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Historical book inventory: Linnés “Systema Naturae”, 12. Ed., 1766/67, providing binary nomenclature for valid species descriptions.

Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches Institut

Entomological Library

The entomological library of the Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches Institut (SDEI, German Entomological Institute) is a major player in providing entomological information for scientists. The library is an associate of the  Virtual Library of Biology (VifaBio).

Since 2010 the library ia part of Hessischen Bibliotheks- und Informationssystem (HeBIS= electronic information and service union of academic libraries) and is a member of Cooperative Library Network Berlin-Brandenburg (KOBV).

History

Since 1849 Gustav Kraatz, founder of the SDEI, purchased rare and precious books. Among them were the works of Maria Sibylla Merian, A. J. Rösel von Rosenhof and J. Hübner. Due to further acquisitions of complete entomological libraries he created a considerably stock. Since 1909 the stock has continually been augmented by the intense international exchange of journals and series.

Stock

The current stock consists of about:

  • 24,000 monographies, anthologies
  • 48,000 Volumes of periodical of about 2.400 journals and series (titles)
  • 850 serial journals
  • 118,000 separata
  • 1,500 further media (maps, films, CD’s, CD-ROM’s, DVD’s,VCR)

Additionally there are collections of bibliographies and biographies.

Further Information

Access

The entomological library of the Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches Institut (German Entomological Institute) is publicly accessible. As a reference library its collections can only be accessed in the reading room. The access is free of charge. We kindly ask for registration by telephone or in writing.

Important reference books, fundamental books as well as the recent volumes of journals and series are freely accessible in the reading room. As the main part of the library stock is held in the stockroom. Books and journal volumes have to be ordered. If you have a larger wish list for literature, please contact us beforehand in writing.

Contact person:

Katrin Elgner
Tel. 033432-73698 3712
E-Mail: bibliothek-sdei@senckenberg.de

Further reading room service offers:

  • notebook accesses as well as two carrels including web access
  • copying machine
  • reader-printer machine for microfilm access
How to order papers and articles available in the library directly

Parts of books, papers and articles can be copied or scanned by considering the copyrights (prices and terms of delivery will be announced).

Contact person:

N.N.

E-Mail: bibliothek-sdei@senckenberg.de

Original proceedings of this institute can be obtained by exchange of scientific literature. You will find a full text version of proceedings free of charge by accessing the Digital library.

Research

Catalogs
Stock since 2005: new Online-catalogue (OPAC)

The new Pica OPAC is under construction! It contains at the moment purchases since 2005 like books, theses and non book material as well as the journals registered in the ZDB (central journals database). Specifications on numbers of journals and related publications are still incomplete, but are constantly added to the OPAC.
If necessary, please search in the old OPAC or the online card indices!

Stock since 2005: Old Online-catalogue (OPAC)

The old BOND OPAC will be closed. There is literature listed of access years 2005-2009.

Monographies and Series 1976-2004: Online Card index catalogue

Digitized card index in alphabetical order (order according to RAK-WB) listing monographies and series volumes of access years 1976-2004.

Monographies and Series until 1975: Online Card index catalogue

Digitized card index catalogue in alphabetical order (order according to “Prussian Instructions”) listing monographies and series volumes until access years 1975.

Books and Series until 1863: Online-Database (inactive)

The online database contains „Die Welt-Literatur über die gesamte Entomologie bis inklusive 1863“ (literature worldwide concerning entomology until 1863) which is part of the library stock. This covers books as well as journal contributions and other anthologies. This stock is also part of the catalogue “Monographies and series until 1975”

 
Bibliographic databases

ISI Web of Knowledge includes access via Senckenberg licence for:

  •  Journal Citation Reports – Science Edition (current)
  • Web of Science (1980 – present) including Science Citation Index Expanded
  • Zoological Record (1864 – present)

In the series of DFG-Nationallizenzen accessible databases:

 

Journals

Via Senckenberg licence of  SpringerLink electronic journals with lifesciences topics can be researched.

In the list of DFG-Nationallizenzen accessible electronic journals:

  • ACS Legacy Archives (1879-1995)
  • America’s Historical Newspapers / EAN
  • American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 1 + 2 (1691-1837)
  • Annual Reviews Electronic Back Volume Collection (1923-2006ff)
  • BioOne Online Journals (2009-2011)
  • British Periodicals Collection I & II
  • Cambridge Journals Digital Archives
  • China Academic Journals (CAJ – Technik und Naturwissenschaften) (1994-2010)
  • China Academic Journals
  • Crystallography Journals Online : IUCr Backfile Archive 19
  • Editoria Italiana Online / Periodici
  • Eighteenth Century Journals : A Portal to Newspapers and Periodicals, 1685-1815 / ECJ I & II
  • Elsevier Journal Backfiles on ScienceDirect (1907-2002)
  • Informa Healthcare Digital Archive (1896-2008)
  • Karger Journals Archiv (1998-2010)
  • Liebert on Line Archive
  • Lippincott Williams & Wilkins ‘LWW Legacy Archive’ Jg.1 – 2004
  • Nature Archives (1869 – 2009)
  • Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers / NCNP
  • Oxford Journals Digital Archive (1849-2010)
  • Periodicals Archive Online / PAO (1802-2000)
  • Sage Journals Online (1879-2009)
  • Scientific.Net: Materials Science & Technology / Trans Tech Publications Archiv (1984-2008)
  • Springer Online Journal Archives (1860-2002)
  • Taylor & Francis Online Archives (1799-2000)
  • Thieme Zeitschriftenarchive (1980-2007)
  • Walter de Gruyter Online-Zeitschriften Archiv
  • Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection (1832-2000)

