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TU Wien Academic Press – new release: „SOZIALES WOHNEN IN WIEN“04. July 2025

Judith M. Lehner, Bernadette Krejs, Simon Güntner, Michael Obrist (Eds.)

Summer opening hours23. June 2025

In July and August, the Main Library is open Monday to Friday from 08:00 to 19:00. The Chemistry and Mechanical Engineering Library is closed from 11…

We dare to open science!16. June 2025

Group picture of participants in front of a fire engine at Open Science Day 2025 — © Beate Guba

Open Science in focus: the first Open Science Day at TU Wien offered professional exchange and inspiration for collaboration.

TU Wien Bibliothek staff member receives Bruno Bauer Memorial Prize12. May 2025

Bruno Bauer Memorial Prize award ceremony with all prizewinners and presidents

The innovative TUW lAma” Firefox extension improves efficiency in working with the Alma library system software.

New Architecture Database "urbanNext"22. April 2025

Innovative platform for architecture, urban planning, and future urban topics now accessible via TU Wien Bibliothek

GEO Day 2025: Experiencing science up close – with support from TU Wien Bibliothek at Davis03. April 2025

Making science accessible together

Join us and participate in “Vienna cycles” between 20 March and 30 September 2025!25. March 2025

TU Wien Bibliothek invites you to participate in this year’s “Wien radelt” (Vienna cycles) campaign and join us in collecting environmentally friendly…

Open access agreement with the American Physical Society (APS)21. March 2025

Top shot of a table with chemical substances in test tubes

TU Wien Bibliothek has concluded an open access agreement with the American Physical Society (APS).

Digital Cleanup Day 202519. March 2025

TU Wien Bibliothek actively promotes digital sustainability and participated in this year’s Digital Cleanup Day.

2nd Austrian Library Congress 2025 from 25 to 28 March 202514. March 2025

2nd Austrian Library Congress 2025 from March 25 to 28 2025

Shaping the future: TU Wien Bibliothek focuses on innovation and sustainability

Our course programme for 202501. March 2025

Cartoon of woman with laptop and documents

Courses for students and young researchers open for registration

Two New Publications from TU Wien Academic Press: "WENDE. PERSPEKTIVE. PLANUNG" and "BETWEEN HANDLE AND SPOUT"07. January 2025

„ZWISCHEN HENKEL UND SCHNABEL | BETWEEN HANDLE AND SPOUT“

TU Wien Academic Press is excited to announce two new releases.

A unique donation to TU Wien from the Vienna Ernst Happel Stadium19. December 2024

The City of Vienna and TU Wien unveil 58 print and digital books of the iconic stadium—an invaluable resource for research, education, and…

TU Wien wins CliA - Austrian State Prize for Climate Change Adaptation17. October 2024

Austrian State Prize for Climate Change Adaptation (CliA)

The project "OPUSH – Citizen Science Pilot Urban Heat Stories," represented by future.lab TU Wien, luftdaten.at, and TU Wien Bibliothek, has been…

Discover the world of newspapers and magazines with PressReader04. October 2024

PressReader is a service that provides students at TU Wien with free access to over 7,000 digital newspapers and magazines from around the world.

Recap: Art, culture, and innovation at TU Wien Bibliothek04. October 2024

During the last week of September 2024, TU Wien Bibliothek became the setting for two remarkable events: the Vienna Design Week from September 20 to…

TU Wien Academic Press - New release: FMCAD 2024 Conference Proceedings04. October 2024

The Proceedings of the conference "Formal methods in computer-aided design 2024" provide up-to-date insight into an exciting field of research.

TU Wien Academic Press – New release: „CONVIVIA FILTH“01. October 2024

First Volume of the MERIDIAN ARCHITECTONICS Series

Cogitatio Press: Promoting open access knowledge26. September 2024

Thanks to an agreement with TU Wien Bibliothek, publication costs are covered to support the free exchange of knowledge in academic journals.

