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.

E-paper editions of regional daily newspapers can be viewed on site at the Scientific City Library. The following newspapers are available (the period that can be accessed is indicated in brackets):

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

The newspapers can be accessed on computers in the lending library, the research library, and the reading room. For copyright reasons, access from outside the library and/or on personal devices is not permitted and therefore not possible.

E-papers are newspaper editions in PDF format that are true to the original layout. The newspapers are offered via the Regional Provision Service from the e-paper collection of the German National Library.

Current issues can be accessed eight days after their publication date.

If you have any questions, the library staff will be happy to help you on site 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.