Information about access to the W-LAN or Eduroam can be found here!
If you have any questions or problems, please contact IT directly at servicedesk(at)folkwang-uni.de.
Internet access in the library is only possible via Eduroam or the computer workstations.
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From the campus network you have free access to all online services that have been licensed for you by the library or its partners. In addition, Folkwang members with their Folkwang ID also have access from outside the campus network.
To do this, log in at https://ez.folkwang-uni.de with your Folkwang ID and select the desired service from the list.
If you have any questions or problems, please contact the library team directly or at bibliothek(at)folkwang-uni.de!
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(Specialised) databases are structured electronic collections of information. You can use the Database Information System (DBIS) to find out which databases the library or its partners have licenced for you or selected from the large number of free online offers
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The library has a course room on the Folkwang e-learning platform that is available to all students and lecturers without a registration key. Registration is very simple using your Folkwang ID. There you will find information about the library, search and research tips as well as advice on writing academic papers.
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The Digital Concert Hall (DCH) offers concerts by the Berliner Philharmoniker (live and archived), supplemented by concert documentaries, interviews and documentary films.
→ Digital Concert Hall: Access from the campus network | Access from home
→ Instructions for registration (german, PDF)
Online library for audio music (for streaming) in the field of classical music and jazz.
→ Naxos Music Library: Access from the campus network | Access from home
→ Naxos Music Library Jazz: Access from the campus network | Access from home
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Brockhaus is a platform for German-language general encyclopaedias and dictionaries as well as media literacy textbooks. Includes Brockhaus Encyclopaedia, Harenberg Cultural Guide and Brockhaus Media Service.
→ Brockhaus Encyclopaedia: Access from the campus network | Access from home
→ Brockhaus Media Literacy & Master pieces: Access from the campus network
Hofmeister XIX is an online, searchable version of the Hofmeister Monatsberichte (Monthly Reports) for the years 1829-1900. With approximately 330,000 records of music publications, it is the most comprehensive resource for establishing when and where Western music scores were published during this period, including both ephemeral works and widely known compositions in multiple editions and arrangements. Each record links to facsimile images of the original Monatsberichte on the website of the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (Austrian National Library).
→ Hofmeister XIX: Free access
International bibliography on theatre and dance, supplemented by 140 full-text journals and 450 Internationale Bibliographie zu Theater und Tanz, ergänzt durch 140 Volltextzeitschriften und 450 full-text encyclopaedias.
→ International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance: Access from the campus network | Access from home
With almost 2,000 articles written by scholars from fifty countries, the encyclopaedia covers the entire spectrum of dance - theatrical dance, ritual dance, dance drama, folk dance, traditional dance, ethnic dance and social dance. Cultural and national overviews are accompanied by entries on dance forms, music and costumes, performances and biographies of dancers and choreographers.
→ The International Encyclopedia of Dance: Access from the campus network
Munziger is a portal with lexicons and encyclopaedias, including biographical archives and literary encyclopaedias.
→ Munzinger: Access from the campus network | Access from home
Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, short MGG, is a "General Encyclopaedia of Music". Its encyclopaedic approach distinguishes it fundamentally from other reference works: MGG offers in-depth articles on every area of music as well as many related fields such as literature, philosophy and the visual arts. MGG Online comprises the second print edition of MGG (MGG2, published from 1994 to 2008), the content of which is continuously updated, expanded and made accessible as an online database.
→ MGG online: Access from the campus network | Access from home
Oxford Music Online unites the reference works "The Oxford Dictionary of Music", "Grove Music Online" and "The Oxford Companion to Music" under a single interface.
→ Oxford Music Online: Access from the campus network | Access from home
International repertory of music literature. International music bibliography and music encyclopaedias, supplemented by music journals in full text. Includes Fétis, Eitner, Handbuch der musikalischen Terminologie, Riemann and Komponisten der Gegenwart.
