Library A–Z

See User Account.

The bank account information is as follows:

Landesoberkasse Baden-Württemberg
IBAN: DE02 6005 0101 7495 5301 02
BIC:   SOLA DE ST
. Reference: Reference number "9879220104629 PH Weingarten"plus your name and student ID or user number.

If you are making a transfer on behalf of someone else, please include that person’s name and student ID or user number. 

See Zotero

local OPAC - Online Public Access Catalog of the University Library

regionalSWB - South German Library Network

NationwideKVK - Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog

Upon completion of your studies (withdrawal), you must obtain a clearance form from the university library. This form confirms that you have no outstanding books on loan and no unpaid fees. The form can be downloaded from the websites of the respective universities. You can have the form signed either in person at the library service desk or by emailing leihstelle@hs-weingarten.de. The signed document will then be emailed back to you.

University employees and external users should please notify the Circulation Desk of their new address:
Phone: 0751/501 8412 or
email: leihstelle@hs-weingarten.de

PH and RWU students should update their address themselves via the LSF

Please note: Late fees will still apply even if you did not receive the reminder letter (e.g., due to an outdated address).

See "Contacts."

There is a copier and printer on the ground floor in the scanning and copying room. To make copies, your student ID card must have funds loaded onto it. Insert the card into the designated card slot on the machine, select color or black-and-white printing, and choose the desired number of copies.

Costs:

For more information, see the Printing and Copying System.

See "Equipment."

DBIS lists all databases licensed for the University of Education and the Ravensburg-Weingarten University of Applied Sciences (RWU)—including bibliographic databases, full-text databases, fact databases, etc.—as well as freely accessible databases on the Internet. Accessibility is indicated by a traffic-light system.

The Database Information System “DBIS” is a collaborative service for accessing academic databases. It lists all databases offered by the library and organizes them by subject. In addition, there is an advanced search feature that allows users to enter keywords or search for databases with a geographic focus, among other options. DBIS is now offered as a user service in nearly 300 libraries.

The Weingarten University Library generally provides all employees of the Weingarten University of Education and the Ravensburg-Weingarten University of Applied Sciences with access to the following types of equipment:
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Referencecollections-
Laboratorycollections-Semester

collectionsReference and laboratory collections are “off-site” collections, meaning the materials are checked out to a personal account subject to special conditions.

Semestercollections, on the other hand, are formally a temporary, separate collection. In this case, the materials remain within the University Library’s collection and are assigned a reference status, as well as a separate location distinct from their actual physical location. 

The duration is limited to the lecture and exam period of a semester and includes selected titles that can be added by faculty members at the Weingarten University of Education and the Ravensburg-Weingarten University of Applied Sciences for their respective lectures and seminars. They comprise literature centrally relevant to the respective seminar or lecture, which is intended to be permanently available to students on site. Semester collections are arranged alphabetically by faculty member’s name and are maintained as a temporary on-site collection.
At the end of the respective semester, the relevant collections may be extended for retention in the following semester.
Semester collections that are not extended are returned to the regular collection.

Off-site semester collections will no longer be approved. Depending on their purpose and function, existing collections will be converted into either semester collections (at the HSB) or laboratory collections. For future requests, please refer to these two categories.

Research collections will henceforth be managed either as laboratory collections or as reference collections. Laboratory collections are set up temporarily for the duration of a project and may need to be extended in the event of a project extension or follow-up projects; reference collections, on the other hand, are subject to no further restrictions for the duration of the employment relationship.

There is no limit on the number of books per collection. Books in these collections cannot be reserved by other users.

Please note: Ordered or reserved books are available only during service hours! Contactperson

: Ms. Köhler, Tel. 0751-501-8341

See Standards

E-books are defined as monographic works in electronic form. This includes both works that are published primarily in electronic form or in parallel with a print edition, as well as digitized books. The Weingarten University Library offers e-books from various publishers.

Searching for E-Books
All licensed e-books can be found in the library catalog. The links lead directly to the full texts on the individual providers’ websites.

