Information, documentation, library

BAM's specialized information and documentation centres and the library offer qualified mediation of information and technical consultation

Services offered

• Qualified specialist advice and information
• Information (literature searches)
• Sale of or access to databases
• Acquisition of information and documents brokering
• Open stack reading-room and book lending (restricted use)

Holdings

• Ca. 250 continuous journals (printed journals)
• Ca. 3500 electronic journals
• 64.000 monographic volumes
• 31.500 journal volumes

The library includes a reading-room, photocopying is feasible for costs.

Database PUBLICA

• Database PUBLICA, which contains publications of BAM researchers and scientists

Catalogues for monographs

• KOBV (Cooperative Library Network Berlin-Brandenburg)
• KVK (Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog, search engine for national and international library and book trade catalogues)

Journals

• Title list search for electronic journals of the BAM-library (via the EZB, German Electronic Journals Library, Regensburg)
• Title list search for printed journals in the BAM-library (only in German)
• Title list search in the ZDB (OPAC of the German Union Catalogue of Serials)

Articles

• Article ordering via SUBITO (Document Delivery Service of the German Libraries)
• Article search via INGENTA
• Article search via Web of Knowledge (only for in-house use)

Libraries

• Die Deutsche Bibliothek (DDB, The German National Library)
• Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preussischer Kulturbesitz (SBB-PK, Berlin State Library - Prussian Cultural Heritage)
• Technische Informationsbibliothek Hannover (TIB,Technical Information Library)

Institutions and information systems for libraries

• WEBIS (Web Library Information System for the Special Subject Collections of German Libraries)
• VASCODA (Internetportal for scientific informations)
• BAK Information (Association for Information Management in Berlin, only in German)

Patent search

• ESPACEnet of the European Patent Office
• DEPATISnet of the German Patent and Trade Mark Office
• DPinfo of the of the German Patent and Trade Mark Office

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