→ RILM Music Encyclopaedias: Access from the campus network | Access from home
→ List of reference works contained in RILM Music Encyclopaedias: RILM Homepage
→ RILM Abstracts with Full Text: Access from the campus network | Access from home
→ Video-Tutorial on searching in EBSCO (english)
→ Video-Tutorial about the RILM Music Encyclopaedias (english)
International Encyclopaedia of Musical Sources. RISM lists sources of manuscript and printed music, writings on music and textbooks and provides scans of individual sources.
→ RISM: Free access
→ RISM: Tutorials on YouTube
The World Bibliographical Information System (WBIS) is a comprehensive biographical database. It contains information on over 6 million people from the 8th century BC to the present day. It contains 8.5 million digital facsimile articles from biographical reference works.
→ WBIS: Access from the campus network
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Computer Music Journal is published quarterly with an annual sound and video anthology containing curated music. For four decades, it has been the leading publication about computer music, concentrating fully on digital sound technology and all musical applications of computers. This makes it an essential resource for musicians, composers, scientists, engineers, computer enthusiasts, and anyone exploring the wonders of computer-generated sound.
In order to support students and universities in North Rhine-Westphalia in digital teaching, the university libraries are making e-books available to students in NRW until the end of 2026 with the help of central funding from the Ministry of Culture and Science through the E-Books.NRW initiative and are creating more on a permanent basis. The aim of the initiative is to provide students with state-wide access to the widest possible range of e-books.
→ De Gruyter and Transcript: Access from the campus network | Access from home
→ Preselect: Access from the campus network
→ Bloomsbury: Access from the campus network | Access from home | Instructions (english, PDF)
→ E-Library Duncker & Humblot: Access from the campus network
→ Elsevier Freedom Collection: Access from the campus network
→ Felix Meiner eLibrary: Access from the campus network
→ Hanser Library: Access from the campus network
→ Meiner eLibrary: Access from the campus network
→ Narr Francke Attempto: Access from the campus network
→ Nomos eLibrary: Access from the campus network
→ Springer eBook collection: Access from the campus network
→ Taylor & Francis: Access from the campus network
→ utb eLibrary: Access from the campus network
→ VDI-Verlag eLibrary: Access from the campus network
→ Wiley: Access from the campus network
The Electronic Journals Library (Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek, EZB) is a database that lists electronically published journals available in German libraries. A graphic traffic light system shows which journals are available online, depending on which library you are currently in. All journals marked green are freely available.
Note: It is not possible to search directly for individual articles in the EZB.
As a Folkwang member you can register for the Henle Library app with your Folkwang e-mail address and receive free access to all Henle Library content.
Note: You must be in the Folkwang network (eduroam) to register!
→ Henle Library app registration instruction (german/english, PDF)
→ Browse without registration/login (Access from the campus network)
The Henle Library App with its full range of functions works on tablets, IPads and smartphones (Android, IOS), unfortunately not on laptops.
If you are connected to the internet on a Folkwang campus, you have access to the Journal of New Music Research. Individual articles are also published Open Access, i.e. they are available online everywhere. The print edition of the journal is located in the ICEM and can be viewed there.
→ Journal of New Music Research (current issue): Access from the campus network
nkoda is an app that offers full-text access to sheet music from numerous publishers. You can browse, read (make music) and annotate.
If you are interested, please contact the library team at bibliothek(at)folkwang-uni.dewith your Folkwang e-mail address. You will receive a link to activate free access via the library licence.
→ Instructions for the registration (german, PDF)
→ Instructions for the registration (english, PDF)
The nkoda app is available for Android, iOS, MAC OS and Windows 10. Please always select the "Log in by e-mail" option when you are travelling with the Folkwang subscription in nkoda!
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adlr.link is the Specialised Information Service (Fachinformationsdienst, FID) for communication, media and film studies. In this central information portal, you can search around 3 million data records for books, journals, AV media and online resources on the relevant subjects
→ adlr.link: Free access
arthistoricum.net, the Specialised Information Service (Fachinformationsdienst, FID) for art, photography and design, is the central information portal for art studies. It is funded by the DFG and operated by Heidelberg University Library and the SLUB Dresden.