TU Wien collaborates with schools for the Citizen Science Award by OeAD06. August 2024

TU Wien Bibliothek and future.lab: Project Urban Heat Stories

TU Wien Academic Press – New release: „Codeless Sarajevo“01. August 2024

How the absence of a building code inhibits city development – and possible solutions

TU Wien Academic Press – New release: “Urbane Transformation durch soziale Innovation“29. July 2024

Why? How? What? These questions focus on the key terms and reveal perspectives.

Excursion to the Co-Creation Space Transformer26. July 2024

The continuing education programme with a focus on "Green Library" offered participants a creative approach to the topic of sustainability.

Review of KinderuniTechnik 2024: A resounding success26. July 2024

In the second week of July, TU Wien Bibliothek opened its doors to curious young researchers for KinderuniTechnik 2024.

Citizen Science and Urban Mobility: Layered City at Davis18. July 2024

Layered City transforms individual observations into collective knowledge, paving the way for smarter and more inclusive urban mobility solutions.

Launch of the "Yes, we talk TU Wien!" Book Club17. July 2024

New TU Wien Initiative: "Yes, we talk TU Wien!" Book Club. Discover exciting books starting July 17 and discuss them in the autumn!

NEW: Open Access Journal Finder04. April 2024

A new tool simplifies the search for journals or proceedings series for researchers and students looking to publish open access.

Citizen science in sustainable urban development01. March 2024

Exchanges were held between Viennese museums, the city administration and libraries on the topic of citizen science at public institutions.

TU Wien Bibliothek supports women in technology01. March 2024

TU Wien Bibliothek promotes women in technology

With three workshops as part of the "Initiative Digitalisierung Chancengerecht", the library promotes women in technology and digitisation.

TU Wien Bibliothek as a knowledge hub: Focus on citizen science projects10. January 2024

Beate Guba, Director of TU Bibliothek, gives a keynote address on citizenscience

On 09 January 2024, TU Wien’s TUesday Lounge was reopened with a talk on citizen science.

Longer weekend opening hours from 13 January 202409. January 2024

From Saturday, 13 January 2024, the Main Library's weekend opening hours are extended by two hours to 19:00.

TU Wien Academic Press - New release: "Planung und räumliche Wirkungen von sozialen Infrastrukturen"23. October 2023

Current results of research on the role of spatial planning in housing, education, culture, and health and care services.

JSTOR – Expanded access10. October 2023

TU Wien Bibliothek now offers access to the “JSTOR Archival Journals and Primary Sources Collection”.

TU Wien Academic Press – New release: FMCAD 2023 Conference Proceedings04. October 2023

Text "Proceedings of the 23rd conference on Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design - FMCAD 2023"

The proceedings of the conference "Formal methods in computer-aided design 2023" provide up-to-date insight into an exciting field of research.

TU Wien Academic Press – New release: Vages Terrain15. May 2023

New perspectives on a choice of location in the city of the future: essays, interviews and artistic contributions

Opening of Data Visualisation Space Davis09. May 2023

Vice Rector Eberhardsteiner and Library Director Beate Guba at the opening of Davis — © Hannes Buchinger

This new space for teaching and learning in TU Wien Bibliothek makes possible the collaborative and interdisciplinary implementation of 2D and 3D…

TU Wien Bibliothek wins Open Library Badge07. March 2023

Our commitment to more openness in science and society was honoured with the Open Library Badge.

IFLA Library Publishing Map of the World22. February 2023

Bildschirm mit IFLA Library Publishing Map of the World

Our publication services can now be found in the global directory of academic libraries and library publishing activities.

TU Wien Bibliothek signs the Green Libraries Manifesto03. January 2023

We have signed the green libraries manifesto. https://www.cilip.org.uk/page/GreenLibrariesManifesto

The library is increasing its focus on sustainability and the ecological transformation.

Events

For dates of workshops and courses, see our event calendar.

Events

For dates of workshops and courses, see our event calendar.

