Systematic Search via Online Catalogue (OPAC)

The following links direct to the German version of the Systematic Search:

Reference Collection (HB)

Section "General" (Allgemein)

Section "European Criminal Law" (Europarecht)

Section "Information Law and Legal Informatics" (Informationsrecht)

Section "Criminology" (Kriminologie)

Section "Law and Medicine" (Recht und Medizin)

Section "International Criminal Law" (Völkerrecht)

Country sections and supra-regional sections, Criminal Law (Strafrecht)


The library classification system can be navigated using the links listed above (the hyperlinked headings in the outline of each section will direct you to the corresponding search results in the Online Catalogue).

The overall structure of the classification system (BibInfo 05) as well as the alphabetical subject index (BibInfo 05a) can be downloaded as pdf files (see below). The list of national codes used for the sections "Information Law and Legal Informatics" (Informationsrecht), "Criminology" (Kriminologie) and "Law and Medicine" (Recht und Medizin) can be found in the annex to the library classification system (p. 67) or as a separate pdf file ("National Codes").


Information about literature in non-Latin characters:

Since July 2012, newly acquired literature in non-Latin characters (except Arabic) is being recorded in the online catalog using the original characters - in addition to the Latin transliteration. Previously acquired literature is available only in the transliterated form (Latin characters).

  • Last update: 25 July 2011
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