External users and visitors
Advice and information
External user groups and borrowing items
Notes for borrowing items with the library card
1. Visiting doctors/scientists and certain external doctors
... have their own information pages:
- Visiting doctors and visiting scientists employed here for at least three months
- External doctors
2. User groups with a Library card
| Borrowing authorisation | No borrowing authorisation* | |
|---|---|---|
| Visiting scientists and doctors employed here for less than three months | X | |
| Work placement students/medical clerks employed here for at least three months | X | |
| Work placement students/medical clerks employed here for less than three months | X | |
| Other scientists (including students) in the life sciences field** who have their primary residence in Mannheim | X | |
| Other scientists (including students) in the life sciences field** who do not have their primary residence in Mannheim | X | |
| Students at Mannheim University of Applied Sciences (Hochschule Mannheim): biotechnology and medical informatics | X |
* No borrowing authorisation: You can only use our own items and the items ordered via the document delivery service (interlibrary loans and Heidelberg Library system) in the Library.
* Life sciences: medicine, biology, chemistry, pharmaceutics (and interdisciplinary fields)
3. Guest users (visitors and patients)
You can use free-access media on site and are allowed free access to some computers for research purposes and to use the Internet.
Our Library offers scientific medical literature only and no health guides!
Literature search and document delivery
Electronic resources and access options
- Electronic resources (e-journals, e-books, databases).
- Access options to electronic resources.
Printing, photocopying, scanning, using PCs/notebooks
- Printing, photocopying, scanning is possible about fees by using the library card. Photocopying is also possible with a coin-operated copier.
- Concerning the use of the PCs/notebooks see Using computers in the Library.
Training courses
- Training courses of the Library: Literature search, Internet, PubMed, EndNote, Word.
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