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| Saturday | 8:00 to 13:00 |
| Monday | 12:00 to 17:00 | |
| Tuesday | 12:00 to 13:00 | 14:00 to 18:00 |
| Wednesday | 12:00 to 13:00 | 14:00 to 18:00 |
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| Saturday | 8:00 to 13:00 |
The library’s loan stock is openly accessible and arranged by subject.
Borrowing is free of charge. Reminder fees are incurred if the loan period is exceeded.
The following information does not apply for electronic resources.
| Staff members | 56 days | 100 items |
| Part-time lecturers | 56 days | 30 items |
| Students | 28 days | 15 items |
| Graduates | 28 days | 10 items |
| Students and lecturers from cooperation partners, interlibrary loan | 28 days | 3 items |
In general, members of the University of applied sciences, graduates and members of cooperation partners are entitled to borrow items and therefore also receive a library account.
Members of the University of applied sciences (students, staff members and part-time lecturers):
Graduates and members of cooperation partners:
Look in our library catalogue for the particular item, get it from the shelf and bring it to the circulation desk. You may now borrow it under the conditions listed above or you can make single copies.
At the end of the loan period borrowed items must be returned to the library’s circulation desk without a reminder. Items can be placed in the book return box outside our opening times.
Please enquire under the Literature search & administration tab.
Simple search
Search strategy
Advanced search
In the advanced search, you can link search terms in various search fields.
You can also narrow your search for specific criteria in advance (e.g. media type, language etc.).
Browse the index
Select an index and enter a search term. The results are listed in alphabetical order. For every entry, the number of respective records is shown.
Search for degree theses
When you have searched for a topic, you can filter the results specifically by degree theses (Master’s and Diploma theses) written at CAMPUS 02. Just select them under medium.
Since winter semester 2016/17, Master’s theses can only be submitted electronically. Depending on the mode of submission the following request options are available.
Printed
If you have searched for a topic, you can filter the list of results by theses written at CAMPUS 02 University of Applied Sciences (Master's and Diploma theses). Select the university theses under Medium.
Since the winter semester 2016/17, Master's theses have only been submitted in electronic form. Depending on the type of submission, the following query options are available:
103.1. – Degree theses International Marketing & Sales Management
103.2. – Degree theses Financial Accounting & Management Accounting
103.3. – Degree theses Automation Technology
103.4. – Degree theses Information Technologies & Business Informatics
103.5. – Degree theses Innovation Management
Electronic
When using the simple search function, enter the Master degree programme you are looking for, e.g. “Masterarbeit Automatisierungstechnik”. Filter the hit list for "Dissertations" to be provided with a list of titles of printed and electronic Master’s theses. Filter the list for "Full Text Online".
Search result list
Several editions of a book
Click on the link "x versions of this record exist. See all versions" to view all entries.
Filters
| Resource type | Book or journal – printed or electronic |
| Publication date | Restrict your search results to works published in a given year |
| Language | Filter works in a given language |
| Creator | Search for works by a specific author |
| Topic | Refine your search by restricting it to a given topic. |
| Form | Find out what type of published work it is, such as a degree thesis, course book, collection of essays, etc. |
| Classification RVK | Our books are classified thematically and shelved according to this classification system. |
How can I use printed books?
Printed books
You can retrieve books from the shelves and check them out at the service desk. Comprehensive information is available at Borrowing books and resources".
| Location | Is the book available? Where is the book located? The tab “location” contains a list of all locations where the book can be found. For more information about the available copy of the book, click on the respective location. |
| Details | Bibliographical data (title, author, year etc.) |
| Virtual Browse | Books that are located on the same shelf as the book you searched for. |
Printed journals
Newspapers and journals can only be used on site in the library.
| Location | Where is the journal located? Which publication years are available? |
| Details | Bibliographischen Daten (Verlag, ISSN etc.) Where is the journal located? Which publication years are available? |
How can I use online resources?
Students and staff members have access to all online resources on CAMPUS 02. Outside CAMPUS 02, an EZProxy or Shibboleth connection must be used to access most of the online resources.
The online resource tab displays immediately accessible online content such as tables of contents, full-texts or reviews.
Export research result data?
Here you can display different citation types automatically, print the title or send it via email.
Log out
Don’t forget to log out when you have completed your search to protect your account information and personal settings from unauthorized access. This applies especially, if you are using a publicly accessible PC.
Saved items and search history
If you are logged in, you can browse your search history and save items as well as search queries in the "My Favorites" section in order to recall them later. You can reach "My Favorites" via the pin and the arrow in the header or the corresponding menu items.
Without registration, your favorites will be deleted after the respective browser session.
