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)
31 databases found.
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Bibliographic database
bibs vs. virus | unser angebot
Research area: General / Interdisciplinary, Educational Research, History, Mathematics / Computer Science, Medicine / Healthcare, Natural Sciences / Technology, Philosophy, Political Science, Law, Sociology, Economics, Science Language: German bibs vs. virus | unser Angebot (DBIS Corona) of the University of Regensburg contains an overview of offers which have been made temporarily freely accessible by publishers or which temporarily extend the license offer free of charge. -
Database
Book citation index / social science & humanities
Web of scienceResearch area: General / Interdisciplinary, Sociology, Political Science, Economics, Educational Research, Ethnology, Linguistics and Literature Science, History, Art, Philosophy, Law, Science, Psychology, Geography, Information Science Language: English Period: 2005 - 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). -
Database
Conference proceedings citation index / social science & humanities
Web of scienceResearch area: General / Interdisciplinary, Educational Research, Ethnology, Geography, History, Information Science, Art, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Law, Religion, Sociology, Linguistics and Literature Science, Economics, Science Language: English Period: 1990 - 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. -
Article database, Fulltext database
DigiZeitschriften
Research area: General / Interdisciplinary, Linguistics and Literature Science, Educational Research, Geography, History, Art, Mathematics / Computer Science, Philosophy, Law, Sociology, Economics Language: German 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). -
Fulltext database, Article database
Elsevier journal backfiles on ScienceDirect / SciVerse ScienceDirect
Access: Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: General / Interdisciplinary, Natural Sciences / Technology, Medicine / Healthcare, Sociology, Economics, Psychology Period: 1907 - 2002 Elsevier offers its journal archive in subject-related collections. The national license contains approximately 1,500 titles. -
Fulltext database, Newspaper database
Factiva
Research area: General / Interdisciplinary, Political Science, Economics Factiva enthält aktuelle und archivierte Ausgaben der Financial Times Deutschland, Süddeutsche Zeitung, die WELT, die ZEIT, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Les Echos, Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Washington Post, The Globe and Mail, Spiegel, Focus, Manager Magazin, The Economist, Forbes, Fortune, Time, Newsweek, Finanz & Wirt-schaft, Satellite News, BusinessWeek . Factiva ist ab 2018 für Politikwissenschaftlerinnen und Politikwissenschaftler zugänglich über Pollux. Pollux ist ein Fachinformationsdienst für die Politikwissenschaft. Das Angebot ist DFG-gefördert und wird von der Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen und Gesis Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften bereitgestellt. Die Recherche in Pollux ist kostenlos und frei zugänglich. Um lizenzierte Inhalte via Pollux nutzen zu können, muss eine Politikwissenschaftlerin oder ein Politikwissenschaftler an einer Hochschule oder einer nicht-kommerziellen Forschungseinrichtung in Deutschland tätig oder Mitglied in einer politikwissenschaftlichen deutschen Fachgesellschaft (DVPW, DGfP) sein. Um auf die lizenzierten Inhalte zugreifen zu können, müssen Sie sich einmalig mit dem Account-Typ "Politikwissenschaftler/-innen" registrieren https://www.pollux-fid.de/signup Hinweis: Suche nach bestimmter Quelle: Klicken auf das Wort "Suche"/Suchassistent auf der schwarzen Leiste oben, dann klicken auf das Wort "Quelle". In Factiva über Pollux kann man keine Alerts anlegen, da man über einen Gruppenzugang geht und sich nicht personalisiert anmelden kann. -
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 - 2006 The Financial Times Historical Archive contains the complete content of all printed issues of the Financial Times from 1888 through 2006. 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. -
Statistics, Factual database
Genesis-Online
Access: - free access
Research area: General / Interdisciplinary, Sociology, Economics Language: German GENESIS-Online is a statistical information system jointly developed by the Germany's federal and state statistical bureaus. Permitting metadata-aided research, it gives access to the wide range of official statistics relating to areas, population, gainful employment, and elections; education, social transfers and social services, health, and law; housing and the environment; economic sectors; foreign trade, business, and crafts; prices, wages and salaries, income, and consumption; public finances; and resource accounting. All individually tailored tables in the database are available free of charge. Extensive tables with several million values can be stored and updated in a personal user account after registration. A free API (web service interface) is available for further use of the machine-readable data. -
Database, Article database
GVK- Plus
Gemeinsamer Verbundkatalog mit Online Contents
Research area: Linguistics and Literature Science, Educational Research, History, Geography, Art, Mathematics / Computer Science, Philosophy, Law, Sociology, Economics, Natural Sciences / Technology, General / Interdisciplinary, Psychology 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. -
