MZES Library
The MZES library is a central service provider for the institute’s scientific staff and includes the following sectors:
The Europe Library
collects social science literature in the fields of comparative European research and European integration research for the period after 1945.Its holdings encompass about 50,000 monographs and all journals licensed for the Mannheim University campus.
Collection priorities are:
- Social structure and social inequality (education, occupational classes, labour market, demography)
- Welfare state research (retirement provision, health policy, family policy, intermediary structures / welfare organizations, social reporting)
- Migration, integration, ethnic and social conflicts, conflict resolution
- EU research (development/expansion, legitimy research, institutions, European policies, external relations, international negotiations, political participation, democratization, identity issues)
- Parties and elections (national and EU election studies, election systems, parliaments, governments, policies, stakeholder organizations)
The Statistics Library
collects extensively in supranational, international, national and subnational statistics of 50 countries with an emphasis on Europe as well as in statistics of international organizations (UN, OECD, etc.)
Collection priorities are:
- Statistical yearbooks
- Demographic statistics, including censuses
- Social statistics
- Economic statistics
- Elections
Opening hours:
Mon-Fri 8 a.m.–11 p.m.
Sat/Sun 10 a.m.–11 p.m.
Borrowing/returning hours: Mon-Fri 8 a.m.–6 p.m.
Catalogue
PRIMO (total holdings of the MZES library and all university departmental libraries including all campus-wide available electronic periodicals, e-books, and data banks):
KVK (Karlsruhe Virtual Catalogue), book search interface for more than hundreds of million books and serials in library and book trade catalogs worldwide: