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eBooks

eBooks are often electronic versions of printed books. They can be accessed immediately from wherever you are.

Some eBook content is licensed for the UHH library system and only available to UHH members. These eBooks are marked as follows:

in the Campus Catalogue with the symbol and
in Katalogplus with the symbol .

Publishers offer their eBooks in a variety of formats and licenses. This is reflected in the choice of printing and saving options for the licensed eBooks.

Please note that systematically downloading or printing entire or parts of eBooks is strictly prohibited. You may however save or print individual pages or chapters for personal use or for research purposes. eBooks may not be passed on to third parties, either electronically or in hard-copy form. Please read the Stabi handout on the Urheberrechts-Wissensgesellschafts-Gesetz – UrhWissG.

eBooks: Access, Copy, Save, Print

Publishers / collections allowing chapter download

Cambridge University Press / Title list WISO
De Gruyter E-Books (incl. Oldenbourg) / Title list WISO
Edward Elgar E-Book Archive (1993-2015) (national license)
Elsevier Handbooks in Economics Series (national license)
Hanser eLibrary / Title list WISO
Oxford Handbooks Online / Title list WISO
Oxford Scholarship Online / Title list WISO
Routledge Handbooks Online / Title list WISO
Springer Reference Work / Title list WISO
Vahlen eLibrary / Title list WISO
World Scientific Books / Title list WISO

Access: campus, VPN, and HAN
License type: multiuser license
Technical requirement: PDF Reader
Download/Print: yes, chapter by chapter
Copy: yes, from the PDF

Publishers / collections allowing book downloads

Duncker & Humblot eLibrary / Title list WISO and Stabi
Duncker & Humblot Wirtschaftswissenschaften (1996-2005) (national license)
Duncker & Humblot Wirtschaft und Finanzen - Best of Reprints 1875-1941 (national license)
Emerald Insight / Title list WISO
Emerald Business, Management and Economics eBook Collection Archive (1991-2016) (national license)
Nomos eLibrary / Title list WISO and ZBR
OECD iLibrary
Springer eBooks / Title list Stabi and WISO
Wiley Online Library / Title list WISO
World Bank eLibrary Archive (-2017) (national license)

Access: campus, VPN, and HAN
License type: multiuser license
Technical requirement: PDF Reader
Download/Print: yes, complete eBooks or chapter by chapter
Copy: yes, from the PDF

ESVcampus / Title list WISO
IMF eLibrary (national license)
Wiso eBooks / Title list

Access: campus, VPN, and HAN (no HAN für wiso eBooks)
Licensetype: multiuser license
Technical requirement: PDF Reader
Download/Print: yes, complete document
Copy: yes, from the PDF

Publishers / collections allowing chapter download with restrictions or after additional registration

Beck-online

Access: campus, HAN, off-campus access via authenfitication app
Lisencetype: multiuser license
Download: sections that you highlight and copy
Print: by section, highlighted sections can be prined; smaller laws can be printed in their entirety
Copy: by section

Beltz E-Books / Title list Stabi (content-select)

Access: campus, VPN, and HAN
License type: multiuser license
Download/Print: yes, chapter by chapter from a read-only PDF via the print icon in the relevant chapter
Copy: yes, text passages

Proquest Ebook Central (incl. Pearson, Schäffer-Poeschel) / Title list WISO

Access: campus, VPN, and HAN
Lisencetype: single user oder multiuser license
Technical requirement: PDF Reader
Download: no;
with personal registration: yes, up to 30 % of the book/24 hours
Print: no;
with personal registration: yes, up to 30 % of the book/24 hours
Copy: no;
with personal registration: yes, up to 15 % of the book/24 hours

Taylor & Francis / Title list WISO

Access: campus, VPN, and HAN
License type: multiuser license
Technical requirements
for DRM titles Adobe Reader - FileOpen Plug-In
Download: yes, entire book (download a copy) or chapter by chapter
Print:yes, via PDF download
Copy: yes, via PDF download

utb-studi-e-book / Title list Stabi

Access: campus, VPN, and HAN
License type: multiuser license
Technical requirement: Adobe Flash Player
Download/Print: no;
with personal registration: yes, 30 pages/session
Copy: no;
with personal registration: yes (viewing via online reading, using the cite functionality or from the print pdf)

eBooks: Access, Copy, Save, Print

The list focuses on eBooks in business, economics and social science and presents only a part of all eBooks available and licensed in the UHH library system.