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)
76 databases found.
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Fulltext database, Newspaper database
America's historical newspapers Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: History, Political Science, Sociology Language: English Period: 1690 - 1922 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. -
Article database, Article database, Fulltext database
Annual reviews
Access: Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: Sociology, Natural Sciences / Technology, Medicine / Healthcare, Philosophy, Economics, Political Science, Psychology Language: English Holding information: 1932 - 2016 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. -
Fulltext database, Article database, Article database
Annual reviews social sciences collection
Research area: Geography, Mathematics / Computer Science, Medicine / Healthcare, Natural Sciences / Technology, Political Science, Psychology, Law, Sociology, Linguistics and Literature Science Language: English Holding information: Vol. 1 - 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 -
Database, Article database, Article database
Applied social sciences index and abstracts Proquest Sozialwissenschaften
Research area: Sociology Language: English This database spans the literature of health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, and education. The database abstracts and indexes over 500 journals and periodicals, from more than 16 countries. -
Fulltext database, Technical dictionary, Reference book
Blackwell encyclopedia of sociology online
Research area: Sociology Language: English -
Database
Book citation index / social science & humanities Web of science
Research 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). -
Fulltext database, Article 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, Article database
Cambridge journals
Humanities and social sciences (HSS)
Access: Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: Sociology, Political Science, History, Linguistics and Literature Science Language: English Period: 1827 - 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. -
Fulltext database, Article database, Article database
Central and Eastern European online library
Access: Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: Linguistics and Literature Science, History, Political Science, Sociology Language: Albanian, Baltic languages, Romanian, Slavic languages Period: 1886 - 2009 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. -
Fulltext database
Columbia international affairs online
Access: Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: Political Science, Sociology, Law, Economics Language: English Period: 1997 - 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. -
Database
Conference proceedings citation index / social science & humanities Web of science
Research 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. -
Fulltext database, Article database, Article database
De Gruyter Online / Walter de Gruyter Online-Zeitschriften: Linguistics, literature and humanities II
Access: - licensed database, activated for WZB staff
Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: Educational Research, Ethnology, Geography, History, Information Science, Art, Philosophy, Political Science, Law, Sociology, Linguistics and Literature Science, Economics, Science Language: German, English 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. -
Article database, 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). -
Bibliographic database
DZI SoLit
Research area: Sociology Language: German Die Datenbank DZI SoLit enthält deutsch- und englischsprachige Literaturnachweise zum Fachgebiet Sozialarbeit/Sozialpädagogik, zu deren Grundlagenwissenschaften und Grenzbereichen, sowie zur Wohlfahrtspflege. Auch enthalten in Wiso Sozialwissenschaften https://www.wiso-net.de/ -
Fulltext database, E book database
EBSCOhost ebook collection
Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: Sociology, Economics, Natural Sciences / Technology Language: English Period: 1995 - 2006 There are 1,000 e-books available in the following subject areas: Business and Economics, Science and Engineering, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Humanities, Area Studies. In addition, registered institutions and individual users have access to over 3,400 free e-books from all fields. The titles acquired under the National licence represent a section of the overall supply available in the NetLibrary. -
Fulltext database, Article 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, 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, Factual database
EIU country reports archive
Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: Political Science, Sociology, Economics Language: English Period: 1996 - 2011 (Juni) 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. -
Fulltext database, Article 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, Article database, Article database
Emerald eJournal Premier
Research area: Sociology, Economics Access to 379 Emerald economic and social science journals -
Fulltext database
Empire online
Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: History, Political Science, Sociology Language: English 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). -
Database, Article database, Article database
ERIC
Educational resources information center
Proquest SozialwissenschaftenResearch area: Sociology, Educational Research Language: English This resource gives access to bibliographical information and abstracts relating primarily to literature in English (monographs, periodicals, dissertations, conference reports, government reports) and audiovisual media in all areas of pedagogy, including schools and class instruction; kindergarten education; special education; primary, secondary, and tertiary education; teacher training; adult education; and vocational training. It draws on two directories: Resources in Education (RIE) and the Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE). -
Database, Article database, Article database
FIS Bildung Literaturdatenbank
Access: - free access
Research area: Educational Research, Sociology Language: German Period: 1980 - The FIS Bildung Literaturdatenbank has journal articles, monographs, chapters from collective volumes, gray literature, and online documents from the fields of pedagogy, empirical research on education, educational management, educational policy, the history of education, schools and instruction, higher education, basic and continuing vocational training, childhood, childcare, early childhood education, youth education, adult and continuing education, social and special pedagogy, media education, and social work. -
