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The University Library provides media and services for assistance in studies, teaching and research at Chemnitz University of Technology.
The history of the University Library goes back to the roots of Chemnitz University of Technology in 1836.
Yes. The University Library is also available for non-adherents of Chemnitz University of Technology. However, in order to profit from the services of the University Library, you, like adherents of the university, have to be registered as user of the Library.
Thanks to its neighborhood to the main station, to the omnibus station and to the stop "Omnibusbahnhof", the University Library (Straße der Nationen 33) is very conveniently reachable by bus and train.
There are public parkings in a limited scope near to the University Library. However, they are mostly parking time limited and paid. Thus, we recommend to come to us by public transport. This is less stressing. For impaired library users, there are specifically determined parkings.
You find the current opening hours of the University Library on the website "Contact & About us".
You may look up the general contact data of the University Library as well as the individual contact data of the Library staff members on the website "Contact & About us".
The University Library is currently headed transitionally by Dr. Wolfgang Lambrecht and Sabine Kuniß. You find the contact data on the website "Contact & About us" by selecting the category "Library Management".
In addition to the management, the administration and the subject specialists, the University is structured in the departments Service, Media processing and University Archives as well as University Press. You may look up the respective contact persons at "Contact Persons".
The Management heads the University Library and is responsible for the general coordination of the working processes.
The Administration is responsible for the appropriate implementation of financial processes within the Library. In addition, it administrates the budget of the University Library.
The Subject Specialists are responible for i.a. the development and design of the media collections of the University Library, which means that to them belongs i.a. the decision on the acquisition, the arrangement and the elimination of media. In this context, they closely cooperate with the Media Processing department. Another focus consists on the advice and assistance of adherents of Chemnitz University of Technology regarding academic issues related to the University Library (searching for appropriate media, contributions to scientific projects etc.). In this context, they offer, in addition to individual consultancy, also trainings and workshops regarding a range of topics. Finally, the Subject Specialists take also the decision on the acceptance of donations of publications and their integration in the collections.
The Service Department is responsible for all processes at the information and lending desks (i.a. assistance, borrowing/ returning/ provision of media), for the maintenance of the collections (arranging of new media, re-arranging of returned media, maintenance of media, substitution of media), for the maintenance of the technical devices as well as for the reservation of study cabins (Carrels). In addition, the Service also offers trainings and guided tours and compiles Term Reserve Collections.
The Media Processing Department is responsible for all processes around the acquisition and elimination of media as well as for the maintenance of the indications corresponding to the media in the Library-Catalog. In addition, to this department also belongs the consultancy regarding and the support of publications at Chemnitz University of Technology with a specific focus on Open Access. In this context, the Media Processing Department also includes the University Press, the University Bibliography and the Theses Department.
The University Archives Department is responsible for collection and storage of documents being elaborated in the entire university (which are not published). To those belong documents of the past as well as of the present. In addition to the collection, maintenance and registration of the documents, the University Archives Department also particularly works on making those documents accessible for usage.
The University Press is responsible for the assistance of adherents of Chemnitz University of Technology in their academic publishing by cost-efficient conditions in electronic and printed manner. This includes particularly the assurance of long-term availability and searchability as well as extensive visibility by providing open access to University Press publications (Open Access).
The University Library informs regularly and in a timely manner about current developments on its "News"-website, via its Social Media-channels (Instagram, Mastodon, YouTube) as well as on its UbLOG.
You are very welcome to submit your inquiries, propositions and ideas related to the communication of the University Library with its users via an online-contact form provided for this purpose.
Accessibility
Wheelchair users enter the Library via the main entrance of the building. It is situated opposite the omnibus station. On each side of the stairs leading to the main entrance there are ramps. The entrance doors open automatically. In alternative, also the side entrance opposite the "Reading Garden" may be used.
There are six parkings for impaired persons on the Library parking lot. It is accessible via the Karl-Liebknecht-Straße.
You access the Library building from the side entrance. Please press the "Wache" ("Guard")-button and identifiy with your user card as entitled person. In alternative, you may also use the side entrance opposite the "Reading Garden".
You may reach the basement as well as all upper levels via the passenger elevator. At the basement is situated a barrier-free accessible restroom (U17) as well as a number of lockers. The lockers at both bottom locker rows may be conveniently opened by wheelchair drivers. Please observe to have 1 Euro or 2 Euro coins with you for deposit.
Yes, we have also a considerably spacious elevator but it may exclusively be operated by Library staff members. Please address to the information desk at the ground floor.
Already at the main entrance begins a tactile orientation system embedded in the ground showing you the way to the foyer at the ground floor of the Library and leading you to the information desk. The tactile orientation system continues at the staircase marking the ending of the respective stairs in order to facilitate the orientation in the building for visually impaired persons. Next to the staircase at the beginning of each level are situated contrasted orientation panels.
At carrel 420 on the 4th level, a particular workplace for visually impaired persons is provided. In case of interest in usage, please address to the information desk on the 1st level. A prior reservation is not required.
Yes. We assist impaired persons in their provision with media. On request, we search for the required media in the open-shelves area and make scans or copies of articles from journals and anthologies for you. In case you need assistance, please come to the information desk on the 1st level or contact us by email via service@….
You are welcome to address to the Service staff members of the University Library whom you may contact via service@….
Bibliometrics
Bibliometrics is a term for the quantative analysis of bibliographic data such as publication data, quotations and cooperations.
Bibliometric analyses have turned into tools for evaluation of science and thus are an important component for the assessment of reputation of scholars. In addition, bibliometrics itself is also a valuable tool for research, i.a. in order to determine topical trends or to explore cooperation clusters in science.
The primary target group for bibliometric analyses are particularly (junior) scholars with regard to i.a. strategies for the enhancement of visibility of their own research, selection of appropriate media for publication and cooperation partners as well as within the elaboration of applications for third-party-funding. In addition, bibliometric analyses may provide valuable information for managers, e.g. for the assessment of performance of the own organization, of the output of networks as well as for the determination of topical trends.
As (junior) scholar, bibliometric analyses may e.g. assist you in assessing the range of your research, in determining promising topics for future research projects, in finding appropriate cooperation partners as well as in enhancing the probability of acceptance of applications for third-party-funding. Managers may particularly profit from valuable information for the further strategic enhancement of their organization.
Basically, it may be distinguished between author-related and publication media-based indicators. In addition, also usage-oriented indicators may be involved. Please have a look at the bibliometrics-website of the University Library for examples for the indicators mentioned.
Like all quantiative analysis methods, also bibliometric analyses should not be used as sole tool for assessment but it should be complemented by further (qualitative) surveys. This is crucial because for bibliometric analyses publication databases are used, which are not totally complete but which have their strenghts and their challenges. You may find a (not complete) list of software and data sources for bibliometric analyses on the bibliometrcs-website of the University Library as well.
For the elaboration of bibliometric analyses software tools may be used on the one hand, and large publication databases on the other. You may find a (not complete) list of software and data sources for bibliometric analyses on thebibliometrcs-website of the University Library.
You have the opportunity to order bibliometric analyses from the University Library, which may be helpful i.a. for the assessment of research outcome or networks within applications for third-party-funding. In addition, the University Library provides information i.a. regarding appropriate bibliometric tools and offers tutorials, workshops and trainings around the topic bibliometrics. Finally, you may arrange an individual appointment via our Book a Librarian-Service.
In case of inquiries/ requests regarding bibliometrics, you are welcome to address to the University Library staff member Carolin Zapke. Please send an email to: carolin.zapke@… or arrange an individual appointment online via our Book a Librarian-Service.
Charges
Basically, the usage of the University Library is free of charges. Solely for a few services (interlibrary loan, multifunctional devices) charges are raised. However, please observe that in the case of exceeded lending delay of media, charges for delay exceeding are raised!
The raising and respective amount of charges are based on the Regulation for university fees and charges of Chemnitz University of Technology.
You may look up the amount of your charges at any time in your Library account in the category "Fines".
You may pay your charges either cash or by EC-card at the lending desk (1st level) as well as via bank transfer. You find the data necessary for a bank transfer either on your notification of charges, you ask for them via email to service@… or you ask for a respective document with the bank transfer data at the lending desk at the 1st level.
In case of questions/ requests regarding charges, you are welcome to send us a message via our online-contact form. During the service hours also the staff members at the information desk at the 1st level are delighted to be at your disposal personally or by phone (0371-531-13180).
Committment
You as user of the University Library have the largest benefit from your committment for the University Library: Thus, you contribute by donation of appropriate publications to the added value that they do not have to be acquired so that those resources may be used for the acquisition of other publications required. By a financial donation, you enable the acquisition/ conservation of media and the offer of services beyond the budget, which may then be additionally provided for usage. By taking over a book sponsorship, you prevent that knowledge irreversably gets lost due to book wearing and ensure that it rests available also for future generations. By telling your souvenirs and experiences from your times at Chemnitz University of Technology/ in context with the building "Alte Aktienspinnerei" ("Former Spinning Mill") within the project "Tell me your story!", you ensure also in this way their conservation for future generations.
You may committ for the University Library in a variety of ways: You may offer appropriate donations from your private property, you may make financial donations or taking over a book sponsorship as well as eternalize your souvenirs and experiences from your times at Chemnitz University of Technology/ in context with the building "Alte Aktienspinnerei" ("Former Spinning Mill") within the project "Tell me your story!". In any of the ways mentioned, you contribute to make the University Library even more attractive for you as user.
For donations in kind as well as for financial donations (from 300 Euros on), you may be issued a certificate of donation upon request, which you may e.g. use for your tax declaration. The same applies to the takeover of book sponsorships.
With regard to donations of publications, the Subject Specialists are your contact persons, with regard to donation of other items the University Archives and with regard to financial donations Dr. Wolfgang Lambrecht (phone: 0371-531-35679, email: wolfgang.lambrecht@…). In case of interest for a book sponsorship, please address to the Book Sponsorship Service ( buchpatenschaft@…) of the University Library. With regard to the project "Tell me your story!", you are welcome to address either to the University Archives.
Yes. However, we ask for your understanding that the University Library, for storage capacity reasons alone but also for other reasons, accepts donations of publications frequently only very selectively or even has to reject them. In order to reduce the effort for every party to a minimum, you are asked to add a list of the publications you would like to donate to your offer, which will be assessed in the first instance.
The highest probability for being integrated in the collections of the University Library belongs to publications, which are (quite) current or of historical value, in good shape, corresponding to the disciplinary profile of Chemnitz University of Technology and which are not yet available in the collections of the University Library. Particularly the last-mentioned criterium may be easily checked by searching in the Online-catalog of the University Library.
Your point of contact for offering publications as donation are the Subject Specialists, responsible for the respective discipline. Please submit with your donation offer also a list of the publications offered for donation. Please search in the Online-catalog of the University Library before whether they are not already available in the collections of the University Library. This facilitates the assessment for the Subject Specialists and means for you a faster and well-founded decision.
In case you intend to donate publications to the University Library, please submit a respective offer, optimally together with a list of the publications to be donated and already completed search in the Online-catalog of the University Library, whether they are not yet available in the collections of the Library, to the Subject Specialist responsible for the respective discipline. After completed assessment, the Subject Specialist informs you whether and in which scope your donation will be accepted and sends to you forms which you please add duly filled and signed to your donation. Please hand over/ send exclusively those publications for donation, which were accepted by the Subject Specialist. In case you require a certification of donation for the publications integrated in the collections, please tick that at the respective box in the forms.
