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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
We wish our library visitors a pleasant, happy and harmonious Christmas and a healthy, peaceful and successful New Year.
Information on current library usage
Within the period from December 24, 2025 to January 4, 2026, the Library is closed due to regular operational shutdown of Chemnitz University of Technology.
For the time of this operational shutdown, media from reference collections and from course reserve collections (permission of the holder required) may be borrowed from December 15, 2025 until January 7, 2026. Please note that in these cases you can only borrow items during our service hours (Monday to Friday 9 a.m. - 7 p.m.).
German-French Day 2026
On the occasion of the German-French Day 2026, the Chemnitz University Library and the Center for Foreign Languages cordially invite you to join a presentation on Thursday, January 22, 2026 at 2 p.m.
New dates for online crash courses: Literature search with and without AI support in Economics and Business Administration
In January, there will again be the opportunity to take part in online crash courses on literature search in Economics and Business Administration:
January 16, 2026: Crash course: literature search - Get an overview of proven research tools and classic search techniques as well as ways to evaluate the quality of literature found.
January 23, 2026: Crash course: AI-supported literature search - Get to know the possibilities and limitations of AI tools for literature search and learn how these tools differ from each other and how generative AI can be used reasonably in literature search.
The exact details and further information can be found in the course descriptions.
Special Collection A Quarter of a Century of Read Capitals of Culture
Chemnitz is Capital of Culture and we are part of it! You can admire our special collection on the European Capitals of Culture of the last 25 years on the 2nd floor around the reading room. Browsing, reading and borrowing are encouraged!
From preregistration to open source and publishing - unique Open Science commitment at Chemnitz University of Technology
In the aftermath of Open Access Week 2025 and the presentation of the Open Science Award, we remember an eventful week. Together, the Open Science Team of the University Library, the D2C2 project and the ACROSS Alliance put on a varied program. The highlight was the presentation of the Open Science Award.
The Stockholm Declaration: A Call for the Reform of Scientific Publications
The scientific publishing landscape is facing one of the greatest crises of all time. Paywalls block access to publicly funded knowledge, predatory journals flood the literature with unreliable works, and paper mills produce masses of fake studies with AI-generated data, texts, and images. The Stockholm Declaration is an urgent call to action.
Between exam stress and assignments – surviving exam period
Anyone who followed our Instagram channel closely during the last exam period or was a regular visitor to the university library will certainly have seen our survey on learning habits during exam stress. We don’t want to keep the results from you, so we have summarised the votes and opinions we received in this blog post.