History

Subject librarian

Dr. Ines Häusler

Philosophy/Theology, Room 1.2.04

Phone 0941 943-4178

E-mail: ines.haeusler@ur.de

Departmental librarian

Marion Ferst

Philosophy/Theology, Room 1.2.02

Phone 0941 943-3432

E-mail: marion.ferst@ur.de

Oberpfalz Bibliography

Barbara Peisl

Central Library, Room 5.12

Phone 0941 943-3037

E-mail: barbara.peisl@ur.de

Spital certificates in the virtual archive

The archive of the Bürgerspital St. Katharina preserves an essential part of the written cultural heritage of Regensburg. With 5,000 imperial, papal and private documents, 4,500 volumes and thousands of files and plans, it dates back to the 12th century. Fireproof vaults and heavy iron doors protected the archive material over the centuries from the effects of war and fire. Under the supervision of the cathedral chapter and the city council, an archive stock unique in the German-speaking world was preserved. When imperial archivist Franz Joseph von Samet visited the Katharinenspital in 1812, he discovered there, in his own words, a veritable treasure of documents.

The hospital certificates can now be found in the virtual archive of www.monasterium.net.

Site plans of the sublibraries

Site plans of the 13 sublibraries

A 3D overview plan shows the reading rooms in the respective faculty buildings.

More detailed floor plans provide you with information about the accesses within the respective building when you click on them.

Reading Rooms with subject allocation

Overview of the reading rooms (PDF) with subject allocation.

Map Reading Room Philosophicum 2 Lower Level

 Map Philosophicum 2 Lower Level PDF

Collection and reading room

Status: March 2016

• 61,542 volumes in the open access area in the reading room Philosophicum 2 floor level (incl. journal volumes),
• 145,990 volumes in the central holdings (incl. journal volumes)
• 3,818 dissertations
• 1,097 Audiovisual media (CD-ROMs, DVDs, video cassettes)
• 4,627 Rare
• 2.580 Textbooks in the textbook collection (17/N)
• 669 Schoolbooks in the schoolbook collection (18/N)
• 2.125 Volumes in the General Reading Room (11/N)

The Regensburg University Library acquires literature on all aspects of history. The main focus is on current study and research literature. Textbooks and reference works ( lexica, encyclopaedias, handbooks, language dictionaries) on all sub-disciplines of history represented at the University Library are acquired, as well as literature on research foci at the University and monographs on important individual topics.

The conventional literature is increasingly supplemented by electronic media. The University Library offers access to more than 3,200 electronic journals (yellow and green dot in the Electronic Journals Library EZB) and to a large number of literature databases (e.g. " Archive in Bayern"/Archives in Bavaria, "Aufsatzdatenbank Osteuropa"/Article Database Eastern Europe, "Bibliographie faksimilierter Handschriften"/bibliography of facsimile manuscripts, "Clio Online", "Historical Abstracts", "Zeitschriftenschau Geschichte"/journal show history) in the field of history.

Within the scope of its financial possibilities, the University Library of Regensburg always endeavours to acquire the literature you need. Please share your acquisition suggestions with us.

• Regensburg catalogue plus

In the Regensburg Catalogue plus you will find about 3.9 million media from the following institutions: University of Regensburg, University of Applied Sciences Regensburg, WIOS, State Library Regensburg, Art Forum East German Gallery, Municipal Museum, Archive of the City of Regensburg, Episcopal Central Library Regensburg, Fürst Thurn und Taxis Court Library and Archive, Bavarian Music Academy Schloss Alteglofsheim, City Museum Abensberg Herzogskasten

• Electronic Journals Library (EZB)
• Databases (DBIS) 
• Electronic books (e-books)
• Interlibrary loan
• Document delivery services subject to fees
• Publication server of the UB Regensburg 
• Oberpfalzbibliographie / Regensburger Bibliographie
• Digital services
• Ask us

In the History Reading Room (as in all other reading rooms of the University Library of Regensburg including the textbook collection) the books are arranged systematically according to subject areas, i.e. all works on a specific topic are placed next to each other. You can get an overview of the holdings in the reference section by "browsing" the shelves.

What is the purpose of specialist portals?

Specialist portals bundle digital offers around a topic in the form of a website. The contents are at least superficially checked. Thus, they provide the user with fast and targeted access to high-quality specialist information - an indispensable aid in the face of the Internet's unfiltered flood of information.

What role do libraries play?

Large libraries were quick to recognise the danger of drowning in the great flood of knowledge accumulating on the Internet and developed solution strategies. They have been working for several years on evaluating this information and offering it in a structured and orderly manner. In addition, libraries themselves contribute content to the new medium. Above all, however, they are building specially tailored access points for those areas that have long been the focus of their collecting activities. These access points to the Internet are known as "subject portals" or "virtual subject libraries".

