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)
26 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
Brill journal archive online
Access: Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: General / Interdisciplinary, History, Natural Sciences / Technology, Law, Sociology, Philosophy Language: English Period: 1890 - 2009 The site offers the archive data on 152 titles that have appeared with Brill Academic Publishers. The focus is on the humanities and the social sciences, international law, and selected areas in the natural sciences. Particular emphasis in the humanities lies on classical studies, theology and the history of religion, and the culture and history of the Near East. -
Fulltext database, Article database
British periodicals
Collection I & II
Access: Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: Art, Linguistics and Literature Science, General / Interdisciplinary, Political Science Language: English Period: 1681 - 2000 The database of British periodicals contains the full-text content of 493 journals of popular science, art, and British literature from the seventeenth through twentieth centuries. -
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, Newspaper database, Article database
Eighteenth century journals
Newspapers & periodicals 1685- 1815
Access: Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: General / Interdisciplinary, Sociology Language: English Period: 1685 - 1815 The collection has the full texts of more than 150 popular eighteenth-century periodicals published in Great Britain. The journals were drawn from the Hope Collection at the Bodleian Library in Oxford and from the sources at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center. The issues selected for digitization were those not already contained in Early English Books Online (EEBO), Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO), or Early English Newspapers. -
Fulltext database, Encyclopedia
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Academic edition
Research area: General / Interdisciplinary Language: English Britannica.com, a search and directory site featuring Encyclopædia Britannica, the Web's best sites, news, magazines and more. Additionally, Britannica premium service provides exclusive member access to 3 encyclopedias: the 32-volume Encyclopaedia Britannica, Britannica Student Encyclopedia, and Britannica Concise Encyclopedia. Membership also includes access to research tools, Merriam-Webster's dictionary and thesaurus, and rich multimedia-all in an advertising-free environment. -
Fulltext database, Reference book
Encyclopedia of social measurement
Research area: General / Interdisciplinary Language: English Access the full text of this leading encyclopedia (via ScienceDirect website) which contains more than 300 articles on the theory, history and technqiues of gathering and analysing data in the Social Sciences. Topics covered include research design, analytical techniques, data collection, the handling of datasets, measurement models and data interpretation. -
Fulltext database, Newspaper database
Financial Times historical archive
Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: General / Interdisciplinary, Economics Language: English Period: 1888 - 2010 The Financial Times Historical Archive contains the complete content of all printed issues of the Financial Times from 1888 through 2010. It also has the supplements entitled Financial Times Magazine and How to Spend It. Full-text searches can be used with all the content. The statistics and tables therein can be exported and downloaded. Each issue can be searched separately. -
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
Liebert online
Liebert online archive
Access: Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: General / Interdisciplinary, Medicine / Healthcare, Natural Sciences / Technology Language: English Period: 1.Jg - 2005 This resource is an electronic archive of the Mary Ann Liebert publishing company. It offers 59 journal titles from the fields of medicine, process engineering, technology and engineering science, biotechnology, and food technology. -
Fulltext database, Article database
The nation archive
Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: Political Science, General / Interdisciplinary Language: English Period: 1865 - 2010 The Nation Archive contains the complete full-text issues of The Nation from its first issue of 1865 to 2010. As the oldest continuously published weekly periodical devoted to politics and culture, this publication has shaped critical opinion and development in the United States and elsewhere for 143 years. -
Fulltext database, Statistics, Factual database
OECD iLibrary
Research area: General / Interdisciplinary, Political Science, Sociology, Economics, Educational Research, Law Language: English Period: 1961 - The OECD iLibrary includes all OECD books published since 1998. That means, a total of 8.330 books in PDF format with an additional 300 books annually. Over 20 OECD magazine series in PDF format, dated from 1961. All new releases will be included in the collection. Direct access to 23 OECD statistical databases. The IEA databases are not included. -
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, E book database
SpringerLink / Springer Online journal archives
Access: Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: General / Interdisciplinary, Natural Sciences / Technology, Mathematics / Computer Science Language: English Period: 1860 - 2002 The archive contains the full texts of more than 1,050 periodicals of the Springer Publishing Company (including Kluwer), generally as of vol. 1 through the year 2002. The Lecture Notes archive, too, is available in the Springer online journal archives and dates back to 2009. It contains 3,593 volumes in the following series, from vol. 1 through the year 1996: Computer Science, Control and Information Science, Earth Sciences, Mathematics, and Physics. -
Fulltext database, Statistics, Factual database
Statista
Corporate account
Research area: General / Interdisciplinary, Economics Language: German, English, French, Spanish Statista is a port that clusters statistical data from various institutes and sources. It offers statistics on more than 60,000 topics from over 18,000 sources across 20 categories of economic activity ranging from farming to administration and social affairs. The key content of this site consists of data that is relevant to decision-making yet both difficult to ferret out and complicated to analyze and interpret. They are drawn mostly from studies and results of current market research. The source, date of publication, number of persons surveyed, and other available metadata on each statistic are published, so the figures can be checked on Statista. Analyses and interpretations of data sets are based on scientific criteria. Note: The language selection not only changes the language, but also changes the content. In the selection "German", the focus is on Germany, Austria and Switzerland, with the selection "English" the focus is on USA, China, UK, Europe. The selection "French" and "Spanish" refers to the respective country. -
Fulltext database, Article database
Taylor & Francis online archives
Access: Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: General / Interdisciplinary, Mathematics / Computer Science, Natural Sciences / Technology, Economics, Educational Research, Psychology, Medicine / Healthcare Language: English Period: 1799 - 2000 This resource encompasses around 370 periodicals of the archive packages available from Taylor & Francis (vols. 1 through the year 2000). -
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 - 2011 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, Newspaper database, Article database
Times literary supplement historical archive
Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: Sociology, Linguistics and Literature Science, General / Interdisciplinary Language: English Period: 1902 - 2011 The Times Literary Supplement (TLS) historical archive encompasses the full text of all TLS issues from the first number of 1902 through part of 2011. It affords a panorama of the works by prominent authors and thinkers in that period. It also contains theater, movie, music, and exhibition reviews. The database is completely searchable in full-text, including searches for anonymous articles, and has simple and advanced search criteria. -
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. -
Fulltext database, Statistics, Factual database
World Bank e-atlas of global development
Access: - free access
Research area: Geography, Sociology, Economics, Political Science, General / Interdisciplinary Language: English The database comprises the 175 development indicators from the printed Atlas of Global Development. One can select the facts either by using the search function or by browsing topics. The data are diagrammed and presented as comparisons between countries. Users must register to export the data, but there is no charge. -
Fulltext database, Factual database, Annual
The world factbook
Access: - free access
Research area: General / Interdisciplinary, Geography, Political Science, Economics Language: English This site gives access to material from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency about all counties in the world. The information is primarily political, economic, and geographic in nature.