Terms of Use for E-Books
Access
- All licensed e-resources can be accessed from all desktop computers in the reading room and on campus.
- VPN access is needed to access the resources from your own computer from the university's network, or from home.
- Log in with the group "Online Research" to access our e-resources.
- In case you already clicked on the link to the full text before connecting to the VPN server, please delete the corresponding cookies in your browser before using the link again.
- You can find instructions on how to do this in this short video (ger, on the Panopto platform).
Copyright regulations
Reproductions (e.g. copies, downloads) are only allowed of single chapters or pages and only for own scientific use. No distribution to third parties. No systematic downloading by robots.
E-Books Access and Terms of Use
| Publisher | Download | Printing | Specifics | License | Remote-Access |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beck | Download possible by selecting and copying | Selection can be printed, shorter laws completely | Library license for the "Beck Online University Module", In order to access the contents, it is necessary to create an account (with Leuphana e-mail address). | Multi-User | currently |
| Beltz | by chapter | by chapter | Copy & paste: 20,000 characters maximum | Multi-User | via VPN |
| Bloomsbury | by chapter | by chapter | Multi-User | via VPN | |
| Brill | by chapter or complete e-book | by chapter or complete e-book | Multi-User | via VPN | |
| Cambridge | by chapter or all chapters at once | by chapter | Special case for textbooks (example: European company law by Nicola de Luca): HTML online reading access, read online via "continue with read-online access" button. Personal registration/login required for: Copy, Paste, Print | Multi-User | via VPN |
| Campus | by chapter | by chapter | Copy & paste: 20,000 characters maximum | Multi-User | via VPN |
| deGruyter | by chapter | by chapter or complete e-book | ePUB format is available for all titles from 2014. For many titles, the option of downloading as PDF or EPUB is offered directly. In this case, it is possible to download the entire e-book in one file. If this is not the case, switch from the Overview tab to the Contents tab. Here you can download the chapters individually as PDF. | Multi-User | via VPN |
| Duncker&Humblot | by chapter or complete e-book | max. 50 pages per print run | Download for e-books is now available without personal registration. | Multi-User | via VPN |
| ProQuest Ebook Central | Number of pages is displayed for each e-book in the book title details | Number of pages is displayed for each e-book in the book title details | Read-only access (read online) is possible without a personal, free registration, usage rights are immediately displayed in the title details, the print and copy quota is reset every 24 hours. After 15 minutes of inactivity, an automatic time-out occurs. | Mostly single user | via VPN |
| Hanser | by chapter | by chapter | Multi-User | via VPN | |
| Herdt Campus | komplettes E-Book | komplettes E-Book | Herdt all you can read: approx. 800 e-books from computer science | ||
| Hogrefe | by chapter or complete e-book | by chapter or complete e-book | Free registration/login is only required for personalized uses such as saving searches and watch lists | Multi-User | via VPN |
| IGI Global | by chapter | by chapter | Multi-User | via VPN | |
| Juris | by chapter | by chapter | E-Books database Juris add-on module universities | Multi-User | via VPN |
| Lang | by chapter or complete e-book | by chapter or complete e-book | Still a bit confusing after a platform change: top right next to the green lock sometimes says "Book (EPUB)", if you click "PDF" further down at "Formats", "Book (PDF)" appears at the top and behind it the download button for the whole book | Multi-User | via VPN |
| Narr | by chapter or complete e-book | by chapter or complete e-book | Multi-User | via VPN | |
| Nomos | by chapter or complete e-book | by chapter or complete e-book | Multi-User | via VPN | |
| OECD | by chapter or complete e-book | by chapter or complete e-book | Multi-User | via VPN | |
| Oekom | by chapter | by chapter | Copy & paste: 20,000 characters maximum | Multi-User | via VPN |
| Oxford | by chapter | by chapter | After clicking on the chapter the button "View PDF" appears next to the chapter title, if this button does not appear, it is probably an e-book with single user access and the title is currently in use. If you scroll all the way down, you will see the message: "The simultaneous user limit associated with your subscription has been exceeded. Please alert your librarian that you've received this message and inquire about increasing the number of simultaneous users." | Up to and including 2020 single-user; since 2021 multi-user | via VPN |
| Pearson | download by chapter as PDF, 30 seconds waiting time between 2 downloads | page by page | German-language titles: permanent license, unlimited number of users English-language titles: permanent license, up to 20 concurrent users | Unlimited/20 User | via VPN |
| Springer | chapter by chapter or whole e-book with bundle purchase | chapter by chapter or whole e-book with bundle purchase | Springer only sells individual titles via aggregators: citation export to BibTeX, EndNote, RefWorks, among others. In addition to PDF, more and more e-books are also offered in ePUB format | Multi-User | via VPN |
| Taylor & Francis | by chapter or complete e-book | by chapter or complete e-book | Multi-User | via VPN | |
| UTB | by chapter | by chapter | Copy function, notes, highlights, bookmarks only after creating a personal, free user account. Export of citation information for common literature management programs. | Multi-User | via VPN |
| Vahlen | by chapter | by chapter | Multi-User | via VPN | |
| Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht | by chapter | by chapter | Multi-User | via VPN | |
| WISO | by chapter or complete e-book | by chapter or complete e-book | Since 2015 WISO offers different modules, we have licensed only the module "Referenzen & eBooks Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften". | Multi-User | via VPN |