By the winter semester 2021/2022, all ASH students will receive the Campuscard. If you have not been asked to pick up your Campuscard yet , you will receive notification after re-registration for the winter semester. General information about the Campuscard can be found on the university's website in the section Student Administration Service (Studierendenverwaltung), subsection Campuscard.

In future you will be able to use your Campuscard in order to borrow media from the library and to access the electronic resources via remote access (for ASH members only). The Campuscard will replace the conventional ASH library card. 

Therefore you must have a library account created or have your existing library account converted to the Campuscard. More information can be found under Apply for a Library Card / Activate Campuscard. 

Please note the general information for registration the library and using the Campuscard at the library. Your personal data will be processed during use of the library services. Please read our information on data processing. Further, with your application you confirm to have read our Regulations on the Use of the Libray.  Please black out irrelevant information in the documents you send to us.

For ASH students who already have the ASH-Campuscard but are not registered in the library yet, we will create a library account and activate the ASH-Campuscard for library use. Ask us on site or send an email to bibliothek@ avoid-unrequested-mailsash-berlin.eu with the following information:

• matriculation number
• Study programm

ASH students who already have both the ASH-Campuscard and a library card can have their library account converted to the ASH-Campuscard (the library card will be no longer valid and can be disposed of). Contact us within the library or send an email to bibliothek@ avoid-unrequested-mailsash-berlin.eu with the following information:

• matriculation number
• Study programm

Teachers, researchers, administrative staff of ASH can obtain a library card as follows: ask us on site or send an email to bibliothek@ avoid-unrequested-mailsash-berlin.eu with the following information:

• Address
• Date of birth
• proof of affiliation (if you are not listed under persons A-Z yet)

External users can obtain a library card in the library. Please show us your identity card or another personal document with a current registration address in Berlin or Brandenburg (registration certificate if applicable).

EHB and KHSB students can use their Campuscard in the ASH library.

The lending of media requires registration in the ASH library and is done using the library card at the lending desk or self-service checkout machine. The lending conditions for the different user groups are regulated as follows:

Students (direct studies) 
lending period (open days): 20
possible renewals: 2

Outside users
lending period (open days): 20
possible renewals: 2

Remote, online studies
lending period (open days): 60
possible renewals: 1

Teachers
lending period (open days): 130
possible renewals: 1

ASH employees
lending period (open days): 130
possible renewals: 1

Renewals must obviously be done through the user account. If another user has reserved a medium that has been loaned out, it cannot be renewed.

The following media cannot be lent out:

• ASH theses
• reference books
• books with the yellow sticker "Präsenzbestand" (Reference Copy)
• periodicals
• bound newspapers
• DVDs / Videos
• loose-leaf editions
• directories

Special lending periods

Students at the ASH can be given a one-time lending period of up to 3 months during the final phase of their studies upon request. This cannot be subsequently renewed independently. Further information can be found in the Hinweisen zum Antrag auf Leihfristverlängerung bei Abschlussarbeit.

Special lending periods cannot be given by the self-service checkout machine. Please consult a library staff at the lending desk.

Disabled users

Seriously disabled users can be given a lending period of 6 months after presenting their disabled person’s pass.

Within the library media can be returned at the information desk.

Outside the library there is a return machine which is available during university opening hours. You will find it in the entrance area to the university, across from the porter. 

You can also return books by post.

Do you need an item that is not available in the ASH library yet? Then please send us your acquisition request.

For teachers, it is prudent to check whether the required literature for a course is already available. If necessary, please provide us well in advance with a list of new titles to be acquired that should be available in the library in the interests of the students.

If a title is already available in the library and you feel other copies or a new edition should be acquired, please mark the library call number and desired number of duplicate or new copies that should be ordered.

An item’s processing status can be followed in the OPAC as soon as it is ordered by the acquisitions department, i.e. before it is available for use in the library. The following are some examples of order status informatioen: "bestellt beim Lieferanten (Ordered from supplier)", "im Geschäftsgang (in progress)".

Unfortunately, it is not possible to send personal messages concerning purchase decisions and receipt of publications.

Books that have been delivered but remain unprocessed are referred to as "im Geschäftsgang (in progress)" and are given the (temporary) call number GG ... At this point, such a title can be reserved via your user account without charge. This will prioritise the title’s processing.

ASH Berlin administrative staff may order books for their office that they need as work materials. Please indicate this when ordering.

Thank you for your acquisition suggestion!