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). -
Reference book, Language dictionary
Langenscheidt Online-Fachwörterbuch Wirtschaft, Handel und Finanzen Englisch
Langenscheidt Online-WörterbücherResearch area: General / Interdisciplinary, Economics Language: German, English Langenscheidt Fachwörterbuch Wirtschaft, Handel und Finanzen Englisch. Hochaktueller Inhalt mit insgesamt rund 120.000 Fachbegriffen aus allen Bereichen der Wirtschaft und des Handels. Zu jedem Fachgebiet sowohl Basisvokabular als auch spezielle Einträge zu Organisationen, Gesetzen, Finanz- und Buchführung. Fachgebiete sind u.a. Rechnungswesen, Verwaltung, Bankwesen, Kommunikation, Computerwesen, Volkswirtschaft, Personalführung, Import/Export, Recht, Management, Medien, Politik, Verkauf und Marketing, Werbung, Einzelhandel, Börsen- und Wertpapierwesen, Steuerwesen, Transportwesen u.v.m. -
Reference book, Language dictionary
Langenscheidt Online-Praxiswörterbuch Gastronomie Englisch
Langenscheidt Online-WörterbücherResearch area: General / Interdisciplinary, Sociology, Economics Language: German, English -
Reference book, Language dictionary
Langenscheidt Online-Praxiswörterbuch Tourismus Englisch
Langenscheidt Online-WörterbücherResearch area: General / Interdisciplinary, Sociology, Economics Language: German, English -
Fulltext database, Language dictionary, Technical dictionary
Langenscheidt Online-Wörterbücher
Research area: General / Interdisciplinary, Linguistics and Literature Science, Natural Sciences / Technology, Economics, Medicine / Healthcare * Großwörterbuch Deutsch als Fremdsprache * Muret-Sanders Großwörterbuch Englisch * Handwörterbuch Französisch * Handwörterbuch Italienisch * Handwörterbuch Spanisch * Taschenwörterbuch Polnisch * Taschenwörterbuch Russisch * Pocket Dictionary Chinese Fachwörterbücher: * Fachwörterbuch Architektur und Bauwesen Englisch * Fachwörterbuch Biologie Englisch * Fachwörterbuch Chemie und chemische Technik Englisch * Fachwörterbuch Elektrotechnik und Elektronik Englisch * Fachwörterbuch Physik Deutsch - Englisch * Fachwörterbuch Technik und angewandte Wissenschaften Englisch * Fachwörterbuch Technik Französisch * Fachwörterbuch Technik Italienisch * Fachwörterbuch Wirtschaft, Handel und Finanzen Englisch * Fachwörterbuch Kompakt Recht Englisch Duden: * Duden 1 - Die deutsche Rechtschreibung * Duden 5 - Das Fremdwörterbuch * Duden 8 - Das Synonymwörterbuch * Duden Deutsches Universalwörterbuch * Duden Wörterbuch chemischer Fachausdrücke -
Fulltext database, Newspaper database
Nexis Uni (früher LexisNexis)
Research area: Economics, Political Science, Sociology, Law, General / Interdisciplinary 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. Select multiple sources: You use the "advanced search", there you search in the field source for the newspaper or source you want to have - always write in one and select it and then write in the next and select it. 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. -
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. -
Database, Article database
OLC- online contents
Research area: Linguistics and Literature Science, Educational Research, History, Geography, Art, Mathematics / Computer Science, Philosophy, Law, Sociology, Economics, Natural Sciences / Technology, General / Interdisciplinary Period: 1993 - 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. -
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. -
Database, Article database
Periodicals index online
PIO
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: 1739 -2000 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. -
Statistics, Factual database
Regionaldatenbank Deutschland
Access: - free access
Annotation: - A free registration is recommended for tables
Research area: General / Interdisciplinary, Sociology, Economics Die "Regionaldatenbank Deutschland" ist eine Datenbank, die tief gegliederte Ergebnisse der amtlichen Statistik von Stadt- und Landkreisen, Ländern und Bund enthält. Sie wird kontinuierlich ausgebaut. Der Tabellenabruf erfolgt unentgeltlich und kann variabel auf den individuellen Bedarf angepasst werden. Die Abspeicherung der Ergebnisse ist in verschiedenen Formaten möglich. Zusätzliche Nutzungsmöglichkeiten stehen registrierten Nutzern kostenfrei zur Verfügung: Abruf großer Tabellen (im Batchbetrieb); Speicherung häufig genutzter und individuell angepasster Tabellenabrufstrukturen in einem eigenen Verzeichnis ('Meine Tabellen') -
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. -
Database, Article database
Social sciences citation index
Web of scienceResearch area: Sociology, Political Science, Law, Economics, General / Interdisciplinary, Ethnology, Information Science, Psychology Language: English Period: 1972 - 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. -
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 - 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. -
Database, Article database, Portal
Web of science
Research area: General / Interdisciplinary, Sociology, Political Science, Linguistics and Literature Science, Educational Research, History, Art, Mathematics / Computer Science, Philosophy, Law, Economics, Natural Sciences / Technology, Ethnology, Science, Geography, Medicine / Healthcare, Psychology Period: 1972 - 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). -
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.