Online databases
The UdK University Library offers access to the databases and streaming services listed below. Please take note of the current temporary services. Updates are possible. Please also note that some offers may only be available in German.
Our Database Information System (DBIS) also provides access to both the UdK library's licensed databases and a wide range of publicly available resources.
In order to use the databases, different access requirements must be met. These are added in brackets after the respective database and are structured as follows:
- Freely accessible:
Offers marked as "freely accessible" can be used free of charge by all users, regardless of their location or their network.
- UdK-Network:
Offers with the note (UdK-Netz) can only be used free of charge from within the UdK-Network. Provided you have authenticated yourself for internet use at the library, you can access the UdK-Network on the computers located on the 4th floor. UdK members can tunnel into the UdK-Network via VPN. Further information and instructions for setting up the VPN client can be found here (only in German).
- Shibboleth:
Offers with the note (Shibboleth) can be used free of charge only by UdK members. You will need the data for your O.A.Se account (Online Access Services). Access to these services is unaffected by the network in which your computer is located.
If you have any questions on how to access the new services, please contact ub-teaching@intra.udk-berlin.de.
Important note: UdK alumni are no longer considered members of the UdK. They can therefore only use the electronic resources on site with a valid library card, on the computers located on the 4th floor.
Access to licensed online services of the UdK according to member status
| UdK-Members | TU-Members | External Members | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Location-independent with VPN At the University Library with eduroam + VPN At the University Library with Free Wifi + VPN On the UdK campus with eduroam Manual login if available (Shibboleth) | At the UB on a stationary Computer on the fourth floor (desktop with UBUNTU) On the UdK campus with eduroam | With eduroam-Access | Without eduroam-Access |
| On the UdK campus with eduroam | In the Main Library at a stationary computer study space on the 4th floor. | ||
Supplementary information:
- Whether access with VPN (IP) or Shibboleth is possible depends on the respective provider. Please inform yourself by means of our sorted list (see below).
- Information about the configuration of eduroam and VPN can be found on the pages of the Online Access Service of the UdK (O.A.Se).
- For information about online resources of the TU, please contact the TU.
General
- Corvey Digital Collection : Literature of the 18th and 19th Centuries (UdK-Network)
- Early American Imprints Series I (UdK-Network)
- Early American Imprints Series II (UdK-Network)
- Early English Books Online (UdK-Network)
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online (UdK-Network)
- JSTOR Journal storage, specialized section (Shibboleth, UdK-Network)
- juris Das Rechtsportal (UdK-Network)
- Periodicals Index Online / PIO 1739-2000 (UdK-Network)
- The Gerritsen Collection - Women's history online (UdK-Network)
- WBIS World Biographical Information System (UdK-Network)
Streaming services:
- Filmfriend (Shibboleth)
Temporary offers:
- AVA (Shibboleth, UdK-Network, until 31.12.2023)
Architecture
- Arts & Architecture Archive (Shibboleth, UdK-Network)
- ARTbibliographies Modern (UdK-Network)
- ARTstor (Shibboleth, UdK-Netzwork), part of JSTOR since 2024
- DETAIL inspiration (UdK-Network)
- FID BAUdigital (freely accessible)
- Garden-cult (freely accessible)
- OLC Architektur - Online Contents (UdK-Network)
- OnArchitecture (Shibboleth, UdK-Network)
- Prometheus (UdK-Network)
Design
