You can order books and articles from journals that do not belong to the UFZ’s library stock as an interlibrary loan. As this literature is ordered from other partner libraries, we cannot say when your literature will arrive.

From experience we can only say that it could take anything from 3 days up to 3 weeks. Articles on the other hand often arrive on the same day that they are ordered. Interlibrary loans (books and articles) that are not free of charge will remain at the library lending desk for collection. In this case you will receive a notification email from us.

If you want to lend a book from the main reading room or closed stack that is not already on loan, then you can order it through UFZ catalogue . The book will be waiting for collection at the library lending desk on the next working day.

We are more than happy to order books for you to purchase. Before you order a book please make sure that it is not already part of the UFZ’s stock: Search

The library offers instruction in the following:

• General instruction on how to use the library/ tour of the library
• Instruction on working with the photocopier and book scanner
• Online literature searches
• Basic searches using the Web of Science

For internal use only:
To register for one of the above, please use the following link:
Link: Training forms from the personnel department

You can also make direct enquiries with us. Instruction dates are announced on the library home page and by e-mail.

A compilation of all those publications by UFZ-employees that were published during their scientific work at the UFZ is a main responsibility of the library as well as the preparation of these for the internet.
Due to data maintenance processes within our central publications management system, we can guarantee that your bibliographic data will be subjected to comprehensive quality control, standardisation and validation. Bibliographic data is updated with the structural data of our center, ensuring that your own publication lists as well as those of your department and all projects will be available at all times.
Publications from the time before you worked at the UFZ are not included in this directory.
Please also note that poster contributions that did not appear in conference proceedings will not be included.
Please send a copy of your publication (in print or PDF form) with the respective POF-number to publikationen@ufz.de .

Here you can find a little training video:

You can search for available publications by using the web publisher.
• New publications directory
• Link: to the web publisher (archaic; last data recorded on 30.05.2011)