E-books

(formerly Vahlen eLibrary). 93 Titles.

Available features

Text can be copied to clipboard: yes
Documents are downloadable: yes, individual chapters
Documents can be printed: yes, individual chapters
File formats offered: PDF
Personal registrations possible: yes
Send by e-mail possible: sends only the link to the database article - sends no full text
Shibboleth login: yes, but you can only access the formerly Vahlen e-Library titles (no other platform titles)
External access with EZproxy: no, but Special "Beck-Online Heimzugang" for external access, more (German only)
Passauer Suchportal: display all titels in Passau Search Portal
Link to resource: Database Information System (DBIS)

Study literature, available round the clock on campus. Includes titles from civil law, public law and criminal law. This includes Medicus (law of obligations), Musielak (Grundkurs ZPO), Maurer (administrative law), Rengier (criminal law) and other standard textbooks.

Available features

Text can be copied to clipboard: yes
Documents are downloadable: no
Documents can be printed: yes, individual chapters
File formats offered: PDF
Personal registrations possible: yes
Send by e-mail possible: sends only the Link to the database article - sends no full text
Shibboleth login: no
External access with EZproxy: no, but special "Beck-Online Heimzugang" for external access, more (German only)
Passau Search Portal: display all titles in Passau Search Portal
Link to resource: Database Information System (DBIS)

875 titles, in addition to legal texts (e.g. Aichberger, Nipperdey, Sartorius, Schönfelder and others), Beck-online offers a wide variety of other essential legal works published by Beck: Commentaries (e.g. Bamberger/Roth, Ebenroth, Wandtke/Bullinger), compendia (e.g. Fritz, Hannemann, Langenfeld) and periodicals. Furthermore, Beck-online holds current court rulings and a number of form collections.

Available features

• Text can be copied to clipboard: yes
• Documents are downloadable: no
• Documents can be printed: yes, individual chapters
• File formats offered: PDF
• Personal registrations possible: yes
• Send by e-mail possible: sends only the link to the database article - sends no fullext
• Off-Campus-Access for enrolled students: "Beck-Online Heimzugang", more (German only)
• Shibboleth login: no
• Passau Search Portal: display all titles
• Link to resource: Database Information System (DBIS)

Human Rights and Humanitarian Law E-Books Online; International Law E-Books Online. Some 250 titles.

Available features

• Text can be copied to clipboard: no
• Documents are downloadable: yes, individual chapters, Personal registration  is necessary
• Documents can be printed: no
• File formats offered: PDF
• Personal registrations possible: yes
• Send by e-mail possible: no
• Shibboleth login: yes
• External access with EZproxy: yes
• Passau Search Portal:display all titles
• Link to resource:Database Information System (DBIS

The Platform Cambridge Core serves more than 30.000 e-books on a wide range of research monographs, academic reference, textbooks, books for professionals, and large numbers of books aimed at graduate students.

Available features

• Text can be copied to clipboard: yes
• Documents are downloadable: yes - additionally send to Kindle, Dropbox or Google Drive
• Documents can be printed: no
• File formats offered: PDF
• Personal registrations possible: yes
• Send by e-mail possible: export citation only
• Shibboleth login: yes
• External access with EZproxy: yes
• Passau Search Portal:Display all Cambridge Core E-Books
• Link to resource:Database Information System (DBIS)

Titles from the subject areas political science, social science, business and economics are licensed for the University computer network.

Available features

• Text can be copied to clipboard: yes
• Documents are downloadable: yes, , individual chapters
• Documents can be printed: yes, individual chapters
• File formats offered: PDF
• Personal registrations possible: yes
• Send by e-mail possible: yes
• Shibboleth login: yes
• External access with EZproxy: yes
• Passau Search Portal:Show all Campus E-Books
• Link to resource: Database Information System (DBIS)

More than 86.000 E-books on De Gruyter Online made accessible for the University computer network.

Available features

• Text can be copied to clipboard: from the PDF
• Documents are downloadable: yes, individual chapters
• Documents can be printed: yes, individual chapters
• File formats offered: PDF, EPUB (partially)
• Personal registrations possible: yes
• Send by e-mail possible: sends only the Link to the E-Book-Overview, no full text
• Shibboleth login: yes
• External access with EZproxy: yes
• Passau Search Portal: display all DeGruyter E-Books
• Link to resource: Database Information System (DBIS

Some 1.600 E-Book-Titels of academic publishing house Duncker & Humblot are licensed to the University computer network. Subjects covered are law and political science, published from 2011 onwards.

Available features

• Text can be copied to clipboard: yes
• Documents are downloadable: yes
• Documents can be printed: yes
• File formats offered: PDF, EPUB (partially)
• Personal registrations possible: yes
• Send by e-mail possible: no
• Shibboleth login: yes
• External access with EZproxy: yes
• Passau Search Portal: display all Duncker & Humblot e-books
• Link to resource: Database Information System (DBIS)

In addition to some 1,000 e-books covering Business Administration and Economics, Science and Engineering, Social and Behavioural Sciences, Humanities and Area Studies which are freely available on the Internet, the University Library has 3,400 e-books licensed to the University computer network.

Available features

• Text can be copied to clipboard: yes
• Documents are downloadable: yes, personal registration is required
• Documents can be printed: yes, individual chapters, personal registration is required
• File formats offered: PDF, EPUB (partially)
• Personal registrations possible: yes, requirements for print and download
• Send full text by e-mail possible: yes, up to 60 pages, personal registration is required
• Shibboleth login: no
• External access with EZproxy: yes
• Passau Search Portal:  display all titles
• Link to resource: Database Information System (DBIS)

E-book collections with a national licence
The national licences project, financed by the German Research Foundation (DFG), aims to provide German higher education institutions with improved specialist information. National licences afford free access to databases, digital text collections and electronic journals. You may conduct cross-disciplinary searches in these databases.

Eight law and business titles.

Available features

• Text can be copied to clipboard: yes
• Documents are downloadable: yes, individual chapters
• Documents can be printed: yes, individual chapters
• File formats offered: PDF
• Personal registrations possible: yes
• Send full text by e-mail possible: no
• Shibboleth login: no
• External access with EZproxy: yes
• Passau Search Portal: display all E-Book-Titles

Available features

Text can be copied to clipboard: yes
Documents are downloadable: yes, individual chapters
Documents can be printed: yes, individual chapters
File formats offered: PDF
Personal registrations possible: yes
Send full text by e-mail possible: yes
Shibboleth login: yes
External access with EZproxy: yes
Passau Search Portal:display all E-Book-Titles

Available features

Text can be copied to clipboard: yes
Documents are downloadable: yes
Documents can be printed: yes
File formats offered: PDF
Personal registrations possible: yes
Send full text by e-mail possible: no
Shibboleth login: yes
External access with EZproxy: yes
Passauer Search Portal: display all E-Book-Titles

186 law titles, marked with the green checkmark.

Available features

• Text can be copied to clipboard: yes
• Documents are downloadable: yes
• Documents can be printed: yes, individual chapters
• File formats offered: PDF
• Personal registrations possible: yes
• Send full text by e-mail possible: no
• Shibboleth login: yes
• External access with EZproxy: yes
• Passau Search Portal: display all E-Book-Titles
• Link: Database-Infosystem (DBIS)

Some 3.100 titles from the subject areas law, political science, business and economics are licensed for the University computer network.

Available features

Text can be copied to clipboard: yes
Documents are downloadable: yes, individual chapters
Documents can be printed: yes, individual chapters
File formats offered: PDF
Personal registrations possible: yes
Send full text by e-mail possible: no
Shibboleth login: yes
External access with EZproxy: yes
Passau Search Portal: display all E-Book-Titles
Link to resource: Database Information System (DBIS)

OECD iLibrary is the online library of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) featuring its books, papers and statistics and is the gateway to OECD's analysis and data. OECD iLibrary also contains content published by the International Energy Agency (IEA), the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), the OECD Development Centre, PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment), and the International Transport Forum (ITF).

Available features

• Text can be copied to clipboard: yes
• Documents are downloadable: yes
• Documents can be printed: yes, individual chapters
• File formats offered: PDF, EPUB (partially)
• Personal registrations possible: yes
• Send by e-mail possible: yes
• Shibboleth login: yes
• External access with EZproxy: yes
• Link to resource: Database Information System (DBIS)

Oxford Scholarship Online offers access to selected scientific textbooks from Oxford University Press. Licensed media have an open green padlock in front of each title.

Available features

• Text can be copied to clipboard: yes
• Documents are downloadable: yes, individual chapters
• Documents can be printed: yes, individual chapters
• File formats offered: PDF
• Personal registrations possible: yes
• Send by e-mail possible:no
• Shibboleth login: yes
• External access with EZproxy: yes
• Link to resource: Oxford Academic

Access to licensed form Proquest eBook Central Portal via Passau Search Portal. Regardless of whether you are connected from the University computer network or from outside, you always have to log on with your username and password (the same as for Stud.IP). E-books can be read online or offline. The e-books are DRM-protected. Additional information.

Available features

• Text can be copied to clipboard: yes
• Documents are downloadable: yes
• Documents can be printed: yes, individual chapters
• File formats offered: PDF, EPUB. Alle these e-books are DRM-protected. Additional information.
• Personal registrations possible: yes, registration ist necessary for download/printing
• Send full text by e-mail possible: no
• Shibboleth login: no
• External access with EZproxy: yes

Das E-Book Paket enthält insgesamt 877 Titeln aus der Backlist (1949-2006) und 27 Titel aus der Frontlist (2007-2008).

