The database was initially subscribed to for the University of Erfurt for one year and is available on the University of Erfurt campus network and to all members via eduVPN from off campus.

• 10.30 am and 11.30 pm
  (meeting point at the information desk in the foyer)

We wish you an informative day with many interesting impressions. Perhaps you will decide to study in Erfurt - we look forward to welcoming you here in the autumn.

• Searching the holdings of the Erfurt University Library and the Gotha Research Library
• Find and use electronic resources
• view the location and availability of literature found, order and make reservations
• export, print and save hits, provide feedback to the library
• view and manage your library account, extend lending periods
• Save login details, search history and favourites on the device

Modern usage and navigation options, such as searching by voice input or the classic swiping between individual hits, add value to the app.

Why not get the app on your mobile phone today and give it a try!

Project outlines are submitted using an application form via the respective Deanery. Applications are possible until 15 June 2026. The start of the funding period can take place flexibly on 1 October 2026 or 1 April 2027.

The “Lehrförderfonds“ is part of the University's strategic teaching development programme. The decision on funding is made by an awards committee appointed by the Presidium; funded lecturers will be informed in August 2026. University Didactics supports lecturers in the further development of teaching concepts, the application process and the implementation of projects.

"The University of Erfurt's new teaching support fund provides targeted impetus for the further development of teaching: it opens up space to implement innovative ideas and further expand proven concepts. By supporting teaching staff in trialling new methods and continuously improving their courses, we are sustainably strengthening the quality of our teaching. At the same time, promoting innovative teaching concepts helps to raise the status of teaching as a whole and further promote the exchange of ideas about good teaching," says Professor Julia Knop, Vice President for Academic Affairs.

The journal has been published by the faculty since 2005. Four themed issues are published each year, alternating between the theological disciplines. In addition to the thematically focussed articles, further articles are published on various theological issues. A special concern of the journals is to support young theologians with their first publications. Articles on the history and current situation of the church and society in the East German federal states are also regularly included. In addition, the authors comment on numerous current theological and church-social topics.

The ThG is now available on the journals@UrMEL portal of the Thuringian University and State Library Jena (ThULB): https://zs.thulb.uni-jena.de/receive/jportal_jpjournal_00002815. All 20 volumes since 2005 are freely accessible in the archive. These are currently undergoing technical processing so that individual articles can be searched for and read in future.

The first issue to be published in full in open access was published in March. It was conceived by ethicist Professor Dr Katharina Klöcker. The thematic focus is on public Christian ethics.

The editorial team spent over a year preparing the switch to open access. The publisher Butzon & Bercker, which previously published the journal, has thankfully released the ThG without any complications, Benedikt Kranemann is pleased to report. In recent months, the editorial team has therefore been able to concentrate fully on the technical realisation of the project. He would also like to thank Martina Schlütter from the Electronic Text Center at Erfurt University Library and the journals@UrMEL portal team at Jena University Library, without whose expert advice the project could not have been realised.

"We will now spend a year gathering experience in open access," announces Benedikt Kranemann. "Then the editorial team and faculty will decide where we want to make changes and take new steps." The path to the future of ThG has thus been taken.

Course contents are:

• Structure and operation of Citavi
• Transferring literature sources and electronic full texts to Citavi, Citavi Picker
• Literature evaluation and knowledge organisation (adding citations)
• Transfer to Word files

Dates in the summer semester 2026:
 

• Monday, 20 April: 12.15 pm - 1.45 pm
• Tuesday, 19 May: 10.15 a.m. - 11.45 a.m.
• Wednesday, 17 June: 12.15 p.m. - 1.45 p.m.
• Thursday, 9 July: 2.15 p.m. - 3.45 p.m.

You can work with Citavi at the terminals in the lecture room during the event. If you have your own terminals, please install Citavi yourself before the course: https://www.citavi.com/uni-erfurt.

A virtualisation solution is required to use Citavi on a Mac. Further information can be found in Citavi Support.

The background to this is a redesign that is to be realised by the beginning of the winter semester 2026: a large new room for flexible use with approx. 40 new group workstations on the ground floor of the University Library, replacing the current textbook collection.

Depending on the frequency of use, the books currently located there will be integrated into the reading room or stacks and can still be borrowed from there.

Read more in the new blog post

APA Handbook of Research Methods in Psychology, 2. Edition

APA Handbook of Health Psychology (3 volumes).

APA Handbook of Adolescent and Young Adult Development

APA Handbook of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

APA Handbook of Community Psychology

APA Handbook of Personality and Social Psychology

APA Handbook of Sport and Exercise Psychology

Discover the handbooks!
You can access them directly via the library catalogue (Discovery or Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC)); follow the links to the full text.

