#OAWeek2019 at TUHH – Programme

Posted on 14. October 2019 by Thomas Hapke

As every year in October, the International Open Access Week, this time from October 21st until October 27th 2019, will provide a worldwide forum and platform for events and activities for open access to scientific information.

The Hamburg University of Technology TU Hamburg participates as always. From October 21st to October 25th, a varied programme awaits you at the TUHH. This time the focus lies on the handling of data. Impulse lectures and an open workshop will cover this topic. The opening will take place through a poster walk in the rotunda of the University Library.

Our progamme at TUHH

-> Flyer with programme
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Licence for Citavi renewed until March 2022

Posted on 1. February 2019 by Thomas Hapke

The licence for using the reference management software Citavi has been renewed by the TUHH until March 31, 2022. In the moment you get within the software Citavi a hint on renewing your licence.

Please update your licence status by registering at Citavi with your TUHH Login (“Meine Hochschule”). Here you use the Shibboleth service. Then please confirm, that you are still a member of the TUHH.

Hopefully it will not happen, but when: In kind of problems with your Shibboleth acount, please contact the ServiceDesk of the TUHH computer center, which also kindly supports the library by taking over the funding of the licence.

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#OAWeek2018 at TUHH – Program

Posted on 16. October 2018 by Thomas Hapke

Every year one week in October is devoted worldwide to Open Access. As every year the TUHH takes part. You are invited to attend the multifaceted program for the Open Access Week 2018 from October 22 to October 28 at the Hamburg University of Technology. Continue reading →

TUHH library at TUHH Summer Party 2018

Posted on 11. June 2018 by Thomas Hapke

The TUHH library is present at the Summer Party of the TUHH, Wednesday, June 13, 2018.

According the motto “tub. – talking and making” you are invited to make little handicrafts with paper (for children and adults), little bookmarks or booklets with tipps for using information for academic work, as well as to talk about intellectual property rights and other challenges when handling information and working as academic.

Visit us between 1 pm and 6 pm at our stand in the Denickestr. in opposite of the students’ restaurant (Mensa):

Starting on Thursday, June 14, 2018, there will be our traditional book flea market in the TUHH library.

Books and tinkering – Sommerfest 2017

Posted on 22. June 2017 by Thomas Hapke

Stimulating little handicrafts around books (also for adults!) is the topic of the TUHH library stand at the Sommerfest of the TUHH on June 28, 2017. You can find the TUHH library (no. 48) in front of the entrance to building K (Denickestr. 15).

In addition to upcycling books with book origami or book folding you can produce new books. A minibook for folding offers hints to selected library services.

Or you try to fold better examples of cranes with Origami than those on the picture. For mayn people this is quite challenging! You find an instruction in German language made in the context of an 2012 campaign of Friends of the earth Germany (BUND).

Supplementally books are sent on a journey via Bookcrossing and Thursday, June 29th 2017, there will be a book flea market in the TUHH library.

WLAN Helpdesk in the University Library

Posted on 30. September 2016 by Silvia Reske-Henne

In cooperation with the computer center of TUHH we offer a WLAN helpdesk in the library. At the times listed below Niklas Krüger (student, User Service Center) will be at the information desk to answer your questions concerning WLAN, eduroam, VPN. He will also provide practical support.

Wednesday, 05.10. 2016	2:45pm – 4:15pm
Thursday, 06.10. 2016	2:45pm – 4:15pm
Monday, 10.10. 2016	2:45pm – 4:15pm
Thursday, 13.10. 2016	2:45pm – 4:15pm
Wednesday, 19.10. 2016	11:00am- 1:00pm

Most used online books at TUHH in 2015

Posted on 25. July 2016 by Thomas Hapke

The TUHH library (tub.) spent 80 % of its media budget for digital resources last year. Following you find an overview on the most used online books in 2015. Most of its meida budget the tub. paid for scholarly journals.

The following lists illustrate the thematic diversity as well as the diversity of the publishers whose online books are part of the tub. holdings. Particlularly good used has been online books of publishers where tub. already has a large qunatity of digital books and journals.

The Top 3 have been taken by works of the publisher Springer:

VDI-Wärmeatlas. 11. ed. 2013. More than 8000 requests!
Roloff/Matek Maschinenelemente. 22. ed. 2015.
Industrie 4.0 in Produktion, Automatisierung und Logistik. 2014

Further heavily used online books (publisher based):

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Books and tinkering

Posted on 9. June 2016 by Thomas Hapke

At the Sommerfest of the TUHH on June 15, 2016, the TUHH library will be present. With the motto “Bibliothek Buch Basteln” (library book tinkering) you can try to do little handicrafts around books at the library stand (also for adults!).

In addition to upcycling books with book origami or book folding you can produce new books. A minibook for folding offers hints to
selected library services.

Or you try to fold better examples of cranes with Origami than those on the picture. For mayn people this is quite challenging! You find an instruction as video in German language made in the context of an campaign of Friends of the earth Germany (BUND).

Supplementally books are sent on a journey via Bookcrossing), and first books give notice of the coming flea market of books in the TUHH library, starting at June 15, 2016. They can be taken for a donation.

The idea to present book origami at the library stand at TUHH summer festival came from our apprentice Miriam van Radecke, as well as the exhibits on the photo referring to this. The writer of this lines has been in charge for the lightly crashed cranes. 8-)

Open Access Week @TUHamburg

Posted on 5. November 2014 by Thomas Hapke

On the occasion of the International Open Access Week 2014, running from October 20 to 26, 2014, worldwide and promoting Open Access as a new norm in scholarship and research, the TUHH library has published each day a new article on Open Access in the German part of its weblog. Topics has been (Links to the German version):

And some more good news:
The DFG has approved the Open Access application done by the TUHH library also for the year 2015! So you can get your articles funded completely also the next year, in case you will publish in an Open Access journal according the DFG regulations and the money from the DFG is not spent.

Open Access Week 2013

Posted on 24. October 2013 by Thomas Hapke

In October as in former years the “International Open Access Week“, this year from October 21 to 27, takes place. To mark this occassion, you find here some news from the Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH):

This year the TUHH library has offered an Open Access Publishing Fund, to proportionately support the publication of articles in Open Access journals.
Already three articles from the TUHH have been funded this year.
Due to the funding by the German Research Foundation (DFG) further articles from TUHH scholars to be published in 2014 can be sponsored completely.

More on Open Access support by the DFG you find at the DFG website.