Digitisation on Demand

You can suggest works from the holdings of Bielefeld University Library with a year of publication up to 1995. The service only covers complete works. Essays or parts of works are excluded.

For each proposal, we check the following requirements that must be met for digitisation:

1. The work is

• not protected by copyright (in Germany, works protected by copyright enter the public domain 70 years after the author's death) or
• published in Germany until 1995 and no longer available in bookshops (out of commerce).

2. The suggested work is not yet freely available online.

3. It is a printed monograph (multi-volume works, periodicals and microforms are currently excluded from digitisation).

4. The state of preservation of the book allows digitisation.

You search for the desired title in the Catalogue.plus!, call up the long display with all the title data and click on the "Suggest for digitisation" link. The link is only displayed for works with a year of publication up to 1995.

Works that cannot be borrowed and may only be viewed in the special reading room can be freely used digitally anytime and anywhere. The digitised version can be downloaded as a PDF file, and it is also possible to navigate easily through the content.

The service is free of charge.

The digitised work is available within the library's digital collections ("Works from the collection"). It can also be downloaded there as a PDF file.

We adhere to the DFG rules of practice when scanning. The digital copies are created in 300dpi, colour with 24bit.

We cannot specify a fixed processing time. Digitisation of works in the public domain is carried out as quickly as possible. In the case of out-of-commerce works, a licence must be applied via the Licensing Service for Out-of-commerce works (VW-LiS). It takes at least 6 months to receive a licence. We will inform you as soon as the work is available in our digital collections and can be downloaded as a PDF file.