• via online form for individual titles with an identifier such as DOI or ISBN;
• for publications without an identifier by e-mail to: bibliographie.ub@uni-erfurt.de;
• as lists in any format to: bibliographie.ub@uni-erfurt.de.

Reported publication data is checked editorially and processed in accordance with standards before it is visible online in the bibliography. Publications from the previous university bibliography (HSB) are added on an ongoing basis.

The new bibliography system offers the option of creating personalised publication lists in various output formats. It can also be linked to personal ORCID profiles. Details can be found on the web pages of the University Library website.

For general questions, it is worth taking a look at the FAQ page on the bibliography. The editorial team is also happy to receive questions and suggestions by e-mail at bibliographie.ub@uni-erfurt.de .

Securing the financial basis for open access funding is all the more important in view of the high demand at the University of Erfurt. In 2025, the acceptance of new funding applications to the fund had to be stopped prematurely in October, as the available funds had been exhausted by the full or partial funding of four books and 70 article publications. The DFG funding obtained can help to realise all planned open access publications at the university in the future. Everyone benefits from the greatly increased visibility of research results through open access.

The funding conditions of the Open Access Publication Fund are summarised on the University Library website.

Detailed information in the new blog post.

In addition to reading access to the more than 2,600 journals in the publisher's portfolio, the contract offers simplified options for publishing open access with Elsevier. The new cost model introduced with the DEAL contracts comes into play here, according to which the total costs for the University of Erfurt are also based solely on the number of publications per contract year.

The following points are important for publishing in Elsevier journals:

• In those journals that do not work entirely according to the Open Access model (Hybrid Open Access), all publications with a corresponding author from the University of Erfurt are assigned to us on the basis of the affiliation and e-mail address provided upon submission. No further action is then required on the part of the publisher. The University Library bears the article costs via the participation fees. It is important to note that an obligation to pay costs remains in place even if publishers decline the Open Access option (opt-out).
• A special pricing model applies to the Elsevier journals of the Cell Press and The Lancet brands. Here, the fees charged to us for articles in hybrid open access journals are very high at EUR 7,464 per publication.
• For publications in journals that already work entirely according to the Open Access model (Fully Gold Open Access), a discount of 20 % on the publication fee is granted as part of the DEAL agreement. For the Fully Gold journals of Cell Press and The Lancet, the discount is reduced to 15 %.

The costs for the publication of articles in the Fully Gold journals are invoiced to the university in addition to the participation fees.

In order for publications to be correctly assigned to the new agreement, publishers must select the University of Erfurt as their institution as Corresponding Author during the submission process. All articles published Open Access are then subject to a legally compliant Creative Commons licence, which allows free reuse while maintaining the citation obligation. The CC-BY licence type should preferably be selected.

Further information can be found on the University Library website:

https://www.uni-erfurt.de/bibliothek/forschen-und-publizieren/publizieren-1/verlagsvereinbarungen

The Publication Management/Electronic Text Centre ETC team at the University Library is also happy to provide individual advice:

• to relieve researchers as far as possible of time-consuming reporting procedures by using automated procedures for publication registration and verification;
• to create options for retrieving and re-utilising individual publication lists from within the system;
• minimise costs through cooperative development;
• to create uniform standards for Thuringia;
• to utilise interfaces to other systems used in Thuringia (e.g. research information systems) and
• to make the open access status of publications visible.

A so-called "pretest" is now pending, for which the ERfurt University Library is asking for support and feedback: Five to ten people from the academic field (academic employees, researchers, publishers) as well as from the academic support area (secretariat, academic assistants) are being sought. A pre-test lasts a maximum of 15 minutes and is conducted online via Webex. The pretests are recorded so that the University Library can incorporate the feedback into further development in the best possible way. (If you do not wish to be recorded but would still like to take part in the pretest, you can let us know when you register). So if you are interested in taking a look at the new "Thuringian University Bibliography" in advance and would like to take part, you can register for the pretest until Friday, 5 December 2025. Suggested dates are available under the link. Please select your three favourite dates. After the deadline, the University Library will send a Webex invitation to one of the selected dates with an individual link by 8 December 2025 at the latest.

The Erfurt University Library is currently providing details on the specific functionalities of the bibliography and the next steps of the introduction with various articles in its "Lesezeichen" blog (in German only).

To mark the end of the exhibition, a public event is planned for 14 January with author Franziska Saxler, who will read from her book „Er hat dich noch nicht mal angefasst. Sexualisierte Belästigung und Machtmissbrauch im Job – und wie wir uns davor schützen können“. Afterwards, there will be an opportunity to discuss the topic. The event will begin at 4 p.m. in the lecture room of the university library.

Anyone interested is cordially invited to attend.