Informatics and Data Science

Study information

Information about the study program and current announcements of the faculty of Informatics and Data Science can be found on the homepage of the faculty.

Literature

Literaturbestand

The literature in the Informatics and Data Science library covers the following subject areas:

Computational Science
Data Science
Digital Business
Digital Humanities
Digital Law
Informatics
Information Science
Legal Tech
Media informatics
Business informatics

Physical as well as digital books, journals and databases can be searched via the Regensburger Katalog plus.

Literature on site

Printed books

UR students can borrow max. 5 books for 14 days from the Informatics and Data Science reading room. For external users, weekend borrowing (max. 5 books) is possible again.

Printed journals

The following periodicals can be found in the periodical boxes in the reading room:

Communications of the ACM
Computing Reviews
Dotnetpro
i-com
Informatik-Spektrum
Information Services & Use
Information Technology
Interactions
IT-Administrator
Künstliche Intelligenz
Linux-Magazin
Log-In
On - Lernen in der digitalen Welt
Website Boosting

Textbook Collection

Textbooks can be found in the Textbook Collection very close to the Computer Science and Data Science Reading Room (Central Library).

You can view the computer science titles in the textbook collection in the catalog.

Digital offers

Access to electronic media licensed by the University Library is possible within the university's data network. From home, access is possible via VPN. For library services you can use the FortiClient. As an alternative to VPN, some providers also offer the simpler use via Shibboleth.

If you use IPv6 and access to articles on IEEE is blocked, you can either use the 'Institutional Sign In' and enter 'Universitaetsbibliothek Regensburg' or use the web-VPN.

Databases

For further informatics databases please search the Database Information System (DBIS).

E-Books

Springer E-Books
- Among them, the years 2006-2025 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
- And the year 2022 of Intelligent Technologies & Robotics
Cambridge University Press
ACM E-Book Collection I
Hanser Informatik 2019-2022
Open-Access-Books for Informatics

Journals

In the Electronic Journals Library (EZB) you will find an overview of the retrievable e-journals.

These include the following journals:

There is also access to heise+ and the following journals:

c't
iX
MIT Technology Review
Mac & i
Make

Subject portals

DBLP

Preprints

arxiv

Helpful tools

Further literature offers

Important shelfmark beginnings for Informatics and Data Science

Lokalkennzeichen (Standort)	Bezeichnung
00	Central holdings of the Central Library (Magazin)
14	Informatics and Data Science reading room
17	Textbook collection of the Central Library
230	Dissertations

Notation	Bezeichnung
ST 250	Programming languages
ST 278	Human-computer interaction
ST 300	Artificial intelligence
ST 252	Web development
ST 205	Internet
ST 270	Databases, information systems
ST 230	Software (Introduction, textbooks, methods of programming), Software engineering
ST 324	Computer games
ST 530	Data mining

For example, if you are looking for books in the reading room that deal with the topic of "artificial intelligence", you can search for 14/ST 300 * in the Regensburg catalog.
You can find a complete list of notations in the RVK.