Databases

De Gruyter stellt ein interdisziplinäres Zeitschriftenpaket mit geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlichem Zuschnitt bereit. Es handelt sich um 38 laufende Zeitschriftentitel, die überwiegend aus dem Fundus der von DeGruyter kürzlich akquirierten Verlage Oldenbourg, Akademie und transcript stammen. Der fachliche Schwerpunkt liegt in den Disziplinen Literatur-, Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaften.

DigiZeitschriften is a research service which offers an electronic archive of core German journals of scientific importance. These are mainly journals with a long-established tradition in their field. All magazines are available in full-text from their first year up to a so-called ?moving wall? (about 3-5 years before the current year, depending on the publication).

This resource gives access to bibliographical information and abstracts relating primarily to literature in English (monographs, periodicals, dissertations, conference reports, government reports) and audiovisual media in all areas of pedagogy, including schools and class instruction; kindergarten education; special education; primary, secondary, and tertiary education; teacher training; adult education; and vocational training. It draws on two directories: Resources in Education (RIE) and the Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE).

The FIS Bildung Literaturdatenbank has journal articles, monographs, chapters from collective volumes, gray literature, and online documents from the fields of pedagogy, empirical research on education, educational management, educational policy, the history of education, schools and instruction, higher education, basic and continuing vocational training, childhood, childcare, early childhood education, youth education, adult and continuing education, social and special pedagogy, media education, and social work.

The joint union catalogue (GVK) is the freely accessible section of the union database K10plus of the GBV and the SWB. The OLC are also accessible via this database. The OLC contain more than 48.8 million articles from more than 27,900 journals. Since its publication in 1993, this database has included tables of contents of journals of all disciplines with a special focus on the natural sciences. It is supplemented weekly with articles from more than 8,700 journals of different libraries. The Joint Union Catalogue (GVK) contains over 72.6 million titles with more than 183.0 million proofs of ownership of books, journals, articles, congress reports, microforms, electronic documents, data carriers, music, maps, etc. from approx. 1,110 GBV and SWB libraries. In addition, the journal references of all subito delivery libraries from Germany and Austria as well as other German university libraries are included.

JSTOR offers access to the full-text versions of predeminantly anglo-american journals starting with the first volume up to the so-called 'moving wall'. JSTOR is not a current issues database. Because of JSTOR's archival mission, there is a gap, typically from 1 to 5 years, between the most recently published journal issue and the content available in JSTOR. The WZB license agreement with JSTOR includes access to the following collections: The Arts & Sciences I Collection (119 titles), the Arts & Sciences II Collection (125 titles) and the Business Collection (47 titles).

In OLC you have access to over 40,8 million articles from over 25.870 scientific periodicals. They are updated daily and supplemented weekly with the tables of contents of more than 10.000 periodicals from Special Subject Collections. Please press 'availability' to see if a journal in your result list is in the wzb-library.

Oxford Journals belongs to Oxford University Press, the world's largest university publisher. The site encompasses 324 titles.

The HSS collection includes 196 journals about law, humanities and social sciences.

Periodicals Archive Online offers the back issues of electronic journals on culture, the humanities, and the social sciences. This resource encompasses more than 700 periodicals, totaling over 3 million articles (15 million pages). The license covers collections 1 through 6.

This index of historical periodicals facilitates bibliographical research in approximately 4,800 journals in the arts, humanities, and social science in one user interface. It covers the period from 1739 to 2000 and gives access to publications in over 37 specialized areas and more than 40 languages and dialects.

The database indexes journal essays, reports, congress reports, and other kinds of literature on all areas of sports sciences, including sports medicine and sports sociology. It also has abstracts dating back to 2001.

The site offers more than 705 electronic periodicals that appear with Sage Publications. They cover a wide range of subjects.

This resource encompasses around 370 periodicals of the archive packages available from Taylor & Francis (vols. 1 through the year 2000).

As a "newspaper documenting everything", the Times from London has been offering authoritative, award-winning coverage since 1785, information on parliamentary debates, critical interpretation of facts, and a unique historical insight into the views of major reporters and editions of the respective epoch. The Times Digital Archive is an unrivaled opportunity to explore the content of one of the most popular and most frequently cited daily newspapers - online and in the respective context of the original edition. Thanks to the full-text search and classification of each article, each issue can be searched through by keywords in the title or article text, author and subject categories. Afterwards, the article can be viewed completely and quickly on the screen as a full text or the whole page on which a requested article appears. In addition, it is possible to watch a certain issue of the newspaper from a particular day and "leaf through" it.

Torrossa/Periodici contains 230 periodicals by prominent Italian science publishers in the humanities and social sciences. The national license extends to all available archive years through 2010.

Web of Science (WoS) is an extensive, multidisciplinary, bibliographical database with references to contributions in journals, books, proceedings, and other sources in the social sciences, the arts and humanities, natural science, and engineering. The WZB has licensed the following ancillary data banks: -Science Citation Index Expanded (1995 -) - Social Sciences Citation Index (includes approximately 4,500 social science and economics journals from 55 disciplines, such as psychology, sociology, and anthropology, 1972 -) - Arts & Humanities Citation Index (with references to approximately 2,300 journals in the arts and humanities, 1975 -) - Book Citation Index (with books published, 2005 -) - Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science (CPCI-S, conferences, 1990 -) - Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Social Science & Humanities (CPCI-SSH, conferences, 1990 -) - Current Contents Connect (1998 -) - Data Citation Index (research data, 1900 -) - Derwent Innovations Index (edited patents, 1963 -) - Zoological Records (technical database, 1964 -) - Biosis Citation Index (technical database, 1928 -) - Index Chemicus (with search function for chemical structures, 1993 -) - Current Chemical Reactions (technical database, 1985 -) Another special feature of the WoS is that it lists each document's sources (cited references) and gives their citation frequency (times cited).

The site has the electronic files of the Blackwell Publishing Company (Wiley-Blackwell) back to 2005. This digitized resource has been in the making for several years. It currently provides 242 titles covering a broad spectrum of subject matter.

Online Wiley journals.