Using the Library from Home

You can access a large number of electronic resources off campus if you are affiliated to the TU Dortmund and hold an Uni Account. Without being affiliated to the TU Dortmund, you have no access off campus.

Access to Ebooks, Electronic Journals, Databases

Employees of the TU Dortmund:
- Access via VPN (Pulse Secure): Download and Manual
Students and employees of the TU Dortmund:
- VPN for students (Beta - Download and Manual)
- Access via Shibboleth for the following publishers:
  - ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)
  - ACS (American Chemical Society)
  - AIP (American Institute of Physics)
  - Alexander Street Press (Database: 'Fashion online')
  - Annual Reviews
  - ASM (American Society for Microbiology)
  - Bloomsbury (E-Books)
  - Brill
  - Cambridge University Press
  - Content Select (Beltz Juventa, transcript, Waxmann ... )
  - de Gruyter
  - Duncker & Humblot (eJournals)
  - EBSCOhost (Databases and E-Books)
  - Elsevier
  - Emerald
  - FAZ
  - Hanser
  - Hogrefe
  - IEEE Xplore
  - IOP (Institute of Physics)
  - John Benjamins
  - JSTOR
  - Karger
  - Linkedin (Videotutorials)
  - MGG online
  - Mohr Siebeck
  - Narr
  - Nature
  - Nomos Verlag
  - OECD-ebooks/journals
  - Proquest (Databases: Harpers Bazaar Archive, Italian Vogue Archive, Women's Wear Daily Archive, US Vogue Archive)
  - Royal Society of Chemistry
  - Sage (eJournals)
  - Sage (E-Books)
  - Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
  - Springer
  - Statista
  - Taylor & Francis (E-Books)
  - Taylor & Francis (eJournals)
  - Thieme
  - University of Chicago Press
  - UTB Studi-e-books
  - Vahlen
  - Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
  - Web of Science
  - Wiley
  - Wiso
  - World Scientific
  - WTI (Databases 'Tecfinder': Tema, RSWB Plus, ...)
  Registration (for example 'Springer'):
  - » 'Log in'
  - » 'log in via Shibboleth or Athens'
  - » 'find your institution (via Shibboleth)'
  - » 'Technische Universität Dortmund'
  - » log in with your Uni-Account
  ... deGruyter (for example 'Tanzimprovisation : Geschichte - Theorie - Verfahren - Vermittlung'):
  - » https://www.degruyter.com/view/title/514074
  - » login in (top right)
  - » select 'Einloggen' and 'Anmelden über Ihre Institution'
  - » select 'Technische Universität Dortmund' (quickest: search for 'dortmund')
  - » login with your Uni-Account
  - » call the title again: https://www.degruyter.com/view/title/514074
  - » via 'Inhalt' you get to the single chapters / via 'pdf' to the whole e-book (Note: the whole e-book is not offered for all titles)
  Descriptions may vary: the link to login is sometimes called 'institutional login' or 'login via your institution'. Sometimes TU Dortmund is listed as 'Universität Dortmund', 'Technische Universität Dortmund' or 'Universitätsbibliothek Dortmund'.
all other users
- Everyone not affiliated to the TU Dortmund has access to our licenced electronic resources within the library at our computer workstations or via ethernet with his or her own notebook - no access off campus.
more information
- Some electronic journals in the electronic journals library (EZB) are password protected. To find out about login data and access requirements, click on the readme file.

Questions?

general: Reference Department
technical problems: Service Desk
electronic resources in your particular field of study: Subject Librarians

03.07.20