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  • 31. October (public holiday): Campus Library and Bibliotheca Albertina will be open

    All other branches remain closed

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  • 09–11 October: changed service hours

    On 9 and 10 October 2025, the service desk at Campus Library will close at 4 pm. There will be no service on Saturday, 11 October 2025. Opening hours remain unchanged.

    We kindly ask for your…

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  • Adjusted opening hours in October

    Please note the changed opening hours of the Library of Arts in October 2025. We apologise for any inconvenience.

    10 October 2025: 10 am–4 pm.
    13–17 October 2025: 10 am.–2 pm
    20–23 October 2025: 10…

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  • Opening hours 3 October (public holiday)

    Bibliotheca Albertina and Campus Library are open without library services. All other branches remain closed

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  • 20 September: service desk closed

    On 20 September 2025 the service desk at Campus Library will remain closed.

    The opening hours of the library remain unchanged.

    We kindly ask for your understanding.

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  • 16 September: service desk closed

    Due to surveying work, the area under the glass dome in the reading area on the second floor (eastern wing) of the Bibliotheca Albertina will be closed on 16 September from 8 am until approximately 6…

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  • 06 September: Campus Library closed

    Due to maintenance work on the power supply, the Campus Library will be closed on Saturday, 06 September 2025.

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  • Library of the German Literature Institute: Transfer of the holdings to the Bibliotheca Albertina

    The holdings of the German Literature Institute (DLL) will soon be made available in the Bibliotheca Albertina. DLL location will open its doors for the last time on 10 July 2025 and the books will be…

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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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  • 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 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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