In case of inquiries/ requests regarding donations of publications to the University Library, you are welcome to address to the Subject Specialist responsible for the respective discipline.
Yes. You may also offer other materials (items, photos, non-published documents etc.) to the University Library as donation. Your point of contact in this respect are the University Archives.
The decision on integration of other materials as donation in the collections belongs to the University Archives. To the crucial criteria of assessment counts the relation of the materials to be donated to the history of Chemnitz University of Technology and its preceding institutions.
Yes. You may give your donation of other materials to the University Library resp. the University Archives in the manner that those completely pass into their property or you decide for the way to hand them over as (permanent) items on loan. In that case you would keep certain rights of property on them and a respective agreement would be concluded. The University Archives would be delighted to offer you consultancy in that respect.
In case of inquiries/ requests regarding donations of other materials, you are welcome to address to the staff members of the University Archives by phone (0371-531-13170) as well as via email ( uni-archiv@…).
For legal aspects, it is important that you give your donation of your own free will and that no return service is expected. The reason for that is that otherwise this would be considered as sponsoring in the economic sense, what would fiscally being considered in another way.
Yes. For donations to the University Library from 300 Euro on, certifications of donation may be issued via Chemnitz University of Technology, which may be used for the tax declaration.
If you would like to give a financial donation to the University Library, please contact Dr. Wolfgang Lambrecht (phone: 0371-531-35679, email: wolfgang.lambrecht@…). Subsequently, a respective form will be sent to you. Please fill in the fields "Data of donator" and enter the amount which you would like to donate in the field "Donation amount". In case you would like to being issued a certification of donation (from 300 Euro on), please tick the box at "Donation receipt". Please leave the fields "Location/ Date" and "Signature" blank! Please send the form subsequently either per email to wolfgang.lambrecht@… or hand it in at the information desk at the ground floor (for the attention of Dr. Wolfgang Lambrecht) or send it via postal mail to the following address: Universitätsbibliothek Chemnitz, Dr. Wolfgang Lambrecht, Straße der Nationen 33, 09111 Chemnitz. You will then be told a bank account, on which you transfer your donation. After reception of your donation, you will receive, jointly with a letter of gratitude, also a certification of donation usable for tax purposes.
In case of inquiries/ requests regarding financial donations to the University Library, you are welcome to address to Dr. Wolfgang Lambrecht by phone (0371-531-35679) or via email ( wolfgang.lambrecht@…).
By taking over a "Book Sponsorship", you donate money to the University Library for the conservation of partly unique books from its historical collections, menaced by irreversible loss due to damages caused by usage, storage or also the material itself. From that time on, the book "saved" by you is linked to your name.
The "material" benefit for you from taking over a book sponsorship is the issue of a certification of donation (from 300 Euro on) for your tax declaration. The "non-material" benefit is that the "rescue" of the book "in danger" is linked to your name, that by your donation you have contributed to prevent that knowledge irreversably gets lost and to assure that it rests available also for future generations and that you get a privileged access to "your" book.
It is difficult to give a general answer to this question as the costs strongly depend on individual characteristics of the book (age, conservation status, material, kind/ scope of the necessary conservation measures etc.). Mostly they are within a three-digit-range.
Naturally you are absolutely free in your decision whether you would like to donate the entire or a part of the amount necessary for the conservation of a book. The books are grateful to you for any donation!
For taking over a "book sponsorship", please download the book sponsorship form and send it printed and signed to the address indicated there or hand it in to the information desk at the ground floor. You will get a copy and may then transfer the amount selected by you on the bank account indicated. Subsequent to reception of your donation, you will receive, jointly with a letter of gratitude, (from 300 Euro on) also a certification of donation usable for tax purposes. In case of covering of the entire conservation costs, you will additionally receive a certificate stating the book you "saved" as well as a "privileged" access to "your" book. In case you have specific preferences regarding the book for which you would like to take over a sponsorship, you are welcome to tell those via email ( buchpatenschaft@…) before.
In case of covering the entire conservation costs, you will get, in addition to a letter of gratitude and a certification of donation, also a certificate and a "privileged access" to "your" book: This means that you may ask, with a certain lead time (> 2 days in advance), via email ( buchpatenschaft@…) for "your" book to be provided at a certain date at the service desks (1st level) during the service hours in order to present it to your visitors, for instance.
In case of inquiries/ requests regarding the takeover of book sponsorships, you are welcome to address to the Book Sponsorship Team of the University Library ( buchpatenschaft@…).
The objective of the project "Tell me your story!" consists on collecting and storing the experiences and souvenirs of your time at Chemnitz University of Technology, but also related to the past of the University Library building "Alte Aktienspinnerei" ("Former Spinning Mill") in order to prevent them from getting lost and to save them for future generations.
Your benefit from telling "your story" is that your experiences and souvenirs from your time at Chemnitz University of Technology and/ or from the past of the building "Alte Aktienspinnerei" ("Former Spinning Mill") do not get lost but are recorded and saved. This enables you to stay in permanent remembrance and to share your life also with future generations.
If you would like to tell and to save "your story", you are welcome to send it either in written form to the University Archives or to arrange a telephone/ individual appointment.
You may be sure that we comply with all data protection regulations and that we contractually agree with you on the purposes of usage.
In case of inquiries/ requests regarding the project "Tell me your story!", you are welcome to address to the head of the University Archives, Diplom-Archivar Stephan Luther, personally as well as by phone (phone: 0371-531-32694) or via[ ]email ( stephan.luther@…).
Equipment
In the entire building WiFi is available for adherents of Chemnitz University of Technology. In addition, also members of universities associated to eduroam may make use of the WiFi. All other persons are welcome to use the computer workstations in the side wings from the 1st to the 3rd level.
Yes. You find the passenger elevator at the foyer on the ground level left hand of the staircase. By this elevator you may go to each level.
The reading and workplaces at the reading hall (2nd level), at the gallery (3rd level) as well as at the side windows (1st - 3rd level) at the University Library are equipped with an individual reading illumination and electricity supply. In the side wings from the 1st to the 3rd level, there are also computer workstations.
Yes, for this purpose multifunctional devices are provided at the ground floor west wing as well as on the 1st and 3rd level on both sides at the end of the wings respectively. You may use them with your student resp. staff member ID-card (adherents of Chemnitz University of Technology) resp. your library user card. Please hold it at the field with the wireless symbol below the registration screen for activation of the multifunctional device. Adherents of Chemnitz University of Technology need a credit (PaperCut), external library users pay the amount displayed in their Library account after usage at the information desk (1st level).
Yes, there are charges raised according to the Regulation for university fees and charges of Chemnitz University of Technology. In addition, you may find an overview of the charges on each multifunctional device.
In case of adherence to Chemnitz University of Technology an automatic debiting via the accounting system PaperCut is done, in case of external library users they are booked on the Library account and may be paid at the information desk (1st level).
Yes. At the ground floor west wing and at the 1st level west wing, there are bookscanners available for that purpose. The file/s generated have to be downloaded on an own USB-Stick brought along. The usage of the bookscanner is free of charge. Please observe existing restrictions according to current copyright law, if applicable, during usage.
The bookscanners may scan to PDF, TIFF and JPG, also a multipage-scan to PDF and TIFF is possible. The multifunctional devices scan also to those formats but also to other formats not provided by the bookscanners (i.a. OCR).
Yes. You may borrow media from the open-shelves area of the University Library automatically at the self-checkout stations next to the information desk on the 1st level. Exempted from that are media for on-site usage only and media combinations. With regard to those, please address to the information desk during the service hours.
Put the medium on the marked surface, select a language, if applicable, and follow the instructions on the screen. Please have your user card and a PIN assigned via your Library account with you.
Yes. Via the return machine at the ground floor, you may also return media from the University Library collections in self-service. As soon as the automat accepts them, they are automatically booked as returned. Certain media (i.a. interlibrary loans) are not accepted by the automat. Please address to the lending desk at the 1st level during the service hours in that case.
Put the medium on the signed surface. As soon as it is accepted, it is automatically booked as returned.
Unfortunately currently not, but there are snack and beverage machines available at the ground floor. Paying by card is possible. In case of inquiries/ hints/ challenges, please address directly to the external provider. You find its contact details on the machine. Eating and drinking is permitted in the "Common Area" (ground floor, east wing).
Yes. For this purpose, lockers in different sizes are available at the basement. Please only use 1 or 2 Euro coins for deposit as supermaket coins might getting stuck in the locking mechanism and thus block it.
No. At the side wings on the 1st and the 3rd level also a certain number of workstations with fixed computers having access to internet and different text processing programs are available. Also e-media may be used here.
Yes. For this purpose, a specific computer workstation (Windows) with re-enlargement is provided at the 1st level west wing. You may digitize your micro films there and store the file e.g. on a USB-stick brought along. Adherents of Chemnitz University of Technology have the additional opportunity to copy scanned pages in their home directory. Finally, also a print is possible.
Yes. Please look them up on our service-website barrier-free library.
Yes. At the 4th level of the Library building are situated separate "study cabins" ("Carrels") allowing concentrated work.
The carrels are equipped with a worktop with reading lamp, shelves for disposal of media, two sockets as well as WiFi.
Carrels have to be reserved online in advance. We ask for your understanding that this service is accessible for adherents of Chemnitz University of Technology only. In case the reservation was successful, you will get a confirmation mail. You may then open the respective carrel with your TUC-Card.
The reservation is done day by day up to 31 days per person and up to 35 days in advance.
No. A forwarding of your reservation to other persons is not possible. In case that you do not need the reservation anymore, we ask for a timely cancellation of your reservation by responding to the confirmation mail of your reservation.
Please send either a respective response to the confirmation mail of your reservation or cancel by phone (0371-531-13180).
The carrels are dedicated to concentrated "silent work". Accordingly, noisy activities (phone calls, video conferences etc.) are not permitted.
In addition to borrowed media and working materials, you may also take private items with you to the carrels and store them there for the reserved period of time (except valuable items and perishable food). With regard to electronic items, exclusively end devices (laptop, smartphone) may be brought along and being connected.
The University Library assumes no liablity for items stored in the carrels. For this reason, it is strongly recommended to not store any valuable items there.
Yes. It is situated in the "Common Area" (ground floor, east wing) in the rear area.
Yes. It is situated at the basement opposite the stairs.
Yes. The event area ("IdeenReich") is situated at the ground floor east wing behind the "Common Area" (through the door).
Yes. The exhibition area is situated at the 1st floor around the information and lending desk. It is equipped with 4 showcases and a hanging system for pictures resp. panels at the side walls. Right hand of the desk is situated the so-called "Magic Book": By turning, the inititally blank pages are filled "like magic" with electronically stored contents.
In case of inquiries/ requests regarding the equipment of the University Library, you are welcome to submit a message via our online contact form or to send an email to service@….
Library account
Your individual Library account will be established and activated for you after succesful registration at the University Library.
You find the access to your Library account via the "Account"-button either on the homepage of the University Library or on the starting screen of the Online-catalog.
You may log in in your Library account with your user number (on your TUC-Card resp. your library user card) and your password (by default your date of birth in the notation DDMMYY).
For security reasons, it is strongly recommended to change the default-password into an individual password in due time. You may do that yourself by logging in your Library account and selecting "Preferences => Change password".
