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University and City Library of Cologne

Physics

Expert information

Databases

Subject databases are essential for your scientific work. Take advantage of our extensive offer:

E-journals

Our services in the Electronic Journals Library (EZB) at a glance:

Electronic theses of the University of Cologne

The Cologne University Publication Server (KUPS) contains electronic publications of university members. The documents are accessible for free.

Subject portals

Specialist libraries supra-regional

The Information Centre for Science and Technology University Library (TIB) Hannover is the central library in Germany for physics. Information sources, literature, databases and subject portals on the sub-areas of physics are collected and provided. Inform yourself on the website about the extensive service of the library!

Internet portals on Physics

You want to have relevant and high-quality websites for your field of expertise at a glance? Specialist portals are ideal for this. A selection of important subject portals in the field of physics:

  • pro-physik.de (in German) - the portal of the German Physical Society (DPG) with access to the Physics Journal (for DPG members)
  • Welt der Physik (in German) - Physics in research, teaching and daily life, supported by the DPG and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research
  • PhysNet - Worldwide information platform on institutes, working groups, research areas, etc., supported by the Institute for Science Networking, Oldenburg
  • physicsworld - News, events, jobs worldwide, offer from IOP
  • arXiv.org - world-famous Open Access document server for preprints from the fields of physics, mathematics, biology and other fields, established since 1991

Physics at the University of Cologne

Department of Physics

The websites of the physics department offer you everything you need to know about studying and teaching, about research, working groups and contact persons.

The departments:

Library of the department

The library is primarily available to members of the Departmen of Physicst. It offers subject-specific media for current research work and has its own small textbook collection sbib. Connected to the library is the CIP - the computer pool in physics.