Services of UCL in the Corona crisis

On 27 April 2020 we will gradually open. Not all services are available, so you can continue to use our extensive digital services.

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Digital UCL

Using our e-media at home

Access for studens and members of the University of Cologne via VPN-Client
Electronic journals, e-books and databases marked with can only be accessed via the university network.
Setting up VPN access at the University of Cologne >>
Access without VPN-Client
Digital services marked with can be used by all users, regardless of their location. This also applies to our digital collections.

Tip: Use the search filter "online"!
- Restrict your search result with the filter Access mode - online. This will give you a list of all e-media in the UCL-Portal under location.
- If you are a member of the university, select the filter E-Medien an der Universität (e-media at the university)
- As an external user you select the filter E-Medien mit freiem Zugriff (e-media with free access).

Our digital services plus search tips

More than 4 Mio. e-books, approx. 150,000 e-journals and approx. 1,650 databases are available to you as usual via the UCL-Portal.

Since 16 March 2020, over 16,000 e-books from the publishers Duncker & Humblot, Mohr Siebeck , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht and Pearson have been added for a limited period of time. The best-used titles will be permanently added to the e-book collection of UCL Cologne at the end of the term.

Tips:
- Search in "Books & more": After the search you can filter your results. Under Access mode, select the entry online. You will then receive a reduced list of all e-media in the UCL-Portal under Standort (location).
- Search in "Articles & more": With Limit results to full text you can limit the display of your search results to full texts.
Learning videos about LinedIn Learning
Students and employees* of the University of Cologne can access about 14,000 learning videos in the "LinkedIn Learning" database (German)

In times of Corona - special services offered by our database providers

Many database providers are currently expanding their offerings. These go beyond our e-media stock, which you can research in the UCL-Portal. You can find out here which publishers are expanding their offers in terms of content and time.

Up-to-date literature on COVID-19

Free services (also for external users)

+++Free articles on corona research+++

Many publishers are currently releasing content on corona research free of charge. As a result, you will find numerous online articles in the UCL-Portal under "Articles & more" using the search terms Coronavirus 2020 or Corvid 19 2020.

+++ CNKI (China National Knowledge Infrastructure) +++

Covid-19 research support from China

research papers on Covid-19 (English abstracts, Chinese full text): http://en.gzbd.cnki.net/GZBT/brief/Default.aspx
Chinese e-books on COVID-19: http://new.oversea.cnki.net/index/marketing/CNKIebook/en/homepage.html

+++ EBSCO Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Healthcare Resource Center +++

Access to evidence-based content, current epidemiology, current blog entries and links to important external resources

Link: https://more.ebsco.com/EBSCO-COVID-19-ResourceCenter.html

+++ EBSCO: Open Access Medizinportal +++

Current announcements by government, Robert Koch Institute, etc.

Link: https://covid-19.ebscomedical.com/

+++ Elsevier: Novel Coronavirus Information Center +++

Latest early-stage and peer-reviewed research on COVID-19 from magazines such as "The Lancet" and "Cell Press"

more than 21.000 articles are released for access to ScienceDirect
Link: https://www.elsevier.com/connect/coronavirus-information-center

+++ IEEE Xplore Digital Library +++

IEEE provides COVID-19 relevant literature freely available on its platform

Link: https://innovate.ieee.org/covid-19_related_research/

+++ SIAM Epidemiology Collection +++

Access to research literature (pandemics, vaccines, etc.)

for 1 year
Link: https://epubs.siam.org/page/EpidemiologyCollection

+++ University of Chicago Press E-Journals +++

Free article access to the corona research of the University of Chicago

from 23.03.2020
Link: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/coronavirus

+++ Wiley +++

Free access to more than 5,000 articles on COVID-19 research resources

Link: https://novel-coronavirus.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/

+++ ZB MED COVID-19 Hub +++

Numerous offers in the field of research on SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 for scientists and interested persons

Link: https://covid-19.zbmed.de/

Offers only for students and members of the University of Cologne via VPN-Client

+++ ProQuest: Coronavirus Research Database +++

from 31.03.2020
Link: search.proquest.com/coronavirus

E-books and e-journals - Free access (also for external users)

Free services (also for external users)

+++ American Economic Association Journals +++

American Economic Review, AER: Insights, Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Journal (AEJ: Applied Economics, AEJ: Economic Policy, AEJ: Macroeconomics, AEJ: Micoreconomics), AEA: Papers and Proceedings

until 30.06.2020
Link: https://www.aeaweb.org/news/member-announcements-april-3-2020

+++ Berghahn Journals +++

Access to 38 scholarly journals in the social sciences and humanities

until 30.06.2020
Link: https://www.berghahnjournals.com/page/journals

+++ Duke University Press +++

Access to literature on the topic of "Managing the spread of communicable diseases

until 1 October 2020 (journal articles)
Navigating the Threat of Pandemic: https://www.dukeupress.edu/Explore-Subjects/Syllabi/Navigating-Pandemic-Syllabus

+++ EDP Sciences Journals +++

until 31 August 2020
free access to the journal content of the years 2018-2020
Link: https://publications.edpsciences.org/

+++ Equinox Journals +++

All journal issues of the last 12 months and all issues that will be published in the areas: Archaeology & History, Linguistics & Communication, Popular Music, Religion & Ethics

Period: As long as the crisis persists
Link: https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/equinox-covid-19/

+++ GSW Publishers +++

Acces to all e-books in the area of earth science

until 30.06.2020
Link: https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/books