The reference management software Citavi 6 and Citavi Web are available to all members of ASH Berlin as a full version campus licence. 

Students: Citavi 6 is installed on all computers in the Computer Pool (room 218 and room 219) and in the reading room of the library. If you have your own ASH Berlin email address, you can obtain licence for your personal computer at https://www.citavi.com/ash-berlin. If not, please contact the staff at the lending desk for a Citavi licence. Citavi Web does not require any installation. You only need to register at https://www.citavi.com/ash-berlin

Other members of the university: Please contact the IT service of the Computer Centre if you need Citavi on your desktop at ASH Berlin. You can use Citavi on your personal computer as well – to receive the necessary licence go to https://www.citavi.com/ash-berlin. Citavi Web does not require any installation. You only need to register at https://www.citavi.com/ash-berlin

alicOpen, the institutional repository (Publikationsserver) of ASH Berlin presents various publications by university members, such as essays, documentation of research and projects, outstanding degree theses by students as well as selected documents with reference to ASH Berlin. 

aliceOpen

Via remote access, members of the university who are registered with the library can use licensed e-books, e-journals and databases outside of the university network. Remote access is unfortunately not available to external users due to licensing reasons. 
  

Click here for remote access

Disclaimer: The library offers licensed content to its users solely for the purposes of their personal academic use. Users are not permitted to pass on contents either wholly or in part in digital form (e.g. electronic data storage media), by remote data transfer or in analogue form (e.g. paper copies). Copying licensed content or parts of licensed content for the purposes of distribution (including via the Internet) or distributing it (whether commercially or free of charge) is not permitted. Any translation, editing or other revision of licensed content or parts of licensed content is prohibited. The use of robot systems, spiders and crawlers and other automatic downloading programmes for the purposes of systematic and automatic searching, indexing or accessing licensed content is not allowed.

During the semester, a selection of relevant literature can be assembled for a course and/or seminar at the request of the (assistant) lecturer. The books on this reserve shelf are not available for loan and can be viewed in the library by course participants at any time.

The shelfmark of the title is provided with a link in the OPAC (online catalog). This allows you to check whether there are any other copies in the open-access holdings in addition to the present item. To open the links, you may need to adjust the security settings of your PDF viewer.

Location: ground floor

Note for (assistant) lecturers: Please observe the rules for the reserve shelves.

Reserve shelf WiSe 2024/2025:

HA 001 Gahleitner und Wesenberg

HA 003 Knop

HA 005 Finkelnburg

HA 006 Al-Azzawi

HA 007 Enders und Groschke

HA 008 Enders

HA 009 Wesenberg

HA 010 Schmude

HA 012 Schmude

HA 013 Schmude

HA 015 Hellbach

HA 027 Dennhardt

HA 028 Hilliger

HA 029 Hampe

HA 058 Dech

Regulation for reserve shelves:

1. One reserve shelf can be set up per seminar/project/lecture and semester.
2. Each reserve shelf is kept for one semester and is deleted in the subsequent non-teaching period.
3. An extension of the schedule is possible by agreement with the library if this is requested 14 days before the semester’s end at the latest.
4. A maximum of 15 books from the library holdings are allowed per reserve shelf.
5. Point 4 does not apply to the library’s journals, periodicals and AV media.
6. Please send the literature list (HA 000-Vorlage.odt) with the required books and information about the author, title, year of publication and ASH Berlin library call numbers to bibliothek@ avoid-unrequested-mailsash-berlin.eu
7. If possible, please send new acquisition requests for reserve shelves to erwerbung@ avoid-unrequested-mailsash-berlin.eu

For members of the university we offer extensive individual instruction in literature research focussing on a topic of your choosing.

Further information

The ASH Berlin library offers (online) trainings for members of the ASH university:

• Introduction to the library and OPAC research
• Introduction to systematic literature research
• Introduction to the reference management software Citavi
• Introduction to the reference management software Zotero

Usually the trainings take place during the orientation days or within certain modules. The online trainings can be booked by teaching staff or programme coordination teams via email: schulungen.bibliothek@ avoid-unrequested-mailsash-berlin.eu. The duration depends on the type of training and arrangement and can last up to two hours. 

The library offers introduction to the reference management software Citavi for groups (also upon requests from students).

In addition, the library offers open trainings, primarily aimed at ASH students who could not attend the orientation days or certain modules as well as other ASH members and other interested persons.

The library provides training materials on various topics. The range of training materials is continuously being expanded. 

Detailed information on our training courses and training materials can be found on our homepage under training courses.