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Support for your final assignment
Use the special library services for your bachelor's or master's thesis!
VIP status for graduates
- longer loan periods
- privileged reservations
- mobile lockers
As soon as you can name a topic and a supervising professor of your bachelor's thesis, please let us know in person or by e-mail. You will then be granted some privileges. Master students receive VIP status automatically.
You can now borrow up to 50 books. The loan period will automatically be extended 5 times. Please present books you have borrowed before status change at the library counter and have them transferred to the automatic loan period extension.
Please note: There is no guarantee that you can keep books for half a year. If a reservation is made by somebody else, you must return the reserved medium at the end of its individual loan period. In that case, you will receive an email notification in advance. We also recommend to check your user account in the InfoGuide regularly. If you do not return a reserved medium on time, you will have to pay reminder fees as usual.
With graduate status you can also reserve or lend mobile lockers.
Library courses
Library courses on research, citation and the reference management software Citavi (in German language):
Additional courses to support you with writing your assignments by the Career Service of the University of Applied Sciences (e.g. MS Word or LaTeX).
Relevant video tutorials for self-studies via LinkedIn Learning (also in English).
Book requests
If possible, we will purchase the books you need for your final assignment. Please use the form for acquisition proposals.
In case of literature published by print-on-demand firms like Grin, Diplomica, VdM etc., we reserve the right to carefully check the price-performance ratio.
More specific information of the university's faculties: Richtlinien & Leitfäden der Fakultäten
Mobile lockers
Carrels
A carrel is a single cabin. There are three of these individual study rooms in the library. The equipment includes: sockets, LAN connections, a comfortable office chair and a whiteboard with pens and magnets. A standing fan is also available for hot summer days. Make the library your office!
Useful software
Technical aids
Plagiarism detection
Members of the University of Applied Sciences Augsburg may use the plagiarism detection software PlagScan for free.
You can upload your assignments via Moodle or the PlagScan tool of the library.
PlagScan compares your text with its internal archive, websites, journals, documents of several publishers and so on. Similar passages will be marked and lead to the so-called "PlagLevel".
A high PlagLevel is no proof for plagiarism! Quite often, standard phrases and even correct references are marked. Just check the relevant passages to see if you have quoted properly and indicated the source of your reference.
weitere Info-Portale rund um die Abschlussarbeit
Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten: Videos, Links, Tests und sonstige Begleitmaterialien zum Buch "Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftler" (5. Aufl.) von Claus Ebster und Lieselotte Stalzer
Citavi-Blog "Nützliche Irrtümer": Nützliches und Unterhaltsames für Wissenschaft und Studium
Thesius.de: Themenideen, Blog mit FAQs, Umfragetool
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www.die-bachelorarbeit.de: Finden Sie ein Thema für Ihre Bachelorarbeit: mehr als 1.200 aktuelle Themenvorschläge von Unternehmen aus allen Fachbereichen.