Databases
Here you can find databases licensed for the WZB and other electronic
ressouces.
For information on WZB licensed and freely accessible databases please visit DBIS, the "Database Information System" of the University Library of Regensburg. Information on DBIS holdings in general can be found here. (german only)
12 databases found.
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Fulltext database, Newspaper database
17th- 18th century Burney collection newspapers
Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: General / Interdisciplinary, History, Political Science Language: English Period: 1600 - 1800 The database contains digitized eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English newspapers and pamphlets (totaling 1,270 titles) from the collection of Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817). The documents include parliamentary publications and daily news from London, the British empire, neighboring countries, and their royal houses or governments. -
Fulltext database, Newspaper database
19th century British Library newspapers
Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: General / Interdisciplinary, History, Political Science Language: English Period: 1800 - 1900 This databank contains a representative selection from the extensive newspaper collection of the British Library. It offers full runs of 48 national and regional nineteenth-century British newspapers -
Fulltext database, Newspaper database
19th century U.S. newspapers
Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: History, Political Science, General / Interdisciplinary Language: English Period: 1800 - 1900 The database consists solely of the full-text English content of 500 newspapers from all U.S. states and territories. The compilation focuses on material published between 1800 and 1900 and focuses on the American Civil War, Afro-American culture and history, western immigration, and Antebellum-era life. -
Fulltext database
Afghan Serials Collection
Partisan publications from the Wahdat Library
Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: General / Interdisciplinary, History, Political Science Language: Arabic, English, Persian, Urdu The database is a collection of rare newspapers and journals from different political groups from the Wahdat Library, a comprehensive private collection from Afghanistan. The collection includes over 45 titles published from the early 1970s to the late 1990s, at a critical time in the country's history. The Afghan Serials Collection contains press reports from various political epochs and from the most diverse groups and currents that sought to shape the social and intellectual landscape at this turbulent time. They range from the Taliban to anti-Taliban rebels, anti-Soviet Jihadi and Mujahedin groups and the Afghan People's Democratic Party. The database contains unique press materials from a crucial era that shaped not only Afghanistan and the Middle East, but the entire world. With content not collected anywhere else, the collection is a testimony to the diverse and vibrant Afghan press and an important source for scholars and researchers in the region. The texts have been published in Persian, Pushtu, Arabic, Urdu or English. -
Fulltext database, Article database, E book database
Eighteenth century collections online
Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: General / Interdisciplinary, Geography, History, Natural Sciences / Technology, Philosophy, Art, Political Science, Law, Sociology, Linguistics and Literature Science Language: English Period: 1701 - 1800 Drawing on the English Short Title Catalogue, the Eighteenth Century Collections Online offers access to more than 180,000 titles of books, pamphlets, essays, and broadsheets that appeared primarily in Great Britain. The e-book collection contains works on history, geography, the fine arts, the social sciences, language and literature, theology and philosophy, law, medicine, natural science, and technology. Nearly 40 million pages are available for full-text searches with simple and advanced search criteria. -
Fulltext database, Article database
JSTOR
Research area: Sociology, Political Science, General / Interdisciplinary, Ethnology, Science, Economics, Philosophy, Linguistics and Literature Science, Educational Research, History, Art, Geography, Mathematics / Computer Science, Law Language: English 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). -
Fulltext database, Article database
Oxford journals
Access: Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: General / Interdisciplinary, Educational Research, Ethnology, Geography, History, Art, Mathematics / Computer Science, Medicine / Healthcare, Natural Sciences / Technology, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Law, Religion, Sociology, Linguistics and Literature Science, Economics Language: English Period: 1849 - 2017 Oxford Journals belongs to Oxford University Press, the world's largest university publisher. The site encompasses 324 titles. -
Fulltext database, Article database
Oxford journals- HSS collection (law, humanities, social science)
Access: Research area: General / Interdisciplinary, Educational Research, Ethnology, Geography, History, Philosophy, Political Science, Law, Religion, Sociology, Linguistics and Literature Science, Economics Language: English Holding information: 2018 - Period: 2018 - The HSS collection includes 196 journals about law, humanities and social sciences. -
Fulltext database, Article database
Periodicals archive online
PAO
Access: Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: General / Interdisciplinary, Educational Research, Ethnology, Geography, History, Information Science, Art, Philosophy, Political Science, Law, Sociology, Linguistics and Literature Science, Economics, Science Language: English Period: 1802 - 2000 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. -
Fulltext database, Article database
Sage journals online
Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: General / Interdisciplinary, Sociology, History, Educational Research, Philosophy, Political Science, Economics, Medicine / Healthcare, Ethnology, Geography, Information Science, Linguistics and Literature Science, Law, Natural Sciences / Technology, Psychology Period: 1879 - The site offers more than 705 electronic periodicals that appear with Sage Publications. They cover a wide range of subjects. -
Fulltext database, Article database
The Times digital archive
Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: General / Interdisciplinary, Educational Research, Ethnology, Geography, History, Art, Medicine / Healthcare, Natural Sciences / Technology, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Law, Religion, Sociology, Linguistics and Literature Science, Economics, Science Language: English Period: 1785 - 1985 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. -
Fulltext database, Article database
Wiley Zeitschriften- DEAL
Research area: Sociology, Economics, Psychology, Ethnology, Geography, Philosophy, History, Educational Research, Art, Political Science, Religion, Linguistics and Literature Science, Mathematics / Computer Science, Medicine / Healthcare, General / Interdisciplinary Language: English Online Wiley journals.