The Electronische Zeitschriften Bibliothek (EZB – Electronic Journals Library) offers access to online journals of all areas. A full text of some journals is freely accessible.

The Zeitschriftendatenbank (ZDB – journal database)  is the largest database for printed and electronic journals, newspapers and periodicals. This database contains over 1,5 Mio. titles from all over the world from 1500 until today. Additionally one can find over 9,4 Mio. proofs of ownership from approximately 4,300 German libraries. ZDB does not show single papers.

 

Full text databases / lowdown databases / E-Books

In the list of DFG-Nationallizenzen  accessible full text databases / lowdown databases / E-Books:

  • Early American Imprints : Evans 1639-1800 (Series I)
  • Early American Imprints : Shaw/Shoemaker 1801-1819 (Series II) / EAI II
  • Early English Books Online (EEBO)
  • Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO).
  • Historical Newspapers
  • Integrum World Wide (Integrum Profi)
  • Karger eBooks Collection Archiv (1997-2009)
  • NetLibrary
  • North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories
  • Shenbao 申報
  • Springer ebook collection / Medicine (2005-2008)

The Datenbank-Infosystem (DBIS = database information system) shows 8,731 scientific databases. Contents can be systematically browsed using different seach tools. 3,078 of these databases are freely accessible via the internet.

Reference books / Dictionaries

In the list of DFG-Nationallizenzen  accessible reference books / dictionaries:

  • Animal Health and Production Compendium
  • Crop Protection Compendium 
  • Dictionnaire de la Langue Française du XVIe Siècle / Edmond Huguet
  • Dictionnaire de l’Ancienne Langue Française (IXe – XVe Siècle) / Frédéric Godefroy
  • Forestry Compendium 
  • World Biographical Information System (WBIS)

 

Digital library

The digital library offers retro-digitized publications of the Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches Institut (German Entomological Institute) as full text versions.:

Arbeiten über morphologische und taxonomische Entomologie aus Berlin-Dahlem
1934: 1(1), 1(2), 1(3), 1(4), 1935: 2(1), 2(2), 2(3), 2(4), 1936: 3(1), 3(2), 3(3), 3(4), 1937: 4(1), 4(2), 4(3), 4(4), 1938: 5(1), 5(2), 5(3), 5(4), 1939: 6(1), 6(2), 6(3), 6(4), 1940: 7(1), 7(2), 7(3), 7(4), 1941: 8(1), 8(2), 8(3), 8(4), 1942 9(1), 9(2), 9(3), 9(4), 1943: 10(1)

Arbeiten über physiologische und angewandte Entomologie aus Berlin-Dahlem:
1934: 1(Gesamtinhaltsverzeichnis), 1(1), 1(2), 1(3), 1(4), 1935: 2(Gesamtinh.), 2(1), 2(2), 2(3), 2(4), 1936: 3(Gesamtinhalt), 3(1), 3(2), 3(3), 3(4), 1937: 4(Gesamtinhalt), 4(1), 4(2), 4(3), 4(4), 1938: 5(Gesamtinhalt), 5(1), 5(2), 5(3), 5(4), 1939: 6(Gesamtinhalt), 6(1), 6(2), 6(3), 6(4), 1940: 7(Gesamtinhalt), 7(1), 7(2), 7(3), 7(4), 1941: 8(Gesamtinhalt), 8(1), 8(2), 8(3), 8(4), 1942: 9(Gesamtinhalt), 9(1), 9(2), 9(3), 9(4), 1943: 10(Gesamtinhalt), 10(1), 10(2/3), 10(4), 1944: 11(Gesamtinhalt), 11(1), 11(2/4)

Beiträge zur Insektenfauna der DDR:
1983: 11(1), 1970: 20(5), 1971: 21(3), 1972: 22(1), 1974: 24(1), 1975: 25(2), 1977: 27(1), 27(2), 1979: 29(1), 1980: 30(1), 1981: 30(2), 31(2), 1983: 33(2), 1985: 35(2), 1989: 39(1)

Deutsche entomologische National-Bibliothek : Rundschau im Gebiete der Insektenkunde mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Literatur:
1910: 1(1.Probenr.), 1(2.Probenr.), 1(1), 1(2), 1(3), 1(4), 1(5), 1(6), 1(7), 1(8), 1(9), 1(10), 1(11), 1(12), 1911: 2(Ges.-Inh.), 2(1), 2(2), 2(3), 2(4), 2(5), 2(6), 2(7), 2(8), 2(9), 2(10), 2(11), 2(12), 2(13), 2(14), 2(15), 2(16), 2(17), 2(18), 2(19), 2(20), 2(21), 2(22), 2(23), 2(24)

