Newsletter 5/2017

1) You can access the new monthly acquisitions (March until April 2017) of the Specialised Information Service via

Print titles in the OPAC of the ULB can be loaned within Germany as an interlibrary loan.


2) 110 volumes of the series “Beiruter Texte und Studien” published by the Orient-Institut Beirut (OIB) are now available open access on our repository MENAdoc. These e-books have now been catalogued and can be searched through the OPAC of the GBV or the KVK.


3) Another 2 volumes of the series “Bibliotheca islamica” published by the Orient-Institut Beirut are now available open access on our repository MENAdoc.


4) We have published open access on MENAdoc in cooperation with the Orient-Institut Istanbul (OII) a further publication of the institute:


5) Follow us on Twitter and please inform our platform MENALIB about new developments (projects, workshops, conferences) in the field of Middle East and Islamic studies