Schöningh and Fink ebook collections

While ebook publishing of academic titles in Germany has been lagging behind in comparison to the anglophone world, great strides have been made in the last few years and now most of the major academic publishers offer their titles in ebook format. However, one major problem is that institutional access to ebooks can often be much more expensive than purchasing the print version. The University Library has been acquiring an increasing amount of German language ebooks. We have access to many German language ebooks through our EBA (Evidence Based Acquisition) scheme with de Gruyter and we acquire numerous individual titles from the major aggregator platforms.

Recently we have purchased our first ebook packages. These are the Schöningh and Fink ebook collections which are offered by Brill. Ferdinand Schöningh and Wilhelm Fink are renowned academic publishing houses with Schöningh focusing on history, theology and philosophy while Fink concentrates on philology and media studies. The ebook collections are organized by subject and issued annually. We have acquired the 2020 and 2021 collections for the subject areas Early Modern & Modern History and Literature & Culture, giving us access to 240 titles. Records for these titles can be found in iDiscover. Below we list a selection of titles from the collections to give an idea of the range of topics covered; follow the hyperlinks under the cover images for access. 

• “Wir sind alle Fremdarbeiter!” : Gewerkschaften, migrantische Kämpfe und soziale Bewegungen in Westdeutschland 1960-1980 / Simon Goeke
• “Entartete Kunst” in Breslau, Stettin und Königsberg / edited by Meike Hoffmann, Andreas Hüneke
• Krieg und Frieden in München 1914-1939 : Topografie eines Diskurses / Andreas Holzem, Antonia Leugers
• 1918 – Das Ende des Bismarck-Reichs? / edited by Holger Afflerbach, Ulrich Lappenküper
• “Polen geben wir nicht preis” : Der Kampf der DDR-Führung gegen die Solidarność 1980/81 / Filip Gańczak
• Epistemische Tugenden im deutschen und britischen Galvanismusdiskurs um 1800 / Alexander Stöger

• Gegend am Aetna : Hölderlins Theater der Zukunft / Jörn Etzold
• Ballons : Medien und Techniken früher Luftfahrten / Hannah Zindel
• Unheimliche Erinnerung – erinnerte Unheimlichkeit : Nationalsozialismus im literarischen Gedächtnis / by Christoph Leitgeb
• Ästhetische Autonomie und Avantgarde : Kurt Schwitters’ MERZ / Corinna Scheler
• Echtzeit im Film : Konzepte – Wirkungen – Kontexte / edited by Stephan Brössel, Susanne Kaul
• Das Bild der Natur in der Romantik : Kunst als Philosophie und Wissenschaft / edited by Nina Amstutz, Anne Bohnenkamp-Renken, Mareike Hennig, Gregor Wedekind

Christian Staufenbiel