You may change some profile data (address, email, phone) yourself. To do this, you click on "Profile" in your Library account and then below on "Edit account/ Re-registration". Afterwards, you have to log in again. Subsequently, you click on "Benutzerdaten" ("Profile data"), make the changes and click on the "Profil speichern" ("Save Profile")-button.
There are some data in your Library account, which you cannot change yourself (e.g. date of expiry, user category, user status). In case that changes are necessary there, during the service hours the staff members at the lending desk at the 1st level are delighted to be at your disposal personally, by phone (0371-531-13190) or via email to service@….
Your Library account provides you with an overview of relevant processes related to your Library usage, i.a. of "Checked Out Items" (from the University Library collections), "Interlibrary Loan Requests" (from other libraries) and charges to be paid. In addition, you set a PIN for the usage of the self-checkout stations via your Library account.
Generally yes, however its validity normally has to be extended year per year. You receive a respective reminder email. You may do the prolongation yourself in your Library account (via "Edit account/ re-registration") from the day of the date of expiry on or you address to the staff members of the lending desk on the 1st level during the service hours.
Please address to the staff members ar the lending desk on the 1st level during the service hours.
The University Library offers online-tutorials and on-site-trainings introducing you i.a. in the functions and the usage of your Library account.
In case of inquiries/ requests regarding your Library account, you are welcome to send us a message via our online-contact form. During the service hours also the staff members at the information desk at the 1st level are delighted to be at your disposal personally or by phone (0371-531-13180).
Loan and Interlibrary Loan
No. Exclusively those media from the collections of the University Library may be borrowed, which are marked with "Available for Loan" in the Online- catalog.
Media marked in the Online-catalog with "non-circulating" or "In Library Use Only" may not be borrowed.
No. As registered user you have access to all electronic media "bought" ("licensed") by the University Library.
Basically not. However, in the case that you miss lending delays for media borrowed, charges for delay exceeding are raised.
Yes. For profiting from the services of the University Library, you have to register before.
Media marked in the Online-catalog as available for loan may be borrowed during the service hours at the lending desk on the 1st level. Beyond those hours, you are welcome to use the self-checkout stations next to the information desk (1st level) for this purpose. Certain media (i.a. for on-site usage only, media combinations, non-book-media) may exclusively being borrowed at the lending desk during the service hours.
Media available for loan from the open-shelves area, you may take yourself out of the shelves. Media from the "Magazin" (closed-shelves area) have to be ordered and are provided for collection at the next opening day at the lending desk at the 1st level.
You find a list of all media ordered, which are provided for collection for you at the lending desk at the 1st level, in your Library account within the category "Ready for Collection".
Yes. The sole particularity of media marked in that way is that you may only use them on-site and are not allowed to take them beyond the building. Thus, please put them back on the trolleys provided for media disposal at the respective wing entrances after usage.
The default lending delay is 20 opening days. Please make use of your Library account in order to stay up-to-date regarding the expiry of the lending delays of your media borrowed.
In case you need media already borrowed, you may reserve them free of charges in the Online-catalog. As soon as the media are provided for you, you will get a notification. Please collect them within 7 opening days.
The respective lending delays are displayed in your Library account by selecting the category "Checked Out Items".
The extension of the lending delay is only possible under the condition that no other Library user has submitted a reservation for it. You may extend the lending delay repeatedly within a year. At the end of the year, the medium has to be presented to the Library and, if applicable, to be re-borrowed. You may extend a delay in the following ways: online via your Library account, by email to service@…, by phone (0371-531-13190) or on-site at the lending desk at the 1st level during the service hours.
As the reasons for that might be quite varied, please address to the lending desk at the 1st level during the service hours either by phone (0371-531-13180) or on-site, in alternative (and beyond the service and opening hours) by email to service@….
You find a list of your media reserved in your Library account by selecting the category "Holds and Recalls".
Please return those media at the return machine at the ground floor. In case that it does not accept certain media, please make use of the return box or address to the lending desk at the 1st level.
In case of excess of the lending delay, charges for delay exceeding are raised. The amount is determined by the Regulation for university fees and charges of Chemnitz University of Technology. Currently, they amount 1 Euro per commenced week and medium, but 25 Euro per medium at maximum. The raising of charges is not depending on the reception of a reminder notification.
Yes. You may do that by using the return machine at the ground floor resp. the self-checkout stations at the 1st level.
For borrowing media via the self-checkout stations, you need your valid Library user card (external users) resp. your TUC-Card (University adherents) as well as a four-digit PIN, which you have determined before via your Library account. Put the medium on the marked surface and follow the instructions on the screen.
You need a valid Library user card resp. TUC-Card. In addition, there are kinds of media exempted from the self-checkout option. Among them are i.a. media from Term Reserve Collections, journals, media combinations (i.a. book + CD/DVD) as well as non-book-media (e.g. audio, video, image material). Media of those kinds have to be borrowed at the lending desk at the 1st level.
In case of inquiries/ requests regarding borrowing media of the University Library, you are welcome to address to the Library staff members at the lending desk (1st level) during the service hours on-site as well as by phone (0371-531-13190). Apart from that, you may write an email to service@… at any time.
"Interlibrary Loan" means that the University Library tries to borrow the media desired from another library on your behalf. In addition, an interlibrary loan (in contrast to borrowing media from the collections of the University Library) is subject to charge and media ordered via interlibrary loan may only be collected and returned at the lending desk at the 1st level.
No, as the fundamental requirement for interlibrary loan consists on the fact that the medium desired is NOT included in the collections of the University Library. Please search for this very carefully in our Online-catalog prior to submiting an interlibrary loan request. E-books, articles from daily and weekly journals, elaborations available at book traders for a price below 10 Euros as well as eleborations of particular value are generally excluded from interlibrary loan.
No, in general. However, this is possible in justified exceptional cases. Please address to the Interlibrary Loan Service before (phone: 0371-531-13192; email: fernleihe@…).
The processing charge amounts 1.50 Euro per request. In case that the medium required has to be ordered from abroad, additional charges may be raised.
For ordering a medium via interlibrary loan, please fill in the online form "Interlibrary Loan Request". Please observe that for this you have to be logged in your Library account before. Please select at first whether you need that medium in original or only in copy. Copies are appropriate f.e. in the case that you need only extracts from the media (e.g. articles from journals, chapters from books). Please fill in the subsequently opening form as completely as possible. For searching for the indications required, i.a. the Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog is recommended. Please check also whether another than the edition indicated may be ordered. By clicking on the button "Order with Costs", you submit the interlibrary loan request. Please observe that in this moment, the charge of 1.50 Euro is mandatorily raised in any case.
The period of delivery from the order to the collection of an interlibrary loan (at the lending desk at the 1st level) amounts generally 5-10 working days, however, in case of orders from abroad it might also last considerably longer. The University Library has no influence on the periods of delivery for interlibrary loans.
As soon as the elaboration you ordered via interlibrary loan is provided for collection at the lending desk at the 1st level, you will get a respective notification via email. In addition, this will also be displayed to you in your Library account in the category "Ready for Collection". Copies are sent to you via postal mail.
You will receive an email.
Those are determined by the lending library.
The borrowing resp. return of an interlibrary loan by self-service is unfortunately not possible.
In the case that you need an extension of the lending delay for interlibrary loans, please address to the Interlibrary Loan Service shortly prior to its expiry either by phone (0371-531-13192) or via email to fernleihe@….
You can look this up in your Library account by selecting the category "Interlibrary Loan Requests".
You may submit your interlibrary loan request conveniently via an online-form. Then, the University Library takes over the further procedure for you and informs you about the result via email. The charge raised for this in the amount of 1.50 Euro is only a fraction of the prices of other providers, such as Subito. Also interlibrary loans from abroad (interational interlibrary loan) are taken over for you, however, they might be accompanied by additional costs and longer periods of delivery on which the University Library has no influence.
In case of inquiries/ requests regarding interlibrary loan you are welcome to address to the staff members of the Interlibrary Loan Service either by phone (0371-531-13192) or via email ( fernleihe@…).
Media
The collections of the University Library include more than 1 million printed and nearly 700.000 electronic media in total.
The collections of the University Library contain for the major part books/ e-books (monographs, anthologies, theses) and journals/ e-journals but also cartographical, image and audio material as well as (disciplinary) databases.
Yes. Printed media as well as image and audio carriers (DVD, CD etc.) are generally available for all (registered) library users, other electronic media may be used beyond the university campus exclusively by adherents of Chemnitz University of Technology via a VPN-client. External library users get access to those electronic media via the computer workstations in the Library building.
Every interested person may search in the Online-catalog of the University Library for media in its collections.
Yes. You may propose an elaboration important from your point of view and not yet included in the collections of the University Library for acquisition via an online-form. The decision on the implementation of the acquisition belongs to the respective Subject Specialist according to financial, structural and content-related criteria.
By reasons of copyright law, copies may only be made and used for personal usages - unless the free dissemination is expressively permitted. This may apply e.g. for "Open Access"-publications in the case that this is expressively determined in the corresponding so-called "Creative Commons"-license.
The University Library operates i.a. via its Subject Specialists a policy of active development of its collections oriented at the current requirements of the library users and at disciplinary academic demands with the objective of the best possible provision of media. You may participate in this process by making use of the opportunity to submit online your propositions for acquisition for the Subject Specialists for decision. With regard to electronic media, the University Library promotes i.a. actively publications with free access for all ("Open Access"). In addition, media ordered via the Online-catalog of the University Library are picked out and provided for collection. Finally, adherents of Chemnitz University of Technology have the opportunity to order conveniently online and free of charges articles and extracts from books via the Internal University Document Delivery Service, which are then sent to their email-address as pdf-document.
In case of inquiries/ requests regarding media of the University Library, you are welcome to address to the staff members at the information desk (1st level) during the service hours personally as well as by phone (0371-531-13180). Apart from that, you may write an email to service@… at any time.
The collections of printed media of the University Library comprise for the major part books (monographs, anthologies, theses, reference works etc.) and journals, but in a minor scope also norms, loose-leaf collections, music books, cartographical and image material etc.. In addition, on the first shelves at the ground floor west wing there are subcribed daily and weekly journals.
Yes, most of the media are loanable but besides there are also non-circulating media for on-site usage only and reading hall collections.
You may look up this in the Online-catalog of the University Library. Both is displayed in the catalog entries.
"Open-shelves" means that the medium is located in one of the publically accessible areas in the respective side wings from the ground floor to the 3rd level. Thus, all those media may be taken out of the shelves by the library users themselves.
"Magazin" ("closed-shelves") means that the medium is located in a non-public area of the University Library, to which exclusively Library staff members have access. For this reason, media from "closed-shelves" have to be ordered via the Online-catalog of the University Library and may generally being collected at the next opening day from the lending desk (1st level). On demand, single media may also being provided immediately by staff members of the information desk (1st level).
"Non-circulating" or also "In Library Use Only" mean that you may use the printed medium - but exclusively in the University Library building. Please put the medium after usage on one of the respectively labelled "Book deposit"-trolleys (next to the respective wing entrances).
"Non-circulating" or also "In Library Use Only" media are often reference works, unique or in particular need of protection. In general, this status serves either at keeping those media accessible for many Library users or to protect them in a particular manner.