Access
The resources are available to all university members in the library and can be accessed on the campuses of both universities, depending on which university has licensed the e-book. In addition, the electronic resources can also be accessed from your home computer using your personal login (Shibboleth authentication). The personal login only works with providers that technically support personal authentication.

Non-university members, known as walk-in users, can access the resources on research computers in the library that are specifically provided for this purpose.

Download
: Generally, downloading and saving is possible on a chapter-by-chapter basis.

Terms
of UsePlease observe the terms of use of the publishers/editors. 

The following generally applies to paid publisher offerings:

• Access to full-text articles is permitted exclusively to members of the respective university.
• The full texts of articles may only be printed
  or saved for personal use and for research purposes. 
• Systematic downloading of articles or search results, particularly by robots, is prohibited.
  Failure to comply may result in the publisher’s server being blocked for the entire campus! 
• Articles may not be shared with third parties, either electronically or in printed form.
• Author names and publishers’ copyright notices must not be deleted
  or overwritten in the electronic version.
• Please observe the publishers’ guidelines (on their websites) regarding the permitted retention period for
  downloaded articles!

You can find more detailed information on the providers’ websites!

Licensed e-book packages:
An overview of all e-book packages can be found here.

Wi-Fi Access at a Partner University
 

Ravensburg-Weingarten University of Applied Sciences and the University of Education are members of the eduroam network,
which is growing to include more and more universities and research institutions worldwide.

Members of both universities can access Wi-Fi at a host university via eduroam.

Visitors to the university library have Wi-Fi access via eduroam.
Instructions can be found under: "Wi-Fi Access in the University Library via 'eduroam'"

This requires that the home institution or host university be a member of the eduroam network.

Authentication is based on the credentials provided by your home institution. For more information about eduroam and a list of all members of the eduroam network, visit www.eduroam.org.

The Electronic Journal Library (EZB) provides an overview of e-journals from all academic disciplines.
The University Library acquires licenses tailored to the respective profiles of the Weingarten University of Education (PHW) and the Ravensburg-Weingarten University of Applied Sciences (RWU) to provide university members with access to e-journals.
Please note that PHW members do not have access to e-journals licensed by RWU, and vice versa.
Overview of PHW
e-journalsOverview of RWU e-journals

How the EZB works:

Some electronic journals can be accessed free of charge. These journals are marked with a green dot in the EZB. Journals licensed for PHW or RWU are marked with a yellow dot. Journals marked with a red dot are subject to a fee and are not licensed for the respective university.
You can select or deselect the licensed and unlicensed journals by clicking the respective buttons in the upper right corner. If the Weingarten University Library has a print version of an e-journal in its collection, this is indicated in the full view of the e-journal. When accessing the system from outside the university networks, e-journals licensed by the respective universities can be accessed via Shibboleth authentication. 

Paid e-resources are made available through contracts with providers (publishers, etc.) that specify the terms of access.
Providers generally distinguish between university affiliates (students, staff, faculty) and external library users (students from other universities, members of the public, alumni,
etc.) who are not affiliated with either of the two universities.

Access to our digital resources (databases, e-books, and full-text journals) therefore depends on the location and status of the library user. 

All library users have access to digital resources on the library’s public computers (research terminals). No login is required!

When working inside the library with your own laptop, notebook, or smartphone, please connect via the “Eduroam Wi-Fi.”
You will then have access to the e-resources licensed by your university (PHW or RWU).
You can find information on which university the e-resource (e-book, e-journal, database) is licensed for in the copy details for a title in our library catalog.
Unfortunately, non-university members do not have access to the e-resources here.

Access for University Members and External Users

See reaLLab.

