As of March 28: 3G rule no longer applies
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Café Alibi: Extended opening hours from April 4
As of Monday, 4 April 2022, Café Alibi in the Bibliotheca Albertina will again have extended opening hours and will also reopen on Saturdays:
Monday–Friday 10 am–7 pm
Changes to university VPN: Access to eletronic resources with new profile
On 1 March 2022 from 8 to presumably 8:15 am maintenance work on the university's VPN dial-in will take place. After that there will be two profiles, only one will allow full access to licensed...
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Sexualised harassment in the Bibliotheca Albertina and Campus Library
Four cases of sexualised harassment by an unknown perpetrator were reported to Leipzig University Library. (Trigger warning: sexualised violence, sexualised assault)
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Welcome to Leipzig University Library
Information for all new students of Leipzig University
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End of June: no more automatic renewals
The automatic renewal of books and items will expire at the end of the month. Loans must then be renewed by the patrons themselves.
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Workspaces for PhD students available
Applications for these special workspaces in the Library for Education and Sports Science will be accepted from 14–28 June
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Extended loan periods for Law Library
From Thursday, 29 April 2021, the lending periods for reference collections in the Law Library will be extended. From then on, it will be possible to borrow up to five books for one week. This means...
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From 19 to 25 October 2020, the international Open Access Week will take place with the slogan "Open with Purpose: Taking Action to Build Structural Equity and Inclusion"
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Start of FOLIO library service platform at Leipzig University Library
After two years of preparation and development, Leipzig University Library put the open source Library Service Platform FOLIO into operation on June 11 2020. We have thus reached a further milestone...
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E-resources during the corona crisis
Numerous providers have already responded to the increased demand by granting access to their e-books and e-journals for the duration of the crisis. Here is a list of electronic resources which on the...
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DEAL: Open Access at Wiley
From 1 July 2019, authors of Leipzig University will be able to publish scientific articles and reviews Open Access in all Wiley journals with the OnlineOpen option at no additional cost for authors....
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Call for Digitization Requests 2019
Thanks to renewed funding by the Digitization Program of Saxony the Leipzig University Library (LUL) will continue in 2019 to systematically digitize its medieval manuscript holdings. Since a first...
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Elsevier magazine subscription to cease from January
In connection with the nationwide DEAL negotiations, Leipzig University will no longer have an Elsevier magazine subscription as of January 2019. Access to Elsevier content will then be limited to...
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self-service terminals: switch to PIN operation
From November 28, the self-service terminals at Leipzig University Library will be converted to use with a PIN (personal identification number)
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Chemistry and Physics: closed on August 8, 2018
The library of Chemistry and Physics will be closed on August 8, 2018.
We apologise for any inconvenience.
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Opening hours semester break
Opening hours of our locations during semester break
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Digital Future for Germany‘s written cultural Heritage
German Research Foundation funds the technical development of a new national web portal for medieval and modern manuscripts
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