Library profile
The University Library is a central service facility of the LMU.
The Library's main function is the provision of literature and information services to the staff and students of the LMU. In addition it provides an infrastructure enabling the members of the LMU to publish their scholarly works and research data on an open access basis. These data are then available free of charge to users all over the world.
Locations
The University Library consists of
- the Zentralbibliothek (Main Library)
- 4 Learning centers
- 14 Subject Libraries
- the Library of the Klinikum Großhadern in cooperative partnership
- over 56 additional libraries of the LMU, with all holdings indexed in the online catalogue.
The University Library's collections in figures
- Total number of media: 5,488,956 (as of 2024), among these
- textbooks 143,901
- subscriptions to print journals and newspapers 3,943
- licensed electronic journals 78,221
- e-Books 366,809
- subject-related databases 816
- Publications hosted on the University Libraries repositories (as of 2024)
- documents on Open Access LMU 39,089
- documents on Elektronische Dissertationen der LMU 21,550
- documents on Munich Personal RePEc Archive (MPRA) 59,374
- data sets on Open Data LMU 236
Annual Reports
If you would like to learn more about the services and activities of the University Library you may like to take a look at our annual reports.
- Annual report for 2023 (12 MB) (in German)
- Annual report for 2022 (21 MB) (in German)
- Annual report for 2021 (10 MB) (in German)
- Annual report for 2020 (16 MB) (in German)
- Annual report for 2019 (9,2 MB) (in German)
- Annual report for 2018 (6,1 MB) (in German)
- Annual report for 2017 (6,4 MB) (in German)
- Annual report for 2016 (8,0 MB) (in German)
- Annual report for 2015 (4,9 MB) (in German)
- Annual report for 2014 (5,5 MB) (in German)
- Annual report for 2013 (17,4 MB) (in German)
- Annual report for 2012 (1,1 MB) (in German)
- Annual report for 2011 (2,4 MB) (in German)
