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Where to find sources
Learn about where to find your research sources
How to do research
Covering topics related to performing research with specific focus on those needs of the FoAD and FoB faculties
How to use the library
Learn how to find and borrow items from the Hans-Dieter Klingemann Library
Books
Learn more about searching for books and eBooks.
The Research Process
The following steps outline a simple strategy for writing a research paper. Please note: you may need to reorder some of these steps based on your familiarity with the topic.
Journals / Journal Articles
Learn more about searching for specific academic journals, popular periodicals or searching for articles, peer-reviewed or otherwise.
Theses
Learn where to find theses written by Berlin International students.
Design Materials
Learn more about the unique collection of design materials maintained by the FoAD and archived in the Klingemann Library.
How to borrow / renew books
Learn more about how to borrow items from the Klingemann Library
Course Reserves
Course reserves are compilations of recommended literature and documents to accompany courses that lecturers provide for their students. A course reserve is usually held for the duration of a term.
About the Library
How to search
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Citations
Learn more about creating citations and citation management software.
By Faculty
Learn more about sources related to specifically to FoB and FoAD
Purchase suggestions / requests
Learn how to easily submit a purchase request to the library.
Onboarding
Partnership: Barbaros Library Journals and Databases
Through a partnership with Bahçeşehir University, BI students and faculty have access to hundreds of additional databases and thousands of journals and eBooks.
BI Holdings: Journals and Databases
Search or browse thousands of journals available to BI students and faculty.
How to search the library's catalogue (OPAC)
Our online catalogue (OPAC) contains all of our holdings, including: books monographic series periodicals theses (including link to full-text) audio / visual media Simple Search To perform a keyword search, simply type your search in the search field ...
Research Process - Overview
It's a good idea to keep detailed research notes throughout the process. This can often save lots of time in the end. You may want to use a tool to manage your citations and save your sources as you research, Zotero can help you do this. Step 1: Identify your...
Advanced Search Techniques
For more information on using generative AI to design searches, see Enhancing Search Queries with AI. Keyword Generally keywords are the default for search queries, and it's important to know how a keyword search works. Keyword searches will return results ...
BAU Research Databases
Through a partnership with Bahçeşehir University (BAU), BI students and faculty members have access to dozens of research databases. BAU databases are indexed in DBIS. Searching all BAU holdings at once with a discovery system When searching BAU databases,...
DBIS - Browse all BI databases
DBIS (Datenbank-Infosystem) is an index of all research databases available to the Bi community. Students and faculty at BI have access to hundreds of research databases from several different sources. Thanks to DBIS, all databases can be browsed by subject ...
How to browse theses
You can either search for a known thesis or browse all theses using the instructions below. Click here to browse FoAD theses Click here to browse FoB theses To browse all theses: Select 'Advanced Search' from the OPAC homepage Select 'Theses (BI)' as the ...
How to create a user account
To borrow books from the library, you need a valid library user account. Creating a New Library Account Creating a new user account is easy. Just log in once with your BI email and password to the library's catalog (OPAC). Forgot Your Password?
General borrowing policies
Number of borrowed books and loan period You can borrow up to six books (students) or 12 books (staff) at any given time. The loan period is two weeks (students) or four weeks (staff). Loans can be extended twice, totalling a maximum period of six weeks (...
Digital Course Reserves
Accessing Digital Course Reserves Digital course reserves are either provided via Teams (current) or via the BI DigiLib (legacy). Speak with the faculty member responsible for your course for details. Providing Access to Digital Course Reserves Digital cour...
How to search the library's catalogue (OPAC)
Code of Conduct - General Agreements
The library is a shared space, so we ask everyone to be conscious of and respectful of others while using it. With that in mind, students and faculty are asked to observe the following agreements. These agreements supplement the university's general Code of C...
About us
As a specialised academic library, the Hans-Dieter Klingemann Library pursues three primary objectives, all of them directly concerning the academic life of students and teachers at Berlin International: 1. Supplying Specialised Information. In accordance wit...
Print Course Reserves
Finding course reserves Course reserves are non-circulating and available for use in the library for the duration of the course, however they are located in their normal shelving location along side circulating material. Putting materials on reserve (Faculty...
Architecture and Design Materials (ADMC) Index
The ADMC index is currently available here for all in the BI community.
How to search the library's catalogue (OPAC)
EZB - Browse all BI journals
The EZB (Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek) is a service to facilitate the use of scholarly journals on the Internet. It offers a fast, structured and unified interface to access full-text articles online.
Citation Management Software
What is citation management software? A reference manager supports researchers in performing three basic research steps: searching, storing, and writing [...]. It helps researchers find relevant literature, allows them to store papers and their bibliographi...
BAU EZProxy Bookmarklet
How it works If you search BAU databases directly, you are asked to provide login credentials to gain 'proxied' access to resources. In cases where you go directly to a publisher's site without having logged in ("proxied"), you will not be recognised as havin...
Using local / regional libraries
Federated Search Kooperativer Bibliotheksverbund Berlin-Brandenburg (KOBV) The KOBV provides a portal to search most academic libraries in Berlin and Brandenburg, including BI, at the same time. Click below to search their catalog. KOBV Catalog Accessing...
Searching for articles
Discovery Systems Discovery systems try to combine the two search methods described below by searching across many databases at once AND providing full-text access. Barbaros Library provides a discovery system that can be used to search most of their collecti...