Library in A17

Help Desk Opening hours

Tuesday - Thursday: 10 am - 3 pm

The virtual Help Desk is staffed Monday to Friday from 10 am - 3pm.

Access to the reading room is possible for staff at all times.

Focus

Central contact
Location of all current journals, management of e-resources
Location of broad range of reference materials
Central handling of document delivery
Coordination of all electronic services

Our Stocks

Electronic access to thousands of scientific journals
About 1.500 journal and serial title in print
In total about 120.000 printed volumes

In addition to the current literature supply the library can rely on a rich historical stock of the former institutes' libraries:

Geodetic Institute Potsdam (founded 1870)
Geomagnetic Institute Potsdam (founded 1890)
Geotectonic Institute Berlin (founded 1946)
Magnetic-Meteorological Observatory Potsdam (founded 1893)

and their institutional successors.

Archival stock

There is a huge stock of archive material (correspondance, records, photographs, literary remains; about 145 linear metre) from the institutes' history. It is served by the Brandenburg Main State Archive. The collection is labelled as "Rep. 645 Zentralinstitut für Physik der Erde (ZIPE)" and it contains material from 1860-1990.

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