After completing a search, you can add an item to your favorite items by clicking on the pin in the short or full view.
Via the pin in the header or the menu item "Saved items" you can manage your favorites and sort them by date, title, or author.
You can save your search query by clicking "Save query" above the result list.
By clicking on the bell to the right of the saved search, you can activate the alert function. You will then be notified by e-mail when new items are added to your query.
Here you will find your search history, can retrieve the searches again or add them to your saved searches by clicking the pin.
Opus stands for Online-Publikations-Server. The library offers to publish electronically generated and qualified documents on its online publication system. This service is for university members only and free of charge. After publication, the texts are available worldwide on the Internet and will be archived permanently by the library. The documents are indexed and made accessible in library catalogues and Web search engines.
Generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot ... are suitable for clarifying terms, i.e. finding generic terms and sub-terms, synonyms etc. or creating a search syntax with Boolean operators.
There are also a large number of AI tools specifically for literature research.
Examples of some free, limited free and paid tools*:
| Tool | Cost type | Data basis |
| AbsClust | partly free of charge | Semantic Scholar |
| Connected Papers | partly free of charge | Semantic Scholar |
| Consensus | partly free of charge | Semantic Scholar |
| Elicit | partly free of charge | Semantic Scholar |
| Inciteful | free of charge | OpenAlex, Crossref, Open Citations, Semantic Scholar |
| Iris.ai | unkown | unkown |
| keenious | partly free of charge | OpenAlex |
| Lateral | chargeable | unkown |
| Litmaps | partly free of charge | Crossref, Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex |
| Local Citation Network | free of charge | OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar, Crossref, Open Citations |
| Open Knowledge Maps | free of charge | PubMed, BASE, OpenAIRE |
| ORKGAsk | free of charge | Core |
| Perplexity | partly free of charge | unkown |
| R Discovery | partly free of charge | PubMed, OpenAlex, Crossref, Unpaywall, versch. Verlage |
| Research Rabbit | free of charge | PubMed, Semantic Scholar |
| scienceOS | partly free of charge | Semantic Scholar |
| Scinapse | partly free of charge | Microsoft Academic Graph, OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar, Springer Nature SciGraph, eigener Crawler |
| SciSpace | partly free of charge | OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar, Google Scholar, „other trusted repositories“ |
| Scite | chargeable | Versch. Verlage, PubMed, Unpaywall, ArXiv |
| Semantic Scholar | free of charge | unkown |
| statista Research AI | Campus license | statista |
| Undermind | partly free of charge | Semantic Scholar |
*The AI tools listed have not been subjected to any legal or data protection checks by the UAS. We would like to point out that independent use may give rise to data protection issues.
If a perfect search does not lead to any hits, then our collections need to be expanded. Help us expand it!
Ordering happens on behalf of the degree programmes, which means that we have to enquire whether the order is allowed to be placed at their expense. Once your suggestion has been accepted or rejected, you will be notified. These services are exclusive for CAMPUS 02 students.
To place an order, you must fill at least the mandatory fields (*), they are required.
Have you found a book in another library, then we will get this for you!
| Request | Fill out our interlibrary loan form. It is also possible to borrow items from abroad. No additional research is required. Simply complete the request form. |
| Delivery | The item will be sent to the library. This takes approximately 1-2 weeks (possibly longer from abroad) and depends how quickly the lending library processes our request. |
| Collection | You will receive an email as soon as the item has arrived and can be collected at the library. PLEASE NOTE: Some institutions only allow loaned items to be used within our premises. The loan period is set by the lending library and may be less than two weeks. |
| Cost | Costs are set by the lending library. Loans to staff are charged to the relevant cost centre. Austrian Libraries: Costs are set by the lending library. Loans to staff are charged to the relevant cost centre. Foreign libraries charge at least 8 euros per item. |
| Renewals | Not possible. |
| Return | Please return media at the CAMPUS 02 library. |
For our colleagues from other libraries: For ILL-requests please contact us via email (bibliothek@campus02.at) Only requests from libraries are accepted.
What is Citavi?
Citavi is a software for literature management and knowledge organization. With Citavi you can record and organize the title data of books, articles, etc. and create citations.
With the Citavi AddIn for MS Word (desktop version) or the Citavi Assistant (Citavi-Web) you can easily add the short documents, citations and bibliography to your work.
