University Library
Our University Library pursues three primary objectives, all of them directly concerning the academic life of students and teachers at Berlin International:
1. Suppling Specialized Information. In accordance with the study programs of Berlin International, the University Library collects and makes accessible print & digital literature in the following areas:
- Interior Design, Architecture;
- Product Design, Industrial Design;
- Graphic Design, Visual Communication Design, Media Studies, Communication Studies;
- Arts, Cultural Studies;
- Economics, Business, Digital Business, Management, International Management, Organisational Psychology, Marketing, Law, Social Science.
Our holdings also include:
- a growing design materials collection, which is the basis for a Materials Library currently under development;
- a Turkey Collection consisting of literature on Turkish Law and Turkish History, as well as Turkish-Language Fiction.
2. Promoting Information Literacy. With its 
(see below), guided tours and tutorials, the Library contributes to the proficiency of students and faculty in the tasks of identifying information needs and using techniques for efficient searching, evaluation and organization of knowledge.
3. Serving as Institutional Memory. One key aspect of our Library's collection development policy is the acquisition of printed and digital works produced by Berlin International members (students and staff). This includes theses and book publications, journal articles and book chapters, research and working papers, amongst others.
Our holdings are searchable in the Library iOPAC. Currently, a new integrated library system is being introduced, using the free and open-source software Koha. The new Koha OPAC is currently under development and is planned to contain all title records until spring/summer 2019. Our holdings can also be found in union catalogues: KOBV, KVK, ZDB (see LibGuide "Searching Our Holdings - Library OPAC & Union Catalogues" below).
Our reference library is not open for the general public. To all University members, it offers a good learning environment with a computer lab, study desks for single or group work, free Wi-Fi and a self-service multifunction copy machine.
LibGuides at BI University Library
Use our Online Catalogue (iOPAC) to find books, periodicals (= journals, magazines, newspapers) and other items available in our library. In addition, our holdings can also be found in Union Catalogues.
When using our iOPAC, please observe some basic instructions as included in this .
And do not hesitate to ask your librarian in person, by e-mail or by phone.
Issues Available in Our Library (Print Only)
For a list of the journals and their print issues available in our library / on campus, use this link:
Journals of Berlin International Library in the ZBD catalogue
External Weblinks
In the following LibGuides, you will find external links for the periodicals owned by our library: journal archives, freely availabe full texts, as well as records of Barbaros Kütüphanesi, the University Library of BI Bahçeşehir Üniversitesi in Istanbul.
Design, Architecture, Arts | |
Business, Economics | |
Social Science, Political Science, Politics | |
Higher Education, Research | |
All Journals A-Z |
 | For 2019 and in cooperation with the Design teaching staff, Berlin International Library intends to establish an in-house Materials Library as a central resource for research and creative work of students and faculty.
Berlin International already possesses a growing materials collection. Plans for the in-house Materials Library include:
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Do you want to recommend a title for acquisition?
There are different ways to do that:
- sending an e-mail to the library;
- using the form at the end of this page;
- using the Purchase suggestions option in our new Koha OPAC (which is currently in development).
In any case, please give us as much details as possible, especially:
- ISBN / ISSN,
- title,
- author's / editor's name,
- year of publication or edition number.
The more details you give us, the easier it will be for us to locate and acquire the book.
In this , you will find National Licenses for electronic resources funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft - DFG) and acquired by our library.
As a rule, the respective databases can be accessed on campus only. Note, however, that an individual registration (text in German only) is also possible. |
If you are looking for full texts on the web, you can use several multidisciplinary search interfaces.
- academic search engines,
- academic databases for books & journals,
- academic databases for theses & dissertations,
- cooperative search interfaces for digitized items from libraries, archives and museums.
If you only need bibliographic information – for instance, because you just want to import titles into
your Reference Manager (RM) –, you might want to search in Union, State or National Libraries catalogues.
This contains a selection of them.
If you are not able to find a publication in our library, in a library near you or on the web, you can use the following services:
- Document Delivery Services (DDS)
- Interlibrary Loan (ILL)
- Digitization on Demand (DoD).
For information about these services, please refer to this .
Note, however, that most of these services are not free of charge.