Overdue Notice Levels:

If the loan period for media items is exceeded, overdue fees will be charged. We charge these as follows:

1st reminder level: after the due date: 1.50 euros per item

2nd reminder level: 7 days after the due date has passed: 5.00 euros per item

3rd reminder level: 14 days after the due date: 10.00 euros per item

Overdue fees for semester collections:

Items from the semester collection are subject to short-term loan policies (overnight or on Friday through the weekend). If these items are not returned by the due date, a late fee of 3.00 euros per item will be charged for each day or part thereof that the library is open.
Fees are charged in accordance with the fee schedule.

Bank Transfer:

Fees can be paid by bank transfer. The bank details are as follows:

Landesoberkasse Baden-Württemberg
IBAN: DE02 6005 0101 7495 5301 02
BIC: SOLA DE ST

When making the transfer, please include the reference number “9879220104629 PH Weingarten” as the purpose of the payment, alongwith your name and student ID number or user number.

If you are making the transfer on behalf of someone else, please be sure to include that person’s name and student ID number.

See "Equipment."

You can find our current hours of operation here.

The library's service desk is the central point of contact for your questions. You'll find us inside the library
, on the right-hand side as you enter, at our service desk.

Service hours:
Monday, Wednesday, Friday: 9:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Tuesday – Thursday: 1:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
We look forward to seeing you!

Other ways to contact us:
Email: auskunft(at)hs-weingarten.de

You can reach us by phone during our service hours
at: +49 (0)751/501-8368.

Here you will find guidelines for ordering materials through the library via a faculty's library liaison.

Books and journal articles that are not available in the library's collection can be requested through interlibrary loan.
Please note that by submitting an interlibrary loan request, you are entering into a legally binding obligation to pay the interlibrary loan fee, and that you may not use the requested copies for commercial purposes.

Fee 

A processing fee of 1.50 euros is charged per order and must be paid in any case, regardless of whether the request is successful. To pay this fee, you will need so-called TAN numbers, which you can obtain at the library circulation desk or by emailing fernleihe@hs-weingarten.de. The fee will be posted to your library account, and you can then pay it online. You can find the necessary information for the online transfer here.

Duration

 Delivery usually takes 1–3 weeks, though sometimes it may take longer. If you need the order by a specific date, please indicate this when placing your order.

The following are excluded from interlibrary loan
: - new books published in the current
year - diploma, master’s, and admission theses, Bachelor’s and
Master’s theses—e-books and
e-journals—
loose-leaf publications—
journal issues—newspapers and
newspaper articles—works not intended for academic or study purposes 
- Literature available in bookstores that
costs less than €15.00- Particularly old and valuable works
 

Please note: Books ordered or reserved through interlibrary loan are only available during service hours! 

The Journal Database (ZDB) is the world’s largest database of title and holdings records for continuing publications—that is, journals, newspapers, series, and periodicals from all countries and in all languages. It includes not only print journals but also electronic journals. The ZDB comprises more than 1.5 million titles dating from 1500 to the present and documents the holdings of 4,300 German and Austrian libraries for these titles. The ZDB does not list individual articles.
 

The KVK is a free and openly accessible metasearch engine. A metasearch engine is a search engine that simultaneously forwards a search query to several other search engines, collects the results, and organizes them. The databases queried include all German-language and numerous international library catalogs, as well as cross-library databases (e.g., the Journal Database (ZDB)) and search engines such as BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) or Google Scholar.

This catalog is ideal for interlibrary loan when the desired literature is not available in your own library.
 

See "Equipment."

Your library account allows you to:

• view loan periods and renew them if necessary
• view existing holds and delete them if no longer needed
• check notifications and your current account balance
• change your email address

You can access your account on our homepage via our OPAC

See Information for Library Representatives

You can renew the loan period for borrowed items on your own through your library account. Renewals can only be made a few days before the due date. Please check afterward to make sure a new due date is displayed!

When renewals are not possible:

• If books have already been renewed 5 times
• If books have been reserved by other users

Books, CDs, DVDs: 30 days

Journal issues: 14 days

Items can be renewed up to 5 times, provided no other user has placed a hold on them. You can renew your loans yourself through your library account.
 

