Com­mu­nic­a­tions 2025

The University Library (UB) supports researchers and institutions of Paderborn University in publishing their own (Diamond) Open Access journals. It ensures the sustainability of the published content and maximises its visibility via the "Open Journals Paderborn University" portal.

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All peer-reviewed scientific publications produced as part of Horizon Europe funding must be made accessible via a trusted institutional or subject repository in accordance with the EU's current funding conditions. The University Library offers researchers at Paderborn University the opportunity to publish publications from EU projects on the "Publication Service" portal.

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The University Library is now listing teaching, learning and research materials / Open Educational Resources (OER) in its catalogue, thus facilitating access to freely available educational resources for study, teaching and research.

Metadata is provided, e.g. for online courses, videos, scripts, presentations or simulations that have been published under an open licence - i.e. materials that can generally be used, processed and redistributed free of charge.

The regularly updated data comes from OERSI, a central search engine for OER in the higher education sector in Germany and beyond, which has been developed as an open source-based service since the beginning of 2020 as a jointly initiated project by the University Library Centre of North Rhine-Westphalia (hbz) and the German National Library of Science and Technology Hannover (TIB) and went live in spring 2021.

OERSI bundles references to free learning and teaching resources from German and international platforms and universities. The resources themselves are not stored in OERSI; only the metadata is brought together and prepared and made available for a standardised search.

The OER metadata can be searched together with the other resources listed in the University Library catalogue. However, it is also possible to filter the search results for OERs using a separate filter in the catalogue.

With this new service, the University Library is supporting the Paderborn University's Open Educational Resources (OER) Policy to "sustainably anchor OER in the university culture".

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.

• Questions about availability of data/links: Jessica Knipprath-Smithen (Monographs Department)
• Help with technical problems/technical questions: René Sprotte (Electronic Information Services Department)

Please note the changed opening hours:

Of course you can access our electronic services such as catalogue, library account, databases and electronic full texts via WWW during the closing times.

On Friday, 16 May 2025, the library will only be open with restricted service (such as on Sundays) due to the university's company outing.

Not possible are

• the issue of library cards and of media provided at the counter of the local lending desk (e.g. interlibrary loans).
• the provision of media ordered from the library's stacks.

On Friday, 2 May 2025, there may be outages of the internet connection and the library system between 16:00 and 20:00 due to ZIM maintenance work.

For safety reasons, the lifts will also be switched off during this period.

The University Library will be closed on Thursday, 01.05.2025 (May Day holiday).

Of course, you will have access to our electronic services such as the catalogue, library account, databases and electronic full texts via WWW on this public holiday.

Of course you can access our electronic services such as catalogue, library account, databases and electronic full texts via WWW during the closing times.

From 24 to 27 March 2025, you can reach the library via a special entrance in Building I (Level 1). Please follow the signs.

During the closure, media can only be borrowed from the counter at the special entrance. When leaving the library, please present all media at this counter.

Please note that the issue of

• library cards,
• stacks orders,
• interlibrary loans and special materials

is only possible until 16:00 on these three days.

Writing can often be a lonely and arduous activity during the doctoral phase. Structured writing time and discussions with like-minded people can help to make the writing process easier.

The University Library, together with the Competence Centre for Writing, offers a local and inspiring space for doctoral students from all faculties.

From the beginning of April until the end of the year, a small group study room is available in the library every week on Fridays from 9 a.m. to around 3 p.m. for individual writing and for exchanging ideas with others. If you like, you will find the Writing Competence Centre's box of writing tricks with everything that makes writing (more) productive: a timetable to guide you through your writing day, great literature on academic writing, helpful method sheets and much more.

On one Friday of each month (4 April, 9 May, 6 June, 4 July, 5 September, 10 October, 14 November and 5 December), there is also personal support: experts from the Competence Centre for Writing, the library and other service facilities get you in the mood for writing your own research project with short keynote speeches on topics such as how to deal with writer's block and provide advice, support and structure.

The room is located in Building I with the room number I.232 and is reserved for doctoral students every Friday from 4 April 2025.

CDI Research requires you to log in to your library account if you are outside the campus network. Background information can be found in the catalogue blog.

Our e-library card is now available for smartphone wallets! This means that you can save your e-library card directly in your Apple Wallet or a compatible wallet app for Android devices. Once set up, the e-library card is available to you directly on your smartphone in a specially designated protected field, even offline. This facilitates quick access and use in the library.

You can find more information on institution and use in the catalogue blog.

With the start of the examination period around the end of the winter semester, the demand for workstations in the library increases significantly. In order to avoid seat reservations and to support a fair allocation of workstations, we offer you break discs in our workstation areas, which function like car parking discs: When you leave your workstation, you set the start of your break. After 30 minutes, or 60 minutes at lunchtime, the space may be occupied by other library users.