Name	Purpose	Lifetime	Type	Provider
CookieConsent	Saves your settings for the use of cookies on this website.	1 year	HTML	Homepage TU Wien
SimpleSAML	This is needed to distinguish between the sessions of the logged-in users.	session	HTTP	Login TU Wien
SimpleSAMLAuthToken	This is needed to distinguish between the sessions of the logged-in users.	session	HTTP	Login TU Wien
fe_typo_user	Is needed so that in case of a Typo3 frontend login the session ID is recognized to grant access to protected areas.	session	HTTP	Homepage TU Wien
staticfilecache	Is needed to optimize the delivery time of the website.	session	HTTP	Homepage TU Wien
JESSIONSID	Is needed so that in case of a LectureTube the session ID is recognized to grant access to protected areas.	session	HTTP	LectureTube TU Wien
_shibsession_lecturetube	This is needed to distinguish between the sessions of the logged-in users.	session	HTTP	LectureTube TU Wien

Name	Purpose	Lifetime	Type	Provider
_pk_id	Used to store a few details about the user such as the unique visitor ID.	13 months	HTML	Matomo TU Wien
_pk_ref	Is used to store the information of the users home website.	6 months	HTML	Matomo TU Wien
_pk_ses	Is needed to store temporary data of the visit.	30 minutes	HTML	Matomo TU Wien
nmstat	Is used to record the behaviour on the website. It is used to collect statistics about website usage, such as when the visitor last visited the website. The cookie does not contain any personal data and is only used for website analysis.	1000 days	HTML	Siteimprove
siteimproveses	Is used to track the sequence of pages that a visitor views during his/her visit to the website. The cookie does not contain any personal data and is used solely for website analysis.	session	HTTP	Siteimprove
AWSELB	Always occurs in pairs with siteimproveses (for load balancing on the provider server)	session	HTTP	Siteimprove