In the case that your required printed medium was already borrowed by another Library user, you have the opportunity to make a reservation by the "Recall"-button in the Catalog entry. This means, that you are registered as next user and will be notified as soon as the borrowed medium had been returned.
In the case that your required printed medium is not existing in the collections of the University Library, you have the opportunity to ask the University Library to try to get on your behalf from another library by filling in an online-form. However, please note that for this service a charge of 1.50 Euro per order is raised.
No. Interlibrary loan is only possible in the case that the required printed medium is not exisiting in the collections of the University Library. Your only option is to make a reservation for this medium in the catalog entry ("Recall"-button).
The University Library offers a mix of e-books, e-journals, databases as well as audio and video material. From beyond the University campus, the electronic media are exclusively accessible for adherents of Chemnitz University of Technology via a VPN-client. Audio and video material is provided for loan only.
Yes, depending on the fact whether the electronic medium is unrestrictedly accessible ("Open Access") or paid for usage by the University Library ("licensed"). The last-mentioned category may, from beyond the Library building, exclusively be used by adherents of Chemnitz University of Technology via VPN-client. Please visit the Library websites regarding e-books and e-Journals for further information.
You may search for electronic media in our collections in the Online-catalog of the University Library. The respective Catalog entry also indicates the kind (e-book, e-journal, database etc.) and the access type (Open Access, Online Resource).
"Open Access" means that the electronic medium is unrestrictedly accessible for all. However, there might be restrictions for its usage (reproduction, further processing etc.). For this reason, Open Access-elaborations are frequently equipped with a so-called "Creative Commons"-license determining this in more detail.
"Online-Resource" means that the electronic medium was paid for usage ("licensed") by the University Library. This means that this medium may, from beyond the Library building, exclusively be used by adherents of Chemnitz University of Technology via VPN-client.
Search in the Online-catalog of the University Library for the medium required and click on the respective title. Click on the "Full Text"-button In the subsequently opening screen. You will then be forwarded to the platform of the provider and may use the electronic medium. For access from beyond the University, a VPN-client is mandatory for this purpose.
In the case that you are registered as user of the University Library, you have the same access to electronic media like adherents of the University - however with the restriction that for external Library users this is only possible in the University Library building. For this purpose, computer workstations are provided in the side wings from the 1st to the 3rd level. In the case that electronic media are marked with "Open Access" (opened lock icon) in the Catalog, you have unrestricted access from anywhere. Please observe with regard to the usage of mobile end devices that, due to the licensing regulations of the provider (eduroam), the WiFi-network in the building is exclusively accessible for adherents of Chemnitz University of Technology (and adherents of universities associated to eduroam), external Library users would have to make use of their individual mobile data services.
The University Library acquires electronic media, which are not openly accessible, via so-called "campus licenses" from the providers. Those determine that the usage is exclusively possible for adherents of the University resp. on the campus of the University. Unfortunately, the University Library has no influence on that. In the case that an electronic medium is marked with "Open Access" (opened lock icon) in the Catalog, you have unrestricted access from anywhere.
Please check whether you are logged in via a downloaded VPN-client (eduVPN or Cisco Secure Client) and that you have installed and activated the Multi-Factor-Authentication and try again. In case of persisting challenges, please write an email with description of the process to e-medien@….
In addition to the Online-catalog there are i.a. the Electronic Journals Library offering access to journals licensed by the University Library, as well as disciplinary databases for search interface-based searching for publications. Please visit also our Service-website Search & Find.
The "Internal University Document Delivery Service" of the University Library provides adherents of Chemnitz University of Technology with the opportunity to order free of charges articles/ chapters from books from the collections of the University Library, which are sent to their email-address as PDF.
Within the scope of copyright law, single articles from disciplinary journals or chapters from books up to 10% of the total scope may be ordered via the Service. Daily and weekly journals as well as so-called kiosk journals (e.g. "Der Spiegel", "Focus" or "Auto, Motor & Sport") are excluded.
All adherents of Chemnitz University of Technology, who are registered as Library users and in possess of a valid University Computer Center-login, are entitled to make use of this Service.
The order form is linked to each printed medium in the corresponding display in the Online-Catalog of the University Library (example). Please follow the tab "Internal University Document Delivery Service" there. Please observe in the case of articles from journals that the required volume is included in our collections. When your order was processed, you get an email with a link to a PDF. This file is provided for one month for download on a server of the University Library. After one month, it will be automatically eliminated. The scanned file itself is not barrier-free or processed by an OCR-software. The scanned PDF may then being used for long-term. Alternatively, you may also navigate directly to the order form.
Copyright law permits according to § 60e to publically-accessible and non-commercial libraries the delivery of single articles from journals or chapters from books (up to 10% of the total scope) upon individual orders of users for non-commercial purposes. As we are not able to guarantee the "non-commercial purposes" in the case of external Library users, we ask for understanding that this Service is reserved for adherents of Chemnitz University of Technology.
The period for processing and delivery amounts generally 1 up to 5 working days at maximum. In the case that the respective media are not available, you will get an intermediate notification.
No, in that case we will send you a link forwarding you directly to the electronic medium resp. the respective chapter/ article.
You are welcome to address to the staff members of the Internal University Document Delivery Service either by e-mail to dokulief@… or by phone (0371-531-13192).
Open Science
Open Science is a term for strategies and procedures to provide all components of scientific processes publically accessible, transparently and re-usably via the internet.
Science depends on exchange - not only within the "Scientific Community" but in fact also with the entire society from the local up to the global level. "Open Science" is a global future trend, which is politically intended and thus favored for financial funding as from the widest "open" access possible to science, everyone profits.
The term of "Open Science" refers to the open access to academic publications ("Open Access"), to data (Open Data), to software (Open Source), to materials for learning and teaching (Open Educational Resources), to analyses (Open Evaluation) and reviews (Open Review) as well as to the involvment of "amateurs" in science (Citizen Science).
Open Access means that you concede, by a so-called "open license" (e.g. Creative Commons-license), free access to any person to your academic elaborations and that you allow everyone to download, copy and disseminate them. Your profits from that are particularly an enhanced visibility and usage of your academic elaborations due to the fact that it is easily findable by search engines, an intensified integration in the Scientific Community and beyond as well as the generation of benefit for the entire society. In addition, the "Open Access"-publication of project results is frequently already mandatorily required by funding organizations. Vice versa, also you profit in your academic work from the "Open Access"-publications of other authors.
Open Data means that you concede to anyone an open access as well as the free usage, re-usage and dissemination of data generated within your academic work by a so-called "open license" (e.g. Creative Commons-license). Your profits from that are particularly a wider range, an enhanced credibility (verifiability) and societal benefit of your scientific data as well as an intensified integration in the "Scientific Community" and beyond. In addition, the disclosure of data of projects is frequently already mandatorily required by funding organizations. Vice versa, also you profit in your academic work from "open data" of other persons. Of particular interests in academic contexts is research information.
Open Source means that you concede to the users of the software you developed by an "open license" the right to get open access to its source code and to use it any number of times, to copy it, to disseminate it, to adapt and to further develop it. Your profits from that are also a wider range, an intensified integration in the "Scientific Community" and beyond as well as a societal benefit of your scientific results. Vice versa, also you profit in your academic work from "Open Source"-software of other persons.
Open Educational Resources mean that you, by an "open license" (e.g. Creative Commons-license), make educational materials (papers, courses, books etc.) openly accessible and freely usable for other users and that you permit their dissemination and further development without or solely with minor limitations. Your profits from that are also particularly a wider range as well as an intensified usage and enhancement of the educational materials you developed - not only by lecturers but also by learners. Vice versa, also you profit in your teaching resp. learning activities from "open educational resources" of other persons.
Open Evaluation means that you provide analyses you developed freely to other users. The University Library practices that particularly in the field of bibliometrics as it not only provides analyses elaborated for free usage but also strives to use free data/ software (Open Data/ Open Source) already during their elaboration. Your profits are particularly an enhanced re-usability, a high verifiability and transparency as well as an intensified usage of your analyses. Vice versa, also you profit in your assessments from "open evaluations" of other persons.
Open Review is a term for the review of academic publications by peers ("Peer Review") within an "open" procedure. This is an answer to criticism of the traditional "closed" Peer-Review-procedure (intransparency, different standards etc.). Characteristics of "Open Review" are e.g. the public announcement of the reviewers and/ or their comments, the involvement of the public in the review or the usage of an "Open Access"-publication platform. You profit from an "Open Review"-procedure by refuting criticism mentioned above from the beginning and by the fact that you publically prove the quality of the procedure and in consequence also assure the credibility and integrity of the results of the review.
Citizen Science is a term for the involvement of "amateurs" (persons not working in scientific fields) in scientific projects. The participation may happen in assisting manner (e.g. collection of data) as well as in kind of active integration (co-determination of the research topic). Your profits from that are not only a discharge from time-consuming but necessary procedures but also an enhanced societal impact and reputation of your scientific project due to the involvement of members from the society. Thus, "Citizen Science" not only contributes to the efficiency but also to the outreach of your scientific projects.
The University Library provides information, consultancy and assistance regarding all components mentioned by its Open Science Team. Concerning topics like Open Access, Research Information ("Open Data") and Bibliometrics ("Open Evaluation") also workshops are offered. For "Open Access"-publications there are additional financial funding opportunities (Publication Fund). In addition, the University Library provides own Open Science-products (Open Access, Open Data, Open Evaluation, Open Educational Resources) for illustration and usage on its Open Science-websites.
In case of inquiries/ requests regarding "Open Science", you are welcome to address to the Open Science Team of the University Library. In addition, you have the opportunity to arrange conveniently online an individual consultation appointment with a Library staff member responsible for the respective components via our Book a Librarian-Service (please select "Publishing").
Publishing
Corresponding to art. 5 GG, each person has the right to "openly express and disseminate its opinion by speech, images and writing." However, in the case that you do not publish as private individual but under the "brand" Chemnitz University of Technology, certain guidelines and regulations apply to that. Thus, for instance the "Code of Conduct for Assurance of Good Scientific Practice" as well as, if applicable, legal regulations (e.g. doctoral/ study regulations) of Chemnitz University of Technology have to be observed.
There are many ways for publishing an elaboration: You may publish it on your own or engage a publisher to do that. You may publish it exclusively as print or electronically but also in both kinds at the same or at different times and you may make them accessible and (re-)usable for others in an unlimited or limited way.
In the case that the way of publication is not regulated (such es e.g. during academic qualification by the doctoral resp. postdoctoral regulations), a general recommendation cannot be given but the appropriate way depends more on the purpose intended: In the case that the publication should be cost-effective and made accessible exclusively to a limited, possibly personally known community, a self-publication may be sufficient, whereas in the case you would like to reach a broader public, the publication via a publisher or an online-publication within a standardized repository might be the more adapted option.
The decision whether the publication of the elaboration should happen in print or electronic manner (or both at the same or at different times) belongs exclusively to the author insofar no entitlements had been given nor rights had been conferred to other parties. For this reason and as also i.a. the different disciplinary academic cultures play a certain role, no general recommendation can be given for that.
A comprehensive opportunity for literature search world-wide is offered by the Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog, concerning literature in German also buchhandel.de. With regard to publications of Chemnitz University of Technology, the University Bibliography is recommendable. Here, you may (and should) by the way enter your individual academic publications (also retrospective). However, all platforms mentioned do not offer an opportunity for searching for so-called "Grey Literature".
