Help with the HEIDI online catalogue of the University Library Heidelberg searchable items

Search results are displayed on two tabs in HEIDI: “HEIDI” and “Articles & more”.

The HEIDI tab

In the HEIDI Online Catalog, media available at the University Library Heidelberg and the decentralized libraries are listed:

  • Collections of the University Library from the publication year 1962 onwards
    Older works are displayed in a parallel result list from the digitized card catalog (partial collection from 1936-1961).
  • Complete newspapers and journals
  • Complete holdings of the decentralized libraries

For collections published before 1962, please contact our Information Centre Main Library (IZA).

The “Articles & more” tab

  • “Articles & more” is based on the web-scale discovery service 'Summon' by Exlibris/Proquest and indexes numerous journals and full-text databases. The Summon index currently provides access to around 40 million titles (e-books, e-journals, and databases) with approximately 4 billion records. However, when using the "Articles & more" tab, only products licensed by Heidelberg University are included in the index.
  • If you activate the option “Add results beyond Heidelberg libraries collection” in the left control bar, the entire index is taken into account, i.e. there is no longer a restriction to the content licensed by the university. Please note that in many cases the full texts behind the hits are not available for members of Heidelberg University.
  • “Articles & more” include texts in a variety of languages, it is advisable to enter search terms in various languages.
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