Overview - Journal holdings
The library of the University of Veterinary Medicine Hanover Foundation (TiHo) maintains a comprehensive collection of journals covering veterinary medicine and related topics. In addition to our print holdings, we also offer access to a wide range of electronic journals, which are licensed for members of our institution.
You can download a list of the currently available print journals as a PDF file by clicking on the following button. Please also note the specific location of the current issues of selected journals, which are available for immediate use in the designated shelves within our premises.
Research Tips & Links
Searching for Specific Journal Titles
EZB - Electronic Journals Library
The Electronic Journals Library (EZB) supports the search for scholarly full-text journals. The EZB allows you to see which electronic journals are accessible through our institution and which volumes and issues are available. An integrated traffic light system indicates the available access options:
- Red: No full-text access is available through our institution.
- Red/Yellow: Only part of the available full-text content is licensed for our institution.
- Yellow: Full-text access is fully licensed for members of our institution.
- Green: Full-text content is freely available on the internet.
If an online journal is also available in print in our library, the print holdings are displayed in the detailed record and linked to the German Union Catalogue of Serials (ZDB).
Please note: The EZB indexes journal titles rather than individual articles. To locate an article, first identify the journal in which it was published and then search for the journal title in the EZB.
Further guidance on using the EZB can be found here.
ZDB - German Union Catalogue of Serials
While the EZB indicates whether and to what extent our institution provides access to an electronic journal, the German Union Catalogue of Serials (ZDB) helps you identify which libraries hold a particular print and/or electronic journal. In addition to information on publication format (print or electronic) and publication history, the holdings information allows you to determine whether a title is available at TiHo, in the local region, or at another library.
Tip: For searching TiHo holdings, we recommend using our library catalogue. The ZDB is particularly useful when you are looking for journals that are not available in our collection.
Further guidance on using the ZDB can be found here.
OPAC - Our Library Catalogue
Our library catalogue provides access to the complete print and electronic holdings of TiHo, including our entire journal collection. After signing in with your library account, you can also renew loans, reserve items, and submit item requests.
VetSearch - Online Journals
As part of our discovery system VetSearch, you can also search our electronic holdings specifically for licensed journals. The link above will take you directly to the corresponding search interface.
Searching for Literature by Topic
If you are not looking for a specific journal, but rather for literature on a particular topic or for individual articles, we recommend using selected subject-specific and interdisciplinary databases. As a supplement, you may also use our discovery system VetSearch as well as search services such as OpenAlex and Google Scholar.
An overview of available databases can be found in the Database Information System (DBIS). The database collections provided for TiHo can help you identify the most suitable database for your research topic.
Further information is available under the database section.
Making use of print and online resources
Detailed information on how to use the library and our holdings, the campus delivery service, interlibrary loan and the document delivery service Subito can be found here.
As a library, we acquire access rights through campus licences. This allows members of the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover Foundation to access the full texts of licensed e‑journals. Access is available on all computers within the campus network (IP authentication). In addition, members of TiHo can also access licensed content from private devices by connecting to the eduroam Wi‑Fi network. Depending on the publisher, external access (remote access) may also be available via ezProxy and/or Shibboleth.
UK-VET Animal Health Collection (MA Healthcare)
The UK-VET Collection includes five scientific journals that provide practical and up-to-date information for the entire clinical veterinary team as well as for students and educators. As such, both didactic and clinical resources for practice and study can be found here. The content covers all aspects of veterinary medicine, surgery and care, across all species - from the farm to the home. Online access is enabled for the following journals:
UK-VET Companion Animal
UK-VET Livestock
UK-VET Equine
UK-VET Equine Health
UK-VET The Veterinary Nurse
BioOne Complete
BioOne Complete is the full-text database of more than 200 titles from over 150 publishers in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences. The collection offers comprehensive coverage of fields such as zoology, plant sciences, ornithology, and entomology, with new content added daily.
Link to the title overview
Link to BioOne VISTA
Link to Top and Trending Research
Link to Special Content Collections
Journals of the Microbiology Society
The Microbiology Society is a non-profit scientific organisation that publishes journals in the field of microbiology. Effective immediately, TiHo members have unrestricted access to the full archives (including current issues) of the following journals.
International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology (IJSEM)
Journal of General Virology (JGV)
Journal of Medical Microbiology (JMM)
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Recommended reading
Journal of Veterinary Medical Education (JVME)
Published by the American Association of Veterinary Medical Colleges (AAVMC), the journal’s areas of focus include best practices and educational methods in veterinary education, recruitment, training, and mentoring of students at all levels of education, clinical instruction and assessment; institutional policy; and other challenges and issues.
Newly available online
Reproduction
The journal contains articles dealing with the cellular and molecular biology of reproduction. Current topics include cloning, the biology of embryonic stem cells, environmental influences on reproductive potential and health (e.g., obesity), and epigenetic effects on reproductive and developmental processes.
Additional existing licenses
AAAS Science
From the portfolio of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the three online journals Science, Science Immunology and Science Translational Medicine are available to TiHo members. Further information on each title and its contents can be found in the information materials linked below.
