Click to enlargeThe Environmental Library is a resource for the UBA’s research, as well as for many external users. It has grown to become the largest environmental library in the German-speaking world.
In the course of measures being taken to curb the spread of the coronavirus, the Environmental Library is closed at all three locations (Dessau, Berlin, Bad Elster). Materials on loan will be renewed automatically. Our online service will continue to operate and is available here together with the latest news. For urgent matters, please contact the library via email at bibliothek [at] uba [dot] de or phone on (+49) (0)340 2103 2304. Thank you for your understanding!
The largest environmental library in the German-speaking world, with branches in Dessau-Roßlau, Berlin and Bad Elster, contains more than 470,000 books, about 110,000 eBooks, more than 1,500 printed journals, about 25,000 ejournals and other sources of information, including around 170,000 US research reports on microfiches.
The library is available for use by UBA staff. However, the books at each of the three branches are also available to and can be taken out by members of the general public.
Monday to Wednesday, 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Thursday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Friday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Monday, closed
Tuesday, noon to 3 p.m.
Wednesday, 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and noon to 3 p.m.
Thursday and Friday, 9 a.m. to noon.
The UBA office building Berlin-Grunewald (Bismarckplatz) will remain closed until about 2025/26 due to renovation and modernization work. The address of the temporary accommodation, which will also temporarily house the Berlin branch of the Environmental Library, is:
City Campus
Umweltbundesamt
Haus 3, Eingang 3A
Buchholzweg 8
13627 Berlin, Germany
Monday to Thursday, 8:30 a.m. to noon and 12:30 to 3:30 p.m.
Friday, 8:30 a.m. to noon and 12:30 to 3 p.m.
Changed opening hours: https://doku.uba.de/
The library’s Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) enables users to look through the library’s holdings and determine their availability and location. Through OPAC, registered library users can also manage their user accounts independently and order or reserve media and extend the lending period.
Here you will find all Selected bibliographies of the Fachbibliothek Umwelt (Environmental Library) arranged alphabetically in German.
The articles published by employees of the UBA or books can Quotable and with all bibliographic information in the library catalogue (OPAC) to find. For most of the full text as a PDF document. Now stand the child after years of publications as PDF lists available.
Publications of employees 2015 Publications of employees 2014 Veröffentlichungsliste 2013 Veröffentlichungsliste 2012 Veröffentlichungsliste 2011 Veröffentlichungsliste 2010
Here you will find final reports of research projects that are in the inventory of the library environment.
Umweltforschung im Bestand der Fachbibliothek Umwelt 1. Quartal 2016 Umweltforschung im Bestand der Fachbibliothek Umwelt 4. Quartal 2015
The library includes final reports of research projects, books and magazines.
The library environment is a free reference library, whose stock is purchased and held ready for the employees of the Office for the requirements of the Federal Environmental Agency. The library is open also to the public.
Library Rules and opening hours Library Regulations Persönliches Benutzerkonto verwalten Systematik der Fachbibliothek Umwelt
Read more about the Environmental Library, the citizen´s service and the visitor´s service of the German Environment Agency and their activities in the previous years.
Jahresbericht 2015 Fachbibliothek Umwelt, Bürgerservice und Besucherdienst
Jahresbericht 2014 - Fachbibliothek Umwelt, Bürgerservice und Besucherdienst
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