News Archive: Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig

10/23/2020

Law Library II: open from 26 October

Second branch opens at Burgstraße 21

10/15/2020

Open Access Week 2020: Open with Purpose

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"

06/17/2020

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...

07/01/2019

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....

12/17/2018

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...

11/26/2018

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)

02/07/2018

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

01/02/2018

Fire safety work at Bibliotheca Albertina

Between 1 January 2018 and the end of 2020, extensive fire safety alterations will be required at Bibliotheca Albertina.

09/12/2017

New library charges and fines at Leipzig University Library

Leipzig University’s new charges and fees was introduced on 01.10.2017.

06/26/2017

We are Germany's "Library of the Year 2017"

„Digital autonom, frei zugänglich und innovationsstark” – so betitelten uns heute der dbv und die Deutsche Telekom Stiftung in ihrer gemeinsamen Presseerklärung.

03/24/2017

Leipzig University publishes spending on open access

As of today the 2016 costs for open access articles are publicly available. Since its establishment in 2014, data from the open access publishing fund of Leipzig University has been published...

03/03/2017

MathOA: Flipping mathematics journals to open access

The successful flip of the linguistics journal Lingua into its open access version Glossa has inspired mathematicians. Following the model of LingOA, MathOA has been founded in the Nehterlands, in...

03/01/2017

New room reservation system now online

Group study rooms in Bibliotheca Albertina and Campus-Library can be reserved online

11/08/2016

Please take care of your belongings

Laptops were stolen in Bibliotheca Albertina, Library of Oriental Studies and the Law Library

10/11/2016

Wireless Access for external users

New: External users of LUL can use the wi-fi with their wireless devices

02/22/2016

Attention please! Do not store any items of value in the lockers

We are sorry to inform you about a series of recent brake-ins in some lockers of Leipzig University Library. Please do not store any items of value there!