Terms of use for e-books
General terms of use
You are required to observe the University Library's general terms of use for electronic media.
Terms of use for e-media licensed by the University Library
Printout and download options of the leading providers
Individual e-book providers offer differing usage options:
| Provider | Printout | Download |
|---|---|---|
| Amalivre | depending on the publishing house (mostly read-only access) | yes (using copy and paste into another programme) |
| AMS (American Mathematical Society) | yes (by chapter) | yes (by chapter or entire work) |
| Archaeopress | yes (entire work) | yes (entire work) |
| Beck eBibliothek (a personal account is required) | yes (by chapter) | yes (using select and copy) |
| Beck eLibrary | yes (by chapter) | yes (by chapter) |
| Beltz (Content Select platform) | yes (by chapter) | yes (by chapter) |
| Bloomsbury | yes (by chapter) | yes (by chapter) |
| Brill | yes (by chapter or entire work) | yes (by chapter or entire work) |
| Budrich (utb.elibrary platform) | yes (by chapter) | yes (by chapter) |
| Cambridge | yes (by chapter) | yes (by chapter) |
| Campus (Content Select platform) | yes (by chapter) | yes (by chapter) |
| Casalini (Plattform Torrossa) | yes (by chapter or entire work) | yes (by chapter or entire work) |
| De Gruyter | yes (by chapter) | yes (by chapter) |
| Deutscher Apotheker-Verlag (Hirzel eLibrary platform) | indiviual pages | no |
| Duncker & Humblot | yes (max. 50 pages per session) | yes (entire work) |
| EBSCO eBooks | yes (depending on the publishing house (between 40 and 100 pages)) | yes (with „Adobe Digital Editions” only; for a maximum of seven days; free registration) |
| Edward Elgar | yes (by chapter) | yes (by chapter) |
| Elsevier | yes (by chapter) | yes (by chapter) |
| EMS (European Mathematical Society) | yes (by chapter or entire work) | yes (by chapter or entire work) |
| Emerald | yes (by chapter) | yes (by chapter) |
| Erich Schmidt Verlag (ESV) | yes (by chapter) | yes (entire work) |
| Fink (Brill platform) | yes (by chapter or entire work) | yes (by chapter or entire work) |
| Gale (Virtual Reference Library platform) | yes (by chapter) | yes (by chapter) |
| Hanser | yes (by chapter) | yes (by chapter) |
| Hirzel | yes (entire work) | yes (entire work) |
| Hogrefe | yes (max. 10 pages per session) | yes (max. 50 pages per session) |
| IGI Global / E-Access Books | yes (by chapter) | yes (by chapter) |
| IOP (Institute of Physics) | yes (by chapter or entire work) | yes (by chapter or entire work) |
| John Benjamins | yes (entire work) | yes (entire work) |
| Karger | yes (by chapter) | yes (by chapter) |
| Klinkhardt (utb.elibrary platform) | yes (by chapter) | yes (by chapter) |
| Kohlhammer (Content Select platform) | yes (by chapter) | yes (by chapter) |
| Meiner | yes (by chapter) | yes (by chapter) |
| Mentis (utb.elibrary platform) | yes (by chapter) | yes (by chapter) |
| Mohr Siebeck | yes (by chapter) | yes (by chapter) |
| Narr Francke Attempto(Publisher's platform) | yes (entire work) | yes (entire work) |
| Narr Francke Attempto (utb.elibrary platform) | yes (by chapter) | yes (by chapter) |
| Nomos eLibrary | yes (by chapter) | yes (by chapter) |
| OECD iLibrary | yes (by chapter or entire work) | yes (by chapter or entire work) |
| O'Reilly (Content Select Platform) | yes (by chapter) | yes (by chapter) |
| Ovid (LWW) | yes (by chapter) | yes (by chapter) |
| Oxford Handbooks Online | yes (by chapter) | yes (by chapter) |
| Oxford Reference Online | yes (individual entries can be printed out) | yes (using copy and paste into another programme) |
| Pearson Studium | indiviual pages | no |
| Peter Lang | yes (by chapter) | yes (by chapter) |
| ProQuest Ebook Central | yes (max. 40% of the content) | yes (max. 40% of the content) |
| PsycBooks (APA) | yes (by chapter) | yes (by chapter) |
| Reichert Verlag | yes (entire work) | yes (entire work) |
| Reinhardt (utb.elibrary Platform) | yes (by chapter) | yes (by chapter) |
| Sage | yes (by chapter) | yes (by chapter) |
| Schäffer Poeschel (Content Select platform) | yes (by chapter) | yes (by chapter) |
| Schlütersche (Content Select platform) | yes (by chapter) | yes (by chapter) |
| Schöningh (Brill platform) | yes (by chapter or entire work) | yes (by chapter or entire work) |
| Springer | yes (by chapter or entire work) | yes (by chapter or entire work) |
| Taylor & Francis | yes (max. 30 pages per session) | yes (entire work) |
| Theologischer Verlag Zürich (utb.elibrary platform) | yes (by chapter) | yes (by chapter) |
| Thieme | yes (by chapter) | yes (by chapter) |
| Transcript (utb.elibrary platform) | yes (by chapter) | yes (by chapter) |
| Ulmer (Content Select platform) | yes (by chapter) | yes (by chapter) |
| UTB | yes (by chapter) | yes (by chapter) |
| Vahlen (beck-eLibrary platform) | yes (by chapter) | yes (by chapter) |
| Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht | yes (by chapter) | yes (by chapter) |
| Waxmann (utb.elibrary platform) | yes (by chapter) | yes (by chapter) |
| WBG (Content Select platform) | yes (by chapter) | yes (by chapter) |
| Wiley | yes (by chapter or entire work) | yes (by chapter or entire work) |
| World Scientific | yes (max. 10 pages per session) | dependent on title (no, by chapter or entire work) |
