Digital Resources

The Göttingen State and University Library provides access to digitised objects, many of which were created in cooperation with the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony as well as other institutions of the Göttingen Campus and beyond.

Besides metadata in many projects also elaborated research data are available, which are usually full text searchable. In order to become recoverable research data, the digital objects and their metadata are available on our portals through permanent links and - wherever possible - under a free license.

Since 1997, the Göttingen Digitisation Centre has been working to collect and provide the historical holdings of the Göttingen State and University Library. Access is available via the following pages. In addition, the Göttingen State and University Library provides further resources of external service providers for research and the public.

• Göttingen Digitisation Centre (GDZ) - over 15 million digitised pages, consisting of autobiographies, travel guides (Itineraria), incunabula, manuscripts, maps and unique collections of the 17th and 18th centuries. New works can be tracked via Twitter.
• Zentrales Verzeichnis Digitalisierter Drucke (zvdd) - central access point of printed works from the 15th century to the present day digitised in Germany.
• National licenses hosting - individual offers from the 30 national licenses with publishers and providers in home hosting.
• Collection portal of Göttingen University - one of the most important holdings of scientific collections in cooperation with the Centre for Collection Development and the head office of the Common Library Network (VZG).

We offer access to hundreds of journals of current years and for some all published volumes, clearly archived, sorted by subject areas and always at least searchable by title.

• DigiZeitschriften
• Electronic Journals Library (EZB)

The Göttingen State and University Library is a partner of many editing projects in which full texts are collected, dictionaries are developed and documents are put online.

• Heyne-Digital - Edition to Christian Gottlob Heyne's lecture on archeology
• Briefportal Leibniz - Critical edition of the correspondence between Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Daniel Bernoulli
• Correspondence Gauß - The complete correspondence of Carl Friedrich Gauss
• Fontane's Notebooks - A genetic and critical edition to Theodor Fontane's notebooks
• Court and Residence in the Late Medieval Empire - A dynastic and topographical handbook
• Early High German Dictionary - Vocabulary of the High German language from the middle of the 14th century to the middle of the 17th century with sources
• Library of Neology - Selective, annotated, critical edition in ten volumes
• Text database and dictionary of the classical Maya

Research publications can be accessed via the repositories we provide.

• Res Doctae - A repository of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities
• GoeScholar - Publication server of the Göttingen University
• eDiss - Dissertations of the Göttingen University
• GEO-LEOe-docs - Central publication server for the geosciences

Scientific Information Services provide quick and direct access to specialized literature and research-related information.

• FID GEO - Scientific Information Service for Solid Earth Geosciences
• FID AAC - Library of Anglo-American Culture & History (Library AAC) - Resources for American Studies, English / British and Irish Studies, Australian and New Zealand Studies and Canadian Studies
• FID Math - Scientific Information Service Mathematics, central access point for many mathematical information sources
• FID Finnug - Scientific Information Service Finno-Ugric / Uralic Languages, Literatures and Cultures. Central access to scientific literature and information services for Finno-Ugrian or Uralic studies, Finnish Studies, Hungarian and regional studies of Finland and Hungary
• FID CASSIB - Central Asia & Siberia Specialized Information Service

Many other portals are available for your research.

• Datenbank-Infosystem (DBIS) - List of scientific databases
• Germania Sacra - Online database of monasteries, convents and collegiate churches of the Holy Roman Empire
• Manuscripts database - manuscripts of the Göttingen State and University Library in the Kalliope Union Catalog
• Edfu-Datenbank - Inscriptions of the Ptolemaic Temple of Edfu