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E-books

ULB Düsseldorf caters to your digital literature needs with a diverse range of electronic media. These increasingly include e-books. See here for full details of how to access the e-books and further related services.

Accessing the e-books

You can browse the e-books in the ULB catalogue, which is the central reference tool of our holdings. Start your search, then limit the search results list to the publication type “online”. Alternatively, search the mostly subject-specific e-book collections.

E-Books.NRW

The Ministry of Culture and Science launched the E-Books.NRW initiative to support students and universities in digital teaching. The initiative provides the state's 42 university libraries with a total of 40 million euros for e-book licences until 2023. The aim of E-Books.NRW is to meet the increased demand for permanently usable electronic media for studying and teaching across the state with the broadest possible spectrum of e-books.

E-media made available by ULB via the initiative can be accessed by searching our catalogue or, in addition, directly via the corresponding e-book collections: De Gruyter, Content-select, Kohlhammer. The offer also comprises e-media of various partner publishers.

Terms of use and licensing conditions

For licensing reasons, only HHU members and affiliates are able to access the e-books. All other ULB library card holders are only able to access the e-books at the computer terminals in the library.

The use of e-books is subject to copyright law and the terms and conditions of the respective publishers or providers. These can be found on the relevant website, typically under Terms and Conditions (T&C) or AGB (General Terms and Conditions Allgemeine Geschäftsbedingungen).

What is permitted?

You may save, copy or print individual pages or chapters for personal use and research purposes.
An e-book may only be downloaded in its entirety if the publisher provides a link to the complete download (such as Springer).

What is not permitted?

Due to licensing reason, it is not permitted to systematically download, copy or print complete e-books or large parts thereof, especially using robots.
E-books must not be shared with third parties, either electronically or in printed form.
If an e-book is equipped with digital rights management (DRM), this protection mechanism must not be circumvented.

Special terms of use

Read online

  • No registration on ProQuest Ebook Central is required!
  • Access depends on the number of licences/copies purchased and current usage

Copy, print and download:

  • Additional personal registration with ProQuest Ebook Central is necessary (free of charge)
     
  • PDF-download/print: max. 40% per e-book; copy: max. 20% (varies with publisher; in rare cases not possible)
  • Quota is reset every 24 hours!
     
  • EPUB download: Adobe Digital Editions required! (free of charge)
  • Entire book for offline use max. 7 days (3-user licence) or 21 days (multi-user licence)

Create a ProQuest Ebook Central account

  • via ProQuest Ebook Central, click on the 'Sign in' button in the top right-hand corner, then select  'Create Account'
  • note that if you enter the wrong password five times, you will have to wait up to five hours before you can log in again

Need more help? 

Online reading is always possible!

O’Reilly
Authentication only via Shibboleth (for HHU members only)
Copy: possible
Printing: possible via browser with restrictions
Download: no

Pearson
Copy: possible
Download/print: yes, chapter by chapter via session with social DRM/watermark

Wiley-VCH
Copy: not possible
Download/print: only page by page