E-Books
In accordance with the current copyright law and the licensing agreements between the University Library and its contractors, downloading or printing of e-books in whole or in large parts is strictly prohibited.
- E-book portal of the Ruhr-University
The portal is under construction and will be augmented.
E-books are listed in RUBopac as well though catalogue entries are lagging behind the e-book portal in some cases. Catalogue entries contain a link allowing you to directly access the e-book. If you want to exclusively search for online books go to tab "Limit search" and choose "E-Media – Online". 
E-books based on DFG-funded national licenses (not in RUB-OPAC)
These e-book collections (in total approx. 370,000 books) can be searched for individual titles via a special search engine.
For descriptions of the e-book packages please refer to information provided by the database info system (DBIS).
E-books and e-book packages incorporated into licensed databases
Numerous e-books are part of text collections or e-book packages or have been incorporated into aggregator databases. In principle there should be individual entries for these books in RUBopac, but we have not yet been able to put this into practice for all of the e-book collections.
| Title: | beck e-library |
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| Contents: | More than 65 current top titles in the areas of civil law, public law and criminal law |
| Subject: | Law |
| Licence: | Unlimited access within the university network (VPN access prohibited by license agreement); regular updates |
| Access: | directory beck e-library |
| Title: | Beck online |
| Contents: | Approx. 120 legal texts, commentaries, and legal manuals and other material published by Beck |
| Subject: | Law |
| Licence: | Unlimited access within the university network (VPN access prohibited by license agreement); regular updates |
| Access: | directory Beck online |
| Title: | Business Source Premier |
| Contents: | More than 7,000 e-books and other material from the area of economics (e.g. country reports, research reports, case studies; in some cases only book chapters) |
| Subject: | Economics |
| Licence: | Unlimited access within the university network; regular updates |
| Access: | Business Searching Interface (BSI) |
| Title: | German Literature Collections |
| Contents: | In Bochum, the German Literature Collections provides access to the following five full text databases:
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| Subject: | German studies |
| Licence: | Unlimited access within the university network; regular updates |
| Access: | German Literature Collections |
| Title: | LEGIOS - library law / taxes |
| Contents: | Approx. 150 legal texts, commentaries, legal manuals, and other material |
| Subject: | Law |
| Licence: | Unlimited access within the university network; regular updates |
| Access: | Individual entries for these books in RUBopac in preparation |
| Title: | UMWELTdigital.de |
| Contents: | UMWELTdigital covers laws, legal ordinances, administrative regulations and technical rules in German and European environmental law |
| Subject: | Energy, environmental protection, nuclear technology |
| Licence: | Unlimited access within the university network |
| Access: | http://www.umweltdigital.de |
| Title: | Umwelt online |
| Contents: | Information system Umwelt-Online offers one-stop access to documents on the Web. It covers the topics of waste, general, plant engineering, construction, biotechnology, energy use, hazardous materials, pollution control, food & consumer goods, nature, plant and animal protection, soil protection, old envinronmental damage, incident prevention & disaster management, chemicals, environmental management, in particular: laws, legal ordinances, administrative regulations and technical rules. The database is updated continuously. |
| Subject: | Energy, environmental protection, nuclear technology |
| Licence: | Unlimited access within the university network |
| Access: | http://www.umwelt-online.de/ |
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