The library holds about 6.000 monographs, 11.000 volumes of journals, dissertations and an extentive collection of offprints.
Max-Planck-Information Services
Information Retrieval Services MPS (IVS-BM)
Max-Planck multimedial - Informationservices
Ovid (Collection of reference databases within the Max-Planck-Society)
Libraries and library networks
BioOne (Database Full-Text Journals)
Electronic Journals Library (EZB)
ZDB (Databases for serial titels)
High Wire (Free online full-text articles)
Bavarian Library Networks (searching worldwide)
Karlsruher Virtual Catalogue (searching worldwide)
Library Johann Christian Senckenberg (University of Frankfurt)
vifabio: The Virtual Library of Biology
Electronic resources on ornithology
The European Ornithologists' Union
Natural History Resources - Ornithology
Searchable ornithological research archive
The Birds of North America Online
Rules for quotation, abbrevations
The World Wide Web Acronym and Abbrevation Server
More useful links
Scirus (Scientific search machine)
Abebooks (worldwide searching for new, used and antiquarian books)