• Catalogues

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    ORBISplus

    ORBISplus is the joint search portal of all libraries at Jade University. It allows you to search the entire collection of the University Library including databases and research data. You can reserve borrowed items there. 

    Unlike in conventional catalogues, the electronic journals are largely indexed at article level in the search portal. Our link resolver SFX links you directly from the results list to the electronic full texts available at Jade University. Select "Jade UoaS Libraries" in the library selection of ORBISplus to only show available items.

    ORBISplus also contains the holdings of the Oldenburg Regional Library and Oldenburg University Library as well as freely accessible sources from a central index. Please note that you cannot use the licenced electronic sources of the other participating libraries for legal reasons.

    Northwest Local Library System

    The Northwest Local Library System lets you search not only the conventional OPACs (Online Public Access Catalogues) of the Jade University but also catalogues of other regional libraries and institutions.

    Common Union Catalogue

    The Common Union Catalogue GVK is particularly relevant for interlibrary loans. You can find more than 40 million titles from 530 libraries in Bremen, Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein and Thuringia as well as the Berlin State Library – Prussian Cultural Heritage. The majority of print titles and articles from print journals listed there can be ordered to your Campus Library via our interlibrary loan service.

    Karlsruhe Virtual Catalogue

    The Karlsruhe Virtual Catalogue KVK is a meta search engine that allows you to search more than 500 international library and book trade catalogues. You can generally also order titles from foreign libraries via interlibrary loan.

    Search portals

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    The central libraries for economics and medicine offer the search portals: 

    • EconBiz – Find Economic Literature
    • Livivo – The search portal for life sciences

    They make relevant German and international databases searchable via a standardised search interface in addition to the respective library collections. 

    BASE – Bielefeld Academic Search Engine provides access to international scientific web documents, most of which are open access.

    You will be redirected from the portals to titles for which Jade University holds licences.