In the following FAQs you will find helpful information that will bring you closer to the KIM and its services and support your work.
Literature & Research
Library card
Your employee ID is also your library ID. You can obtain a library password from the loan service
. The following special passes are available for professors and staff:
- Handapparat / Handset ID (unlimited loan period, etc.)
- Semesterapparatausweis / Reserve card (compilation of the lecture-relevant literature)
Both are issued by the Lending Service counter. If you have any questions, please contact ausleihservice.kim@uni-konstanz.de.
Access from outside the campus VPN
Access to all databases and eBooks is possible via VPN; a VPN client must be installed for this. (Instructions)
Buying literature
If the literature you want or need for teaching is not in stock, you can submit a purchase proposal at any time or send an email to christine.rimland@uni-konstanz.de .
License databases or journals
In principle, cost-intensive purchases require coordination at the economics department. However, price inquiries and formats can be requested at any time from christine.rimland@uni-konstanz.de .
Fast ways of acquisition for unlicensed journal articles
As an employee of the University of Konstanz, you can have electronic journal articles that are not licensed by KIM ordered free of charge via document delivery.
- Journal articles, books, etc.
- The completion of an interlibrary loan order usually takes 1-2 weeks
- delivers articles from scientific journals and books directly to your own address
- Normal service: processing time maximum 72 hours
- Express service: Processing time approx. 24 hours
If you are unsure which service you should use, please write your request and the desired title directly to dokumentlieferung.kim@uni-konstanz.de
Access to databases and journals
You can find the licensed databases at the University of Konstanz via DBIS, the database information system. In addition, the Department of Economics has licensed the Eikon database (Datastream). Accesses are distributed across individual business chairs and two accesses can be found in the library (computer pool behind the KIM advisory service). Journals can be accessed via the EZB. All licensed journals can also be researched via KonSearch. If you have any questions, please contact christine.rimland@uni-konstanz.de.
Access to literature
You can easily find existing literature in the inventory in the local library catalog Libero. This contains print books, print magazines, ebooks and audiovisual media.
KonSearch is a literature search engine for printed and electronic media. In addition to the data from the local catalog, it also contains journal articles, book chapters, books and much more. Direct access to the full text is possible if the University of Konstanz has bought or licensed the media. A VPN or registration in the university network is required to access the electronic inventory.
If you only need a certain part of a work, you can also use the document delivery service KonDoc. This service is free for employees.
Services
Bookable IT-equipped training rooms for small groups
In the library you will find rooms that can be booked for courses by lecturers.There are standard course environments on the PCs for members of the university and external parties, which provide a selection of software. In the course environments for specific areas, there are additional programs that any member of the university can use, even if you don't belong to that area.
Book Area BS:
BS 217 (23 seats)
BS 522 (Teaching Lab) (12 seats)
Book Area J: J 213 (40 seats)
Book Area BG: BG 335 (30 seats)
You can reserve the rooms here. If you have any questions, you can contact
What is the Teaching Lab?
With the Teaching Lab (12 seats), there is a room in the library available for the teachers to use be able to use flexible teaching settings. Furnishing:
- Touch display (mobile)
- Lecturer's computer, alternatively: connection options for laptop (HDMI, VGA, Mini Displayport)
- Bluetooth keyboard and presenter
- flexible furnishing (tables and chairs)
- Mobile classroom with 12 laptops (Windows 10)
Bookings can be sent to beratung.kim@uni-konstanz.de
MediaLab & Mediothek
The Media Lab is a room in the media library/ Mediothek that teachers can use for seminars that require special technical equipment. Depending on the equipment, the room is suitable for up to 8 people. If you are interested in using this room for teaching, please contact the colleagues in the media library:
E-Mail: mediothek.kim@uni-konstanz.de or phone: +49 7531 88-2831.
