Access options

Access to electronic resources is possible on the campus network. Authorised users are usually university members and people who visit the library and have a valid library card. Access from outside the campus network is only possible for university members via VPN configuration or in some cases via Shibboleth login.

• Access via VPN
• Access via Shibboleth

Problems with access?

Possible reasons:

• You are not in the campus network. Please check whether you have established a VPN connection.
• The University Library has not licenced the e-book. For acquisition suggestions, please use the following form or contact the staff of the respective subject departments.

If access to a licensed e-book is still not possible, please contact us by email (erwerb [at] ub [dot] tu-freiberg [dot] de or auskunft [at] ub [dot] tu-freiberg [dot] de).

Terms of use

The following generally applies to fee-based publishing offers:

• Articles/chapters may only be saved or printed to an extent that corresponds to the individual scientific activity of the respective user.
• Articles/chapters may not be passed on to third parties either electronically or in printed form.
• The bibliographic data and content of the articles/chapters offered may not be changed or altered in any way.
• The systematic downloading or printing of entire works, even if spread over several sessions, is not permitted. (Agreement within the meaning of Section 60g (2) UrhG)

Note:
Please be sure to observe the terms of use of the publishers or editors, as non-compliance can lead to access being blocked for the entire campus.

Searching for e-books

Please use our catalogue.

In addition, you will find recommendations for subject-related e-book collections on the subject department pages.

We also offer e-books via the online platform ProQuest Ebook Central™, where you can find specialist literature from numerous renowned scientific publishers.

Currently, members of the TU Bergakademie Freiberg have access to around 12,000 selected titles in our catalogue campus-wide or via VPN . The number of titles is updated monthly on the basis of various subject profiles.

These e-books are initially available as a one-day loan (short term loan). If the e-book is used again after this one-day loan, the library acquires the e-book permanently.

These e-books are equipped with digital rights management rights. This allocates usage time and prevents the unlawful creation and distribution of digital copies, i.e. limited pages from an e-book can be printed out or saved as a PDF (image file with watermark - not searchable or copyable).

For downloads, a one-time free registration at Pro Quest Ebook Central is required.

After that you have the following options:

• populate your own bookshelf with books
• important text passages can be provided with your own notes or saved in reference management programmes (e.g. Citavi)

In most cases, the entire e-book can be downloaded in ePub or PDF/A format for a maximum of 7 days. To do this, you will need the free Adobe Digital Editions program or alternatively the "Bluefire Reader" program.

For organisational reasons, an e-book reader is not installed on the public PCs in the library. We recommend that you download the e-book to a device on which you would like to use it during this time.

These videos will show you how to do this! (