Bibliographic database
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Katalog
Access: - free access
Research area: Educational Research, History, Philosophy, Psychology, Sociology, Economics Language: German 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. -
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. -
Portal, Newspaper database, Fulltext database
Genios
Annotation: - Free overview search, fee-based fulltexts
Research area: General / Interdisciplinary, Political Science, Sociology Period: 1983 - 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. -
Article database, Article database
GeroLit
Access: - free access
Research area: Medicine / Healthcare, Psychology, Sociology Language: German The database contains articles, monographs, collective works, contributions to collective works, research reports, electronic documents. Collection focus: Gerontology, sociology, in particular sociology of old age, sociology of life course, developmental psychology of old age, old-age/senior citizen and social policy, health care of older people, old-age care/nursing care science with reference to older people. -
Fulltext database, Article database, Article database, E book database
Gerritsen collection of Aletta H. Jacobs
Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: Linguistics and Literature Science, History, Political Science, Sociology Language: English, German, French Period: 1543 - 1945 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) -
Database, Article 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, Newspaper database, Article database, Article database
Integrum world wide
Electronic portait of Russia and the CIS
Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: History, Political Science, Law, Sociology, Economics Language: Russian, English Period: 1992 - 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). -
Database, Article database, Article database
International bibliography of the social sciences
Research area: Sociology, Political Science, Ethnology, Economics Language: English Period: 1951 - 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. -
Factual database
Journal citation reports
Social sciences edition
Web of scienceResearch area: General / Interdisciplinary, Sociology, Political Science Language: English Period: 2003 - 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. -
Fulltext database, Article 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-Praxiswörterbuch Gastronomie Englisch Langenscheidt Online-Wörterbücher
Research area: General / Interdisciplinary, Sociology, Economics Language: German, English -
Reference book, Language dictionary
Langenscheidt Online-Praxiswörterbuch Tourismus Englisch Langenscheidt Online-Wörterbücher
Research area: General / Interdisciplinary, Sociology, Economics Language: German, English -
Fulltext database, E book database
making of the modern world (The): economics, politics and industry
Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: Economics, Political Science, Sociology, History Language: English Period: 1460 - 1850 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. -
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. You will get a list of all sources: Help "Nexis Uni Support Page" Scroll down this page to: "Make the most of Nexis Uni features" There's 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. -
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, 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, 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, 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. -
Database, Article database, Article database
PAIS
Public affairs information service
Proquest SozialwissenschaftenResearch area: Political Science, Sociology, Geography, Law, Economics Language: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Period: 1915 - 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. -
Fulltext database, Article 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, 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. -
Database, Article database, Article database
Physical education index Proquest Sozialwissenschaften
Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: Sociology, Educational Research, Medicine / Healthcare Language: English The database indexes journal essays, reports, congress reports, and other kinds of literature on all areas of sports sciences, including sports medicine and sports sociology. It also has abstracts dating back to 2001. -
Portal
Proquest Sozialwissenschaften
Research area: Sociology, Political Science, Geography, Law, Economics, Educational Research, Medicine / Healthcare, Psychology Language: English -
Database
PsycINFO
Research area: Medicine / Healthcare, Sociology, Psychology Language: English Period: 1806 - PsycINFO (American Psychological Association) covers the international literature in all areas of psychology and in related fields of medicine, psychiatry, of nursing care, sociology, pedagogics, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, economic and legal sciences. Sources include approx. 2,000 journals, books, dissertations, and technical reports via platform Ovid. Bibliographic information, indexing terms, and abstracts are searchable. -
Database, Article database, Article database
PSYNDEX
Access: - free access
Research area: Medicine / Healthcare, Sociology, Psychology Language: German, English PSYNDEX covers German and English publications from authors in the German-speaking countries from all areas of psychology and related behavioral and social sciences such as psychiatry, psychosomatic medicine, sociology, education, philosophy, sports, criminology, linguistics, and applied economics. Also included are audiovisual media as well as psychological, psychiatric, and educational tests developed or in use in the German-speaking countries (including published and nonpublished tests, adaptations of American, English and other-language tests, informal research instruments). Sources include approximately 540 journals, books, chapters, reports, and dissertations. Bibliographic information, indexing terms, and abstracts are searchable in German and English. -
Database, Portal
PubPsych
Access: - free access
