Tips and tricks for the search

In this field you can enter a keyword that appears in the title of an article. The word search is right-truncated, i.e. the search can continue to the right of the keyword.

Here you can filter by publication date. You can specify the search by year, month or even day (and also combine them).

Please note the following input formats:

By year: YYYY (e.g. 2023)
By month: MM/YYYY (e.g. 02/2023)
By day: DD.MM.YYYY or YYYYMMDD (e.g. 01.02.2023 or 20230201)

Please keep in mind that this is a right-truncated search. That is, to the right of the search term, it can go on as you wish. For example, if you search for "Thomas Mann", works by authors such as "Thomas Mannheim" may also appear in the subsequent hit list.

You can also work with multiple search terms in the field. For example, if you are interested in the correspondence between Goethe and Schiller, simply enter "Goethe Schiller" (separated by spaces) in the search field. Both names must then appear in the author field in order to be considered as a hit.

Here you can specify the price range for the hits. You do not have to name cent amounts.

So if you want the price range to be between €10 and €20, it is sufficient to type in "10" and "20" instead of "10.00" and "20.00".

Our catalog knows a variety of media forms. Therefore, it is worthwhile to reduce them to the ones you prefer, so that the hit list contains even more targeted results.

Similar to the search fields "Title" and "Author / Publisher", this is a right-truncated search. That is, it can continue to the right of the search word as desired.

You also do not have to include the word "Publisher" in the search. For example, if you are looking for books published by Suhrkamp Verlag, simply enter "Suhrkamp" in the search field. Since the publisher is entered in our database under "Suhrkamp", the search word "Suhrkamp Verlag" would not generate any matching hits.

Complete publishing house names are also not necessary. For example, if you are interested in books published by C.H. Beck Verlag, it is sufficient to enter "Beck" instead of "C.H. Beck" as a search term. So you don't necessarily need to know the complete publishing house names.

The ISBN or EAN is an excellent way to uniquely identify an item. You can enter the ISBN or EAN with or without hyphens.

Furthermore, this search field is a true universal tool. In addition to an ISBN or EAN, you can also enter any keyword that covers several search fields at the same time. So if you are unsure in which field you should enter your search word, just do it here.

The following search fields will be considered:

• Author / Publisher
• Description text
• EAN
• Year of publication
• ISBN
• ISSN
• Media type
• Series
• Keywords
• Title
• Subtitle
• Publisher

You can also filter your hits by deliverability. So you may want to exclude not or not yet available titles already in advance to get only already available items displayed as a result.

If you are interested in a particular series, this search field is the right place for you to start.

An example: Under the series "Gelbe Erläuterungsbücher" the publisher C.H. Beck publishes legal commentaries that are tailored to the special requirements of practice. So if you enter this designation in the "Series" search field, all the commentaries in this series will be displayed.

If you check this box, you will only be shown articles that are available in our Schweitzer Vademecum.

This is a renowned, editorially supervised specialized catalog that contains books, e-books, journals, databases and loose-leaf works from the subject areas of law and taxation.

This should be particularly useful for lawyers, tax firms, companies, municipalities and public authorities who are specifically interested in a selected range of legal books.

Here you can conveniently filter for English or German language articles.