Subject Guide Psychology

Locations of Books in Dortmund University Library

Central Library

• Books
  Shelf marks: Be (location: 2nd floor); Jc B (location: 3rd floor)
• Textbooks
  Shelf mark: L Be (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 (not borrowable)
    Shelf mark: ZB, ZBe (location: Basement level 1); current year in room E 1 (location: Ground floor)

Emil-Figge-Bibliothek (EFB)

• Books (Short-term loan over-night or weekend)
  • Shelf classification
• Journals (not borrowable)
  Alphabetical shelving

Catalogues in Dortmund University Library

Media (books, videos...)

• Catalogue plus
• The Digital Library: user profile 'Pedagogy, Rehabilitation, Psychology, Sports'
  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 psychology, 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
• Deutschland: Karlsruher 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