Printed and electronic books at MPI-CBG

Online Catalog of the Library (OPAC MPI-CBG Library)

The online Catalogue includes our printed media (books and journals). 
Our computerized loan system for book check out runs 24 hours a day on a self-check-out system. The loan period for books is three months. 

MPG ebooks Catalog

Proquest EBook Central


Selection of ebooks and Reference Works

ACS Symposium Series The ACS (American Chemical Society) Symposium Series contains high quality peer-reviewed books developed from the ACS technical divisions' symposia.
AIP Conference Proceedings Access to Proceedings AIP
BioOne BioOne is a global, not-for-profit collaboration bringing together scientific societies, publishers, and libraries to provide access to critical, peer-reviewed research in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences.
Cold Spring Harbor Protocols CSHL Protocols offers cutting edge and classic protocols in molecular and cellular biology from laboratories worldwide, along with methods from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's renowned manuals and on-site courses.
CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics  
Current Protocols (Wiley) Wiley Current Protocols contains a collection of updatable step-by-step, reproducible laboratory methods, covering a total of 20,000 protocols across 18 subjects in the life sciences. Each protocol is carefully selected by the editorial board members, written by experts, and rigorously edited to ensure repeated success.
EBSCOhost - eBooks The collection licensed by the DFG comprises 1000 e-Books. In addition, access to 3,400 free electronic books from all subject areas is provided.
Encyclopedia Britannica The oldest English-language general encyclopædia - first published in 1768.
eLS - Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (Wiley) Online resource to explore the life sciences.
Handbook of Neuroscience for the Behavioral Sciences Overview of the neuro-scientific bases of the behavioral sciences.
Henry Stewart Talks: The Biomedical & Life Science Collection Henry Stewart Talks publish state of the art audio visual presentations by leading world authorities. Biomedical & Life Sciences is a collection of specially prepared animated audio visual presentations with synchronized narration by world leading scientists, organized into comprehensive series, regularly updated and growing to over 2,000 talks.
IEEE/IET Electronic Library
(IEEE Xplore)
 
The IEEE/IET Electronic Library (IEL) provides access to almost a third of the world's current electrical engineering and computer science literature, featuring high-quality content from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Institution of Engineering and Technology ( IET). IEL covers all IEEE journals, transactions, and magazines; IEEE conference proceedings; IET conference proceedings and the IET Engineering & Technology Magazine; IEEE published standards; and IEEE Standards Dictionary Online. The subscription includes complimentary access to selected VDE VERLAG Conference Proceedings. Access is provided via the IEEE Xplore interface.
Oxford English Dictionary The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources.
Oxford Scholarship Online Including Oxford Scholarship Online (OSO), the University Press Scholarship Online (UPSO) publishes new books every month from an ever-growing roster of contributing presses, each adding to the variety of subjects covered on the platform. The MPG purchased the volumes 2003-2013/2014 of 16 OSO subject collections. This selection is continuously extended by single e-book acquisitions by MPG libraries.
Reviews in Cell Biology and Molecular Medicine Formerly "The Encyclopedia of Molecular Cell Biology and Molecular Medicine" covers both the molecular and cellular basis of life and medicine.
Safari Tech Books Online (O'Reilly) The e-reference library for programmers and IT professionals. Safari Books Online, LLC is a joint venture between O'Reilly & Associates and The Pearson Technology Group.
SPIE Proceeedings The SPIE Digital Library is an extensive resource available on optics and photonics, providing access to technical papers from SPIE Journals and Conference Proceedings from 1962 to the present. More than 18,000 new technical papers are added annually. The current subscription provides Max Planck researchers with full text access to all SPIE journals and proceedings. In addition, the Max Planck Society covers article-processing charges for the SPIE journals. Further details are available on the MPDL website.
SpringerLink The SpringerLink platform provides MPG staff with access to a huge collection of English and German e-Books from 2005 onwards, as well as the English and the German collection of the Springer Book Archive (1842-2004). In addition, the content of selected book series is available. Includes major reference works and dictionaries.
Springer Nature Experiments (includes Springer Protocols) Springer Nature publishes the largest available collection of reproducible laboratory protocols and methods for the life sciences. The Experiments platform provides accees to the content from SpringerProtocols, Nature Methods, Nature Protocols and Protocol Exchange through a single easy-to-use platform, designed to save researchers' time.
Wiley Online Library e-books Wiley Online Library Books feature over 15,000 scholarly and professional books, handbooks, dictionaries, companions and landmark book series from Blackwell Publishing, John Wiley & Sons, and Wiley-VCH. From this collection, a set of more than 1,000 e-books was purchased for users from the Max Planck Society. This selection is continuously extended by single e-book acquisitions by MPG libraries.