March 2014

New Service: Drop-in Session for Search Strategies

On Friday afternoons, we are offering Search Strategy Drop-in Sessions for researchers and doctoral candidates at TUM. We are happy to help you developing retrieval strategies and citing correctly. Just come to the drop-in session from 2.30 to 3.30 p.m. at Barer Strasse 21, room S2519 or arrange an individual half-hour appointment. This can take place either at our office, via video conferencing, or on the phone.

Upcoming Dates for the Search Strategy Drop-in Session

Thursday, 20. March 2014

Now available at TUM

Video Tutorial Portal video2brain

The TUM provides now access to the video tutorial portal video2brain for all students and staff members. It allows self-determined learning and offers about a thousand video tutorials on computer science, economics, lifestyle, image editing, photography and web design. All tutorials are online available on the video2brain website or could be downloaded.

To use the portal, you must first set up a user account. Therefor, please authenticate yourself via Shibboleth: click on log in, select Edu-Login and enter your TUM ID. Now you can register for video2brain. As soon as your registration is confirmed, you are able to access video2brain from every computer or mobile device.

Update March 2017
Video2brain was integrated in the learning platform Lynda. The joint platform offers now around 5,700 English and 1,900 German training tutorials.

Update December 2019
The licence for Lynda.com (formerly video2brain) expired at the end of December 2019. The platform is currently not available at TUM.