Locations: Central campus library; Stock: Over 2.3 million media; high proportion of electronic media (books, journals, databases), including approx. 66,000 licensed electronic journals; Approx. 95% of the print stock is freely accessible; Services: Central place of work and study of the university, opening hours Mon. - Fri. until midnight, Sat. - Sun. from 07:30 to 8:30pm; Open 106 hours/week; Individual workspaces, individual workrooms and group work areas; WiFi, printing and scanning stations; Cash dispensers; self-service borrowing; Returns machine; Catalogue: Discovery system with catalogue enrichment (indexed table of contents); Open access support: Publication Service, Publication Fund, URN, DOI, ORCID Centre, DEA; Digitisation infrastructure; Support for teaching and studies, including electronic seminar equipment; Excellent advisory and training services
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There is a foreign language centre. Languages offered: English, French, German as a Foreign Language, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Swedish, Polish, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Latin, Arabic, Turkish, Ancient Greek, Quranic Arabic, Hebrew, Dutch, Finnish, Korean, Modern Greek, German Sign Language and Ukrainian.
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The university offers its own sports programme. Students attending the institution can participate in the sports programme of all higher education institutions in NRW. Some courses are free of charge, some subject to fees. People from outside the university can participate in the sports programme. Extensive weekend programme; Variety; Trend sports; Particular focus on health-enhancing measures for students and employees (mobile massage, preventive sports programme, health training for employees aged 35+, break-time exercises, beneFIT, recharge); health training centre with 600 places, golf academy with driving range and 18-hole golf course on campus, indoor climbing wall, health pass for students.
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