Logging on
In Gateway Bayern, you will find the log-in in the top right, for which you need your library user ID and password. We recommend to sign-on befor searching because with that every service of the library will be offered. Please choose TUM location (München TU/TBMünchen, TBGarching, TB Straubing or TB Weihenstephan) from where you want to collect your orders - you only need to specify the exact branch library in the later progress of the order.
However, for a research you do not need to log on mandatorily; you can do so at any later time during the order, if you have found something.
Researching
You can search Gateway Bayern for titles of books or magazines. Article titles are found only if the corresponding journal is listed in the Article Database of the Library Network of Bavaria (BVB).
Basic Search is preset. You can switch to Advanced Search in the menu. In the search fields you can enter your search terms and start the search. Please wait a moment until the results are completely arranged in the hit list. The research is finished as soon as the titles are displayed.
Ordering
- Select your desired title and click on the button:
- This takes you to the SFX service side, which offers you an overview of possible ways to obtain the literature you find. To order via interlibrary, please click on Bestellung über dokumenTUM oder Fernleihe resp. Das will ich haben!
If you are staff / student of the TUM box on the form Ich bin für den dokumenTUM- resp. Campus-Lieferdienst berechtigt. You will guided automatically to dokumenTUM if the literature is yet at a branch library of the TUM and get the copies free of charge.
- After a (second) sign-on you will receive an order form. Please fill in missing information (among other things the desired branch library where you want to check-out your orders) and submit the order.
Not found anything or anything appropriate?
Even if you have not found what you want, you can place your interlibrary loan order through Gateway Bayern.
If, after your search, you have received the prompt "No matches were found for your search" or you cannot find the title you want, click on "Additional Services" in the menu above and then select the link "Interlibrary loan (only for users of libraries in the Bavarian Library Network)". Then you can place your order using one of the following buttons:
Our Document Delivery team will research the desired literature for you outside Bavaria and forward your order.