You’re welcome to store your jackets and bags in our lockers in the foyer of the Fruchtkasten. To use the lockers, students must validate their student ID. You’ll find the machine for this purpose on the wall next to the printer. Non-students need a locker card, which you can obtain at the counter during our service hours. 

Please note:
The lockers are not intended for overnight use. If a locker is not opened before the Fruchtkasten closes, it will lock automatically and cannot be reopened on your own the next day. In this case, please contact the staff at the service counter. A fee of 2.50 euros per day will be charged for unauthorized overnight use!

The current volumes of print journals are arranged by subject on the ground floor and cannot be checked out. Older volumes are bound at the end of the year and are located on the 2nd basement level under the same call number. The journal volumes can be searched for via the online catalog. Older journal volumes can be borrowed for 2 weeks.

In addition to the approximately 200 print journals to which the library subscribes, the library currently has licenses for more than 17,000 electronic journals. Electronic journals are listed in the catalog and marked as “Electronic Resource.” You can access the full texts via the link in the catalog or through the Electronic Journal Library (EZB).

Access PHW

Access for RWU

See address.

To sustainably improve access to electronic scholarly information at German universities, research institutions, and academic libraries, the German Research Foundation (DFG) has been funding the acquisition of national licenses since 2004. The goal is to provide researchers, students, and members of the public with an interest in scholarship with free access to databases, digital text collections, and electronic journals.

The databases to which the HSB Weingarten has had access to date can be found under their individual titles in DBIS under the link “Collection: National Licenses available at the PH Weingarten, the RWU, or the University Library.” These databases are marked with the logo.

In our library catalog, under the "New Acquisitions" section, you can find all the new print books acquired for each subject area.
 

For users who provide the library with their personal email address, the library offers a notification service in the following cases: 
• Notification when reserved books arrive•
Notification when books from interlibrary
loan arrive• Notification when the loan period ends

For students, email addresses are automatically added to their user accounts.

"Reference collections" refer to those materials that are
excluded from regular circulation. The reference collections at the Weingarten University Library consist of:
 

• Loose-leaf collections
• Current journal issues
• books that are difficult to replace or particularly valuable, known as the “rare book collection”
• Semester collections

In thelibrary catalog (OPAC), you will find the complete online and print collection of the Weingarten University Library. This includes books, journals, academic theses, e-books, e-journals, databases, and open-access titles.

Here you have free access to academic documents:

OPUS-W: The academic repository of Ravensburg-Weingarten University of Applied Sciences
and the Weingarten

University of Education BASE: Bielefeld Academic Search Engine is one of the largest search engines specifically designed for academic documents freely available on the Internet under the Open Access model. 

DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals

OpenDOAR: The Directory of Open Access Repositories 

DOAB: The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) lists freely accessible open-access monographs.

SSOAR: The Social Science Open Access Repository brings together quality-assured literature relevant to the social sciences.

OPUS-W is a digital publication archive of the PHW and RWU. All members of both universities have the opportunity to publish electronically created documents online. The following, among other items, can be published: 

• Dissertations
• Master’s theses
• Diploma theses
• Bachelor’s theses
• Conference proceedings
• Articles
• Habilitation Theses
• Research Reports

You can find more information about OPUS-W here.

The Weingarten University of Education has its own printing and copying system
with various locations throughout the campus

. At the Fruchtkasten, you can print, scan, and copy at the following locations:
 

1.  Entrance area (foyer) of the Fruchtkasten
2.  Ground floor (GF) inside the library (rear right section, across from the periodicals)
3. 3rd floor (3F)

To use the scanning and printing functions, you must first register with Q-Pilot.
To register, please follow the instructions below.
 

Does the library not have a book you need? Are titles from reading lists missing from the library? Are there too few copies
of available titles? Have you discovered a new release that would be a good fit for the library’s collection?
Then submit an acquisition suggestion!

Tip: You can find an overview of new acquisitions from the past few months in the online catalog
under the menu item “New Acquisitions List.”