Name	Purpose	Lifetime	Type	Provider
_ga	Is needed to distinguish the sessions of the users from each other.	persistent	HTTP	Google Analytics
_gali	Is needed to determine which links are clicked on a page.	expires immediately	HTTP	Google Analytics
_gat	This is a function-related cookie, whose tasks may differ.	2 years	HTTP	Google Analytics
_gid	Is needed to distinguish users and create statistics.	24 hours	HTTP	Google Analytics
_gads	Required to enable websites to display advertising from Google, including personalized advertising.	13 months	HTTP	Google Analytics
_gac_	Required by advertisers to measure user activity and the performance of their advertising campaigns.	90 days	HTTP	Google Analytics
_gcl_	Required by advertisers to determine how often users who click on their ads end up taking an action on their website.	90 days	HTTP	Google Analytics
_gcl_au	Contains a randomly generated user ID.	90 days	HTTP	Google
_gcl_aw	Is set when users click on a Google ad on the website and contains information about which ad was clicked.	90 days	HTTP	Google
__utma	Is used to record visits and visitors.	2 years	HTTP	Google Analytics
__utmb	Is used to detect new visits.	30 minutes	HTTP	Google Analytics
__utmc	Is used in connection with __utmb to determine whether it is a new (recent) visit.	session	HTTP	Google Analytics
__utmd	Is used to store and track visitor journeys through the site and classifies them into groups (marketing/tracking).	1 second	HTTP	Google Analytics
__utmt	Is needed to limit the query rate on Google Analytics.	10 minutes	HTTP	Google Analytics
__utmz	Is needed to determine from which source/campaign visitors come.	6 months	HTTP	Google Analytics
__utmvc	Is needed to collect information about user behavior on multiple websites. This information is used to optimize the relevance of advertising on the website.	24 hours	HTTP	Google AdSense
utm_source	Is needed to tag URLs with parameters to identify the campaigns that forward traffic.	expires immediately	HTTP	Google Analytics
__utm.gif	Is needed to save browser details.	session	HTTP	Google Analytics
gtag	Is needed to perform remarketing.	30 days	HTTP	Google AdSense
id	Is needed to perform remarketing.	2 years	HTTP	Google AdWords
1P_JAR	Is needed to optimize advertising, provide ads that are relevant to users, improve campaign performance reports, or prevent users from seeing the same ads more than once.	2 years	HTTP	Google
AID	Is needed to activate targeted advertising.	2 years	HTTP	Google Analytics
ANID	Is needed to display Google ads on non-Google websites.	2 years	HTTP	Google AdSense
APISID	Unknown functionality	2 years	HTTP	Google Ads Optimization
AR	Is needed to profile visitors' interests and display relevant ads on other websites. This cookie works by uniquely identifying your browser and device.	2 years	HTTP	Google AdSense
CONSENT	Is needed to store the preferences of visitors and personalize advertising.	persistent	HTTP	Google
DSID	Is needed by DoubleClick for advertising displayed in various places on the web and used to store the preferences of users.	2 years	HTTP	Doubleclick
DV	Is needed to store user preferences and other information. This includes, in particular, the preferred language, the number of search results to be displayed on the page, and the decision whether or not to activate the Google SafeSearch filter.	2 years	HTTP	Google
HSID	Contains the Google account ID and the last login time of the user.	2 years	HTTP	Google
IDE	Is needed by DoubleClick to record and report the actions of users on the website after viewing or clicking on one of the provider's ads, with the purpose of measuring the effectiveness of an advertisement and displaying targeted advertisements to users.	2 years	HTTP	Doubleclick
LOGIN_INFO	Is used to store the credentials of users of Google services.	2 years	HTTP	Google
NID	Is used to store information about user settings.	6 months	HTTP	Google
OTZ	Is needed to link activities of visitors with other devices that are previously logged in via the Google account. In this way, advertising is tailored to different devices.	1 month	HTTP	Google
RUL	Is needed by DoubleClick to determine whether advertising has been displayed correctly in order to make marketing activities more efficient.	1 year	HTTP	Doubleclick
SAPISID	Is needed by YouTube to store user settings and to calculate user bandwidth.	persistent	HTTP	Google
SEARCH_SAMESITE	Enables servers to mitigate the risk of CSRF and information leakage attacks by specifying that a particular cookie may only be sent on requests originating from the same registerable domain.	6 months	HTTP	Google
SID	Contains the Google account ID and the last login time of the user.	2 years	HTTP	Google
SIDCC	Is needed to store information about user settings and information for Google Maps.	3 months	HTTP	Google
SSID	Is needed to collect visitor information for videos hosted by YouTube on Google Maps integrated maps.	persistent	HTTP	Google
