Digital services

The University Library of Salzburg (UBS) offers its readers a wide range of digital content.

Freely accessible resources (e.g., the digital collections in ePLUS) can be used by anyone interested worldwide.

Licensed electronic media (e.g., eBooks) are available to university members on campus and via remote access (VPN) around the clock. For legal reasons, external users can only access this licensed content within the library locations.

As a general rule, please note that access data may not be passed on to other persons. Misuse may result in legal action being taken against you by the provider. The terms of use of the respective provider must be observed. These notes can serve as a general guide:

  • It is not permitted to systematically download large amounts of data.
  • Articles and text passages may not be passed on either electronically or in printed form.
  • Articles and text passages may only be downloaded or printed out for academic use.
  • Articles and text passages downloaded by you may not be posted on freely accessible websites, nor may they generally be used in connection with external applications—such as bots, software, or websites, including those that use artificial intelligence technologies such as large language models and generative AI—without the publisher’s explicit consent.

  • eBooks
    Via  UBsearch, you can find licensed eBooks as well as many freely accessible eBooks for study, research, and teaching. The UBS offers an extensive portfolio for its members, particularly from the following publishers: SpringerNature, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, De Gruyter Brill, Kohlhammer, and utb.

    The eBooks are made available for use on the platforms of publishers or so-called aggregators. As a rule, no extra registration on the platform is necessary (outside the university, see remote access (VPN)).

    Depending on the provider, it may be possible to download the entire eBook or individual chapters as a permanent PDF file. Some content is also DRM-protected: This means that technical measures for digital rights management are used. For users, this may mean that only one download is possible for a certain period of time and that special software (Adobe Digital) must be used, or that only online reading without download is offered.
    Many eBooks or their contents may also be included in full-text databases.

  • eJournals
    Wissenschaftliche Fachzeitschriften werden von der UBS häufig als eJournal bezogen. Dabei reicht das Angebot von einzelnen Zeitschriftenabonnements bis hin zu umfangreichen Gesamtzeitschriftenpaketen großer Verlage (Journal Full Collections).

    Die eJournals werden auf den Plattformen von Verlagen oder sogenannten Aggregatoren zur Nutzung zur Verfügung gestellt. In der Regel ist dafür keine extra Anmeldung auf der Plattform nötig (außerhalb der Universität siehe Fernzugriff (VPN)).   

    Frei zugängliche und lizenzierte eJournals finden Sie via   EZB und   UBsearch. 
    Wenn Sie auf der Suche nach bestimmten Artikeln und Papers aus wissenschaftlichen Zeitschriften sind, können Sie diese via   UBsearch oder auch in Volltext-Datenbanken finden. 

  • Newspapers
    Various online services are available to readers of daily and weekly newspapers. Please note that in most cases, access outside the library locations is only possible for members of the University of Salzburg (see remote access (VPN)).

    Take advantage of licensed access to the otherwise fee-based archives of the  Süddeutsche Zeitung (from 1992) and the  Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (from 1993).

     Pressreader is a digital newspaper kiosk that contains current issues of over 7,000 international newspapers and magazines. Here you can read, for example, the Salzburger Nachrichten, Die Presse, The Washington Post, and The Guardian.

    Full texts from various newspapers can be found in press databases. These include, for example,  APA-OnlineManager Library (content from all Austrian daily newspapers with a seven-day delay),  WISO (daily content from Falter, Kronen Zeitung, Zeit Online, and Neue Zürcher Zeitung, among others), and  Nexis Uni (content from Spiegel, taz, The New York Times, and others can be searched for specific terms using search filters).

    Historical Austrian newspapers and magazines are available to anyone interested free of charge and without access restrictions via  ANNO (AustriaN Newspapers Online).

  • Databases
    Literature and research databases are used to search for bibliographic information (e.g., journal articles on a specific topic). Full-text databases also offer direct access to content. Material databases enable you to search for primary data, such as statistical data or market information.

    In the  DBIS Database information system, you can search specifically for suitable databases for your subject or display freely available databases.

    Some databases have special access conditions, e.g., single sign-on or registration of a user account with the provider. This applies in particular to databases for law (e.g.,  RDB or  Lexis 360). Please also note the special regulations for remote access to legal databases.

  • ePLUS
    Our ePLUS portal was initially designed as an open access publication server for theses, scientific articles, and journals.

    In 2024, it underwent a relaunch and a significant expansion.

    Cultural assets in archives and collections at PLUS are now also made available worldwide:  https://eplus.uni-salzburg.at/

    New offering
    Browse through the book treasures of the prince-archbishops, decipher manuscripts that are more than 1,000 years old, and admire prints and drawings by master craftsmen.
    Browse through a monastery library or immerse yourself in the everyday life of students in earlier times. Georeferencing allows us to reconstruct the “CIVIS network” of the Baroque era and the adventurous history of student migration.
    Various filters and a comprehensive index of people and institutions make navigation easy.

    Invitation to participate
    As a pilot project for the university collections, the  Derra De Moroda Dance Archives invite you to dance: May we have this dance? Because surfing ePLUS should naturally whet your appetite for more! That’s why we want to encourage you: share your research results with the world via open access and make your department’s collections digitally accessible. Together, we can increase the virtual presence of PLUS. Our colleagues are happy to assist you; you will find their contact details in the respective offers.