Borrowing & Online Access
Library Account
A must-have at the University Library is a library account. Your TUM StudentCard, TUM PersonalCard, or TUM GuestCard serves as your library card. Once you receive your TUMCard, you are automatically activated for library use. External users can apply for a library card – and thus a library account – at the circulation desk.
Log in to our online catalog TUM OPAC:
- as a TUM member with your TUM ID
- as an external user with your library number
Loan Services
You can either take library items directly from the shelves in the branch library, consult them on site, or check them out at the circulation desk. Holdings from our other branch libraries or from the closed stacks can be ordered or reserved via the online catalog TUM OPAC. An overview of all your orders, borrowed items, loan periods, and automatic renewals is available in your library account.
Online Access
Search the TUM OPAC or databases and read the e-media you find online on campus, at home, or on the go. To make this service possible, we use various authentication mechanisms that allow you to access electronic full texts from our collection and beyond. Learn more about the features and benefits of eAccess, Institutional Login, TUM-LAN, and SFX.
Interlibrary Loan
Our online catalog TUM OPAC lists more than five million titles – but not all of them are part of our collection. Books and papers that are not available at TUM or in other local libraries can be requested via interlibrary loan. Order conveniently through the TUM OPAC and receive literature from across Germany and abroad.
Scanning & Delivery
Use our in-house scan services or external document delivery for papers, book chapters, or entire books. TUM members can use our dokumenTUM scanning service free of charge. For a fee, we offer Digitization on Demand for public-domain books from our collections. All branch libraries are equipped with book scanners that you can use free of charge, provided that applicable copyright regulations are observed.