Due to AStA's campusfest on July 3, 2026 the Georg Forster Building, the Humanities Library, the Law and Economics Library, the Central Library and Musicology Library will close at 6 p.m.. The Mathematics, Computer Science, Natural Sciences, and Technology Library will close at 7:30 p.m..

The other locations are open as usual.

We hope you enjoy the festive occasion!

Big changes are underway at the Central Library. Reading Room 2 is currently being transformed into a new Makerspace and will therefore be closed for the coming months. Once completed, the space will offer exciting new opportunities for creative, practical, and collaborative learning. 

A Makerspace is a place where learning goes beyond reading and writing and becomes hands-on. Equipped with 3D printers, sewing machines, a laser cutter, hand tools, and more, it will provide the resources needed to turn ideas into reality.
Whether you are developing a project for a course, creating something for a student initiative, or simply interested in learning how to use a 3D printer, the Makerspace will offer a welcoming environment to experiment, design, and build. While the primary focus will be on teaching activities and student projects, there will also be dedicated times when anyone with a library card can use the equipment independently.

This renovation is an important step in making our library even more versatile, innovative, and future-oriented. We believe it will be well worth the wait.
If you have any questions or suggestions regarding the planned Makerspace, please contact Dr Hannah Hartge at h.hartge@ub.uni-mainz.de.

We are pleased to announce access to two new e-book collections for the JGU community.

De Gruyter/Brill
JGU users have access to a comprehensive collection of e-books from De Gruyter and its publishing imprints through April 30, 2027. Included are titles from Birkhäuser, De Gruyter Akademie Forschung, De Gruyter Mouton, De Gruyter Oldenbourg, De Gruyter Saur, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Düsseldorf University Press, and Jovis Verlag, subject to e-book and distribution rights availability. The collection includes current frontlist titles, textbooks, the De Gruyter Book Archive, and the Akademie-Verlag Book Archive.
 

Hanser
JGU users also have access to all available Hanser e-books listed in the current complete title catalog through April 30, 2027. Newly published titles will be added and made available on a monthly basis throughout the access period.
We invite you to explore these extensive collections and take advantage of the wide range of scholarly and educational resources now available.

The JGU community now has trial access to the Music and Sound Studies e-book collection from Duke University Press. The collection comprises 221 DRM-free e-books in the fields of ethnomusicology, sound studies, jazz studies, and popular music studies, as well as biographies, memoirs, and essays. During the trial period through July 2026, titles can be read online and individual chapters downloaded as PDFs.

The collection offers fresh perspectives on music–not only as sound, but also as a cultural, social political, and technological phenomenon. In short, it explores not just what we hear, but how, why, and in what contexts we listen.

Borrowable items from the Georg Forster Building Library and the Central Library can now be requested for pick-up at the Theology Library

Starting April 13, 2026, the University Medical Library will be fully operational under its Open Library model. The library will be open daily from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m., including weekends. The library will be closed on public holidays and during the period between Christmas and New Year’s Day.

Staffed service hours remain unchanged:
Monday–Thursday, 8:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.; Friday, 8:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m.

Learn more about the Open Library.

Access to the UpToDate database has been discontinued as of April 1, 2026. Due to rising licensing costs, the University Medical Center has decided not to renew its subscription.

We encourage you to explore our alternative clinical medical resources.

Since December, many e-bboks have been available to you on the Inlibra platform. To access the electronic resources licensed for you, authentication is required. In many cases, authentication occurs automatically when you are connected to the JGU Wi-Fi network and using a VPN connection, as is the case with our other electronic resources (see the ZDV instructions for VPN setup).

If automatic authentication does not work, please follow these steps instead:
1. Click »Sign in«
2. Click »Login via Shibboleth«
3. Enter »Mainz«
4. Select »Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz«
5. If prompted, click »Allow«
6. Log in as usual via the JGU central authentication page

On public computers in our libraries, authentication via Shibboleth is not required.