Subject Guide History

Locations of Books in Dortmund University Library

Central Library

• Books
  Shelf marks: D (location: 2nd floor); Jc G (location: 3rd floor)
  Library of the former Forschungsstelle Ostmitteleuropa (Fome) (PDF)
• Textbooks
  Shelf mark: L Da (location: Ground floor)
• Not borrowable
  • Reference works such as encyclopedias, dictionaries, bibliographies and handbooks are usually not borrowable. The same goes for individual copies of much-used texts for research and teaching.
  • Journals
    Shelf mark: ZD (location: Basement level 1); current year in room E 1 (location: Ground floor)

Emil-Figge-Bibliothek (non-lending library)

• Shelf classification

Catalogues in Dortmund University Library

Media (books, videos...):

• Catalogue plus
• The Digital Library: user profile Humanities
  Simultaneous search in catalogues and databases

Journals:

• Zeitschriftendatenbank (ZDB)
  ZDB contains the journal holdings of German libraries with holdings statements (Dortmund University Library institution code is 290). You can locate and order journals in the database.
• Electronic Journals on History, available at the TU Dortmund.
  Titles which have been licensed for Dortmund University Library can be located in a database.
• Article Search across Different Disciplines

University Publications:

• Eldorado  
  Catalogue of Dortmund University electronic publications (mainly theses). Full texts available.

Union catalogues:

• North Rhine-Westphalia: HBZ Collective Catalogue
  Library catalogue for North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate
• Karlsruhe Virtual Catalogue (KVK)
  KVK is a meta-search interface for library and book trade catalogues throughout the world. It contains more than 75,000,000 book titles

If you didn't find what you searched for:

• Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery Services

Printed Bibliographies and Reference Works

Bibliographies and reference works on History can be found:

• In the Emil-Figge-Bibliothek: Shelf classification History