+++ Microbiology Society +++

Access to e-journals

for the time being free to use
Link: http://www.microbiologyresearch.org

+++ Project MUSE +++

Humanities and social sciences

Books and magazines from 200 university publishers
until 31.5. respectively 30.6.2020
The list of participating publishers is updated daily:: https://t.e2ma.net/click/hfmhpg/dgw2j0/tc8pwjb

+++ Times Literary Supplement +++

until further notice the contents are available, because the print production is stagnating

Link: https://www.the-tls.co.uk/

+++ University of California Press +++

Free access to online journals

until June 2020
Subject list: https://www.ucpress.edu/journals-subject
List of journals: https://www.ucpress.edu/journals

E-Books und E-Journals - Access only in the university network (A - K)

Offers only for students and members of the University of Cologne via VPN-Client

+++ Beck-online +++

Access via VPN (remote access) possible for students and other university members (teaching staff, research assistants)

until 31.12.2020
Informaiton of the Beck-Verlag (German): https://beck-online.beck.de/Hilfe/beck-online-Zugänge_während_der_Corona-Krise

Please note:

When registering for beck-online access during the Corona crisis, it is mandatory to provide a valid e-mail address of the University of Cologne (...@uni-koeln.de).
An anonymous use of beck-online, as it has been possible so far, is temporarily NOT possible from the network of the University of Cologne.
All already existing personalised accesses remain valid!

+++ Bloomsbury Digital Resources +++

'Bloomsbury Digital Resources' is an extension of the 'Bloomsbury Collection' licensed by us

until 30.06.2020
Applied Visual Arts: https://www.bloomsburyappliedvisualarts.com/
Bloomsbury Education and Childhood Studies: https://becs-bloomsbury.com
Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Philosophers: https://www.bloomsburyphilosophers.com
Bloomsbury Medieval Studies: https://www.bloomsburymedievalstudies.com/home
Drama Online: https://www.dramaonlinelibrary.com/
Screen Studies: https://www.screenstudies.com/

+++ East View: Journals, newspapers and e-books +++

until 31.07.2020
Pravda Digital Archive (DA-PRA): https://dlib.eastview.com/browse/udb/870
Rossiiskaia gazeta: https://dlib.eastview.com/browse/publication/617/udb/12
Novaia gazeta: https://dlib.eastview.com/browse/publication/576
The Current Digest of the Russian Press: https://dlib.eastview.com/browse/publication/6765
The Current Digest of the Chinese Press: https://dlib.eastview.com/browse/publication/18406
Essential Russian Classics eBook Collection: https://dlib.eastview.com/browse/udb/2770

+++ EBSCO: Access to two databases +++

+++ IGI Global +++

Access to more than 5.000 e-books and more than 220 e-journals in healthcare und life sciences

until 02.06.2020
Link: https://www.igi-global.com/gateway/

+++ IG Library +++

Business Expert Press: over 900 titles on business topics and Packt Publishing: approx. 600 titles on data, cloud, programming and web development

until 15.7.2020
Link: http://portal.igpublish.com/iglibrary/

+++ JSTOR +++

Additional 20,000 e-books available

until 30.06.2020
JSTOR: https://about.jstor.org/covid19/

E-Journals

from 23.03. until 30.06.2020
All collections are accessible.
Overview: https://about.jstor.org/covid19/
Discipline-Specific Archive Collections (neu): https://www.jstor.org/librarians/products/journals/discipline-specific
Public health Archive (neu): https://about.jstor.org/l/public-health/

E-Books und E-Journals - Access only in the university network ( L - Z)

Offers only for students and members of the University of Cologne via VPN-Client

+++ Nomos e-Library +++

Access to over 10,500 e-books in law, politics, economics, media studies & communication research, history, sociology, educational research, cultural studies, Europe, health science, philosophy and religion

until 31.07.2020
The best-used titles are permanently transferred to our e-book collection after the end of the term
The titles are now searchable in the UCL-Portal.
Nomos e-Library: https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/

+++ Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht eLibrary +++

Access to the entire service (e-books and journals)

until 31.07.2020
subject areas: classical studies, German studies, history, education, philosophy, psychology, theology / religious studies / Jewish studies / ancient oriental studies
The best-used titles are permanently transferred to our e-book collection after the end of the term
The titles are now searchable in the UCL-Portal.
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht eLibrary: https://www.vr-elibrary.de

+++ World Scientific +++

Access to the complete journal-content

until 31.07.2020
All World Scientific Journal Content: https://www.worldscientific.com/page/wsjournals

Educational videos

Textbooks

Free services (also for external users)

+++ Springer Nature +++

Access to more than 500 textbooks from all disciplines

until 31.07.202

And this is how it works:

click on the link:https://www.springernature.com/gp/librarians/news-events/all-news-articles/industry-news-initiatives/free-access-to-textbooks-for-institutions-affected-by-coronaviru/17855960
open the title list (Excel file) using the link at the bottom of the web page
select title
find the title via the SpringerLink website: https://link.springer.com/

Offers only for students and members of the University of Cologne via VPN-Client

+++ Nomos e-Library +++

Access to over 10,500 e-books in law, politics, economics, media studies & communication research, history, sociology, educational research, cultural studies, Europe, health science, philosophy and religion

until 31.07.2020
The best-used titles are permanently transferred to our e-book collection after the end of the term
The titles are now searchable in the UCL-Portal.
Nomos e-Library: https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/

+++ Pearson Lehrbücher +++

Access to 155 current German language textbooks

until 31 July 2020
At the end of the term the best used titles will be permanently added to our e-book stock.
The titles are now searchable in the UCL portal.
Title list of the textbooks: Pearson-Lehrbücher Titelliste (XLSX, 34KB), Pearson-Lehrbücher Titelliste (PDF, 273KB)

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