GöDiscovery

GöDiscovery, the Discovery Service of the Göttingen State and University Library, encompasses an extensive data pool with records of collections from libraries, records of printed and electronic articles from publisher data, and other sources.

The search in GöDiscovery is based on search engine technology with relevance ranking and the best-match method. Search results can be filtered by publication year/period, media type (printed or digital), and format (e. g. book, article, journal). It also allows you to directly access your user account.

For off-campus access to licensed electronic resources, please set up the VPN connection.

The search scope is limited to the local library in the standard search. This includes the holdings of the Göttingen University Catalogue (GUK), records of many articles from locally available printed journals and articles from electronic journals and e-books accessible in full text.

The settings allow you to expand the search scope by browsing the collections of other libraries and a vast number of other articles in addition to the holdings of the local library. Print media that are not available on site can usually be ordered via inter-library loan.

Data pool for the standard local search scope:

• All library collections of the University of Göttingen included in the Göttingen University Catalogue (GUK)
• Articles from the Online Contents Database (OLC) with the proof of license ownership for the libraries of the University of Göttingen
• Approx. 23.2 million digital media and bibliographical references from the national licenses
• Approx. 5.7 million articles and journals from the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
• Approx. 4.4 million articles from Springer e-journals

Data pool for the expanded search scope (including inter-library loan):

• Approx. 53.3 million references of the collections of all libraries of the Common Library Network (GBV Union Catalogue GVK)
• Approx. 28 million references from the Southwest German Library Network (SWB Online Catalogue)
• Approx. 3.3 million references from the Union Catalogue of Public Libraries (ÖVK)
• Approx. 23.2 million digital media and bibliographical references from the national licenses
• Approx. 12.8 million articles and journals from JSTOR
• Approx. 50 million articles from journals in the Online Contents Database (OLC)
• Approx. 5.7 million articles and journals from the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
• Approx. 4.5 million articles published by Elsevier
• Approx. 4.4 million articles from Springer e-journals
• Approx. 2.0 million data records from the preprint archives arXiv, biorXiv, chemrXiv, engrXiv, techrXiv, preprints.org
• Approx. 32.4 million articles from the PubMed / Medline database
• Approx. 341,000 clinical studies from the ClinicalTrials.gov database
• Approx. 8,300 data records from the central register for FID-Lizenzen (FIDELIO)