Databases

America's Historical Newspapers, published by Readex, is one of the most comprehensive digitized collections of newspapers that appeared in the United States of America between 1690 and 1922. In addition to newspapers of supraregional importance, this gives access to newspapers from 50 U.S. states in order to provide the most representative coverage possible of all American regions. The collection has German-American periodicals of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as well. The national license, which is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), encompasses series I and II completely and (with few exceptions) III. A selection of titles covering a longer period is available from series IV and V as well. Access to the American State Papers, 1789-1838 is also included.

Annual Reviews has published 43 collective volumes containing critical, state-of-the-art, scholarly research in specialized areas of scientific inquiry. The editorial board consists of recognized scholars from Stanford University, the University of California, Princeton, and Harvard.

The social sciences collection of the annual reviews includes 13 titles: - Annual review of anthropology - Annual review of clinical psychology - Annual review of criminology - Annual review of developmental psychology - Annual review of environment and resources - Annual review of law and social science - Annual review of linguistics - Annual review of organizational psychology and organizational behavior - Annual review of political science - Annual Review of psychology - Annual review of public health - Annual review of sociology - Annual review of statistics and its application

Die Datenbank Area Studies: Japan bietet eine breite Palette von Quellen von Schriftstellern, Diplomaten, Touristen, Geschäftsleuten und Missionaren. Diese dokumentieren die politische, kulturelle und soziale Geschichte Japans von 1400 bis zum 20. Jahrhundert. Highlights: Mittelalterliche Manuskripte über Japan, darunter ein Bericht von Marco Polo, oder das Logbuch von William Adams (1564 - 1620), alias Miura Anjin, der erste Engländer, der Japan besucht hat. Außerdem Zeitschriften, Druckartikel und andere Papiere von William Elliot Griffis (1843 - 1928), amerikanischer Autor, Lehrer und Bildungsreformer in Japan.

The Book Citation Index contains over 40,000 (as per 2013) editorially selected scientific books (online and print editions) published since 2005 in a wide range of disciplines. 10,000 new titles are to be added each year, including volumes published as a series. As a module in the Web of Science Core Collection, the Book Citation Index adds over 13.5 million references to that collection. Among other things, it allows users to search for comprehensive bibliographic information and to display the accurate numbering of citations (in journals, conference papers, and books).

The link offers 138 journal titles in the humanities and social sciences published up to and including 2011. Among the main subject areas covered are history, political science and international relations, regional studies, classical studies, and the study of language and linguistics.

At the moment there is no access to the site, if you are interested you can register personally on the site www.nationallizenzen.de and then also access the current content. The C.E.E.O.L archive has all the articles from 446 journals appearing in and pertaining to the countries of the eastern central and southeastern Europe if it was placed on the C.E.E.O.L platform by December 31, 2009. The content focuses on the humanities and the social sciences. Most of these periodicals are academic publications. Others are cultural journals and political journals.

Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is the most comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs.

Covers the proceedings of conferences, symposiums, seminars, workshops, and congresses worldwide. The "Cited Reference Search" tool allows users to identify the conference proceedings that were cited most frequently.

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.

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.

The EIU Country Reports Archive contains all country reports published by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) from 1996 through June 2011. The country reports feature information on economic and political developments and on foreign trade, as well as overviews of the most important economic indicators.

The collection contains thematically arranged essays as well as source and data material on a wide range of topics relating to colonialism and imperialism. Scholarly texts introduce the material and suggest pathways to relevant sources in five thematic sections (Cultural Contacts, 1492-1969; Empire Writing & the Literature of Empire; The Visible Empire; Religion & Empire; and Race, Class, Imperialism, and Colonialism, 1607-2007).

The information offered by Genios encompasses more than 1,300 databases, 340 daily and weekly newspapers, 140 million details about businesses, 800 professional journals, 20,000 e-books, 270,000 market studies, and 3 million details about individuals.

The digitized collection of the work of the Dutch physician and feminist Aletta H. Jacobs is the world's largest full-text database on the history of women and of feminism. It consists of books, periodicals and pamphlets, reflecting the development of feminist consciousness and the women's rights movement. Covering four centuries it is much more far-reaching than the existing national licenses. The collection contains approximately 2 million pages of publications from Europe, North America and New Zealand in 15 different languages. wo segments are included: Periodical Series (256 journals, with 471,875 articles, over 95,000 of them in German) Monograph Language Series (4,291 monographs and pamphlets): 2,336 English songs, 929 German songs, 734 French titles, 472 titles in 12 other languages (E-book collection)

The GESIS - Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences focuses its research services on the digital, preferably free, availability and reusability of publications (Open Access) and research data (Open Data) and related information. The GESIS search offers information on social science research data and Open Access publications. The results can be filtered by the following categories: Research Data (including SowiDataNet and DBK-database), Questions & Variables, Instruments & Tools, Publications (including SSOAR. Solis and Sofis), GESIS Library and GESIS web pages. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

Containing more than 500 million documents, Integrum World Wide is the largest full-text database of Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). The electronic full texts in Russian and English focus on the politics, culture, economy, and society of Russia and the CIS countries. The database contains materials such as hourly updates from the Russian and English press (regional and supraregional newspapers and journals as well as TV and radio monitoring services), statistics (Goskomstat), legal texts, government publications, letters patents (Rospatent), fiction, biographical databases of the Russian Academy of Sciences (INION), Internet sources, address and telephone books, and business directories (Yellow Pages).

