All monographs in print, Lehrbuch Alert textbook service, new-title service, approval plans, standing orders, journals, antiquarian titles and journal articles.
35 years of Missing Link · 1991–2026
Books, e-books and data for your library
We supply academic libraries in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the Benelux countries, as well as state and regional libraries and federal libraries. We also work with public libraries on specific projects. Print or digital, we import from every country and source for every subject. You have personal contacts for everything to do with acquisitions.
- Monographs, standing orders and journals
- E-books as single titles, packages, EBS and DDA
- EDI integration with your library system
- E-invoices: XRechnung, ZUGFeRD and EDI
35years of serving
libraries
libraries
70 m+title records
in eBiml35
in eBiml35
DACHand Benelux,
publications from all over the world
publications from all over the world
eGcooperative since 2005,
owner-managed
owner-managed
News
Visit us at the Frankfurt Book Fair, 7–11 October 2026! We look forward to talking to you. Arrange a meeting
Services
Everything for your acquisitions from a single source
Books, journals, standing orders and databases, in print and digital. Our focus is on German- and English-language publications in all subjects. We find you the best balance of price and delivery time.
E-books and digital
Single titles via Kortext and 123Library, collections and packages from all publishers plus pick & choose where the publisher allows it. Also evidence-based selection, demand-driven acquisition and ePreferred.
More on e-booksDatabases and data
Subscription and purchase of all major databases. Exclusively in the DACH region: Nielsen BookData as application, web service and raw data.
More on databasese-preferred and duplicate check
We check your orders for electronic editions according to your rules and match them against your holdings before anything arrives twice.
Shelf-ready delivery
Security strips, QR codes, bookplates, shelf marks and accessioning, plus binding and jacketing on request. Your books arrive ready for the shelf.
EDI and e-invoicing
EDIFACT orders and invoices with Alma, SISIS, Koha, PICA and many other systems. Invoices as XRechnung, ZUGFeRD and EDI.
Individual terms
A pricing model that fits your budget, worked out with you in person.
A pricing model that fits your budget, worked out with you in person.
Current offers
Special publisher products on favourable terms. See offers (German)
Special publisher products on favourable terms. See offers (German)
Personal service
Your own sales representative and direct lines to our specialist teams. Find your contact
Your own sales representative and direct lines to our specialist teams. Find your contact
Portals
Your tools for acquisitions and e-book management
Our electronic ordering and information system
- Search more than 70 million titles, print and e-book side by side
- eVa new-title service with regular selection lists
- Keep track of orders, invoices and budgets
- For your whole library team
Discovery service and e-books for your campus
- List all your e-books in addition to your OPAC
- Better discoverability through abstracts and full-text search
- Create course reserves and view usage statistics
- Search and order e-books
Open access
Shape open access with us: Purchase to Open
P2O is a collective funding model that lets libraries jointly make individual academic monographs open access. It fits into the acquisition channels you already use: approval plans, new-title services, ordering via eBiml and discovery in miliBib. Missing Link launched P2O together with partners from the book trade and the library world.
Beyond P2O we support further open access models, including those of Knowledge Unlatched, The Company of Biologists and Bristol University Press.
About us
Bookselling, librarianship and IT under one roof
Missing Link was founded in Bremen in 1991 and has been a registered cooperative (eG) since 2005. All founders and members of the cooperative work in the company themselves.
Our team brings together booksellers, librarians, specialists from many academic disciplines, IT and shipping. We develop our ordering and invoicing workflows, our portals and our data pipelines ourselves.
- Bremen Head office, administration and shipping
- Berlin, Bottrop Field sales
- USA and UK Branches for export, logistics and publisher relations
Shaping what comes next
Together with our customers we take part in cataloguing and other library projects, support specialised information services (FID), refine EBS and PDA models and work towards metadata exchange without media breaks.
Bremer eBook-Tag
For more than twenty years we have hosted the Bremer eBook-Tag (Bremen eBook Day), where librarians and publishing professionals present, examine and question developments in the digital media world. The eBook-Tag gives Missing Link and its guests room for close exchange on the big and small questions of the library world, and is already recognised in many places as a professional development event.
Publishers we work closely with
For many of these publishers, especially small and mid-sized houses, we also handle distribution to the book trade in the German-speaking countries. All publishers and their subjects
Talk to us
Whether you need a new customer account, an offer for your budget or have a question about a delivery: our specialist teams are available Monday to Friday, 8 am to 6 pm (CET). We are also happy to visit you.