"Grey Literature" ("also Grey Materials") is a determination for publications not edited by a publisher and not available on the book trade market. They do not have an ISBN/ ISSN. To this category belong e.g. internal documents of institutions and organizations, undisclosed conference reports or manuscripts of academic elaborations.
According to German copyright law you may "reproduce", which means copy or scan, up to 75% of an elaboation for your own scientific elaboration. However, in the case you would like to use it for another purpose, e.g. during a lecture, only up to 15% are permitted.
ISBN is an abbreviation for International Standard Book Number. It serves as unique identification of books and is allocated only once.
You apply for an ISBN-number at the ISBN-Agency MVB Marketing- und Verlagsservice des Buchhandels GmbH Frankfurt am Main. The costs amount around 90 Euro. In the case you publish via a publisher (e.g. via the University Press), the application for an ISBN is generally included in its service package.
ISSN is an abbreviation for International Standard Serial Number for serial publications such as journals, newspapers or publication series. It serves as unique identification and is only allocated once as well.
In the case you edit a new serial publication, you may apply for an ISSN at the German National Library. In the case you publish via a publisher (e.g. via the University Press), the application for an ISSN is generally included in its service package.
DOI is an abbreviation for Digital Object Identifier for electronic publications, particularly for articles in academic journals but also for other objects. The DOI also serves as unique identification and is only allocated once.
The DOI refers to the real object whereas the URL only indicates its current storage location. It is also possible to allocate several URL to a DOI.
You apply for a DOI at the ISBN-Agency MVB Marketing- und Verlagsservice des Buchhandels GmbH Frankfurt am Main. The costs amount around 300 Euro. In the case you publish via a publisher, the application for a DOI is generally included in its service package.
ORCID is an abbreviation for Open Researcher and Contributor ID. This organization allocates unique identification numbers to publishing scholars. Chemnitz University of Technology is member since 2022.
The particular advantage of an ORCID-ID is that in the case of indication of an ORCID-ID, your elaborations are attributed in fact to your person within literature and citation databases. In addition, an ORCID-ID enables you to present your academic profile regardless of your institutional adherence on independent forums. Finally, many publishers and funding organizations demand an ORCID-ID already by the time of submission of a publication resp. the application in order to assure a clear attribution of authors to their elaborations.
The difference between the ORCID-ID and other uniques markers is that it is related to a person, wheras e.g. ISBN/ ISSN/ DOI etc. refer always to elaborations.
In order to facilitate the generation of an ORCID-ID related to you as author, the University Library has elaborated a transparent Step-by-Step Guide.
Yes. By the University Bibliography, the University Library offers an opportunity for getting a comprehensive overview of academic literature published at Chemnitz University of Technology since 2007.
There are indeed offers by publishers pretending to be high-quality and raising high charges and then do not deliver the corresponding services. This is also called "Predatory Publishing". The University Library has compiled useful information regarding this topic including i.a. checklists for assessing offers. In case you have doubts or need further assistance, please just arrange an appointment with a specialized Library staff member online via our Book a Librarian-Service.
Yes. The University Library disposes of an own University Press, a document and publication server (MONARCH-Qucosa) as well as an Open Journal System for publication in Open Access-journals.
Chemnitz University of Technology disposes of the document and publication server MONARCH-Qucosa where full-text versions are provided via Qucosa®, a service of the academic libraries in the Free State of Saxony. For this reason, it is generally determined with MONARCH-Qucosa.
The electronic publication of your academic elaboration on the document and publication server MONARCH-Qucosa is free of charges.
In addition to the freedom from charges, the electronic publication on the document and publication server MONARCH-Qucosa assures i.a. global visibility and long-term storage of your academic elaboration in full text-version.
For information regarding the formal and technical preparation of your electronic publication for the document and publication server MONARCH-Qucosa, you may consult the website of the Theses Department. In case you need further assistance by the University Library, you are welcome to contact Ute Blumtritt by phone (0371-531-31290) or via email to ute.blumtritt@….
The promotion and support of publishing at Chemnitz University of Technology counts with the provision with media and the teaching of information skills to the core action fields of the University Library. For this reason it offers a wide range of services on that field: From an own University Press, a repository for electronic publication (MONARCH-Qucosa) as well as a Theses Department specialized on scientific qualification elaborations via an active (including financial) support of Open Access to assistance regarding the management of research information and bibliometric services. With regard to all inquiries around publishing, you are welcome to conveniently arrange an individual appointment for consultancy with a respectively responsible Library staff member online via our "Book a Librarian"-Service.
In case of inquiries/ requests regarding publishing, the Book a Librarian-Service of the University Library offers you by selecting the category "Publishing" the opportunity to arrange online an appointment with a Library staff member specialized on your issue.
Basically, all adherents of Chemnitz University of Technology may make use of the University Press if they are authors of a publication, insofar no entitlements had been given nor rights had been conferred to other parties. In exceptional cases and exclusively by written consent of the supervising professor, also Master and Bachelor theses may be published.
In general, all academic elaborations done at Chemnitz University of Technology (monographs, anthologies, conference reports, doctoral theses etc.) may be published.
The publication via the University Press is solely one of our offers. Naturally, you may also select other publication providers and publication manners.
The University Press takes over for you i.a. the formal and technical assessment of your electronically created manuscript, the assignment of identifiers, the design of the cover, the printing and availablity on the book trade market, the submission of mandatory copies to the German National Library and the Saxon State and University Library, the registration in library catalogs and the University Bibliography as well as the electronic archiving on the document and publication server MONARCH-Qucosa.
Your main task is to format the electronic manuscript of your publication according to the guidelines of the University Press, to create a cover graphics as well as to provide an abstract for the cover. In addition, you should select a Creative-Commons-license complying with Open Access. In case of doctoral or postdoctoral theses, the specifications determined by the respective regulations of the faculties have to be observed. The respective usage rights of the University Press for the manuscript are determined in the publisher contract.
For a publication of your elaboration via the University Press will be raised at first a lump sum for administration costs in an amount determined by the respectively current version of the Regulation for university fees and charges of Chemnitz University of Technology. In addition, a lump sum will be raised for charges of the service provider engaged for your publication as well as variable costs corresponding to the design demanded for your book (format, cover, pages, number of colored pages). For illustration purposes only: A publication of 25 copies as softcover in DIN A5-format á 200 pages will cost approximately a mid-triple-digit sum.
Yes. The minimum number amounts 6 copies including 6 mandatory copies.
Yes. Up to three years subsequent to the edition of your publication, you may conclude a representation agreement with the VG Wort and thus participate in the payout of bonuses which may be paid to you in the case of sufficient existence of your publication in German libraries.
In case of inquiries/ requests regarding the University Press, you are welcome to address to the staff members of the University Press Team.
The University Bibliography serves since 2007 as central registration database for publications of Chemnitz University of Technology.
Yes, insofar you are adherent of Chemnitz University of Technology and the publication was edited by a reputable publisher or scientific institution or (if published in electronic version) being stored on an academic document repository and that it is long-term accessible (e.g. via an ISBN or a fixed URL). Doctoral and postdoctoral theses do not have to be entered. They are downloaded once a year from the document and publication server MONARCH-Qucosa.
Yes, insofar you are adherent of Chemnitz University of Technology, this is even expressively welcome!
Yes, insofar you are adherent of Chemnitz University of Technology (or that at least one of the contributing persons adheres to Chemnitz University of Technology) and the elaboration was not yet entered (by another contributing person). Please check carefully before.
Publications without ISBN/ DOI or fixed URL are not accepted for the University Bibliography. Also in the case that the URL is fixed but does not lead to the full-text (only to an abstract, list of publications etc.), a publication cannot be entered in the University Bibliography.
You enter the data corresponding to your publication via an online-form. This will be generated after you have selected the respective kind of document.
"Peer-reviewed" means that the publication had been assessed by scientifically equal auditors ("peers") within a procedure complying with the requirements of the respective discipline for the purpose of quality assurance.
The entry of your publication will be disclosed normally subsequent to a processing period of 1-2 working days after submission of the online-form.
On the one hand, you may search for a specific elaboration by determination of search parameters via an input screen but on the other you may also search for entries sorted by faculties or kinds of documents.
In case of inquiries/ requests regarding the University Bibliography, you are welcome to address to the Library staff member Ute Blumtritt by phone (0371-531-31290) or via email to ute.blumtritt@….
The Theses Department is responsible for the acceptance of mandatory copies of doctoral and postdoctoral theses of Chemnitz University of Technology and serves also as point of contact regarding formal questions and general recommendations regarding their publication.
The requirements and manners for publication of your doctoral/ postdoctoral thesis are determined in the doctoral resp. habilitation regulations which you find on the websites of your faculty.
The Theses Department may consult you regarding details and procedures of the manners of publication admitted by the corresponding doctoral resp. habilitation regulations.
In the case that your elaboration is edited as monograph by a publisher, it has to be determined as thesis. This may take place either by inclusion of the title page of your elaboration or by integration of a so-called "thesis note" in the imprint of the publisher. The declaration of autonomy is normally not integrated. A curriculum vitae should be limited to the academic career and must not contain any individual data or indications. The binding should be long-term durable and not "bulky". Thus, spiral or wire comb bindings are not accepted.
The thesis note consists on an entry in the publisher edition of your doctoral/ postdoctoral thesis labelling it as thesis of Chemnitz University of Technology, e.g. "Doctoral thesis Chemnitz University of Technology + year of publication" or "This elaboration had been submitted to the Faculty of ... at Chemnitz University of Technology on [indication of the year] as doctoral thesis."
You may either bring along mandatory printed copies of your doctoral/ postdoctoral thesis to the information desk at the ground floor during the service hours for the attention of the Theses Department or send them via postal mail to:
Technische Universität Chemnitz
Universitätsbibliothek
Victoria Tyrner
Straße der Nationen 33
09111 Chemnitz
Technische Universität Chemnitz
Universitätsbibliothek
Victoria Tyrner
Straße der Nationen 33
09111 Chemnitz
In case of publication of your doctoral/ postdoctoral thesis in electronic manner, you have to register at the document and publication server MONARCH-Qucosa of the University and upload it as a PDF/A-document as well as to submit a duly filled and signed deposit license for electronic publication on the server mentioned and six bound printed copies.
No, because there is no publication required for student degree theses. However, by consent of the supervising professor you may publish your student degree thesis. Due to the freedom of charges, the document and publication server MONARCH-Qucosa is recommendable for this purpose.
In case of inquiries/ requests regarding the Theses Department, you are welcome to address to the Library staff member Victoria Tyrner by phone (0371-531-31642) or via email to victoria.tyrner@….
"Open Access" is a component of "Open Science" and means in the first instance that academic literature is accessible free of charges and publically via the internet. Thus, in the case of Open Access, the access to literature is free of charges. However, same like non publically-accessible literature (closed access), costs emerge for the implementation of Open Access during the entire process of production of publications as well as for the required infrastructure. For this reason, charges are partly, but not always, raised for the edition of Open Access-publications, which normally have to be paid to the editing publishers or institutions.
The major advantage of "Open Access"-publication is the considerably wider outreach which you achieve with your elaboration as potentially each person interested world-wide may read, download, store and print it free of charges. In addition, you contribute to a movement, which enables also you to make use of "Open Access"-publications of other authors in the same way. This mutual "openness" enables and facilitates a considerably more comprehensive and intensive networking within the "Scientific Community".