The International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) is an essential online resource for social science and interdisciplinary research. IBSS includes over two million bibliographic references to journal articles and to books, reviews and selected chapters dating back to 1951. It is unique in its broad coverage of international material and incorporates over 100 languages and countries. Over 2,800 journals are regularly indexed and some 7,000 books are included each year. Abstracts are provided for half of all current journal articles.

Journal Citation Reports is a comprehensive and unique resource tool that allows you to evaluate and compare journals using citation data drawn from over 7,000 scholarly and technical journals from more than 3,300 publishers in over 60 countries. It is the only source of citation data on journals, and includes virtually all specialties in the areas of science, technology, and social sciences. Journal Citation Reports can show you the: most frequently cited journals in a field, the highest impact journals in a field, the hottest journals in a field, the leading journals in a field, the most published articles in a field.

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).

The Making of the Modern World is a comprehensive collection of literature on economics from the second half of the fifteenth century through the mid-nineteenth century. It is important chiefly for research on early economic, political, and social history. The site draws on collections of the Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature at the University of London and on the Kress Library of Business and Economics of Harvard University's Graduate School of Business Administration. The Making of the Modern World grants full-text access to more than 61,000 books that appeared between 1460 and 1850 as well as 466 series and individual journals predating 1906-nearly 12 million pages in all. The site focuses on economic activity in the broadest sense, including political science, history, sociology, and additional other special collections on transport, banking and finance, and the crafts.

Articles from several thousand magazines, periodicals and newspapers are contained in the archive as well as daily updated in full text, e.g., Berliner Zeitung, Financial Times (London), The Independent, Le Monde, New York Times, NZZ Folio, El Pais, Der Spiegel, Der Tagesspiegel, Die TAZ, The Times. The World, The Time. Not included: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frankfurter Rundschau, Handelsblatt, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Wall Street Journal. Nexis Uni also contains: company and financial information, information on business, politics and current affairs, economic analyses, country reports and legal information (US, UK and EU law and law of other countries such as Australia, France, Northern Ireland, Mexico, Argentina). Search help: The source search is in the large search line above. The selected source is displayed on the left. You get a list of all sources: Nexis Uni Content Listing Key-Excel version. https://www.lexisnexis.com/doc/nexisuni/Nexis%20Uni%20--%20Content%20Listing%20--%20February%202019.xlsx If you copy a newspaper link from the list and call it up, the source is set as a filter. Note: you can only download 100 documents at a time. This is not done by selecting "print e.g. 1-130", but by selecting the documents of one page, then selecting the documents of the next page, etc. until you reach 100 documents. Then you can download the documents. Then you can repeat the process for the other documents. Increasing the result display: You can register to make individual settings such as increasing the number of hits per page. Click on SignIn / Register at the top right of the page and create a user ID. If you are logged in to Nexis Uni with your user ID, you will see the name you have assigned in the upper right corner of the screen and, using the pop-up function, also "Settings". Here you can increase the number of hits up to 50 per page. You can set up alerts when you are logged in: perform a search, then click on the bell next to "Results for...", enter your email address at the "Deliver" tab (scroll down), create an alert.

The offer includes the e-books, monographs and anthologies of the years 2017 - 2018 contained in the Nomos eLibrary (will be successively extended by a Moving-Wall regulation with an embargo of one year) from the following fields: Political science, economics, media and communication science, history, sociology, European politics, philosophy, social work / social economy, law basics, civil law, labour and social law, European law, international law, international law, public law, criminal law.

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.

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.

This database contains topics under public discussion and combines PAIS Archive and PAIS International, offering titles from 1915 to the present. The sources include journal articles, books, government documents, statistical indexes, gray literature, research reports, conference papers, publications by international agencies, microfiches, and information material from the Internet. The database affords a broad look at public policies and social policies from several perspectives, ranging from Prohibition, the Civil Rights Movement, and the McCarthy era to current viewpoints on health, climate change, and terrorism.

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

Provides access to current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references found in over 2,474 of the world's leading scholarly social sciences journals covering more than 50 disciplines. This database is part of Web of Science.

SocINDEX contains more than 1.5 million records, with subject headings from a 20,000 term sociological thesaurus.Included are abstracts for 750 core journals with a very few which date back as far back as 1895. Also covered are some 575 related journals, and selected items from another 2,800 journals.Also indexes books, conference papers, and other non-periodical sources. You can access SocINDEX with full text by remote access via Stabi or by registration via SocioHub.

Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from thousands of serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers. Records published by Sociological Abstracts in print during the database's first 11 years, 1952-1962, have been added to the database extending the depth of the backfile of this authoritative resource. Since 2002, most records from scholarly journals also include the references cited in the bibliography of the source article. These references are linked both within Sociological Abstracts and across other social science databases available on ProQuest.

SOFIS provides information about theoretical and empirical research projects in the social sciences. It contains detailed descriptions of planned, ongoing, and completed research projects from the Federal Republic of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. 2000 - 217.

SOLIS provides information about social science literature from German-speaking countries or scientists: books and compilations, journal articles and reader articles, and grey literature (including unpublished GDR research reports). The total number of social science documents in SOLIS was 450,000 in January 2014, each presented with a short abstract. Time Period: 1945 - 2017.

SSOAR is an open access server with freely available full-text social science documents. SSOAR offers scholars in the social sciences and neighboring subject areas the organizational and technical conditions for making published scientific documents available electronically. Also included in Wiso Sozialwissenschaften https://www.wiso-net.de/.

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.

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.

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.

The World Bank e-library is a database of more than 6,000 World Bank documents indexed in full-text. The compilation consists of more than 2,000 publications by the World Bank, over 3,200 policy research working papers, and all other papers and new publications.