Subject Guide Mechanical Engineering

Locations of Books in Dortmund University Library

Central Library:

• Books
  Shelf marks: S (Technology in general, location: 3rd floor); T (mechanical engineering, location: 3rd floor)
• Textbooks
  Shelf marks: L Sa - L Sh (technology in general); L Ta - L Ts (mechanical engineering), (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.

Catalogues in Dortmund University Library

• Catalogue plus
• The Digital Library:  user profile Engineering Sciences
  Simultaneous search in catalogues and databases
• 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.
• Article Search across Different Disciplines
• Electronic journals, available at the TU Dortmund
  Titles which have been licensed for Dortmund University Library can be located in a database.
• Eldorado  
  Catalogue of TU Dortmund electronic publications (mainly theses). Full texts available.
• 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