Databases

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.

This collection is an interdisciplinary database that references articles from 1,144 arts and humanities journals. It also includes articles selected from 7,000 other periodicals in the natural sciences and social sciences. It provides bibliographic and citation information for articles cited in the listed publications

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 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.

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.

The site gives access to about 250 journals, which cover a broad spectrum of subjects in the humanities and the natural sciences. Most of the titles from the area of science, technology, and medicine (STM) date from 1998 onward. All backfiles are available for most of the titles in the humanities (H). All the journals have a one-year period between their latest issue available in JSTOR and their most recently published issue.

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).

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 library of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung is a large specialist scientific library and acquires mainly literature in the following areas: History and present of the German and international labour movement, in particular of German social democracy, German and international social and contemporary history, Publications by political parties and trade unions from Germany and selected European countries, all publications of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung from Germany and abroad.

The joint union catalogue (GVK) is the freely accessible section of the union database K10plus of the GBV and the SWB. The 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. Titles that are only available in SWB libraries are hidden. 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).

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.

In OLC you have access to over 40,8 million articles from over 25.870 scientific periodicals. They are updated 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 site offers more than 705 electronic periodicals that appear with Sage Publications. They cover a wide range of subjects.

The database pertains to Slavonic studies and eastern Europe and offers essays from a host of periodicals addressing topics in the humanities and social sciences. Many of them, including the "thick journals" (tolstye zurnaly), treat literature and language. Numerous others are literary journals for science and popular science and journals of the Russian Academy of Sciences. All issues are available in full-text versions with their original pagination.

Access to nearly all Springer titles since 1997 in the volume of 2184 journals.

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.

Torrossa contains approximately 1,500 monographs and congress reports of well-known Italian science publishers. These e-books address significant aspects of the humanities and the social sciences from a comparative perspective in the fields of archeology, history, classical studies, linguistics, music, philosophy, art, pedagogy, library sciences, sociology, and the study of the language and literature of Italy. A full-text search is possible across all e-books.

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.