License & install Citavi & Citavi-Web
You can download CITAVI for free. Create your own Citavi account with your FH email address and install Citavi on your PC. Link to registration/download LINK. In addition to the desktop version, you can now also use Citavi-Web. Citavi-Web can be used independently of the operating system via your browser. More information about Citavi-Web can be found here
Instructions & Help for Citavi & Citavi-Web
In fünf Schritten zu Citavi 6
Systemvoraussetzungen:
Arbeitsspeicher: empfohlen 4 GB RAM oder mehr
Betriebssystem: Windows 10, 8.1 und Windows Server ab 2012
Request a license key
Request your own licence key with your CAMPUS 02 email address (Request a license key)
Mit einem Lizenzschlüssel wird Citavi Free in die Vollversion Citavi Web umgewandelt.
In addition to the print media, the library at CAMPUS 02 also provides access to a wide variety of electronic resources. These mainly consist of scientific databases and e-books.
Please note that all databases and journals accessible from this page are subject to the provisions of copyright law.
The following terms of use must therefore be strictly observed:
Access options:
Please note that some databases (e.g. legal and financial databases) can only be used by CAMPUS 02 students or staff members due to licensing restrictions. Remote access to these databases is either limited or not possible. For more information, please visit the respective database.
LibKey is an AI-supported linking technology that searches for the best source for an e-journal article (preferably a freely accessible publisher's version) and leads directly to the full text/PDF with one click.
BrowZine allows current scientific e-journals to be browsed, read and managed thematically or by title in a kind of "virtual journal shelf".
The products have been integrated into the library catalogue and EBSCO.
You can also connect to freely accessible e-journals and e-articles licensed by the library via LibKey and BrowZine in the following ways:
LibKey.io
LibKey Nomad
BrowZine
Video
The Electronic Journals Library (Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek, EZB) helps you search for a specific journal, and in this journal, for specific articles or particular topics.
Use the Database Information System (DBIS) to research a topic in one of the various databases.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar is a search engine that allows you to search for academic literature references across disciplines. These can be freely available (open access) or subject to a charge. For fee-based texts, a few clicks in the settings will help, then the links to the full texts licensed by CAMPUS 02 will also appear in the results.
A short instruction either as
Open access browser extensions
They will help you to find a free version of the respective article!
There are a few recommendations for the use of AI in studies, teaching and research at the UAS. Please read them before use: "Our position - Artificial Intelligence".
Generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot ... are suitable for clarifying terms, i.e. finding generic terms and sub-terms, synonyms etc. or creating a search syntax with Boolean operators.
There are also a large number of AI tools specifically for literature research.
Examples of some free, limited free and paid tools*:
| Tool | Cost type | Data basis |
| AbsClust | partly free of charge | Semantic Scholar |
| Connected Papers | partly free of charge | Semantic Scholar |
| Consensus | partly free of charge | Semantic Scholar |
| Elicit | partly free of charge | Semantic Scholar |
| Inciteful | free of charge | OpenAlex, Crossref, Open Citations, Semantic Scholar |
| Iris.ai | unkown | unkown |
| keenious | partly free of charge | OpenAlex |
| Lateral | chargeable | unkown |
| Litmaps | partly free of charge | Crossref, Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex |
| Local Citation Network | free of charge | OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar, Crossref, Open Citations |
| Open Knowledge Maps | free of charge | PubMed, BASE, OpenAIRE |
| ORKGAsk | free of charge | Core |
| Perplexity | partly free of charge | unkown |
| R Discovery | partly free of charge | PubMed, OpenAlex, Crossref, Unpaywall, versch. Verlage |
| Research Rabbit | free of charge | PubMed, Semantic Scholar |
| scienceOS | partly free of charge | Semantic Scholar |
| Scinapse | partly free of charge | Microsoft Academic Graph, OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar, Springer Nature SciGraph, eigener Crawler |
| SciSpace | partly free of charge | OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar, Google Scholar, „other trusted repositories“ |
| Scite | chargeable | Versch. Verlage, PubMed, Unpaywall, ArXiv |
| Semantic Scholar | free of charge | unkown |
| statista Research AI | Campus license | statista |
| Undermind | partly free of charge | Semantic Scholar |
*The AI tools listed have not been subjected to any legal or data protection checks by the UAS. We would like to point out that independent use may give rise to data protection issues.
You can find information on different content and access options directly in each source:
The Standards Reading Room of Austrian Standards plus provides read-only access to standards from selected specialist groups:
Compass-Verlag GmbH sponsors CAMPUS 02 University of Applied Sciences with its “Firmen-Compass” (“Company Compass”) - Austria’s best business database. All registered Austrian companies together with their very latest company register status with comprehensive, researched additional information are clearly presented and highly hyperlinked.
The access on offer covers the following modules: ‘Companies’, ‘Trades’, ‘Bankruptcies’ and ‘Associations’.