→ FID Art, Photography, Design: Free access
The Specialised Information Service (Fachinformationsdienst, FID) Performing Arts is the central information portal for theatre and dance studies. It is funded by the DFG and operated by the Johann Christian Senckenberg University Library.
→ FID Performing Arts: Free access
The information portal Education is the central portal for educational research, educational science and specialised didactics. It is funded by the DFG and operated by the Education Information Centre of the DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education, Frankfurt am Main.
→ Information Portal Education: Free access
The services offered by the Specialised Information Service for Musicology (Fachinformationsdienst, FID - Musikwissenschaft) are summarised under the brand name musiconn - network musicology. The project, which is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), is based at the Bavarian State Library and aims to provide qualified information in the field of musicology.
→ Registration for Folkwang members (german, PDF)
→ FID licences: As a musicology researcher, you have personal access to platforms/databases that are licensed by the DFG. If you have any questions, please contact the library staff.
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The Handbook of Cultural Management provides up-to-date specialist knowledge and directly applicable suggestions and tools for everyday cultural management and informs about the latest developments and trends in cultural management, cultural policy and cultural law.
→ Handbook of Cultural Management: Access from the campus network
Full-text database/e-book on learning and teaching at universities
→ Handbook of Quality of Teaching and Learning: Access from the campus network | Access from home
The KVK is a meta-catalogue that enables simultaneous searches in numerous German and international library catalogues.
→ KVK: Free access
In order to sustainably improve the supply of electronic specialist information at German universities, research institutions and scientific libraries, the German Research Foundation (DFG) has been funding the acquisition of national licences for electronic media since 2004 as part of its "Supraregional Literatur Supply and National Licences" funding programme.
The aim of the programme is to provide researchers, students and private individuals interested in science with access to databases, digital text collections, electronic journals and e-books. Eight institutions have concluded nationwide licence agreements with learned societies, publishers and other information providers.
→ Access to all online services via DBIS
Available on the campus network:
→ 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers / BBCN
→ 19th Century British Library Newspapers / BNCN
→ America's Historical Newspapers / EAN
→ ARTbibliographies Modern Archiv 1974-2016
→ British Periodicals Collection I & II
→ Cambridge Core / Journals / Cambridge Journals Digital Archive (Nationallizenz)
→ Corpus de la littérature médiévale
→ Der Literarische Expressionismus Online
→ Deutschsprachige Frauenliteratur des 18. & 19. Jahrhunderts, Teil 1 und 2
→ Early English Books Online / EEBO
→ Education in Video: Volumes I & II
→ Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO
→ Eighteenth Century Drama (Nationallizenz)
→ Learning and Teaching - The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences (Nationallizenz): Education Week | Zeitschriften FID Erziehungswissenschaft
→ Oxford Journals Digital Archive 1849-2010 ff.
→ Periodicals Archive Online (PAO) 1802-2000
→ Periodicals Index Online / PIO 1739-2000
→ Pravda Digital Archive (1912-2009)
→ Primary Sources for Slavic Studies
→ Sage Journals Online Deep Backfile 1879-2019
→ Springer Lecture Notes Archiv 1964-1996
→ Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2002
→ Teatro Espanol del Siglo de Oro (TESO)
→ Times Digital Archive 1785-1985 (Nationallizenz)
→ Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive 1902-2005 / TLS
→ Twentieth Century North American Drama
Full-text database on learning and teaching at universities.
→ New Handbook of University Teaching: Access from the campus network | Access from home
Qucosa is a document and publication server for documents from science and industry that provides free access to corresponding full texts worldwide.
→ Qucosa: Free access
The journal database (Zeitschriftendatenbank, ZDB) lists all journals available in German libraries. In the ZDB you will find information on the publication dates of the journals and which libraries have which issues and volumes of a journal in their holdings.
→ ZDB catalogue: Free access
→ ZDB help
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