Primo search tips

Primo is the library's discovery tool. Use it to search all media provided via Mannheim University Library: books, e-books, journals, e-journals, DVDs and audiobooks.

You can find many journal articles in the search area „Articles & University Library Holdings“. Or extend your search by using our databases.

University Library Holdings

Here you find more than 2.2 million holdings of Mannheim University Library including books, e-books, journals, e-journals, CDs, DVDs and psychological tests.

Articles & University Library Holdings

Here you search 100 million additional items for e-journal articles, more e-books, and research papers.

Inter-Library Loan

Your search brought no results? Here you can search the holdings of all academic libraries in Germany and order your item with just a few clicks.

Enter one or more search terms. Primo will return results that contain all the terms.

Search tips:

• Use quotation marks to search for phrases - e.g. „global warming“.

• Use OR to return results that contain either of the terms you have entered - e.g. irish OR celtic.

• Type NOT before a search term to exclude this term from your search - e.g. celtic NOT irish excludes „irish“.

• Use * to replace letters at the end of your search term - e.g. europ* will find european, Europe, Europa and more.

• Use ? to replace a single letter in a search term - e.g. wom?n will find woman and women.

Expert tip:

Use () to combine different search queries - e.g. Schiller (play OR dram*) will find results containing Schiller and play as well as results containing Schiller and words with dram-.

Your search results are arranged by relevance. In the column „tweak results“ on the left you can sort your results list:

• by date - ascending or descending
• alphabetically by author or title

Use additional filter options, for example to see only the newest results.

In the column on the left under „Tweak results“ you can filter your results by one or more criteria:

• Resource type
• Creation date
• Language
• Library
• Topic and more …

You see the active filters on the top of the left column. Here you can also delete some or all filters.