Generally, the library stock may only be borrowed by members of the institutes. The initial loan period is 60 days. Subsequently you can perform an online-extension until a maximum loan period of one year is reached. On level 3 you can find a book return box which allows you to return borrowed books at any time.

Here you will find the guidelines for your user account and for the self-check-loan.

It is possible to use the self-check-loan at any time, even outside the opening hours. If you have any questions concerning the loan or your user account please contact us directly or send us an e-mail.

Journals cannot be borrowed. However, there is a copier available on level 2 and 3.

 

If the library does not have a particular book you can send us a suggestion for acquisition. We will add the book to our stock as soon as possible. Please contact us directly, e-mail us or call us on 0711/689-1397.

You can get an overview of newly acquired books through our monthly list of new acquisitions. The list can be subscribed by RSS.

 

The interlibrary loan is a service that allows you to order media (e.g. books, journals), which are not available in the local print or online stock, from other libraries as well as the document delivery service subito.

If you wish to place an order, please e-mail us or call us on 0711/689-1397.

For book orders the delivery time amounts to 3 - 7 working days, for journals to 1 - 2 working days. After receiving the media we will inform you by e-mail.

 

In level 3 of the library you can find a collection of printed theses that have been written in cooperation with the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research or the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. This includes PhD theses, habilitations, bachelor and master theses as well as diploma theses. They are searchable in the library catalog and can be borrowed. PhD theses from the publication years 2000 to 2020 are often also available in electronic form via the library catalog.

For any questions, please contact us via e-mail or under the phone number 0711/689-1397.

 

The Max Planck Society plays a leading role on a national and international level in encouraging the free availability of scientific publications.

• General information about Open Access
• Open Access in the Max Planck Society

The Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL) contributes to the shaping of the Open Access policy within the MPG and supports the Open Access activities at the Max Planck Institutes in collaboration with the libraries.

Here you can find an overview of the MPG wide Open Access agreements on the central cost assumption of article processing charges (APCs) by the MPDL, as well as a list of the covered journal titles.

In addition, a selection of single publishers and agreements is listed below:

• Association of Computing Machinery (ACM)
• American Chemical Society (ACS)
• American Institute of Physics Publishing (AIPP)
• American Physical Society (APS)
• Cambridge University Press (CUP)
• Institute of Physics (IOP)
• Nature
• Oxford University Press (OUP)
• Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
• SAGE
• Springer Nature - Projekt DEAL Agreement
• Taylor & Francis
• The Royal Society
• Wiley - Projekt DEAL Agreement

In case of any questions about Open Access please contact us via e-mail or call us under the following phone number: 0711/689-1282

 

MPG.PuRe is the publishing repository of the Max Planck Society which contains bibliographic data of publications of Max Planck researchers.

The library coordinates the MPG.PuRe data input of the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems:

• moderating the departments in entering publication data
• import of publication data from the institute’s website
• checking the data for accuracy and completeness
• generating authority records (CoNE = Control of Named Entities) for authors and journals
• creating the "Yearbook" as proof of all annual institute’s publications

If you have any further questions about MPG.PuRe, please feel free to contact us personally or via e-mail.

For further information about the publications of the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research please contact Mrs. Asen-Palmer.

 

You can search the library's collection in our local catalog Aleph. This includes monographs, serials and journals. Furthermore you have the option to borrow books yourself and to access your library account.

Here you will find the guidelines for your user account and for the self-checkout.

In addition, you can get an overview of newly acquired books through our monthly list of new acquisitions.

A parallel search in our local print stock and the Max Planck Society's central e-books catalog is also possible.

 

Here you can view the list of our printed journals as a PDF-file. The current issues and volumes are arranged on level 2M 1.

Please note that the list does not contain any e-journals. You can search them in the Electronic Journals Library (EZB).

 

The Electronic Journals Library (EZB) is a cooperative service of currently more than 628 libraries and institutions (including our library). It offers easy and convenient access to electronically published scientific journals in full text. The accessibility of the listed journals is represented by a traffic light system.

	The full text is freely accessible.
	The journal is freely accessible for the members of the Max Planck Institutes Stuttgart.
	Only some of the published volumes are accessible.
readme	Here you will find the conditions for access and instructions for use of individual journals.

Please note: The systematic download of articles or search results, especially by robots, is prohibited and will initiate the publisher to block access to the journal for all users of the Max Planck Institutes Stuttgart!

 

E-books catalog of the Max Planck Society

The central e-books-catalog offers you the possibility of searching the entire e-books collection, licensed by the Max Planck Society. Depending on the publisher you can read the texts on the PC and/or download them as a PDF-file.

 

MPG Resource Navigator (MPG.ReNa)

MPG Resource Navigator (MPG.ReNa) is a web application to navigate through scientific information resources available to staff and guests of the Max Planck Society. It includes licensed databases, digital collections, and reference works. In addition, recommandable retrieval tools available on the web free of charge are part of the collection. Moreover, almost all Max Planck Institute library catalogs, as well as selected external ones, are acessible from here.

 

Here you will find regional and national catalogs, which might be of interest for your searches.

