University Library

The Central Library, the departmental libraries and the University Archive together comprise Freie Universität’s University Library. They work together to create spaces of knowledge at Freie Universität Berlin, enabling outstanding research and excellent teaching, and offering a supportive environment for students.

The University Library offers analogue and digital means of communicating and meeting with others and provide reliable and safe access to data, information, and knowledge. Facilities offered include:

• access to 7 million printed materials and half a million electronic media (e-books, journals, databases, videos, etc.)

• 3,600 individual and group work spaces on campus

• comprehensive training and advice for students, teaching staff and researchers on topics such as literature and database research, citation, OER, AI, research data management, Open Access, Open Science

• the provision of central systems such as the library portal Primo and the institutional repository Refubium

• an extensive archive repository giving access to the history of Freie Universität as documented in sources held at the University Archive.

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Contact

Garystr.39 (main entrance)
Ihnestr.28 (side entrance)
14195 Berlin
Opening hours

Email: auskunft@ub.fu-berlin.de (Information Center), ausleihe@ub.fu-berlin.de (Circulation)
Phone: (030) 838 – 511 11 (Information Center), - 522 65 (Circulation)