Stephan Kellner, In: Library Forum Bavaria 02 (2008) p. 31

General | Ancient History | Medieval History | Modern and Contemporary History | Bavarian Regional History | History of Eastern and Southeastern Europe | Historical Auxiliary Sciences | Visual Resources

Please Note: Only the resources available in English are listed below. For a more comprehensive list of Internet portals for Historians which also includes the portals solely available in German, please refer to the German equivalent of this webpage.

General Access points:

• H-Soz-u-Kult
  The Internet forum Humanities-Net Social and Cultural History sees itself as a central communication and information platform for the German-speaking historical sciences on the Internet. It offers a broad spectrum of expert contributions, especially on modern political, social and cultural history (conference reports, presentation of current research projects, research discussions, summaries of current journals, reviews). Founded in 1996.
• Clio Online
  Portal for the historical sciences: under construction since 2002, supervised at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Funded by the DFG. The portal attempts to bring together the internet resources of the historical sciences and cooperates closely with various partners, e.g. the Centre for Contemporary Historical Research (ZZF) in Potsdam. It offers, among other things, a meta search for literature and sources in several subject databases and contributes to sustainable electronic publishing with the publication series Historisches Forum.

Access to Ancient History:

• Propylaeum - Virtual Library of Classical Studies
  The project Propylaeum is an internet portal that offers subject information for the entire field of Classical Studies, currently for the subjects Egyptology, Ancient History, Classical Archaeology, Classical Philology and Pre- and Early History.

Access to Medieval History:

• Monumenta Germaniae Historica digital
  The Monumenta Germaniae Historica (MGH) has the task of publishing and indexing the historical sources of the European Middle Ages in critical text editions. The MGH digital presents all edited volumes published up to the year 2000 and is a joint project of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica and the Bavarian State Library Munich, funded by the German Research Foundation.
• Regesta Imperii
  As an inventory of all documentary and historiographical sources of the Roman-German kings from the Carolingians to Maximilian I and the popes of the early and high Middle Ages, the RI is among the major source works on German and European history. Indispensable, not only for bibliographic references.

Access to modern history and contemporary history:

• Institute for Contemporary History Munich/Berlin (ifz)
  Very informative.

Access to Bavarian regional history:

•  bavarikon
   Is a portal to Bavarian regional studies, culture and art.
• Bavarian Regional Library Online (BLO)
  Is the central cultural studies portal on the history and culture of Bavaria. The individual modules and focal points of the collection can be searched individually, but also partially with the help of central search entries (places, persons). In addition to digital full texts (source editions, journals), one of the first historical encyclopaedias is being created here, which is subject to specialist editing and thus to a qualitative examination: the Historical Dictionary of Bavaria. The BLO is a joint project. It is supported by six Bavarian libraries and a number of cooperation partners from science and administration; the Bavarian State Library is in charge. A forward-looking pioneering project, that is what the future looks like!

Access to the history of Eastern- and South-Eastern Europe:

• Herder Institute e. V., Marburg

Since its foundation in April 1950, the Herder Institute has been one of the central institutions for historical research on East Central Europe in Germany.

• Virtual Library History - Historical Ancillary Sciences

 Visuals:

• Picture archive photo Marburg

With a total of more than 1.7 million images, one of the largest image archives on European art and architecture.

Please note: Only the resources available in English are listed below. For a more comprehensive list of resources, which also includes sources solely available in German, please refer to the German equivalent of this webpage.

Reviews are, among others, offered by the following specialist information services:

• H-Soz-u-Kult
• H-Net Reviews
• ZBLG-ONLINE
  The review portal ZBLG-ONLINE has been available since November 2007. It provides selected current reviews of the Zeitschrift für bayerische Landesgeschichte immediately after their completion, before they appear in the usual printed form.
• Sehepunkte
  The online review journal Sehepunkte appears twelve times a year. The editors of the Vierteljahreshefte für Zeitgeschichte (quarterly issues of contemporary history) have been working together with the review journal Sehepunkte since 2003.
• Bryn Mawr Classical Review
  Bryn Mawr Classical Review is based on the second oldest independent online review journal in the humanities, Bryn Mawr Electronic Resources Review. Since 2000, the journal has operated under the name Bryn Mawr Classical Review, publishing reviews in the field of ancient history and ancient studies. It contains reviews from 1990 until today.

Please note: Only the resources available in English are listed below. For a more comprehensive list of resources, which also includes sources solely available in German, please refer to the German equivalent of this webpage.

• Bavarian State Library Munich (BSB)
  Collection focus: Byzantium, general history, history of Germany, Austria and Switzerland, history of France and Italy, classical antiquity, prehistory and early history, Eastern, Central and Southeastern Europe
• Institute of Classical Studies, London
• Library of the Institute for East and Southeast European Research in the Old Tax Office in Regensburg
• State Library, Regensburg

 Please note: Only the resources available in English are listed below. For a more comprehensive list of resources, which also includes sources solely available in German, please refer to the German equivalent of this webpage.

• Museum of Bavarian History Regensburg