American Chemical Society (ACS) Package
The publications of the American Chemical Society (ACS) cover topics related to the practice of chemistry and related sciences. High-quality research results from top authors from all over the world are published here. Licensed is the ACS All Publication Package, which provides access to more than 70 ACS journals - including the flagship titles Journal of the American Chemical Society and Chemical Reviews - as well as important objective scientific news on C&EN Global Enterprise. The package supports research and educational needs in the fields of chemistry, physics, engineering, biology and allied health professions.
American Journal of Physiology incl. Subseries
The American Physiological Society (APS) publishes journals on all aspects of physiology. The articles published here deal with physiological systems at all levels, from cellular and molecular to organs and systems. Licensed from this portfolio is the American Journal of Physiology (AJP) and all of its subseries - listed individually below:
AJP - Cell Physiology
AJP - Endocrinology and Metabolism
AJP - Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology
AJP - Heart and Circulatory Physiology
AJP - Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology
AJP - Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
AJP - Renal Physiology
American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Journals
The journals of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) offer up-to-date and leading coverage of basic and clinical microbiology. There is access to a number of titles, an overview can be found here. The individual titles are also listed below with the corresponding full text links:
Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Clinical Microbiology Reviews
EcoSal Plus
Infection and Immunity
Journal of Bacteriology
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
Journal of Virology
Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews
Annual Reviews Life Sciences Collection
The Life Sciences Collection provides access to selected and relevant annual review journals in the field of life sciences. The collection represents a valuable reference assortment, with each review containing an average of 150 citations to the most important primary research articles in a subject area. Included here amongst others are the discipline-relevant journals Annual Review of Animal Biosciences, Annual Review of Entomology and Annual Review of Physiology.
Cambridge University Press (CUP) Package
Cambridge University Press publishes more than 420 peer-reviewed academic journals on topics related to the humanities, social sciences, technology and medicine. Of those, the Standard Full Collection, a multidisciplinary journal package with comprehensive and relevant content for practice and study, has been licensed. Among other content, it also includes online access to the archives of the renowned journals Parasitology, Animal and Animal Health Research Reviews.
DEAL Journals portfolio
By participating in the nationwide, transformative DEAL contracts, we have access to almost the entire journal portfolio of the three largest scientific publishers Springer Nature, Elsevier and Wiley. Below you will find the corresponding links to the respective title lists:
Elsevier (search entry)
Elsevier (.xlsx-file)
Springer Nature (search entry)
Springer Nature (.xlsx-file)
Wiley (search entry)
Wiley (.xlsx-file)
Oxford University Press (OUP) STM Collection
The STM collection from Oxford University Press (OUP) comprises an extensive selection of renowned titles from the fields of medicine, life sciences, mathematics and physics. Access ranges from the latest research papers back to 1996. Particularly coveted and included in this licensed package are the following titles: Journal of Animal Science, Biology of Reproduction as well as Journal of Infectious Diseases.
Nature Portfolio
Springer Nature publishes the world's leading multidisciplinary scientific journal Nature as well as subject-related nature-branded research and review journals. Full-text access is available to the entire Nature journal portfolio (including newly published titles). While around one third of the content published in these journals is commissioned and/or produced by the publisher's own editorial teams, two thirds of the content involves original research articles submitted by authors.
Taylor and Francis Collection
A selection of journals are licensed from the Taylor and Francis portfolio, which contain important research results in a multidisciplinary context and are also relevant to veterinary medicine. In addition to individual titles, entire journal packages are also covered by licenses, including the Science & Technology Library, the Medical Library and the Expert Review Collection.
The following journals are licensed as local subscriptions:
Archives of Animal Nutrition
Avian pathology
New Zealand Veterinary Journal
Anthrozoös
British Poultry Science
Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science
Links to the title lists for the additionally licensed journal packages can be found below:
Link to the title list of the S&T Library
Link to the title list of the Medical Library
Link to the title list of the Expert Review Collection
Thieme Portfolio / VetCenter
The journals published by Thieme focus on the field of veterinary medicine. The publisher provides relevant content for veterinary practice as well as for education and training and supplies both veterinary practitioners and students with relevant, up-to-date and high-quality information. The content is made available via two platforms: Either via VetCenter or via Thieme Connect, whereby online access is usually provided on both.
Link to the platform VetCenter
Link to the platform Thieme Connect
An overview of all licensed magazines can be found here. Below you will find a small selection of the most popular titles:
Kleintier konkret
Tierärztliche Praxis Ausgabe G: Großtiere / Nutztiere
Tierärztliche Praxis Ausgabe K: Kleintiere / Heimtiere
Pferdespiegel
Team.Konkret
National licenses
For nationwide access to digital text collections, subject databases and journal archives, the German Research Foundation (DFG) has been funding the acquisition of national licensessince 2004.
The national licenses activated for our institution are administered in the database information system (DBIS) and can be looked up here. These online contents are only accessible in the campus network. Beyond that, individuals can also register here.
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