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07/01/2025

Update: Access to 114,000 e-books

​+ Social sciences, economics, psychology: Kohlhammer

It offers access to around 4,000 e-books from the publisher Kohlhammer. The main subject areas are social and economic sciences, psychology and education, as well as law, history and linguistics. This offer ends on 31.12.2026.

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+ Architecture, art, design, economics and social sciences, technology: Content Select and De Gruyter

Access to around 25,000 e-books from the provider Preselect. The publishing platform Content Select publishes e.g. Beltz, Campus, Haufe Lexware, Lambertus, O'Reilly, Gabal and thus focuses on the social sciences, technology and computer science.

It also has access to around 85,000 e-books from the academic publisher De Gruyter. Publishers such as De Gruyter, transcript, Birkhäuser and DETAIL publish on this platform, with a focus on architecture, art, design, economics and social sciences.


Both offers end on 31.12.2026.

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Around 114,000 additional e-books are available to students.

With the E-Books.NRW initiative, the Ministry of Culture and Science is providing a total of 40 million euros for e-book licenses until 2026 to support students and universities in North Rhine-Westphalia in their digital teaching activities.

As the central service point for university libraries, the University Library Centre of North Rhine-Westphalia acquires state-wide license packages and makes these licenses available to the universities.

It will not be possible to finance these services beyond the specified periods from the university library's budget.

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The complete press release of the ministry at: