Contact
Fachbereich Geschichte
Subject librarian
URwalking (external link, opens in a new window)Dr. Ines Häusler
- E-mail address: ines.haeusler(at)ur.de (opens your email program)
- Tel: +49 941 943-4178 (starts a telephone call, if your device allows this)
- Location: Philosophie/Theologie 1, 1.2.04
Departmental Librarian
URwalking (external link, opens in a new window)Marion Ferst
- E-mail address: marion.ferst(at)ur.de (opens your email program)
- Tel: +49 941 943-3432 (starts a telephone call, if your device allows this)
- Location: Philosophie/Theologie 1, 1.2.2
Brief profile
The University Library or Regensburg acquires literature on all areas of history. In addition to monographs on important individual topics, the literature holdings primarily include textbooks, reference works (dictionaries, encyclopaedias, handbooks, language dictionaries), specialist journals and relevant specialist databases. In total, around a quarter of a million historical media in printed and electronics form are available for research, teaching and study. The collection is constantly updated with new publications. The focus is on research and study literature on all the sub-disciplines represented at the Institute of History and their main research areas.
Tutorials & Courses
In our tutorials and courses (external link, opens in a new window), you will learn about library use, research, reference management, electronic publishing and other topics.
Work & Study
Lesesaal Philosophicum 2
- Tel: +49 941 943-3877 (starts a telephone call, if your device allows this)
Tel: +49 941 943-3513 (starts a telephone call, if your device allows this) - Location: Philosophie/Theologie, PT 3.1.95A (Ebene), 3.2.89A (Galerie)
Universitätsstr. 31
93053 Regensburg - Important information: Einzelarbeitsplätze: 1.398
Ausstattung: höhenverstellbare Tische, Tischaufsätze, Stehhilfen, Keil-Ballkissen, Laptopständer, Laptopladefächer, Scanner, Kopierer
In the reading room Philosophicum 2 (PT 2) you will find current specialized historical literature, the most important basic works and current journals. The holdings are freely accessible and intended for use on site, but can usually also be borrowed for two weeks.
Older or less frequently used literature and works worthy of protection are kept in the stacks and can be ordered via the library catalog (external link, opens in a new window).
- Please note the current opening hours of the reading rooms and service points.
- Discover other work and study spaces in the University Library.
Research & Borrowing
- The University Library supports you in your research with various catalogs and databases.
- The library catalog is the central access point for researching and using all printed and electronic media.
- In the database information system (DBIS) you will find suitable databases for your subject.
- The Electronic Journals Library (EZB) offers unified access to online journals.
- You can borrow most printed media with a valid library card.
Literature that is not available in Regensburg can be ordered via inter-library loan. - Find out more about accessing e-media, including the use of VPN and the WiFi "Eduroam".
The N-systematics history: How is the literature arranged?
In the reading rooms of the University Library, books are arranged systematically by subject area (external link, opens in a new window) so that all works on a particular topic are displayed next to each other. You can quickly gain an overview of the available holdings by "browsing" the shelves.
| Subject group | Name |
|---|---|
| NA | Journals and yearbooks |
| NB | History as a science and teaching subject |
| NC | Bibliographies, reference works, atlases, source studies |
| ND | Auxiliary sciences of history |
| NF | Prehistory and Early History / Prehistoric Archaeology |
| NG | Ancient History |
| NH | Greek-Roman history |
| NK | World history, general history of individual states and peoples |
| NM | History of the Middle Ages |
| NN | Modern history |
| NO | Age of the American and French Revolutions and Napoleon (until 1815) |
| NP | From the Restoration to the end of the First World War (1815-1918) |
| NQ | History since 1918 |
| NR | German and foreign national and urban history, history of Germans abroad |
| NS | Bavarian history |
| NT | General legal, constitutional and administrative history |
| NU | History of science and education |
| NV | Religious and church history |
| NW | Economic and Social History |
| NY | History of the Jews |
Important shelfmark beginnings for historians
The literature available at the University Library is distributed across various locations. The beginning of the shelfmark (the so-called local identifier) gives you a quick orientation as to where and how you can use and borrow the required media.
| Local identifier | Locations |
|---|---|
| 50/.. | Collection in the reading room Philosophicum 2 | accessible and borrowable on site |
00/.. 01/.. 02/.. 03/.. | Stacks | can be ordered via the catalog |
| 17/.. | Textbook Collection in the Central Library | accessible and borrowable on site |
23/N.. 24/N.. | Dissertations in the field of history | can be ordered via the catalog |
| 6001/.. | CD-ROMs at the circulation desk Philosophicum 2 | can be borrowed on site |
| 501/.. | Reference books Prof. Rudolph |
| 502/.. | Reference books Prof. Löffler |
| 504/.. | Reference books Prof. Oesterle-El Nabbout |
| 505/.. | Reference books Prof. Ganter |
| 506/.. | Reference books Prof. Saile |
| 507/.. | Reference books Prof. Oberste |
| 508/.. | Reference books Prof. Spoerer |
| 509/.. | Reference books Prof. Brunnbauer |
| 510/.. | Reference books Dr Grieb |
| 5011/.. | Reference books Prof. Liedtke |
| 5012/.. | Reference books Prof. Duijzings |
| 5013/.. | Reference collection Research Training Group "Metropolitanism of the Pre-Modern Age" |
| 5013/.. | Reference collection Prof. Tomann |
| 5014/.. | Reference collection Center for Remembrance Culture |
Please contact the secretary's office of the respective professors for the use of reference literature.
Scientific publishing
The University Library not only provides literature for research, teaching and study, but also supports you in many areas of scientific publishing.
Find out more about our services, including dissertations, Open Access, publication costs, research data and the publication server.
Acquisition request
Important sources of information for historians
History subject portals
General information |
historicum.net (external link, opens in a new window) - Specialized information service for history
Clio-online (external link, opens in a new window)
H-Soz-Kult (external link, opens in a new window)
perspektivia.net (external link, opens in a new window)
Ancient History |
Propylaeum (external link, opens in a new window) - specialized information service for classical studies
KIRKE (external link, opens in a new window)
Perseus Digital Library (external link, opens in a new window)
Medieval History |
Monumenta Germaniae Historica digital (external link, opens in a new window)
Regesta Imperii (external link, opens in a new window)
Historical sources of the German Middle Ages (external link, opens in a new window)
Early Modern Times |
EGO - European History Online (external link, opens in a new window)
Reformation Portal Germany (external link, opens in a new window)
Directory of German prints of the 16th century (external link, opens in a new window) | 17th century (external link, opens in a new window) | 18th century (external link, opens in a new window)
Modern history and contemporary history |
Contemporary History|online (external link, opens in a new window)
Docupedia Contemporary History (external link, opens in a new window)
100[0] Key documents on German and Russian-Soviet history (external link, opens in a new window)
Bavarian history |
bavarikon (external link, opens in a new window)
Historical Dictionary of Bavaria (external link, opens in a new window)
History of Bavaria (external link, opens in a new window) - specialized repository and mailing list
Heimatforschung Regensburg (external link, opens in a new window) - Publication platform for the regional history of Eastern Bavaria
Southeast and east european history |
osmikon (external link, opens in a new window)
Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe (external link, opens in a new window)
Copernico (external link, opens in a new window)
Online encyclopaedia on the culture and history of the Germans in Eastern Europe (external link, opens in a new window)
Auxiliary sciences of history |
Ad fontes (external link, opens in a new window)
Archival records of the Bavarian State Archives (external link, opens in a new window)
Digital archival studies of the Bavarian State Archives (external link, opens in a new window)
Auxiliary sciences on medieval history (external link, opens in a new window)
Basic historical sciences online (external link, opens in a new window)
Biographies and estates |
Biography portal (external link, opens in a new window)
Bosl Bavarian Biography (external link, opens in a new window)
Calliope (external link, opens in a new window)
Archives |
Archive portal Germany (external link, opens in a new window)
Archive Portal Europe (external link, opens in a new window)
ICARUS-Online Portals (external link, opens in a new window)
Review media
Journals with a larger review section |
Historical Journal (HZ) (external link, opens in a new window)
Quarterly journal for social and economic history (external link, opens in a new window)
New Political Literature (NPL) (external link, opens in a new window)
Das Historisch-Politische Buch (external link, opens in a new window) (HPB)
Journal for Historical Research (external link, opens in a new window)
Journal of Military History (external link, opens in a new window)
Journal for bavarian history (external link, opens in a new window)
Francia-Recensio (external link, opens in a new window)
Review services |
H-Soz-u-Kult (external link, opens in a new window)
H-Net Reviews (external link, opens in a new window)
recensio.net (external link, opens in a new window)
recensio.regio (external link, opens in a new window)
regensio.antiquitatis (external link, opens in a new window)
ZBLG-ONLINE (external link, opens in a new window)
Viewpoints (external link, opens in a new window)
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (external link, opens in a new window)
Important libraries for historians
In Regensburg |
Regensburg State Library (external link, opens in a new window)
Library of the Institute for East and South East European Studies (external link, opens in a new window)
Episcopal central library and central archive (external link, opens in a new window)
Thurn und Taxis Court Library and Central Archive (external link, opens in a new window)
Supra-regional |
Bavarian State Library Munich (BSB) (external link, opens in a new window)
Special Subject Libraries History (external link, opens in a new window)
Library of the German Historical Museum Berlin (external link, opens in a new window)
Library of the Institute of Contemporary History Munich-Berlin (external link, opens in a new window)
Library of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nuremberg (external link, opens in a new window)
Library of the German Museum Munich (external link, opens in a new window)
Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel (external link, opens in a new window)
Departmental Library of Classical Studies at Heidelberg University Library (external link, opens in a new window)
Institute of Classical Studies, London (external link, opens in a new window)
Upper Palatinate Bibliography
Barbara Peisl
University & Region
University facilities
- Institute of History at the University of Regensburg (external link, opens in a new window)
- Medieval centre "Forum Mittelalter" (external link, opens in a new window)
- Centre for Remembrance Culture (external link, opens in a new window)
- University Archives Regensburg
- Eastern Bavaria regional studies working group (ALO) (external link, opens in a new window)
Facilities in Regensburg
- Historical Association for Upper Palatinate and Regensburg (external link, opens in a new window)
- Museum of Bavarian History Regensburg (external link, opens in a new window)
- Museums of the city of Regensburg (external link, opens in a new window)
- Office for Cultural Heritage of the City of Regensburg (external link, opens in a new window)
- Research Centre for East and Southeast Europe Regensburg (WiOS) (external link, opens in a new window)
- Regensburg Hospital Archive (external link, opens in a new window)
- [Translate to English:]Staatsarchiv Amberg (external link, opens in a new window)
- [Translate to English:]KZ-Gedenkstätte Flossenbürg (external link, opens in a new window)