University Library (UB) services for teaching
The University Library Freiburg is one of the largest and most modern academic libraries in Germany. It supports study, teaching and research at the University of Freiburg by providing literature, media and specialised academic information in line with requirements, promotes information and media skills as a teaching library through tailored training courses and lectures and offers FreiDok plus, an innovative repository for the publication of research literature and research data in open access.
As a hybrid library, the University Library offers attractive teaching, learning and research spaces in a state-of-the-art building on the historic campus on the university square in the centre of Freiburg, while also providing access to digital libraries and scientific information worldwide as a virtual library.
Specialised academic libraries and portals
As a lending library, the University Library is embedded in the system of specialised academic libraries, which provide research literature and resources in reference libraries in direct connection with seminars, institutes and faculties. In addition, the University Library (UB) directly reflects the subject profile of the University of Freiburg in a differentiated system of subject areas. The subject librarians are happy to support your individual teaching needs.
Literature and information provision
One of the core tasks of the University Library (UB) is to provide literature, media and specialised academic information for study, teaching and research at the University of Freiburg as required.
Semester loans and extended loan conditions (semester loan)
What options are there to ensure that the printed literature required for your course is reliably available to your students during the semester? Talk to the University Library about setting up an individualised semester reserve collection! If you need literature relevant to your teaching and research over a longer period of time, the University Library will support you with extended loan conditions.
Interlibrary loan and delivery services
Interlibrary loan, document delivery, FastDok – you have numerous options for individually ordering literature for your teaching to your workplace.
Purchase proposals
Is a new book, journal or database that is important for your teaching not available at the University of Freiburg? The University Library can help you obtain it. Please get in touch with your subject librarian at the University Library!
Reference management
Organise knowledge and create texts with reference management programs – use the offers and services of the University Library!
Treasure trove of European writing culture
Thanks to its rich history, which goes back to the year the University was founded in 1457, the University Library has particularly valuable historical collections: late antique papyri of various provenance, medieval and modern manuscripts from former monastery property, incunabula from the most important printing centres of the early Gutenberg period, early prints from the era of humanism, which was not only important for the intellectual culture of the universities on the Upper Rhine. The University Library’s Digitisation Centre has been systematically digitising this extremely rich written cultural heritage for years and presenting it to academics and the public in local, regional, national and international cultural portals and digital libraries.