Note: This option is not intended for media requests from departments and faculties.
 

Rara refers to books that are difficult to replace or particularly valuable. All books listed in the catalog with the location “Circulation Desk/RARA” can or must be reserved via our online catalog, as the Rara collection is not freely accessible. You’ll find the order button on the right-hand side of the online catalog page when you select a book. 

Please log in with your ID number and library password and order the book you need. You can pick up your ordered books at our service desk the day after tomorrow during service hours. The books may only be used on-site; they cannot be checked out. Due to the age of the books, copying the pages is not permitted. Please use our book scanners on the ground floor for this purpose.

Please note:
You must return the book to the service desk no later than when the circulation desk closes.
You may arrange with us to have the book set aside at the service desk so you can use it again the next day.

The reaLLab (formerly the Elementary School Center) at the Weingarten University of Education offers a wide range of activity-based materials designed to support engaging and holistic instruction in standard elementary school subjects, as well as materials for courses at the PHW. You can borrow these materials and use them in seminars, at school, during training courses, or at other practical training facilities. The facilities are located on the second floor of the Fruchtkasten and are accessible to both prospective and experienced teachers during opening hours. In addition, during opening hours and at joint activities and events, there is an opportunity to exchange experiences and network. 

realLab has many years of experience through various practical projects with schools in the region and also assists with arranging internships, implementation projects, and lesson examples.

You can find printed reference works in the open-stack section of the university library, organized by subject. Electronic reference works are available through DBIS (Database Information System).

Who can become a user of the Weingarten University Library?

Eligibility

• In addition to students and faculty of both universities, residents of the Lake Constance-Upper Swabia region who need specialized literature for educational purposes (school, apprenticeship, retraining), continuing education (vocational or general), or for their professional work may borrow materials from us. To obtain a library card during our service hours, we require a valid ID card.
  Students from both universities may borrow materials using their student ID.
• Minors may borrow materials only with written authorization from a parent or guardian
  .
  Please fill out the form and submit it, along with a copy of a parent’s or guardian’s ID, at the library circulation desk.

How long is membership in the university library valid?

• For students, as long as you are enrolled at the university.
• For staff and faculty members of both universities, it is valid for the duration of their employment.
• External users: indefinitely.

Lost your card?

• Please have your card blocked at the library (call 0751/5018412 or visit in person).
• Replacement cards for external users are subject to a fee: A new card costs €2.50.

Forgot your password?

• When logging in to the library catalog, your password is preset to your ten-digit
  date of birth (e.g., 04/23/2001).
• If you have changed your password since then and forgotten it, please contact us
  (call 0751/501-8412 or visit us in person). We can reset your password
  at our service desk.

See Fees.

If a book or other item you need is currently checked out, you can place a hold on it. This will reserve it for you, and you’ll receive an email notification as soon as the item is returned (items on hold cannot be renewed). The reserved item will be available for you to pick up from the reservation shelf for 10 days. The checkout process is the same as for regular items.

Reserving items:

1. Search for the item in our online catalog (OPAC)
2. Click on the item you want
3. Select “Order/Reserve” on the right-hand side 
4. Log in with your credentials
5. Select “University Library” as the pickup location and confirm by clicking “Next”

Please note: An item cannot be reserved if it is marked as “permanent loan” in the catalog!

Please return borrowed items to the media return box in the entrance area of the Fruchtkasten. When returning interlibrary loan books, please make sure the interlibrary loan slip remains inside the book.

Late returns will result in overdue fines, which will be automatically charged to your library account. You can view the amount of the fines on your library account by clicking “View Fines.”

If you have any questions, please contact us at the following email address: leihstelle@hs-weingarten.de. 

Books are arranged within the library according to the Regensburg Union Classification (RVK). See also Call Numbers

At Fruchtkasten, you can print, scan, and copy at the following locations:
 

1.  Entrance area (foyer) of the Fruchtkasten
2.  Ground floor (GF) inside the library (rear right section, across from the periodicals)

To use the scanning and printing functions, you must first register with Q-Pilot.
To register, please follow the instructions below
. Instructions for the RWU printing and copying system can be found on the website
under “Campus IT, General Services, Printing and Copying System*.” 

