dilibri

The Academic City Library participates in the dilibri digitization portal, which is operated by the Rhineland-Palatinate State Library Center (LBZ) and makes rare collections with regional relevance freely accessible on the Internet. To date, the City Library has uploaded 19th-century Mainz newspapers, Mainz address books (1800 to 1890), rare prints from the field of regional literature, volumes from special collections (e.g., Verlag Jos. Scholz Mainz, Peter Cornelius Archive), and manuscripts. The collection is continuously being expanded.

Bibliotheca Cartusiana Moguntina – Virtual Carthusian Library Mainz

Since 2020, the 624 manuscripts of the former Carthusian monastery in Mainz have been digitized in cooperation with the Digitization Center of Heidelberg University Library. The digitized manuscripts can be viewed and downloaded on the project homepage "Bibliotheca Cartusiana Moguntina - digital." By the planned end of the project in 2026, all manuscripts from the Mainz Carthusian monastery will be reunited, at least in the digital world.

Gutenberg Capture

In a DFG project jointly applied for with the Mainz City Library and the State Library Center, Mainz University Library will digitize over 450 medieval manuscripts by 2026. The aim of the project is to completely digitize the medieval book collections of the three Rhineland bishoprics of Mainz, Speyer, and Worms. Thirteen archives, libraries, and museums are making their manuscripts available to the University Library for this purpose, including the three city archives, the diocesan archives in Mainz and Speyer, the Martinus Library, the Gutenberg Museum, and the Mainz Cathedral and Diocesan Museum. With 273 manuscripts alone, the Mainz City Library also provides the largest single collection of manuscripts.

While the digitized versions are available on Gutenberg Capture, detailed descriptions of the manuscripts can be found in the Manuscript Portal. In addition to digitization, the project will also make the largely unexplored manuscripts from Speyer and Worms accessible for the first time.

At the University Library, you can view e-paper editions of regional daily newspapers on site. The following newspapers are available (the period for which they can be accessed is indicated in parentheses):

• Allgemeine Zeitung Mainz (September 2010 through the end of 2019)
• Allgemeine Zeitung Mainz Rheinhessen (from 2020 onward)
• Allgemeine Zeitung Alzey (from February 2013)
• Allgemeine Zeitung Bingen, Ingelheim (from May 2013)
• Allgemeine Zeitung Landskrone (August 2014 through the end of 2019)
• Allgemeine Zeitung Rhein-Main-Anzeiger (September 2014 through the end of 2020)
• Wormser Zeitung (as of September 2010)

Access is available on computers in the circulation desk area, the research library, and the reading room. Access from off-site and/or on personal devices is not permitted due to copyright restrictions and is therefore not possible.

E-papers are newspaper issues in PDF format that faithfully reproduce the original layout. The newspapers are made available through the Regional Provision service from the German National Library’s e-paper collection.

Current issues are available eight days after their publication date.

If you have any questions, the library staff on site can assist you or provide information via stb.infostadt.mainzde

The Mainz University Library participates in the Database Information System (DBIS), a cooperatively organized online service for the use of scientific databases. Here you will find an overview of and access to freely accessible databases from all subject areas that have been activated through national licenses.