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In addition to approximately 500,000 printed books, you will also find more than 200,000 e-books that you can access within the campus network. Openly accessible in the reading room is the textbook collection as well as other study literature. A part of our printed stock is in the stacks for space reasons and can be ordered by you via tub.find. Here you can find all printed and digital books of the TUHH library.

We have 49,000 digital scientific journals for you, as well as 181 print journals. (This search slot allows you to search by journal title, not by article).

You can search here too Electronic Journals Library

Information on individual Suppliers

For printed journals, the five most recent volumes in the reading rooms are always at the end of their systematic group. For example, you will find journals from the field of technical informatics (TI) under TIZ and mathematics (MA) under MAZ.

Volumes older than five years are in the magazine. You can order these volumes through the catalog and pick them up after 30 minutes.

Periodicals may only be used in the reading room.

With this search slot only articles (printed or digital) will be searched:

Within the research process patent applications are often the first published account of the invention and it may also be the only published account. About 60 % of the information described in patents are not published elsewhere.
When searching in patent databases using notations of the International Patent Classification is a good tool to find subject specific patents which are often described in the title or the patent itself very global.

Older patents are often found only when searching for the exact patent number. Search in database fields like title, inventor, abstract, notation of IPC or even full text is often only possible starting from a distinct year which depends of database and country of origin of the patent.

More about patents

• … and how to search for them can be found at the websites of the patent offices mentioned above.
• A good summary from an international view: End-User Patent Searching Using Open Access Sources von Pat LaCourse

Further advice on patents

First point of reference

• Roempp-Lexikon Chemie
• Ullmann’s Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry
• CRC Handbook of chemistry and physics
• Perry’s chemical engineers‘ handbook
• Aldrich Katalog

Property data

• Chemspider der Royal Society of Chemistry
• NIST Webbook

• Some classics of property data collections: (Knovel):
  • International Critical Tables of Numerical Data …
  • Knovel Critical Tables (2nd Edition)
  • Smithsonian Physical Tables (9th Rev. Ed.)
• ThermoDex – An Index of Selected Thermodynamic Data Handbooks
• CAS Common Chemistry
• Codata Fundamental Physical Constants
• Standard Reference Data Products  National Institute of Standards and Technology
• WebElements (Periodical System)
• Wagner, B. Finding Physical Properties of Chemicals: A Practical Guide for Scientists,
  Engineers, and Librarians Science and Technology Libraries, 2001 (published 2003, revised 2009, 2011, 2014), 21, No. 3/4, 27-45

Comprehensive printed collections of property data

(with TUHH libary shelf number)

• Landolt-Börnstein Numerical data … PHB-102. Index 1996, Substance Index 1993
• Gmelin Handbook of Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry. CHH-106. Alphabet of the elements, prinziple of the last position
• Beilstein Handbook of Organic Chemistry. CHK-109. Beilstein-System, Supplemental Works
• Further organical substance property data: CHK-200ff
• Further physico-chemcial property data: CHD-200ff
• Analytical property data: CHF-200ff
• Harzardous materials property data: CHA-600ff, GTF-200ff

Harzardous substances databases

• Merkblätter gefährliche Arbeitsstoffe (only TUHH-Intranet)
• The MAK-Collection for Occupational Health and Safety
• Datenbanken beim Bundesinstitut für Risikobewertung: ICSC (International Chemical Safety Cards (ICSC))
• GESTIS database on harzadous substances of the German Berufsgenosssenschaften
• Toxicological databases of the US National Libary of Medicine (former Toxnet)

A course reserve is a selection of literature compiled by lecturers for specific university courses. The books are available as reference holdings in Reading Room 2 of the library. These books cannot be borrowed.

The available course reserves are displayed on the left side of the menu..

If you are a lecturer yourself and would like to set up a course reserve, please send us a list with the desired books, articles and web links to semesterapparate@tuhh.de