• Text in die Zwischenablage kopieren: ja
• Download: kapitelweise -
• Drucken: kapitelweise
• Dateiformate: PDF
• Persönliche Registrierung möglich: ja
  E-Mail-Versand:
• Zugriff von außerhalb via EZproxy: ja
• Datenbank bietet Shibboleth-Login: ja
  Passauer Suchportal:eBook Collection ScienceDirect / Mathematics anzeigen
• Link:  Datenbank-Infosystem

The full-text collection Slavistik online contains 946 publications in PDF format, including almost the entire program of the Otto Sagner publishing house since 1959. 764 titles are freely accessible, 182 titles are also available to the university network.

Available features

Text can be copied to clipboard: yes
Documents are downloadable: yes, individual chapters
Documents can be printed: yes, individual chapters
File formats offered: PDF
Personal registrations possible: yes
Send full text by e-mail possible: no
Shibboleth login: no
External access with EZproxy: yes
Link to resource: Database Information System (DBIS)

More than 87,000 titles published by Springer, Gabler, Physica, Teubner, Vieweg and VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften since 2005, and new titles are continuously being added. The package includes highly in-demand textbooks and compendia from business and economics, the humanities, social science and law.

Available features

• Text can be copied to clipboard: yes
• Documents are downloadable: yes
• Documents can be printed: yes, individual chapters
• File formats offered: PDF, EPUB (partially)
• Personal registrations possible: yes
• Send full text by e-mail possible: no
• Shibboleth login: yes
• External access with EZproxy: yes
• Link:  further information about SpringerLink in the network of the university
• Link to resource: Database Information System (DBIS)

4.900 E-Books Humanities Social Sciences
1.000 E-Books Computer Science

Available features

• Documents are downloadable: yes
• File formats offered: PDF
• Personal registrations possible: yes
• Send full text by e-mail possible: no
• Shibboleth login: yes
• External access with EZproxy: yes 
• Link to resource: Database Information System (DBIS)

Casalini Full Text Platform, formerly Editoria Italiana Online/monographs. This e-book collection holds about 1,500 monographs and conference reports of Italian science publishers, principally covering more recent Humanities and Area Studies literature.

Available features

Text can be copied to clipboard: yes
Documents are downloadable: yes
Documents can be printed: yes, individual chapters
File formats offered: PDF
Personal registrations possible: yes
Send full text by e-mail possible: no
Shibboleth login: no
External access with EZproxy: yes
Passau Search Portal:display all E-Book-Titles
Link to resource:Database Information System (DBIS)

Some 2.400 Titles from the subject areas social sciences, political science, business and economics are licensed for the University computer network. The licensing model allows users to read the e-books online using their web browsers. With a personal account or login via Shibboleth you may download individual chapters for your own use (otherwise 5 pages per login).

Available features

• Text can be copied to clipboard: yes
• Documents are downloadable: yes, up to 30 pages, registration necessery
• Documents can be printed: yes, up to 30 pages, registration necessery
• File formats offered: PDF
• Personal registrations possible: yes
• Send full text by e-mail possible: no
• Shibboleth login: yes
• External access with EZproxy: yes
• Passau Search Portal: display all E-Book titles
• Link to resource:Database Information System (DBIS)

Vahlen eLibrary, moved to Beck-eLibary - die Fachbibliothek

Some 35 E-Book-Titles, Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie.

Available features

• Text can be copied to clipboard: yes
• Documents are downloadable: yes, individual chapters
• Documents can be printed: yes, individual chapters
• File formats offered: PDF
• Personal registrations possible: yes
• Send by e-mail possible: yes
• Shibboleth login: yes
• External access with EZproxy: yes
• Passau Search Portal: display all Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht e-books
• Link to resource: Database Information System (DBIS)

Serves more than 20.000 e-books on a wide range of research monographs, academic reference, textbooks, books for professionals, and large numbers of books aimed at graduate students.

Available features

Text can be copied to clipboard: yes
Documents are downloadable: yes, individual chapters
Documents can be printed: yes, individual chapters
File formats offered: PDF
Personal registrations possible: yes
Send full text by e-mail possible: no
Shibboleth login: yes
External access with EZproxy: yes
Passau Search Portal:display all E-Book-Titles
Link to resource:Database Information System (DBIS)

Some 2,400 e-books on business administration (e.g. management accounting, marketing, HR and business organisation), as well as economics and social sciences. Publishers include Bank-Verlag Medien, BusinessVillage GmbH, Deutscher Fachverlag, Diplomica Verlag, Duncker & Humblot, FinanzBuch Verlag, Gabal Verlag, Haufe Verlag, HUSS-MEDIEN, mi-Wirtschaftsbuch, Pearson Education Deutschland, Rainer Hampp Verlag, Redline Wirtschaft and Versus Verlag.

Available features

Text can be copied to clipboard: no
Documents are downloadable: yes, download the complete e-book
Documents can be printed: yes, first download the complete e-book
File formats offered: PDF
Personal registrations possible: yes
Send full text by e-mail possible: no
Shibboleth login: yes
External access with EZproxy: yes
Passau Search Portal: display all E-Book-Titles
Link to resource: Database Information System (DBIS)