Entomologische Beihefte aus Berlin-Dahlem:
1934: 1, 1935: 2, 1936: 3, 1937: 4

Entomologische Mitteilungen : (Organ der Wanderversammlungen Deutscher Entomologen):
1912: 1(1), 1(2), 1(3), 1(4), 1(5), 1(6), 1(7), 1(8), 1(9), 1(10), 1(11), 1(12), 1913: 2(Gesamtinhalt), 2(1), 2(2), 2(3), 2(4), 2(5), 2(6), 2(7/8), 2(9), 2(10), 2(11), 2(12), 1914: 3(Gesamtinhalt), 3(1), 3(2), 3(3), 3(4), 3(5), 3(6), 3(7/8), 3(9), 3(10/12), 1915: 4(Gesamtinhalt), 4(1/3), 4(4/6), 4(7/9), 4(10/12), 1916: 5(Gesamtinh.), 5(1/4), 5(5/8), 5(9/12), 1917: 6(Gesamtinhalt), 6(1/3), 6(4/6), 6(7/9), 6(10/12), 1918: 7(Gesamtinh.), 7(1/3), 7(4/6), 7(7/9), 7(10/12), 1919: 8(Gesamtinh.), 8(1/3), 8(4/6), 8(7/9), 8(10/12), 1920: 9(Gesamtinh.), 9(1/3), 9(4/6), 9(7/9), 9(10/12), 1921: 10(Gesamtinh.), 10(1), 10(2), 10(3), 10(4), 10(5), 10(6), 1922: 11(Gesamtinhalt), 11(1), 11(2), 11(3), 11(4), 11(5), 1923: 12(Gesamtinhalt), 12(1), 12(2), 12(3/4), 12(5/6), 1924: 13(Gesamtinhalt), 13(1), 13(2/3), 13(4/5), 13(6), 1925: 14(Gesamtinhalt), 14(1), 14(2), 14(3/4), 14(5/6), 1926: 15(Gesamtinhalt), 15(1), 15(2), 15(3/4), 15(5/6), 1927: 16(Gesamtinh.), 16(1), 16(2), 16(3), 16(4), 16(5), 16(6), 1928: 17(Gesamtinh.), 17(1), 17(2), 17(3), 17(4), 17(5), 17(6)

Insekt des Jahres:
1999: 1, 2001: 2, 2002: 3, 2000: 4, 2003: 5, 2004: 6, 2005: 7, 2006: 8, 2007: 9

Jahresbericht für das Deutsche Entomologische Institut:
1991: 1990, 1992: 1991, 1994: 1993, 1996: 1995, 1997: 1996, 1998: 1997, 1999: 1998, 2000: 1999, 2003: 2000-2001, 2004: 2002-2003, 2006: 2004

Katalog der in den Sammlungen des Deutschen Entomologischen Institutes aufbewahrten Typen:
1968: 18(7), 1970: 20(1), 20(5), 1971: 21(1), 21(3), 1972: 22(7), 1973: 23(5), 1974: 24(1), 1975: 25(1), 1976: 26(1), 1977: 27(2), 1978: 28(2), 1979: 29(1), 1981: 31(1), 1982: 32(2), 1984: 34(2), 1985: 35(1), 1986: 36(2), 1987: 37(1), 1995: 45(2)

Nova Supplementa Entomologica (nur Titelübersicht, keine Volltexte):
1987: 2, 3, 1988: 4, 1993: 5, 1995: 6, 7, 1996: 8, 1997: 9, 10, 1998: 11, 12, 1999: 13, 2000: 14, 2002: 15, 2003: 16, 2004: 17, 2005: 18, 2006: 19, 2008: 20

Supplementa Entomologica:
1912: 1, 1913: 2, 1914: 3, 1915: 4, 1916: 5, 1917: 6, 1918: 7, 1919: 8, 1923: 9, 1924: 10, 1925: 11, 1926: 12, 13, 14, 1927: 15, 16, 1929: 17

Publication exchange

Publication exchange Müncheberg

For over 100 years the library of the Senckenberg German Entomological Institute has acquired journals and series in publication exchange. Today around 90 % of the 650 current journals and series are obtained within the publication exchange from over 300 exchange partners worldwide.

The following journals and series are offered for exchange:

Back issues are also available. For back issues and further exchange offers (monographs etc.) please see our list (PDF_list_of_exchange).

We are always interested in obtaining journals in the field of entomology, which we do not already have in our library.

Prospective and active exchange partners can send correspondence and publications, including sample issues, to:

Senckenberg
Deutsches Entomologisches Institut
Schriftentausch
Eberswalder Straße 90
15374 Müncheberg
Deutschland

Enquiries and contact:

Felicitas Schmidt-Matern
schriftentausch-sdei@senckenberg.de
Tel.: +49 33432 73698-3711

Exchange of publications for all locations.