The media library offers:
- Movies two film rooms with different playback devices
- Language teaching aids
- Workplaces with special technical equipment, including a "workstation for video editing, image, audio and text processing" and a "workstation with magnification software including voice output and Braille display control" for blind and visually impaired people
- Rara reading room for viewing non-borrowable interlibrary loans and other materials worthy of protection
- multiple scanners
- and more
Remote access to licensed software
The KIM offers the possibility to call up the university standard programs of the computer pools remotely. If you want to use programs such as Stata, SPSS or Microsoft Office packages for your lecture without installing the license locally or going to the library's computer pools, there are the following options.
bwLehrpool Remote: Remote access to the course environment of the PCs in the library; approx. 23 remote PCs; Select course environment section PRW. You can access bwLehrpool from outside via the following website: bwlp.uni-konstanz.de. All you need is a current browser and your university account. Depending on availability, you can choose between remote PCs or remote VMs.
Equipment rental / media technology
The KIM provides students and lecturers with equipment and media technology that can be borrowed. In addition to projectors, clickers, headsets and the KIM MediaBox, you can borrow other relevant technical equipment for your teaching here.
Information literacy courses for students
In general, information literacy courses are created for students when the department of economics or professors register as required. If you want to offer a research unit as part of your seminar that provides students with basic knowledge in the field of scientific work with databases, you can make an appointment at any time. In the meantime there is also an e-learning module which students can access if they give them the password. For registration or questions, please contact christine.rimland@uni-konstanz.de
Do you have any questions about digitally enhanced teaching?
On the page "digitally enhanced teaching" you will find all information about digital teaching and digital examination forms. In addition, the eLearning team offers live support for all employees. Here you can ask all questions about eLearning, ILIAS, e-exams, web conference systems, tools, etc.You can contact digitale-lehre@uni-konstanz.de for an appointment.
Lecture Recording & Media Production
If you have any questions about event recordings, individual media productions or streaming audio and video material, you can find information here. The team recording@uni-konstanz.de is available for direct questions.
High-Performance Computing
At the University of Konstanz, there are various opportunities for scientific computing. The state of Baden-Württemberg and its universities provide computing capacity at specialized locations and computing clusters. Within this framework, the bwUniCluster, operated at KIT in Karlsruhe, is freely accessible to all employees, researchers, and students in Baden-Württemberg. It can be used for both highly computational and less computational projects.
Furthermore, you can utilize interfaces like Jupyter to access the operated HPC resources. All you need is a web browser. Within the web application, you can edit source code in various programming languages, execute it, and visualize calculations.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact us at bwhpc@uni-konstanz.de . The University of Konstanz actively participates in bwHPC and provides support in various HPC areas.
Data server & Cloud
For example, you have the option to use the cloud, the file server, or DFN Cloud Services. Further information is available here.
KOPS - use the Konstanz online publication system?
KOPS is the institutional repository of the University of Konstanz and a service offered by KIM. As a scientist at the university, you can publish your publications online in KOPS. The documents are freely accessible worldwide in the sense of Open Access and are permanently archived. You can register publications in KOPS yourself, or contact the KIM by email (kops.kim@uni-konstanz.de), and the team will take care of it for you. The library services will then check whether a full text may be made freely available via KOPS in accordance with the publisher's conditions.
Research data & open access
The ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics has launched a new Open Economics Guide. The Open Economics Guide is the tailor-made central point of contact for Open Science in economics and supports you with practical tips, methods and tools to practice Open Science independently and successfully. The guide includes, among other things, an easy-to-understand quick introduction to Open Access, Open Data and Open Tools, a comprehensive tool overview, a knowledge database and a glossary.
You can also contact the Team openscience@uni-konstanz.de at any time if you have individual questions about research data, publishing & open access.
In addition, the University of Konstanz offers its researchers various tools and advisory services on individual aspects of research data management and covers the most important areas:
- what does a data management plan look like
- how do I document my data research
- data guidelines of the major research funders
- Data policies of some specialist journals
- Find, save & share research data
- Subsequent use rights
You will find a quick introduction in the FAQs section.
If you are looking for research data, there are the following contact points for economics:
Repositories:
- SowiDataNet/datorium
- Re3Data
- Open-Access-Repositorium ZIS ((for measuring instruments such as items, scales and questionnaires for reuse)
Search engines:
Replication Study Database:
Data centers:
If you cannot find the right information directly or if you have any questions, please feel free to contact openscience@uni-konstanz.de at any time.