Library Advice and courses

Do you have questions about literature research, academic research and writing or reference management programs, literature management systems? Would you like to liaise with your students on these topics? Spokesperson - we will be happy to help you: either through consultations or in the form of departments. The Long Night of Project also takes place every summer semester.

Assistance and offers

Help and services for students

Do you have to write a project or your final thesis and have questions about literature research, academic research and writing or reference management programs, literature management systems? We will be happy to help you! Visit one of the numerous workshops offered by the library via the general studies part of the degree programme and collect workload hours. Or arrange a personal consultation!

Help and services for researchers

The library is happy to answer questions on the following topics: Assumption of publication costs for open access publications (DEAL contracts etc.); open access publishing via journal, periodical, magazines or the in-house repository; ORCID-ID (author identifier); research in databases, e.g. Web of Science or Scopus.

Offers for Lecturers

If you would like to introduce your students to literature research, academic research and writing, Citavi or Zotero as part of your lecture, please contact us. We offer 90-minute courses that we can adapt to your requirements.

Offers for school classes

In a 60-minute course, the building and the library's most important services are first introduced. This is followed by an introductory lecture on literature research. The offer is aimed at upper school classes and can be adapted to your wishes. Please feel free to spokesperson us!

Self-study tools

Guided tours of the library via app (Actionbound)

Online courses in Canvas and ILIAS (helpBW project)

Video tutorials