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Longer loan periods at the University Library

PhD-students can apply for the so-called semester loan at the University Library (UL). With semester loans, books are automatically renewed up to five times.      

  • Please send an email with your name, matriculation number and UL number to info@ub.uni-freiburg.de with the request to activate the lecturer loan/semester loan for PhD-students.
  • The head of the lending service (Regina Flamm) will send an information sheet on semester loan if approval is granted.   

Institute email address (incl. external employee account)

  • PhD-students who do not have a contract with the University can apply for a Uniaccount as an external employee via the following link: https://www.rz.uni-freiburg.de/inhalt/dokumente/pdfs/formulare/erstantrag/view
  • The application must be completed with the secretariat of the respective institute. The secretariat will then send the application.
  • Once the application has been approved, the secretary's office will receive a letter from the computer center containing the new user ID (initials and four digits) and an initial password.
  • You can now log in to myAccount (https://myaccount.uni-freiburg.de/uadmin/login) using the user ID and the initial password.
  • Next, a new password must be created. The external employee account is then set up.      
  • After logging in to myAccount, a university mail account with the institute domain can be created under the tab "Mail- and list administration / Mail accounts".
  • If you want to have access to the intranet an informal e-mail can be sent to intranet-tickets@mail.uni-freiburg.de briefly explaining why and for how long access is required.

Workspaces for PhD-students