Lending and Access to electronic resources of the library system

n order to borrow printed books or articles you need to set an initial password in your account for borrowing books (see Links). Your university email address is already configured as your contact address. After setting a password you can borrow literature, (pre-)order books and papers and extend your borrowing period.

Within the university network you can access electronic bibliographical databases and the full texts of e-books or e-journals directly. However, this can not be done just like that when you are at home or out and about. The university has to make sure that only members of JLU access these resources. You may search for printed books, articles, journals, and databases in the library's research portal JUSTfind.

If you want full access from home or out and about you need to use the button "Login Full access (VPN)" and enter your user name and password, which you find in your account letter. Thus, you identify as a student of JLU Gießen. The underlying technique is called "EZ-Proxy".