 

Union Catalogue of Serials

The Union Catalogue of Serials (ZDB) is a catalog for printed and electronic journals, newspapers, serials and other periodical works.

 

Regional catalogs

• Local catalog Stuttgart-Tübingen
  In this catalog you will find the stock and information of scientific libraries in the Stuttgart-Tübingen region.
• Stuttgart University Library
  In this catalog you will find the stock of the Stuttgart University Library and of its associated institute libraries.
• Württemberg State Library
  The catalog of the Württemberg State Library (WLB) provides access to printed and electronic information resources. The library gains its particular significance from its right to collect legal deposit copies of every book published in Baden-Württemberg.
• SWB online catalog
  The union catalog of the Südwestdeutscher Bibliotheksverbund (SWB) offers you a central search entry for comprehensive research in the catalogs of the affiliated libraries in Baden-Württemberg, Saxony, Saarland and the Rhineland-Palatinate.

 

Central subject libraries

The central subject libraries serve as a national literature and information supplier for the highly specialized demands of science and research. They offer you comprehensive search possibilities, as it is their purpose to collect the publications of their subject as completely as possible and make them available through interlibrary loan. This includes publications within Germany and abroad as well as so-called grey literature (e.g. preprints).

• The Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) Hannover is the central subject library for technology as well as civil engineering, chemistry, computer science, mathematics and physics. Catalog)
• The German National Library of Medicine (ZB MED) in Cologne and Bonn is the central subject library for medicine, health, nutrition, the environment and agriculture. (Catalogs)

 

Metacatalogs

• Karlsruhe Virtual catalog
  The Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog (KVK) is a metacatalog that offers you the opportunity to search different catalogs and directories at the same time. These are for example the above mentioned union catalogs and the Union Catalog for Serials (ZDB) as well as numerous international catalogs.
• WorldCat
  The WorldCat is a catalog that provides access to inventory information from more than 10,000 libraries worldwide. A huge advantage of the catalog is that it supports Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Cyrillic, Devanagaric, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Tamil and Thai characters.

 

The central Information Service of the CPT section (IVS-CPT) provides an overview of the worldwide flood of publications and keeps the scientists informed. The IVS-CPT is located within the library.

Here you will find a selection of databases:

• Dissertation & Theses (Proquest)
  is a database of records for graduate research, with over 2.1 million dissertations and theses included from around the world. In addition, nearly one million dissertations and theses are available for download in PDF format.
• Wolters Kluwer Online
  is a comprehensive database that includes journals, comments, manuals, judgments, etc. (predominantly as a full text) concerning the German and European law.
• OvidSP
  offers a collection of reference databases for psychology such as PsycINFO, PSYNDEXplus Literature and Audiovisual Media, PSYNDEXplus Tests, CAB Abstracts
• Patent server of the German Patent and Trade Mark Office
• Patent server of the European Patent Office
• Springer Materials: The Landolt-Börnstein Database
  is a systematic and comprehensive resource of selected and critically assessed data in all areas of physical sciences and engineering.
• Web of Science
  is a database of bibliometric data (Citation Indexing and Impact Factor of journals), supplemented by scientific fact databases.
• Wiso
  offers a comprehensive range of German and English literature for the economic and social sciences, law and psychology with access to the full text of selected journals.

 

MPG-Links

• Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL)
• Max Planck Society(MPG)
• Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
• Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
• Information retrieval service of the CPT section

 

Reference management software

You will find a comparison of reference management software by the Max-Planck-Institute of Biochemistry in English here.

You will find a comparison of reference management software by the Technische Universität München here.

 

Shibboleth - access to protected resources

Shibboleth is a distributed access control system which opens a remote access to fee-based content on the web licensed by the MPG also outside of the IP-range of the MPG (e.g. during travel or at home).

You only need:

• web browser (platform independent: Win, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS, ...)
• your FKF mail account, e.g. max.planck@fkf.mpg.de and password of the web-mail system.

Because the basic Shibboleth technology is not available on all platforms, we are using a gateway to the existing IP controlled web (EZProxy). Using thes proxy allows access to all content on the web which is licensed by MPG (Grundversorgung by MPDL) as well as local licenses, even if you are currently not situated in the institute.

Note: Please use only these links as bookmarks (or as shortcuts on your desktop).

 

For further information please contact:

Dr. Robin Haunschild
Address:	Heisenbergstr. 1 70569 Stuttgart
E-Mail:	r.haunschild@fkf.mpg.de
Phone:	0711 / 689-1285
Fax:	0711 / 689-1292

 

Databases (a selection)

• Elsevier Scopus
• Inorganic Crystal Structure Database, ICSD
• SpringerMaterials
• Web of Science

 

E-journals and e-books (a selection)

• AAAS - Science Online
• American Institute of Physics
• American Physical Society
• Cambridge Journals Online
• Elsevier ScienceDirect
• IoP - Institute of Physics
• National Academy of Sciences - Proceedings, PNAS
• Nature Publishing Group
• Oxford University Press
• Royal Society of Chemistry e-Journals
• SPIE
• SpringerLink
• Wiley Online Library