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  • Opening hours Pentecoast

    Albertina and Campus Library open without library service, the Café Alibi will be closed. All other branches will remain closed.

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  • 21–24 July: service desk closed

    From 21 to 24 July 2025 the Library of Archaeology, Prehistory and ­Ancient History opens without library services. 

    We kindly ask for your understanding

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  • 20 June: Open from 1 to 4 pm

    The Library of Musicology will open on Friday, 20 June 2025 from 1 pm to 4 pm. We ask for your understanding.

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  • 16 June–11 July: Open from 7 am during the examination period

    The Medicine and Sciences Library will open one hour earlier during the examination period from 16 June to 11 July 2025 and will be open Monday to Friday from 7 am to midnight.

    In order to be able to…

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  • 3–5 June: Return machine out of order

    From Tuesday, 3 June until Thursday, 5 June 2025, the return machine in the Bibliotheca Albertina will be professionally cleaned on a regular basis and will therefore not be available all day.

    During…

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  • 3 June: Reading area west wing (2nd and 3rd floor) closed 8 am–1 pm

    Due to surveying work, the 2nd and 3rd floors of the reading area in the west wing of Bibliotheca Albertina will be closed on 3 June from 8–1 pm. For this reason, the collections will not be…

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  • 2 June: Reading area in the east wing (2nd floor) closed 8­ am–1 pm

    Due to surveying work, the reading area on the 2nd floor, eastern wing of the Bibliotheca Albertina must be closed on 2 June from 8 am­–1 pm. For this reason, the holdings and the service desk will…

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  • Examination period: Additional workplaces

    We were able to organise seminar rooms in the seminar building as additional workspaces for our users via the university's central room administration.

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  • New ‘Read & Publish’ contracts for journals from Nature and the American Physical Society (APS)

    From 2025, two further transformation or ‘Read & Publish’ contracts will supplement the University Library's portfolio. This is intended to support the transformation of the academic publishing system…

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  • New Students: Welcome to Leipzig University Library

    The team of Leipzig University Library extends a warm welcome to all new students. With your student card you can also use the LUL. Here are important information to get you started.

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  • New Research Platform: scite_ai

    The LUL now subscribes to scite_ai, an AI-powered research platform that finds, analyzes and provides citation context for scientific papers, helping researchers evaluate the credibility and impact of…

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  • News from around the world: UBL licences Newsbank

    Since January, Leipzig University Library has been offering all users access to the Newsbank platform with over 7,000 news sources from more than 200 countries.

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  • JSTOR (JOURNAL STORAGE) WITH EXTENDED PORTFOLIO

    Leipzig University Library has licensed new collections from the digital library JSTOR.

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  • Full-text access to various new e-book packages

    Overview of the e-book packages available from individual academic publishers in 2024.

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  • Studying with a child

    LUL offers support for parents with children

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  • Information on the phasing out of WebVPN

    Access to WebVPN will be switched off on January 1, 2023. Please use instead the VPN client AnyConnect.

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  • Welcome to Leipzig University Library

    Information for all new students of Leipzig University

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  • Call for Digitization Requests 2022

    Thanks to renewed funding by the Saxony State Digitization Program, Leipzig University Library (UBL) will be able to continue the systematic digitization of its book manuscripts in 2022.

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  • Vulnerability at Leipzig University Library's IT system

    On 19 April 2022, a vulnerability was discovered in an IT system at Leipzig University Library. This resulted in external access to about 70,000 records of library users. Affected users were informed…

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  • Пропозиції від бібліотеки Лейпцизького університету для біженців / Services offered by Leipzig University Library for refugees

    Жахлива війна в Україні сколихнула весь світ. Ми також хвилюємося за людей в Україні та тих, хто в цій ситуації залишився без домівки. Ми хотіли б допомогти, роблячи те, що вміємо – надаючи швидкий і…

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