There are two book scanners on the ground floor of the library that can be used free of charge. Please bring a USB flash drive to save the scans.

The library's service desk is the central point of contact for your questions. You'll find us inside the library, on the right-hand side past the entrance.

Service hours:
Monday, Wednesday, Friday: 9:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Tuesday – Thursday: 1:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. 

We look forward to seeing you!

Other ways to contact us:
Email: auskunft@hs-weingarten.de

You can reach us by phone during our service hours
at: 0751/501-8368.
 

With your PHW or RWU account (for university members only), you can access licensed electronic resources (databases, e-books, and e-journals) from home or from any computer with an internet connection. Click

here for instructions. Log in using your PHW or RWU user account.

 

Items from the course reserve collections (on-site collection) may be borrowed for a short period. These may be borrowed either overnight or on Friday for the weekend. Books may only be checked out at the service desk during service hours. 

Please note that a fee of 3.00 euros per day will be charged for late returns!

Call numbers serve to uniquely identify a book’s location within the overall (subject) collection.
The books are arranged by subject in alphanumeric order according to these call numbers. The call number labels are located at the bottom of the book spine.

Example: 

RVK Notation CQ 5000
Call Number S656
Edition (2)

The call number generally consists of three elements:

1. RVKnotation: The RVK notation indicates the book’s subject classification.

2. Cutter code: The letter-number abbreviation (cutter code) provides a more detailed classification
within the notation range.

3. Edition, volume, and/or copy information

Call number structure: see table

University of Education and Ravensburg-Weingarten University of Applied Sciences 

Standards are generally accepted rules, guidelines, or criteria that apply in various areas of life. They serve to ensure consistent behavior, processes, or results and can be applied in many fields, such as technology, business, society, law, and the environment.

For general research, we recommend the freely accessible DIN Media database. The most important institution in the field of standards is the German Institute for Standardization (DIN).

The Weingarten University Library provides all RWU university members with campus-wide access to the Nautos databases. The database offers access to extensive collections of standards and can be accessed via the DBIS database system.
DIN-VDE standards and ISO standards are not included!

A TAN (transaction number) is required for interlibrary loan. A TAN costs 1.50 euros and can either be purchased at the service desk during business hours, or you can contact us by email at fernleihe@hs-weingarten.de. Please note that one TAN is required per interlibrary loan!

You can find more information about interlibrary loans here.

Along with the fee schedule, the rules of useform the legal basis for library use. They set forth the conditions under which the library’s collections may be used. They specify who is permitted to use the library, the rights and obligations arising from this user relationship, and the forms in which the library may be used.

For more information about our programs, please visit the "Training & Orientation Sessions" and "Programs for Schools" pages.

See Library Account.

The Weingarten University Library offers the “eduroam” Wi-Fi network. This is an international standard that allows participating universities and academic institutions to provide Internet access using the username and password from the user’s home institution.

Instructions for both the University of Education and Ravensburg-Weingarten
University of Applied Sciences can be found here.

See the discharge statement. 

Zotero is a free reference management program that can be used on all major operating systems (Windows, Mac OS, Linux).

With Zotero, you can

• collect and manage your references,
• import references from academic databases and library catalogs,
• automatically format your bibliographic data and create reference lists in term papers, theses, dissertations, or manuscripts,
• create notes for entries, link related entries/notes, tag them, and create thematic folders and collections.

To capture references directly from your browser, you’ll need the Zotero Connector. A plugin for your word processor (Word, LibreOffice, etc.) is automatically installed along with Zotero.

Optionally, you can create an online user account to

• access your data online from any computer
• synchronize data across different devices
• work collaboratively in groups

•
Download• Quick Start Guide (English)
• Handout on Using Zotero