🎧 05 - The journals reading room

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Track 5: The journals reading room

The academic journals reading room is an especially quiet work area. Additionally, it provides access to the two large computer work rooms of the university's IT service centre, which are sometimes also identified as the CIP-Cluster.

A shelving unit containing national and international newspapers that you can leaf through is located by the windows. Across from these newspapers, in the subject-divided journals display, you will first see the most recent edition of each journal. Lift up the front cover. Now you know where the rest of the recent journal publications are hiding. And what about the older volumes? If you also collect journals at home then you know what kind of disorder can result after some time. In order to avoid this from occurring here in the library, each complete year's volumes are bound and moved to the reading rooms at the end of the relevant subject area. They are presented there by title in alphabetical order.

In case that you can't find a newspaper or journal, simply inquire it at the information desk in the opposite reading room. Some documents, for example, der Spiegel, are so adored that we have to protect them a little.

However, don't be surprised that, despite the far more than forty thousand newspaper subscriptions, only a very small fraction can be found here. The majority of the journals and many newspapers are available to you in online versions and you can read these, for example, on the computers here. Additionally, the UB isn't the only library location. You can learn which printed journals are available in the departmental and subject-specific libraries through the electronic library catalogue. We will explain these details to you in track 8 “Finding Literature”.

For now, back to the staircase. Our tour continues on the third floor. Please select track 6.