The database builds on the entries in the Austrian Commercial Register and is supplemented by information researched by the editorial staff, as well as by details from the Austrian Chambers of Commerce and the Austrian Register of Tenderers.
Thanks to the daily updating of the commercial register data, correct real-time legal information about the companies is always available. The trade register data is also continually updated.
For more information, please visit the Compass website: Link
You can perform your researches on a PC in the library. Please contact the library staff for registration.
Manuals:
EBSCO gives you access to numerous e-journals and e-books from the fields of business and technology. In addition, the "Business Source® " research database offers full texts on market analyses, industry reports and company profiles. The content is also integrated into the library catalogue!
EBSCOhost Passport: Use this browser extension when you start your search in Wikipedia, Google Scholar or Research Gate! Available in Google Chrome.
The database contains full texts from up to 350 leading management journals. The important areas of management research are covered, in particular the aspects of strategy, leadership, marketing and human resources, library management, information management and knowledge management.
More than 15 full-text journals from the field of "Engineering & Materials Science" are also included.
The library at CAMPUS 02 provides you with e-books from Hanser in different specialist fields.
The library at CAMPUS 02 provides you with e-books from the field of business. The e-books can be found in our library catalogue or the publisher's website.
Numerous journals, commentaries, legislative texts and e-books are available in the Lexis 360® database.
In LinDa, leading specialist journals, including "Steuer- und Wirtschaftskartei" (SWK) and "Steuern und Wirtschaft International" (SWI), are accessible in full text in the current version. In addition to the "core journals", so-called "libraries" are also offered. These are modules separated into subject areas with corresponding content (legal texts, commentaries, manuals, encyclopaedias)
LinDa is accessible to students and employees of the UAS as well as library users on the UAS campus.
In addition, remote access is possible for employees and students of the UAS. For students, there is a limit of 1,000 documents per student per month.
The library offers you titles from various publishers via the e-book platform ‘ProQuest Ebook Central’. If you would like to expand our stock, you can make an acquisition proposal: Instruction
Statista bundles statistical data from various institutes and sources and thus enables simple and efficient access to quantitative facts with its database.
Further information at DBIS.
The library offers you access to the complete utb online textbook library! The e-books can be found in our llibrary catalogue or the publisher's website.
The full-text database wiso wissenschaften provides access to over 500 specialist journals (as of 2014) from the fields of economic theory and economic practice.
For example: absatzwirtschaft, Der Betrieb, Die Betriebswirtschaft, Controller Magazin, Corporate Finance, Zeitschrift für Familienunternehmen und Strategien, Horizont Online, IT Governance, KoR, personalmagazin, W&V Werben und Verkaufen, Zeitschrift für KMU und Entrepreneurship
The ‘Standard Thesaurus for Economics’ is integrated into the application. It provides support in finding terms and expressions in the field of economics.
From campus and from home:
The Standards Reading Room of Austrian Standards plus provides read-only access to standards from selected specialist groups:
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Compass-Verlag GmbH sponsors CAMPUS 02 University of Applied Sciences with its “Firmen-Compass” (“Company Compass”) - Austria’s best business database. All registered Austrian companies together with their very latest company register status with comprehensive, researched additional information are clearly presented and highly hyperlinked.
The cost-free access on offer covers the following modules: ‘Companies’, ‘Trades’, ‘Bankruptcies’ and ‘Associations’.
The database builds on the entries in the Austrian Commercial Register and is supplemented by information researched by the editorial staff, as well as by details from the Austrian Chambers of Commerce and the Austrian Register of Tenderers. Thanks to the daily updating of the commercial register data, correct real-time legal information about the companies is always available. The trade register data is also continually updated.
You can perform your researches on a PC in the library. Please contact the library staff for registration.
Link to the database:
From campus:
From home:
EZproxy oder Shibboleth (Instruction)
EBSCO Mobile App: Info-Video
EBSCO gives you access to numerous e-journals and e-books from the fields of business and technology. In addition, the "Business Source® " research database offers full texts on market analyses, industry reports and company profiles. The content is also integrated into the library catalogue!
Help:
eBooks – Searching
eBooks – Download
eBooks bei EBSCO – Reading
EBSCOhost Passport: Use this browser extension when you start your search in Wikipedia, Google Scholar or Research Gate! Available in Google Chrome.
