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Bamberg Catalog
Joint online catalog for the holdings of three Bamberg libraries: the University Library, the Library of the Metropolitan Chapter, and the Library of the Theological Seminary

Online tutorials of the Bamberg University Library
Video-guidance for the use of the Bamberg Catalog, interlibrary loans and scholarly databases

Datenbase Info System (DBIS)
Database index for the use of scholarly databases

Electronic Journals Library (EZB)
Unified access to scholarly full text journals

Union Catalogue of Serials (ZDB)
Database with information about titles and owners of journals and newspapers in German and Austrian libraries (without references concerning journal articles)

Gateway Bavaria
Union Catalog of the Bavarian Library Network (Bibliotheksverbund Bayern) with holdings of the Bavarian academic libraries.

Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog (KVK)
Meta search engine for the retrieval of several hundred billion media in library catalogs and book trade catalogs worldwide

Worldcat
Largest bibliographical database worldwide with 2 billion items from over 10,000 libraries

Bavarian Bibliography
Regional bibliography for Bavaria with records for monographs and journal articles

Virtual German Regional Bibliography
Meta-Catalog for bibliographical records for regional literature in Germany

bavarikon
Portal with digital reproductions of works of art, culture and regional studies of the Free State of Bavaria.

Domberg – Museums around the Bamberg Cathedral
Joint presentation of the cultural institutions located around the Bamberg Cathedral Square