The digitised holdings of the TIB give you access to a wide range of digitised works (mainly 19th and 20th century) and special collections of the TIB Hannover.

We can only publish works if they are in the public domain or if TIB Hannover has received rights from the copyright holders. Works that are still subject to copyright cannot yet be published. In addition to public domain works, TIB Hannover also digitises copyright-protected works that may not yet be published.

The digital copies were produced in their entirety by the Retrodigitisation team at TIB Hannover.

With a user account you can use the watch list. The registration of a user account for retrodigitisation is to be distinguished from the registration for borrowing from the TIB. However, it is possible to enter identical data for the respective registration.

You can create one or more freely nameable lists in your profile under "Manage watch lists", in which you can permanently save direct links for selected works and continue to use them when you log in again.

You will find the advanced search in the menu bar. The advanced search offers you extended search fields and faceting options. You can choose between:  all fields, metadata, full text, overview pages, identifier, collection, language, structure type, title, persons, publisher/publishing house,place of publication, year of publication and signature. Combinations can be created using the AND or OR operators.
After searching with a search term, you can filter further by collection, structure type, year of publication, year and language. You can sort your hit list according to certain categories using the "sorting" button: persons, title, creation date, publication year and signature. In the left-hand column you will find further faceting options. On the right-hand side you will find further help texts.

You can obtain initial information on the digitised holdings from the retro-digitisation department: retrodigitalisierung@tib.eu  If necessary, you will be referred there for further information on the content.

Go to "Cite and reuse". Here you will be offered various formats for individual images, chapters or the entire work. You can also download individual chapters or the entire volume as a pdf from the tables of contents.

The digital copies usually have a resolution of 400 dpi.

Go to "Cite and reuse". There you select "Full text" and receive the texts generated by our OCR. Then save on your computer and you will receive a folder with the full texts of the individual pages. Of course, you can also save individual pages by copying and pasting.

The retrospectively digitized holdings of the TIB Hannover are available to you free of charge for viewing, downloading and use. They are licensed under https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/ This license does not generally apply to
- TIB materials published less than 115 years ago or
- materials for which the year of death of the author (if known) is less than 70 years ago.

It is not permitted to download large amounts of data. Systematic printing or saving, in particular by robots, is prohibited.

All user activities at the TIB are logged and processed in accordance with the GDPR. For details, please refer to our privacy policy:  https://www.tib.eu/en/data-protection

Since the last reform of the Copyright Act, it is no longer possible for the library to grant permission for the commercial use of copyright-free works, as ancillary copyrights no longer arise in the reproduction service, Section 68 of the Copyright Act.
In the case of works protected by copyright, the respective rights must be obtained from the copyright holders. The user is responsible for compliance with copyright and exploitation rights as well as the protection of personality rights.

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Go to "Citation and reuse". Here you will find a citation recommendation.