New online books 2021 in the TUHH network

Posted on 28. January 2021 by Thomas Hapke

Digital semesters due to the Corona crisis also lead to expanded offers of online books or e-books in the TUHH network at the TU Hamburg. As early as May 2020, we had responded to this together with other Hamburg libraries.

With the year 2021, online books from additional publishers have now been added to the library holdings acecssible at TUHH.

eBooks from the UK’s IET (The Institution of Engineering and Technology) with topics from all engineering disciplines (2015 – 2021)
Emerald Business, Management and Economics eBook Series Collection 2018-2021
VDI eLibrary: Fortschritt-Berichte VDI and the VDI reports from 2021 (no titles from 2021 published yet) incl. VDI journals from 2021.
Cambridge University Press STM collection (Science, technology and medicine). At the end of the year, important and frequently used works will be firmly purchased.
SAE Mobilus ebooks (1990 – 2021) from SAE International, formerly “Society of Automotive Engineers”

Continueing to be available at TUHH are online books from the following publishers:.

Springer ebooks: The TUHH library purchased the German packages of 2021 from the following subject areas
- Natural Sciences,
- Technology and Computer Science,
- and Economics.
In addition, there are the English-language packages
(The links provided here search for books in the 2020 as well as 2021 packages. The 2020 English language packages for chemistry and mathematics packages were not purchased).
- Computer Science My collection 2020:
In 2021, access is available to books in this package for 2020. At the end of the year, important, frequently used works are permanently purchased.
Elsevier ebooks via ScienceDirect
De Gruyter ebooks: In addition to online books from De Gruyter, books from other publishers, such as the publishing house transcript as well as a number of American university presses, are also accessible.
Hanser ebooks: In 2020, based on targeted selection, approx. 50 titles have been purchased, not all of which have been published yet.
SIAM ebooks – Works of the publication year 2021 have been purchased in addition to the former years.
MIT Press – Works of the publication year 2021 have been purchased in addition to the former years.

At least for 2021, these textbooks remain accessible online:

More than 150 German-language textbooks of all subject areas of the publisher Pearson (primarily for online reading, only printing of single pages possible)
Textbooks of all subject areas of the publisher UTB (chapter-by-chapter download as PDF possible)

Not renewed was access to all Wiley ebooks. Within the last few years’ contracts, we had bought the most used Online- Books purchased from Wiley firmly for access at TUHH. Purchase requests for e-books of individual Wiley titles not available at TUHH are always possible.

Articles via ScienceDirect

Posted on 6. January 2015 by Thomas Hapke

In 2015 access to most of the journals of ScienceDirect, the platform of the publisher Elsevier, is possible within TUHH intranet.

In addition to 57 journals subscribed until now, the TUHH library licensed for one year the so-called „Freedom Collection“ of the publisher (Information page of Elsevier). With this licensing access is possible to more than 2300 journals starting with the year 2011. Archival rights for permanent access to the journals have not been acquired within this additonal package.

A list of all accessible journals of the Freedom Collection is available, as is a complete list, containing also journals without access.

Elsevier acquires Mendeley

Posted on 9. April 2013 by Beate Rajski

The Mendeley team has confirmed the rumors: Team Mendeley is joining Elsevier.

Mendeley has been a rather popular reference mangament tool combined with a web-based social network. According to their post, only little will change for their users. As a bonus storage space will be increased. The free version of Mendeley is to be continued.

The Mendeley team realizes, that they will encounter critical reactions in the academic community for their decision :

Of course, we are aware that – especially in the past year – the academic community has criticized Elsevier for some of its policies and positions. Our own relationship with Elsevier has been conflicted at times.

From their point of view however, the assets have been in favor of joining the publisher:

In sum, the overlap between Elsevier’s and our vision has always been remarkable. Combining Elsevier’s content, analytics tools, and long-standing publisher/society relationships with Mendeley’s collaboration platform and social data will enable both of us to develop amazing new services that will make your research life easier.