Business and Economics

Library of Commerce

The Library of Commerce has existed for more than 280 years and is the oldest private business library in the world. Also visit our German website.

Resources

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Databases and Ebooks

From this page you can access a variety of research tools that are provided to users for free by the Library of Commerce.

Literature

Online Catalogue

Our Online Catalogue contains an electronic record of all the literature in the library in addition to selected databases, e-books and online journals.

E-Media with complete Texts

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Manuals and Logins

Using the Shibboleth authentication process, it is possible to access the full text of literature listed in selected databases – from anywhere in the world and at any time of day.

Structure

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Profile

The Library of Commerce has always been a public library with lending and reference collection of books, periodicals, magazines and CDs. Today it contains around 200.000 items, including works the fields of economics and social sciences.

Looking back

History

Few libraries can look back on such a long tradition as the Library of Commerce, which was established in 1735 by businessmen for businessmen. To this day, the Chamber of Commerce manages all aspects of organisation and finance.

Contact

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