From campus:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/wirtschaft/search.action
From home:
The library offers you titles from various publishers via the e-book platform ‘ProQuest Ebook Central’. If you would like to expand our stock, you can make an acquisition proposal: Instruction
Help:
Tutorials
From campus:
https://www.emeraldinsight.com/
From home:
EZproxy oder Shibboleth (Instruction)
Die Emerald Group Publishing Limited ist ein weltweit führender Herausgeber von Fachzeitschriften im Bereich Managementforschung. Mit den Emerald Management eJournal Collections bietet der Verlag seine Zeitschriften im Volltext an.
Benutzerhilfen finden Sie direkt auf der Homepage von Emerald: Support for the user
From campus:
https://www.hanser-elibrary.com/
From home:
EZproxy oder mit Shibboleth (Instruction)
The library at CAMPUS 02 provides you with e-books from Hanser in different specialist fields.
From campus:
eBooks Wirtschaftswissenschaften
From home:
The library at CAMPUS 02 provides you with e-books from the field of business. The e-books can be found in our library catalogue or the publisher's website.
Zugang zu den Themenpaketen „Steuerrecht“, „Steuern & Bilanzierung“ und Wirtschaftsrecht des Verlages LexisNexis. Sie haben Zugriff auf alle wichtigen Kommentare zum Steuerrecht: BAO, EStG, GebG, GrEStG, KStG, UmgrStG, UStG, WerbeabgabeG. Und LexisNexis bietet Rechtsnormen, eine Finanzdokumentation (inkl. FINDOK Daten), eine Arbeits- und Sozialrechtsdokumentation, Entscheidungen, Interaktive Rechner (z. B. Körperschaftsteuerrechner) und Rechtsnews an.
Zu erreichen innerhalb des FH-Bereiches (Lehrsäle, Büros, Bibliothek) über folgenden Link:
Sie sehen die verfügbaren Inhalte, wenn Sie sich anmelden. Dazu eine Instruction.
In LinDa sind die führenden Fachzeitschriften „Steuer- und Wirtschaftskartei“ (SWK), „Steuern und Wirtschaft International“ (SWI), „PV-Info“, „CFO-Aktuell“ oder „Der Gesellschafter“ im Volltext zugänglich. Zusätzlich werden zahlreiche Fachbücher, Kommentare, Gesetzestexte, Handbücher und Lexika angeboten, die die Fachbereiche „Steuern und Wirtschaft“, „Recht“, und „Internationales“ abdecken.
Für Studierende und Mitarbeiter*innen der FH sowie für Bibliotheksbenutzer*innen ist LinDa am Campus der FH zugänglich.
Zusätzlich ist ein Fernzugriff für Mitarbeiter*innen und Studierende der FH möglich. Sie können sich mit Ihrer FH-E-Mail-Adresse und Ihrem FH-Passwort anmelden. Bei Studierenden gibt es Beschränkung von 1.000 Dokumenten pro Studierender/n und Monat.
Für den Fernzugriff:
Hilfe zur Nutzung von LinDa:
From campus:
From home:
Statista ist ein Statistik-Portal, das statistische Daten verschiedener Institute und Quellen bündelt. Die Datenbank Statista ermöglicht einen einfachen und effizienten Zugang zu quantitativen Fakten.
Further information at DBIS.
From campus:
https://elibrary.utb.de/action/showPublications?pubType=book&ConceptID=506378
From home:
Die FH-Bibliothek bietet Ihnen Zugriff auf die komplette utb-Online-Lehrbuchbibliothek! Sie finden die Titel über unseren Bibliothekskatalog oder direkt über die Verlagsseite.
From campus:
From home:
Anmeldung über EZ Proxy or Shibboleth (Instruction)
Diese Zeitschriftendatenbank enthält die Volltexte aus rund 500 wirtschaftswissenschaftlich orientierten Fachzeitschriften.
For example: absatzwirtschaft, Der Betrieb, Die Betriebswirtschaft, Controller Magazin, Corporate Finance, Zeitschrift für Familienunternehmen und Strategien, Horizont Online, IT Governance, KoR, personalmagazin, W&V Werben und Verkaufen, Zeitschrift für KMU und Entrepreneurship
The ‘Standard Thesaurus for Economics’ is integrated into the application. It provides support in finding terms and expressions in the field of economics.
To enhance your information literacy and to increase research possibilities, we offer user courses for the library as well as introductory courses for e-media during term-time. Trainings are currently held in German only.
Get to know the CAMPUS 02 library!
This course provides an overview of the structure of the CAMPUS 02 library, usage and lending modalities, an introduction to using the library catalogue, a list of journals, and semester reference collections.
For further information and assistance, please contact us via bibliothek@campus02.at
We provide an insight into our range of e-books, e-journals and electronic databases. Basic functions and possibilities as well as different types of research are presented.
For further information and assistance, please contact us via bibliothek@campus02.at
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