There are different specifications of funding organizations regarding Open Access. A comprehensive overview is provided by the database Jisc's Open Policy Finder, where you may also search for particular funding organizations.
Each scholar may publish Open Access as long as the required entitlements were not assigned to other parties. According to the manner of publication, different platforms are recommendable:
- In case of articles in journals, appropriate Open Access-journals could be selected.
- In case of draft versions, institutional or disciplinary preprintserver may be recommendable.
- Conference contributions, research reports, final reports and much more may be published in Open Access-repositories (e.g. MONARCH-Qucosa of Chemnitz University of Technology).
- Monographs, doctoral theses and publication series may e.g. being edited by the University Press.
- In case of research information, specific data-repositories or data journals may be appropriate. Please access our websites regarding Research Information Management for more information.
- Collaborative working with teaching and study materials by Open Access-publication. Please access our websites regarding Open Educational Resources for more information.
- The provision and joint development of Open Access-software has turned out as practically since many years. Please access our websites regarding Open Source for more information.
- To edit own Open-Access-journals.
The most crucial precondition to publish your elaboration "Open Access" is that you are holding all the rights necessary for that. In case of a primary publication ("Golden Way"), this is generally the case, in case of a secondary release ("Green Way"), this might already be more difficult as you might eventually have conceded rights necessary for that to the publisher within your primary publication. Please read carefully the contract concluded with the publisher at that time and, in case of doubt, contact the publisher.
The different ways for Open Access-publication are frequently marked by colors. The most common are the Golden (primary publication) and the Green Way (secondary release). However, also the colors bronze, blue, platinum and black are used.
Yes indeed, by the so-called "Creative Commons licenses". Those are internationally common and reknown. By the assignment of CC-licenses, the holder of the copyrights concedes usages reaching more far than the copyright law in force. By the selection of different licensing modules, specific usage scenarios are admitted or excluded such as the commercial usage or the adaptation of contents. In case that the usage rights were already conceded to a publisher, a CC-license cannot be assigned without further ado! In case that you did not have assigned a license of that kind, the German copyright law automatically applies.
Insofar you have the freedom of selection of one of the different Creative Commons-licenses, at the end the decision belongs to you as the holder of the copyrights. There is no general guideline for that. However, the University Library recommends to select the Creative Commons-licenses CC BY, requiring solely the indication of the name as condition, or CC BY-SA, which additionally requires the dissemination by same conditions in case of adaptations, as both of these licenses comply with Open Access in any case. Please access our website regarding Creative Commons-licenses for further details.
Yes, unfortunately. The publishers raise so-called "Processing Charges" for the "Open Access"-publishing of eleborations. However, at Chemnitz University of Technology there is a Publication Fund, managed by the University Library, by which in case of successful application i.a. Processing Charges may be covered up to a certain amount.
Yes. Publications could be financed i.a. within third party-funded projects. By participation in consortia or by membership models, charges may be reduced. Occasionally, publication costs are also covered by academic societies. In addition, there is a Publication Fund at Chemnitz University of Technology, managed by the University Library, by which subsequent to successful application articles in Open Access-journals (up to 2.000 Euro) as well as Open Access-monographs (up to 3.000 Euro) and contributions to publication series (up to 1.500 Euro) may be funded.
The applicant has to adhere to Chemnitz University of Technology at the time of submission of the application and has to be responsible either for the submission ("submitting author") or the communication from the submission until the publication of the elaboration ("corresponding author").
Yes. Doctoral students being enrolled in a doctoral degree program at Chemnitz University of Technology count among the adherents of Chemnitz University of Technology.
In case of articles those have to be published i.a. in full Open Access-journals registered in the Directory of Open Access Journals or in journals included in transformation agreements of Chemnitz University of Technology with publishers and they have to be assigned a preferably far-reaching Creative Commons-license. In case of monographs/ contributions to serial publications, i.a. the charges for "Open Access" have to be clearly indicated by the publisher and the publication has to be findable after publication (i.a. via a DOI). In addition, already the manuscripts have to contain a funding note (Chemnitz University of Technology/ German Research Foundation). Finally, also the funding limits (journal articles: 2.000 Euro, monographs: 3.000 Euro, publication series contributions: 1.500 Euro) have to observed.
Yes. However, Chemnitz University of Technology has to be indicated as primary institution of the article and in the manuscript.
Publications in so-called "Hybrid Journals" are only eligible for funding under the condition that they are included in a transformation agreement of Chemnitz University of Technology complying to Plan-S according to the criteria of the ESAC-initiative.
In case of a funded article in a journal, please ask the publisher to integrate the following note of funding by the Publication Fund of Chemnitz University of Technology: "The publication of this article was funded by Chemnitz University of Technology." This note normally is integrated in parts like "Funding" or "Acknowledgments".
Credit card and banking charges are not eligible for reimbursement by the Publication Fund. Exclusively the services of the publisher related to the Open Access-publication are eligible for funding.
Open Access is a dynamic future trend with global impact and that is fine with regard to the obvious advantages for the scientific development. However, such a growing market also attracts dubious providers raising charges for services not or not satisfactorily delivered. This is also called "Predatory Publishing". Sometimes it is not easy to distinguish offers of that kind from reputed ones. For this reason, the University Library has compiled an information website regarding that topic containing i.a. checklists for assessing dubiety or integrity of offers.
At first, you may check which Open Access-options are offered by publishers in your discipline and which discount agreements Chemnitz University of Technology has concluded. The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is an independent, non-commercial and comprehensive directory of Open Access-journals which were assessed and registered by determined criteria. Among the standards count i.a. the immediate access, a quality assurance system and the assignment of an ISSN. For a comprehensive overview of opportunities for searching, please consult our website "Quality of Open Access".
The Peer Review-procedures of Open Access-journals do not differ from those of other journals. In the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) you may find Open Access-journals with review procedures and you may further filter them according to specific review procedures. In case of journals not integrated in the DOAJ, please check their homepage for information regarding their Peer Review procedure and observe our information on the website "Quality of Open Access".
The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) lists many books openly accessible. Another way for searching is the Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE). By browsing according to kind of document, books may be displayed and subsequently filtered by the access status "Open Access".
The provision of a publication within an academic social network does not comply with the criteria of Open Access as they are not able for long-term-storage and are frequently only accessible after registration. In addition, there is the danger of copyright infringement in the case that the rights for that are not belonging to the author anymore but have been exclusively conceded to the publisher, which is common in the case of not openly accessible, chargeable publications. However, in the case of publications published with an open license, this might be occasionally possible. A publication, regardless whether published via Gold Open Access or Green Open Access, should be provided in academic social networks preferably only with an entry and a link to the publication, though the full text should not be directly provided.
According to the German Copright Law, a secondary release (also called parallel release) is possible after a year under specific conditions. Please have a look at our website regarding secondary releases for further information.
According to the definition of the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities, users may copy, disseminate and publically present those publications in any digital medium and for any responsible purpose as well as produce adaptations of them and disseminate them as long as the authorship is indicated appropriately. In reality, there are different kinds of Open Access, which also have different meanings. Free access, for instance, may mean the provision within a database, where the content is licensed by the library or that the content is temporarily freely accessible. To all publications applies the permission of usage within the copyright law. Further usages may be conceded by the assignment of Open Content-licenses.
Since March 1, 2018, the new Copyright Law for Education and Science, the "Urheberrechts-Wissengesellschafts-Gesetz (UrhWissG)", is in force. It includes exemption clauses (limits) permitting the usage of elaborations protected by copyright law without consultation of authors or publishers. Usages legally permitted for education, science and institutions are determined by paragraphs § 60a - § 60h. The following limits are allowed:
- § 60a UrhWissG allows to generally use up to 15% of an elaboration for education and teaching at educational institutions (e.g. schools and universities).
- § 60b UrhWissG facilitates the production of media for education and teaching.
- § 60c UrhWissG permits to use up to 15% of an elaboration for non-commercial scientific research; for the own scientific research, the copying of up to 75% of an elaboration is allowed.
- § 60d UrhWissG regulates for the first time the so-called text and data mining. This is a research method, where contents protected by copyright law (e.g. texts, images, audio material) are automatically analyzed at large scale.
- § 60e UrhWissG contains different permissions for libraries: Thus, they are allowed to digitize elaborations from their collections for the purpose of conservation, for instance. It regulates also, under which conditions libraries are allowed to provide elaborations at terminals at their spaces and in which scope they may admit printing at those terminals. In addition, the mailing of copies by libraries is regulated.
- § 60f UrhWissG contains permissions for archives, museums and educational institutions similar to those for the libraries.
The right of quotation is probably the most familiar usage permitted by law. It is regulated by paragraph 51 UrhWissG. As quotation is considered the takeover of single parts of elaborations protected by copyrigh law for the purpose of own intellectual confrontation by indication of the source. According to the new UrhWissG, also images could be quoted. The following requirements should be observed:
- Intellectual confrontation with an elaboration (purpose of quotation): A quotation is only considered as quotation under the condition that it results from real confrontation with the elaboration quoted. Thus, a simple copy is not a quotation. However, the copy becomes quotation when the elaboration quoted is used as auxilary for an own comment, e.g. within a critical consideration.
- Individual elaboration: Another requirement is that the own elaboration should be eligible for protection by copyright law as exclusively those should profit from the right of quotation, who themselves create intellectual added value.
- Indication of source: The user always has to indicate the source of the quotation, insofar this is technically feasable and reasonable, and is not entitled for any changes of the quotation. In case one quotes from an elaboration of another person without indicating the author, this is generally determined as "plagiarism".
- Scope of citation: The law ditinguishes between large-scale quotation and small-scale quotation. A large-scale quotation referring to the entire elaboration of another person is quite common with regard to sculptures, for instance, but limited to academic elaborations. With regard to small-scale quotations, where only single parts of an elaboration are taken over, the scope permitted is oriented at how much content of an elaboration of another person is necessary for the own intellectual confrontation.
In case of inquiries/ requests regarding Open Access, you are welcome to address to the University Library staff member Ute Blumtritt by phone (0371-531-31290) as well as via email to ute.blumtritt@….
Registration
Basically every person from 14 years on with valid identity documents (minors with declaration of consent of legal guardian/s).
Yes. Each person, who would like to make use of the services of the University Library, has to register personally (at the lending desk at the 1st level) before. Staff members of Chemnitz University of Technology may priorily enter their data online, for students of Chemnitz University of Technology only an activation is done as their data normally already are transmitted.
The registration at the University Library is free of charges.
For registration, you will need your valid identity card or (in case that you come from abroad) your passport as well as an inhabitant registration confirmation. Adherents of Chemnitz University of Technology bring their TUC-Card with them as well. Minors have to show additionally a declaration of consent signed by their legal guardian/s as well as, in case that they have not an own identity card, a valid pupil identity card or a copy of the identity card/s of their legal guardian/s.
The registration as user of the University Library is basically done on-site at the lending desk at the 1st level. In order to accelerate the process, you may pre-register online.
After registration done, external library users get a separate library user card, adherents of Chemnitz University of Technology may use the Library with their TUC-Card.
In case of inquiries/ requests regarding the registration at the University Library, you are welcome to send us a message via our online-contact form. During the service hours, also the staff members at the information desk at the 1st level are delighted to be at your disposal personally or by phone (0371-531-13180).