__SECURE-1PAPISID	Is needed for targeting purposes to create a profile of the interests of website visitors.	2 years	HTTP	Google
__SECURE-1PSID	Is needed for targeting purposes to create a profile of the interests of website visitors.	2 years	HTTP	Google
__SECURE-3PAPISID	Is needed for targeting purposes to create a profile of the interests of website visitors.	2 years	HTTP	Google
__SECURE-3PSID	Is needed for targeting purposes to create a profile of the interests of website visitors.	2 years	HTTP	Google
__SECURE-3PSIDCC	Is needed for targeting purposes to create a profile of the interests of website visitors.	2 years	HTTP	Google
__SECURE-APISID	Is needed to profile the interests of website visitors in order to display relevant and personalized advertising through retargeting.	8 months	HTTP	Google
__SECURE-HSID	Is needed to secure digitally signed and encrypted data from the unique Google ID and to store the last login time that Google uses to identify visitors, prevent fraudulent use of login data, and protect visitor data from unauthorized parties. This may also be used for targeting purposes to display relevant and personalized advertising content.	8 months	HTTP	Google
__SECURE-SSID	Is needed to store information about how visitors use the site and about the ads they may have seen before visiting the site. Also used to customize ads on Google domains.	8 months	HTTP	Google
test_cookie	Is set as a test to check whether the browser allows cookies to be set. Does not contain any identification features.	15 minutes	HTTP	Google
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE	Is needed by YouTube to store user settings and to calculate user bandwidth.	6 months	HTTP	Youtube
facebook	Is used to Enable ad delivery or retargeting	90 days	HTTP	Meta (Facebook)
__fb_chat_plugin	Is needed to store and track interactions (marketing/tracking).	persistent	HTTP	Meta (Facebook)
_js_datr	Is needed to save user settings.	2 years	HTTP	Meta (Facebook)
_fbc	Is needed to save the last visit (marketing/tracking).	2 years	HTTP	Meta (Facebook)
fbm	Is needed to store account data (marketing/tracking).	1 year	HTTP	Meta (Facebook)
xs	Is needed to store a unique session ID (marketing/tracking).	1 year	HTTP	Meta (Facebook)
wd	Is needed to log the screen resolution.	1 week	HTTP	Meta (Facebook)
fr	Is needed to serve ads and measure and improve their relevance.	3 months	HTTP	Meta (Facebook)
act	Is needed to store logged in users (marketing/tracking).	90 days	HTTP	Meta (Facebook)
_fbp	Is needed to store and track visits to various websites (marketing/tracking).	3 months	HTTP	Meta (Facebook)
datr	Is needed to identify the browser for security and website integrity purposes, including account recovery and identification of potentially compromised accounts.	2 years	HTTP	Meta (Facebook)
dpr	Is used for analysis purposes. Technical parameters are logged (e.g. aspect ratio and dimensions of the screen) so that Facebook apps can be displayed correctly.	1 week	HTTP	Meta (Facebook)
sb	Is needed to store browser details and security information of the Facebook account.	2 years	HTTP	Meta (Facebook)
dbln	Is needed to store browser details and security information of the Facebook account.	2 years	HTTP	Meta (Facebook)
spin	Is needed for promotional purposes and social campaign reporting.	session	HTTP	Meta (Facebook)
presence	Contains the "chat" status of logged in users.	1 month	HTTP	Meta (Facebook)
cppo	Is needed for statistical purposes.	90 days	HTTP	Meta (Facebook)
locale	Is needed to save the language settings.	session	HTTP	Meta (Facebook)
pl	Required for Facebook Pixel.	2 years	HTTP	Meta (Facebook)
lu	Required for Facebook Pixel.	2 years	HTTP	Meta (Facebook)
c_user	Required for Facebook Pixel.	3 months	HTTP	Meta (Facebook)
bcookie	Is needed to store browser data (marketing/tracking).	2 years	HTTP	LinkedIn
li_oatml	Is needed to identify LinkedIn members outside of LinkedIn for advertising and analytics purposes.	1 month	HTTP	LinkedIn
BizographicsOptOut	Is needed to save privacy settings.	10 years	HTTP	LinkedIn
li_sugr	Is needed to store browser data (marketing/tracking).	3 months	HTTP	LinkedIn
UserMatchHistory	Is needed to provide advertising or retargeting (marketing/tracking).	30 days	HTTP	LinkedIn
linkedin_oauth_	Is needed to provide cross-page functionality.	session	HTTP	LinkedIn
lidc	Is needed to store performed actions on the website (marketing/tracking).	1 day	HTTP	LinkedIn
bscookie	Is needed to store performed actions on the website (marketing/tracking).	2 years	HTTP	LinkedIn
X-LI-IDC	Is needed to provide cross-page functionality (marketing/tracking).	session	HTTP	LinkedIn
AnalyticsSyncHistory	Stores the time when the user was synchronized with the "lms_analytics" cookie.	30 days	HTTP	LinkedIn
lms_ads	Is needed to identify LinkedIn members outside of LinkedIn.	30 days	HTTP	LinkedIn
lms_analytics	Is needed to identify LinkedIn members for analytics purposes.	30 days	HTTP	LinkedIn
li_fat_id	Required for indirect member identification used for conversion tracking, retargeting and analytics.	30 days	HTTP	LinkedIn
U	Is needed to identify the browser.	3 months	HTTP	LinkedIn
_guid	Is needed to identify a LinkedIn member for advertising via Google Ads.	90 days	HTTP	LinkedIn