The University Library LMU - Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich is a central service facility of the LMU.

Its main function is the provision of literature and information services to the staff and students of the LMU.

In addition, it provides an infrastructure enabling the members of the LMU to publish their scholarly works and research data on an open access basis.

These data are then available free of charge to users all over the world.

The Library consists of
• the Zentralbibliothek (Main Library)
• the Zentrale Lehrbuchsammlung (Central Textbook Collection)
• 13 Subject Libraries
• the Library of the Klinikum Großhadern in cooperative partnership
• over 90 additional libraries of the LMU, with all holdings indexed in the online catalogue.

Library Collections

General Collections
The University Library's collections in figures:
• Total number of media: 4,700,000 (as of 2013), consisting of
o textbooks 173,000
o subscriptions to print journals and newspapers 6,300
o licensed electronic journals 50,300
o e-Books 27,200
o subject-related databases 420
• Publications hosted on the University Libraries repositories (as of August 2014), consisting of
o documents on Open Access LMU 16,300
o documents on Elektronische Dissertationen der LMU 10,000
o documents on Munich Personal RePEc Archive (MPRA) 30,000

Historic collections

Rare books

Manuscripts

Incunabula and block books

Literary estates and autograph works

Herzogliches Georgianum

Special collections

Using the collections


Contact Detail:
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Universitätsbibliothek
Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1
80539 München
089 2180-2429