Research Information
The term "Research Information" refers to all data emerging from scientific processes. This might be measurement data, survey results, statistic analyses, transcriptions of interviews, audio and video files, software etc.
Research information "records" scientific processes from their beginnings to their completion. For this reason it is particularly crucial that research information is stored as comprehensively as possible for long-term and well findable.
A "Research Information Life Cycle" means a self-contained cycle of procedures and processes from the planning of a project until the subsequent usage of data and the renewed planning of a (follow-up) project (example for presentation).
RIM does not only belong to good scientific practice but is also required by a number of research funding organizations and publishers. In addition, RIM provides the basis for the reproducibility of the results, the long-term subsequent usage of the data, the enhancement of visibility and credibility of the own research, the facilitation of cooperation with project partners as well as the clearance of legal and ethic implications related to the research project.
The IMP is an "active" document, which is elaborated at the beginning of a scientific project and should be continously enhanced and amended during the project period.
Your IMP should indicate which kinds of research information shall be collected and documented in which manners, where the information shall be stored and who shall be entitled for access to them as well as the ways how the information shall be used subsequent to completion of the project.
The research information generated differ from discipline to discipline. For this reason, the IMP should be elaborated individually according to the own research project. For orientation might be used requirements of funding organizations (e.g. checklist of the German Research Foundation), the IMP-Guideline of the University Library or tools for IMP-elaboration.
Research information should be well-organized and documented, securely stored as well as sustainbly archived. With regard to that topic, the University Library has compiled some information.
Prior to the disclosure of your research information, all legal (data protection, copyright law etc.) and ethic issues related to the data have to be cleared. Subsequently, it may be decided, with which license (e.g. an open license) the data shall be disclosed. Related to that topic, the University Library has compiled some information regarding the assignment of licenses as well as regarding legal aspects. It is crucial for decisions to involve all persons, who have got rights related to the research information to be disclosed!
There is a variety of repositories for the disclosure of research information differing from each other according to affiliation, duration of data storage and opportunities for subsequent usage of the data. With regard to affiliation, there are e.g. disciplinary and trans-disciplinary, institutional and media-specific repositories (examples).
On the one hand, your research information should be disclosed in compliance with the FAIR-principles and on the other they should be "open". FAIR is an abbreviation and means: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable. "Open" means that they are freely usable, reusable and disseminable for any interested user.
Both ways differ from each other particularly with regard to the access: The FAIR-principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) require solely that the access to the research information is regulated. For instance, in the case there is a freely accessible contact, who may be asked for the usage of data, the research information is disclosed FAIR but not open.
The disclosure of research information according to the FAIR-principle is meanwhile almost generally required by the large funding organizations (German Research Foundation, Federal Ministry for Education and Research, EU). The "open" access contributes to an enhanced range of your research information, e.g. in kind of quotations, and to the validity of your research results thanks to their free verifiability as well as to the further enhancement of science by continuous usage. Finally, this also helps to avoid additional effort not necessary caused by doubled generation of research information.
In the case that they are open data assigned with a so-called open license, you may freely use them. However, please observe possible limitations (mandatory indication of the name, mandatory dissemination by same conditions of usage), which may be included in the license. In addition, according to good scientific practice, you have to indicate the source of the data used appropriately same like the sources of literature. In the case that the data are not disclosed with open license, you have to ask the holder of the copyrights at the data for consent. As they are frequently also individual-related data, the user also has to comply with the regulations of data protection. In cases of doubt, please address to the Data Protection Commissioner of Chemnitz University of Technology.
The University Library assists you with regard to the management of your research information by the provision of information for the elaboration of data management plans (e.g. by a guideline), concerning the organization, documentation, storage and archiving of research information as well as regarding data repositories and journals. Via the Book a Librarian-Service, there is also the opportunity to arrange individual appointments. In addition, also presentations and workshops related to that topic are offered within the further training program of the Center for Junior Scientists.
In case of inquiries/ requests regarding research information (management), you are welcome to address to the University Library staff member Anja Hähle. Please send an email to: anja.haehle@… or arrange an individual appointment for consultation online via our Book a Librarian-Service.
Searching
The fundamental tool for searching is the Online-catalog of the University Library. Other important searching tools are the Electronic Journals Library and the disciplinary databases. You find an overview of all searching opportunities on our website "Search & Find". The University Archives have separate tools for searching in their collections.
No. There are exclusively the electronic opportunities for searching. The traditional card catalog is not more in use at the University Library.
No. However, the registration is required as soon as you would like to borrow a found printed medium or as you would like to make use of electronic media as non-adherent of Chemnitz University of Technology so that it is strongly recommended to register in due time. It is more simple than you guess!
A very comprehensive data set for searching for media in other libraries in Germany and globally is offered by the Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog.
Yes, there are trainings offered for general and disciplinary literature search as well as for reference management. Mostly, a prior online-registration is required. On demand, those trainings may also be offered time-flexible and frequently also in English. In addition, there is the opportunity to learn about literature search via online-tutorials.
In case of inquiries/ requests regarding literature search, the Subject Specialists responsible for the respective discipline are delighted to assist you. In case of need, you may also book individual consultation appointments via our online-tool "Book a Librarian".
You get to the access of the Online catalog via the search slot "Online Catalog" on the Library websites or via the entry "Catalogs" on the website "Search & Find".
While you search during the "Simple Search" only with one search term and search parameter, you may by the "Advanced Search" combine different search terms and search parameters with each other and thus sophisticate your search. Please visit "Search Tips" left hand of the search slots for further information.
Search parameters are certain categories allowing you to sophisticate your search. You find them by clicking on the button "Advanced Search" on the user surface of the catalog and then, on the subsequently opening screen under "Suchtyp" ("kind of search") on the button "All Fields". Here you may select between a variety of search parameters in a dropdown-field. If you scroll a little below, you may further sophisticate your search by "Media Type", "Collection" and "Year of Publication".
The "Simple Search" is particularly appropriate in the case that you would like to get a first overview and generate preferably a high number of search results.
The "Advanced Search" is particularly appropriate in the case that you already got an overview regarding a topic and that you would now like to "go more into detail" and thus generate preferably precise search results.
Yes. Please click simply on the button "Add Search Field" and you may use as many fields as you want.
Yes. On the left of the search results displayed, you find a bar "Refine my Results". Here you may further filter your search results i.a. by "Access", "Media Type", "Subject", "Collection" and "Year of Publication".
Yes. Please click on the button "Sorted by" above your list of search results. A dropdown-list will open where you may select between different sorting parameters.
Yes. Please tick the respective check box left of the title of the medium and select at the bar in the middle what you would like to do with the list generated (sending via email, export, print, save, add to book bag). In order to make use of the functions "Save" and "Mail", you have to be registered as user of the University Library.
Those are electronic media "bought" ("licensed") by the University Library which from beyond the University Library exclusively adherents of Chemnitz University of Technology may access via a VPN-client.
Those are electronic media with unrestricted access.
Those are printed media.
This determination is designated to elaborations for acquiring an academic degree, in particular doctoral and postdoctoral theses.
Those are publically accessible printed media.
Those are non-publically accessible printed media. They have to be ordered before. Thus, please click on the title of the book within the respective catalog entry, scroll down on the subsequently opening page and click on the "Order"-button marked with a little flag.
Those are publically accessible printed media, which are for usage in the University Library building only.
Those are printed media, which may be taken away after borrowing.
Those are printed media, which are either borrowed or being integrated in a Term or Individual Reserve Collection or being declared as missing. You will get to the respective reason by clicking on the title in the list of search results and by scrolling below in the subsequently opening window.
The call number of a printed medium is displayed in the respective catalog entry below the title. In the case that the printed medium is located in the open-shelves area, you may click on the title and in the subsequently opening window on the letter-number-combination (call number) at "Call Number". The location will then be indicated to you on the "Interactive Location Map".
Click on the title of the elaboration desired on your list of results. Subsequently, a page will open with detailed information regarding the elaboration. You find the access right below of the page: In the case of electronic media via the "Full Text"-button, in the case of printed media via the "Order"-button. In the case of borrowed printed media, it will be additionally indicated to you, until when the medium is borrowed.
In the case that your search results in the message "No results!", the elaboration you desire is not part of the collections of the University Library (please also verify your search-entries with regard to possible "twisters" in letters and numbers!). You may then try to let it borrow for you via the interlibrary loan. In the case that you need the elaboration only in the long run, you may also propose it for acquisition to the University Library. However, the final decision on that belongs to the responsible Subject Specialist.
The most simple way to get to the Electronic Journals Library is via the entry "E-Journals" on our website "Search & Find".
You will be automatically forwarded to the surface for searching for journals. Here you may search for one term or you may combine several with each other. Via the dropdown-fields left to the search slot you may select from a list of different search parameters. In addition, you may also click on a certain discipline below.
No. In contrast to the Online-catalog, the search here is limited to 3 fields.
The meaning of the colors left to the journal titles is explained by the key on the right side: green meens free access, yellow means access for adherents of Chemnitz University of Technology only and red means not accessible. Please observe also the "terms of use".
Click on the respective title of your list of search results. Subsequently, a screen will open with detailed information regarding the journal. By clicking on the lettering "To the fulltexts" beneath "Online Availability", you will be forwarded to the full texts on the platfrom of the respective provider.
This means that this journal is not (yet) acquired ("licensed") by the University Library. You may submit a respective acquisition proposition to e-medien@….
On the left navigation bar, there is in the middle within the category "Institution" a tab "Suggest a journal". When you click on that, an online-form will open in which you enter the data regarding your acquisition proposal. Press finally the button "Submit Proposal".
Disciplinary databases are media for searching containing literature and information with regard to specific scientific disciplines.
The usage of disciplinary databases is particularly recommended in the case of very specific demands and/ or in case of a search striving for the highest comprehensiveness possible. Thus, they are especially appropriate for complementing searches within the Online-catalog i.a. by the opportunities for specific and combined searches, by the finding of data sources not (yet) displayed in the Online-catalog as well as by precise bibliographic indications linking to the catalog or electronic full texts.
The most simple way to get to the disciplinary databases is via the entry "Databases" on our website "Search & Find". From there, you will be forwarded to the overview-surface of the "Database Information System (DBIS)".
In order to start a Simple Search, you enter in the search slot one or several terms for searching and click on the blue-shaded "Search"-button.
While during the "Simple Search" you search only for the terms entered in the search slot without further specifications ("All fields"), you may by the "Advanced Search" combine different terms and parameters for searching with each other and thus sophisticate your search.
The "Advanced Search" is particularly appropriate in the case that you already have a specific idea for which disciplinary databases you would like to search.
No. It is not possible to add further fields to the ones indicated for "Advanced Search".
Yes. Within the Database Information System you may even do this in one step together with the determination of search parameters by selecting further filter criteria (Subjects, Database type, Countries etc.) via dropdown.
Those are explained in the key left to your list of search results: green means that the database may be used unrestrictedly by any person from any place, yellow means that the database is accessible on the University campus only, from beyond exclusively by adherents of Chemnitz University of Technology via VPN-client. Red means that the disciplinary database is not licensed by Chemnitz University Library.
This means that the database is unrestrictedly accessible in Germany as the German Research Foundation (DFG) has acquired a national license for it. Thus, depending on that, the access may also change.
This means that the University Library has acquired only a temporary access to this database in order to test it. Depending on the test results, the subsequent acquisition of a full access ("campus license") will be assessed.