- Bloomsbury Berg Fashion Library (Shibboleth, UdK-Network)
- Bloomsbury Fashion Photography Archive (Shibboleth, UdK-Network)
- Bloomsbury Fashion Video Archive (Shibboleth, UdK-Network)
Communication
- adlr.link (freely accessible)
- America's Historical Newspapers (UdK-Network)
- China Ancient Books (UdK-Network)
- Diversity Collection (Shibboleth, UdK-Network)
- EBSCO Business Source Premier (Shibboleth, UdK-Network)
- The Economist: Historical Archive 1843 - 2007 / ECON (UdK-Network)
- Filmdienst Munzinger (UdK-Network)
- Gender: Identity and social change (UdK-Network)
- J. Walter Thompson: Advertising America (UdK-Network)
- Market research & American business, 1935-1965 (UdK-Network)
- media/rep/ - Repositorium für medienwissenschaftliche Publikationen (freely accessible)
- OLC Film und Theater - Online Contents (UdK-Network)
- OLC Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften - Online Contents (UdK-Network)
Temporary offers:
- Diversity Collection
- EBSCO Business Source Premier (Shibboleth, UdK-Network, until 15.6.2024)
Art
- ABM ARTbibliographies Modern (Shibboleth, UdK-Network)
- AKL Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon (Shibboleth, UdK-Network)
- Arts & Architecture Archive (Shibboleth, UdK-Network)
- Art Discovery Group Catalogue (freely accessible)
- Art Sales Catalogues Online (UdK-Network)
- arthistoricum (freely accessible)
- ARTstor (Shibboleth, UdK-Netzwork), part of JSTOR since 2024
- BHA Bibliography of the History of Art (UdK-Network)
- OLC Kunst und Kunstwissenschaft - Online Contents (UdK-Network)
- Prometheus (UdK-Network)
Temporary offers:
- Artists of the World (UdK-Network, Shibboleth, until 31.12.2023)
- IBA International Bibliography of Art (Shibboleth, UdK-Network, until 31.12.2023)
Music
- Art Song Transposition (Shibboleth, UdK-Network)
- BabelScores contemporary music online (UdK-Network)
- BMS Bibliographie des Musikschrifttums (UdK-Network)
- Henle Library (Use only via app: App Store / Google Play Store, after prior registration and revalidation via the website from the UdK network.)
- KDG – Komponisten der Gegenwart (Shibboleth, UdK-Network)
- MGG-Online Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (Shibboleth, UdK-Network)
- Music Online: Classical Scores Library (Shibboleth, UdK-Netz)
- Music Online Reference (UdK-Network)
- musiconn (freely accessible)
- nkoda - digital sheet music library (Shibboleth)
- OLC Musikwissenschaft - Online Contents (UdK-Network)
- Orchestral Music Online (UdK-Network)
- Oxford Music Online (Grove Music Online) (UdK-Network)
- RILM Abstracts of Music Literature / Music Encylopedias (Shibboleth, UdK-Network)
- RIPM – Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals with Fulltext (Shibboleth, UdK-Network)
- RISM Réportoire International des Sources Musicales (freely accessible, order of titles from the UdK: ub-info@udk-berlin.de)
Streaming services:
- Digital Concert Hall Berliner Philharmoniker (UdK-Network)
- Medici.TV (Shibboleth, UdK-Network)
- NAXOS Music Library (Shibboleth, UdK-Network)
- NAXOS Music Library Jazz (Shibboleth, UdK-Network)
Theatre
- African Writers Series (UdK-Network)
- Deutsches Theater-Lexikon Online (UdK-Network)
- Deutschsprachige Frauenliteratur des 18. & 19. Jahrhunderts (UdK-Network)
- Eighteenth Century Drama – Censorship, Society and the Stage (UdK-Network)
- English language women's literature of the 18th & 19th centuries (UdK-Network)
- Kindlers Literatur-Lexikon (Shibboleth, UdK-Network)
- Der literarische Expressionismus (UdK-Network)
- OLC Film und Theater - Online Contents (UdK-Network)
- Shakespeare in Performance - Prompt Books from the Folger Shakespeare Library (UdK-Network)
- TESO / Teatro Espanol del Siglo de Oro (UdK-Network)
- Twentieth Century North American Drama (UdK-Network)
- Victorian Popular Culture (UdK-Network)
- Wales related Fiction of the Romantic Period (UdK-Network)