For industry and the public
The general public and users from Danish industry are welcome to use DTU Library online. The library in Lyngby is open to everyone when Library Service is staffed - and the entrance doors open without a card.
See opening hours for Library Service
Walk-in PCs
In the library in Lyngby, we offer public access to a number walk-in PCs, with internet access, and users not affiliated with DTU can search materials and databases that we cannot make available to the public outside DTU Campus. Thus, services to the walk-in PCs are limited.
DTU Findit - the online library
With DTU Findit, our online library, you will find scientific journals, books, and subject-related databases covering the DTU research areas, i.e., natural, technical, and related disciplines. You can use DTU Findit without a DTU login, but this will only give you access to a small part of the information we provide access to.
Search in DTU Findit
Get access to DTU Findit
Scientific articles
Outside of DTU, we provide app. 90 million scientific articles available via DTU Findit.
Articles that have been published in Open Access are app. 33 million and can be downloaded directly from DTU Findit.
Articles can otherwise be bought with a credit card and downloaded directly, or they can be printed for free at the libraries' walk-in PCs at both Lyngby. You also have access to more than 180 million articles from the PCs in the library as part of our licenses.
See also the page
Alternative ways to get articles
DTU publications
Find scientific articles published by DTU researchers in DTU's research database, DTU Orbit.
Search in DTU Orbit
Books
E-books
Our e-book collections, with app. 450.000 e-books, cannot be accessed outside of DTU and are not found in DTU Findit without a DTU login. However, the e-books can be searched for and read on the walk-in PCs in the libraries at Lyngby.
Printed books
Our almost 290,000 printed books can be searched and ordered for collection in the library via DTU Findit. Please note that our printed collection has not been updated for decades; the books are old.
To be able to borrow the printed books, you must be registered as a user. Business customers must register as a private person to borrow books. Private patrons can collect ordered books from the library; the books are never sent.
See how to borrow books
Books that DTU Library does not have in our collection must be ordered through your public library.
Other databases
DTU Library makes a number of databases and tools available within DTU's subject area. Most can be used from the walk-in PCs in Lyngby - but everyone can see which databases we have license to.
Other search tools