On site: Services for students in Kiel and Hamburg

The ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics is the world's largest specialist library for economic literature and sees itself as a research-led library. It systematically provides economic information and data – digitally, permanently accessible and supplemented by printed holdings at both locations.

The library’s resources are freely available to anyone interested.

• Learning space Hamburg
• Learning space Kiel
• Borrowing
• Databases
• Online services
  • Personal advice on literature research
  • ZBW Chat
  • LSEG Eikon
  • Virtual library tours

At the ZBW locations in Kiel and Hamburg, students have access to:

• modern individual and group workstations,
• extensive literature collections on site,
• personal advice on literature research and academic work

Our team at the service desk provides individual support. Whether you need to concentrate on your work, collaborate on group projects or conduct specific research, the ZBW offers the right space and services for your studies.

As a storage library, the ZBW keeps its collections in closed stacks. We will be happy to retrieve the items you require. You can order the items you need easily and conveniently via our EconBiz portal.

• Over 11 million economic data records in the EconBiz specialist portal – including books, articles, working papers and conference contributions
• Around 300,000 open access documents from international economic research on the EconStor publication server