"Full text databases" provide you with direct access to the full-text-versions of the sources included. Other kinds of databases are e.g. directories containing bibliographic indications as well as reference databases or image databases.
Click on the title of the desired database on the list of search results. A screen will open with a detailed description. You get to the database by clicking on the blue-shaded "Go to database"-button.
In the case that database entries are accompanied by a button "Dokument verfügbar?" ("Document available?") (this is, for instance, the case for databases of the provider EBSCO), a so-called "link resolver" checks automatically after a click on this button whether the document is included in the collections of Chemnitz University Library. If yes, you get beneath "Local Holdings" a link to the full text resp. to the respective entry in the Online-catalog of the University Library, if no, you may, by clicking on the button beneath "Document Delivery", directly submit an interlibrary loan request. However, please observe that this is chargeable (currently 1.50 Euro)!
Norms contain provisions, regulations, guidelines or similar for the manufacture of products, the implementation of processes and much more. The objective of norms consists on the determination and settlement of consistent standards.
In the first instance, norms are made for industrial usage. On the academic field, they are particularly, but not exclusively, needed in science and engineering but also in economics.
To users are provided the complete current DIN-VDE-norm collection, in addition also the Guidelines of the German Assocation of Engineers as well as the Standards of the American Society for Testing and Materials and of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Finally, also a comprehensive collection of technical norms, quality regulations and conditions of sale of the ancient GDR (GDR norms) is included.
You get access to the DIN-VDE-norms as well as to the Guidelines of the German Assocation of Engineers in full text via the database Nautos. The Standards of the American Society for Testing and Materials as well as of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers have seperate access opportunities (ASTM Compass resp. IEEExplore). The technical norms, quality regulations and conditions of sale of the ancient GDR (GDR norms) are in the closed-shelves area and may be ordered via the Online-catalog.
Please visit the website "Standards Infopoint" of the University Library for further information.
Please visit the website "Search & Find" of the University Library for other opportunities for searching (i.a. Open Access search, special collections).
Term and Individual Reserve Collections
A "Term Reserve Collection" is a compilation of media for a course. Normally, several media are compiled within a term reserve collection for a period of one term.
Check in the overview of all currently existing term reserve collections whether it contains the name of the respective lecturer and the title of the respective course.
The term reserve collections are located at the ground floor/ west wing.
The term reserve collections are set up according to the last name of the respective lecturer in alphabetical order. Thus, just search for the name of the lecturer of your course.
Click on the title of the medium in your list of results in the Online-catalog and scroll below on the subsequently opening page. In the case that beneath the tab "Holdings" "Semesterapparat" ("Term Reserve Collection") is displayed, you know that the medium is integrated in a term reserve collection.
Yes, but exclusively in the so-called "In Library Use". This means that you may use the media inside the University Library building but are not allowed to take them beyond.
Generally not. Exclusively in exceptional cases and on presentation of a written declaration of consent of the respective lecturer, a short-time borrowing is possible.
Basically, each lecturer of Chemnitz University of Technology is entitled to apply for the establishment of a term reserve collection for her/ his course.
In order to assure an on-time provision at the beginning of a term, you should apply for a term reserve collection six weeks prior to the beginning of the respective term at latest (thus February 15 resp. August 15).
The most convenient way to apply for the establishment of a term reserve collection is to fill in and submit a respective online-application.
You are entitled to include up to 50 media in your term reserve collection.
The term reserve collections are terminated at the end of the Central Examination Period, at latest at the end of the respective term (March 31 resp. September 30). Deviating termination dates have to be explicitely indicated in the online-application for the establishment of a term reserve collection.
The media compiled within the term reserve collection are placed back at their original shelf location and also get back their prior loan status after its termination.
Yes. The respective lecturers may also, by compliance with copyright law, provide electronic materials for their course via the Teaching and Learning Platform OPAL.
In case you require media, which are not (yet) available in the collections of the University Library, you may indicate your requests for acquisition in the respective field in your online-form for application for the establishment of a term reserve collection. Those will then be forwarded to the units responsible within the University Library.
In case of inquiries/ requests regarding term reserve collections in the University Library, you are welcome to address to the staff members at the information desk (1st level) during the service hours either on-site or by phone (0371-531-13180). Apart from that, you may write an email to service@… at any time.
Individual Reserve Collections may, on application by professors of Chemnitz University of Technology, being authorized for long-term borrowing. However, the applicants have to be registered as Library users before.
Individual reserve collections are exclusively located at the place of work of the borrowing professor.
Click on the title of the medium in your list of results in the Online-catalog and scroll below on the subsequently opening page. In the case that beneath the tab "Holdings" "Handapparat" ("Individual Reserve Collection") is displayed, you know that the medium is integrated in an individual reserve collection.
Yes, as the professor holding the individual reserve collection is obliged to disclose the media integrated there to other users. In the case you would like to make use of this opportunity, please address to the lending desk at the 1st level.
No, although the professors holding the individual reserve collection are obliged to disclose the media integrated there to other users, they are however entitled to demand that this happens on-site at an arranged date.
The application for the establishment of an individual reserve collection is done by an informal letter of the professorship signed by the respective professor of Chemnitz University of Technology addressed to the Director of the University Library.
The media for your individual reserve collection have to belong to the collections available for lending which means that they have to be marked as "Available for Loan" in the Online-catalog. Media marked as "In Library Use Only" or "non-circulating" may not be borrowed for integration in an individual reserve collection.
The scope of your individual reserve collection may not exceed the amount of 50 media borrowed from the collections of the University Library.
Yes. You are obliged to disclose media borrowed for your individual reserve collection to other users upon request. For this purpose, you entitle the University Library to forward your name and contact data to applying users. In addition, the presence of the media borrowed for the individual reserve collection has to be documented in written form once a year. Finally, you assume the liability for the media borrowed for your individual reserve collection and the responsibility for their appropiate return to the University Library subsequent to the end of your period of service at Chemnitz University of Technology.
At the end of your period of service at Chemnitz University of Technology at latest, you will have to return the media borrowed for your individual reserve collection to the University Library.
The establishment of individual reserve collections exclusively refers to the collections available for lending. As electronic media in the collections of the University Library do not have to be borrowed but may be used by adherents of Chemnitz University of Technology (from beyond via VPN-service) everywhere, they do not belong to this category.
In case you require media necessary for the academic work at your professorship but not yet included in the collections of the University Library, you may submit a respective request for acquisition to the Subject Specialist responsible.
In case of inquiries/ requests regarding individual reserve collections you are welcome to address to the staff members at the lending desk (1st level) during the service hours on-site or by phone (0371-531-13190). Apart from that, you may send an email to service@… at any time.
University Archives
The University Archives are a departement of the University Library.
As institution at the University, the Archives exist since 1956. Before, the task of collection, storage and administration of documents was taken over by individuals.
The University Archives are headed by Diplom-Archivar Stephan Luther (phone.: 0371-531-32694, email: stephan.luther@…).
The University Archives are primarily responsible for the collection of (non-published) documents elaborated in the entire University. This regards the collection and conservation of documents from the past as well as the reception, examining, valuation, registration and integration of documents from the present. In addition, the University Archives also custodies objective materials from the history of the University. Finally, by searchability and provision, the University Archives also assure the usage of its collections by interested persons.
The University Archives are located at the ground floor of the University Library building at Straße der Nationen 33.
The University Archives are generally open from Monday to Friday from 09:00 am to 07:00 pm and on Saturdays from 09:00 am to noon. On Saturdays, there are no consultations but exclusively the usage of already provided archival material is possible.
For the usage of the University Archives and consultations, a prior arrangement of an appointment is mandatory. Please contact the University Archives in this respect. For each usage topic and year, a separate application for usage has to be submitted to the Archives.
The University Archives currently store ca. 2,100 linear meters of archival materials. They are complemented by 1,000 linear meters of student documents and 430 linear meters of interim archival materials.
In the University Archives primarily non-published documents, elaborated in the University, are stored, such as files, scripts, transcripts, image material etc. Those are mostly unique, which means exclusively available at the University Archives.
The collections of the University Archives are structured into 5 categories in total: thereof three chronologically in the periods until 1945 (100s-digits), until 1990 (200s-digits) and from 1990 on (400s-digits); complemented by bequests and records (300s-digits) as well as special collections (500s-digits).
Searching in the collections of the University Archives via the Online-catalog of the University Library is unfortunately not possible but you may get a prior overview of the collections online via the Collections Overview of the University Archives. Partly, there are also inventories for specific searches digitally available. In the case that the collection digits required are not linked, you have to use the databases and inventories on-site for that purpose.
The usage of archival material in the University Archives is regulated by the Saxon Act on Archives and the thereof deriving Usage regulations of the University Archives. To the usage of the documents, the so-called "Everyone's Right" applies.
To the usage of archival material, determined terms of protection apply. Factual-related documents are generally usable 30 years subsequent to their elaboration. Individual-related archival material may only be used 10 years after the decease of the respective person, in the case that the date of decease is not known, 100 years subsequent to the birth. In the case that both data are not available, a delay of 60 years after the closing of the documents applies. Beyond those delays, archival material may almost unrestrictedly be used. However, there may also be other reasons for denial like the conservation status of the archival material.
The academic usage of the University Archives is generally free of charges. For private usage, a charge of 5.00 Euros per first day of usage and 2.50 Euros per each following day has to be paid. For the making of copies and the implementation of searching orders, charges are raised according to the Regulation for university fees and charges of Chemnitz University of Technology.
Yes. For the usage of the University Archives, a prior arrangement of an appointment is generally mandatory. Please contact the University Archives in this respect. In addition, an application for usage is required. You may fill it in online before, print and sign it and bring it with you to the appointment arranged. It will then be admitted there for the indicated topic of usage for one year.
In the case that you would like to use the databases of the University Archives, what frequently happens in practice, you have to be already registered as user of the Library.
Of course. Prior to the first usage, it is even strongly recommended. Please simply contact the University Archives and arrange an individual appointment for consultation.
No. You generally have to order the documents which you would like to use by contacting the University Archives. Those will then be provided at the lending desk (1st level) to the date of usage arranged and have to be returned there again after usage.
No. The usage of documents of the University Archives may exclusively be done on-site. However, you may, upon request ask for getting copies. Nontheless, the final decision on the making of copies belongs to the staff members of the University Archives. For the making of copies, charges are raised according to the Regulation for university fees and charges of Chemnitz University of Technology.
No. The making of reproductions of archival material belongs exclusively to the staff members of the University Archives. Upon request, you may ask for the making of copies of archival material, whereas the final decision on that belongs to the University Archives. For the making of copies, charges are raised according to the Regulation for university fees and charges of Chemnitz University of Technology.
The University Archives provide, in consideration of certain restrictions, pre-orderd archival material for usage and consults you on request. In addition, upon request and if admissible, the University Archives make copies of archival material for you. Furthermore, you may, in a reasonable scope and with appropriate effort, submit orders for searching. However, for copies as well as for orders for searching, charges are raised according to the Regulation for university fees and charges of Chemnitz University of Technology. Finally, the University Archives issue subsequent certifications on study periods and degrees completed, provided that the respective documents are available at the University Archives.
In case of inquiries/ requests regarding the University Archives, you are welcome to address to the staff members of the University Archives by phone (0371-531-13170) as well as via email ( uni-archiv@…).