Research area: Psychology, Medicine / Healthcare, Sociology PubPsych is a free information retrieval system for psychological resources. It offers a comprehensive and balanced selection of resources from a growing number of international databases with a European focus, covering the needs of academic and professional psychologists. Includes: PSYNDEX, PASCAL, ISOC-Psicologia, MEDLINE, ERIC, NARCIS, NORART, PsychOpen, PsychData About PubPsych: https://pubpsych.zpid.de/pubpsych/about.jsp -
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, 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, Article database
Social sciences & humanities (UDB-EDU)
Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: Sociology, Philosophy, Linguistics and Literature Science Language: Russian Period: 1928 - 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. -
Database, Article database, Article database
Social sciences citation index Web of science
Research 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. -
Database, Article database, Article database
Social services abstracts Proquest Sozialwissenschaften
Research area: Sociology Language: English Period: 1979 - This database affords access to all areas of the social services (e.g., social work, social welfare, social policy, health care, education, and minorities); journal articles, dissertations, and reviews; analyis of more than 1,300 professional journals. -
Fulltext database
Social theory
Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: Sociology Language: English, German, French Social Theory offers an extensive selection of documents that explore the complexities and interpret the nature of social behavior and organization. Particular care has been taken to index this material so that it can be searched more thoroughly than ever before. This final release features more than 150,000 pages of content by such major theorist as Theodor W. Adorno, Jean Baudrillard, Simone de Beauvoir, Saul Howard Becker, Pierre Bourdieu, Auguste Comte, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Émile Durkheim, Michel Foucault, Antonio Gramsci, Jürgen Habermas, Karl Marx, George Herbert Mead, Robert Merton, Dorothy E. Smith, Georg Simmel, Herbert Spencer, Talcott Parsons, Alexis de Tocqueville, and Max Weber. -
Database, Article database, Article database
SocINDEX
Research area: Sociology, Political Science Period: 1895 - 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. -
Portal
SocioHub
Der Fachinformationsdienst Soziologie
Access: - free access
Research area: Sociology Language: German Das Portal richtet sich an Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler der Soziologie bzw. Sozialwissenschaften. Im Fokus des durch die DFG geförderten FID Soziologie steht die Verbesserung der wissenschaftlichen Informationsversorgung sowie die Förderung der Forschungskommunikation innerhalb der Soziologie. Die Portalplattform beinhaltet drei zentrale Bausteine (Recherchemodul, Kollaborationsportal und Open Access Komponente) und dient als zentraler Einstiegspunkt für die Informationsversorgung der soziologischen Forschung. SocioHub steht allen fachlich Interessierten zur Verfügung und bietet für registrierte Nutzerinnen und Nutzer zusätzliche Funktionalitäten wie z. B. die Erstellung eigener Profile an, die über die reine Recherche hinausgehen. Innerhalb der Literaturrecherche sind in der Soziologie etablierte Rechercheelemente, u. a. Social Science Open Access Repository (SSOAR) oder SocINDEX, eingebunden und mit einem Dokumentlieferservice (Subito) angereichert. Der Schwerpunkt liegt nicht auf dem Erwerb, sondern auf der Open Access-Bereitstellung fachspezifischer Volltexte insbesondere hochspezieller Literatur zur Ergänzung des lokalen Grundbedarfs. Zielsetzung ist es, einen standortunabhängigen, schnellen und direkten Zugriff auf Literatur und forschungsrelevante Informationen zu ermöglichen. -
Database, Article database, Article database
Sociological abstracts Proquest Sozialwissenschaften
Research area: Sociology, Political Science Language: English Period: 1952 - 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. -
Database
SOFIS
Sozialwissenschaftliche Forschungsinformation
Wiso WissenschaftenResearch area: Political Science, Sociology, Economics Period: 2000 - 2017 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. -
Database
SOLIS
Sozialwissenschaftliche Literatur
Wiso WissenschaftenResearch area: Political Science, Sociology Period: 1945 - 2017 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. -
Portal, Database, Article database, Article database
SOWIPORT
Research area: Sociology, Educational Research, Political Science, Economics Sowiport ceased at the end of 2017 It is possible to search bibliographic information in the databases included directly: SSOAR Social Science Open Access Repository SOLIS Sozialwissenschaftliches Literaturinformationssystem (included in wiso sozialwissenschaften until 2017) SOFIS Sozialwissenschaftliches Forschungsinformationssystem (included in wiso sozialwissenschaften until 2017) GeroLit DZA DZI SoLit FES Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Katalog FIS Bildung LitDokAB Literaturdatenbank Arbeitsmarktforschung (included in solis until 2017) WAO World Affairs Online (included in wiso sozialwissenschaften) -
Fulltext database, Article database, Article database
Springer Zeitschriften- DEAL 2018
Research area: Philosophy, Sociology, Economics Language: English, German Access to nearly all Springer titles since 1997 in the volume of 2184 journals. -
Fulltext database
SSOAR
Access: - free access
Research area: Sociology, Political Science, Philosophy 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/. -
Fulltext database, Article database, Article database
Taylor & Francis Economic Konsortium
Research area: Sociology, Economics Language: English Holding information: 1998 - Access to 235 Taylor & Francis economic journals. -
Fulltext database, Article 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, 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, E book database
Torrossa / Monografie
Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: Linguistics and Literature Science, History, Art, Philosophy, Educational Research, Sociology, General / Interdisciplinary Language: Italian Period: 2000 -2007 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. -
Fulltext database, Article database, Article database
Torrossa / Periodici
Access: Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: History, Art, Philosophy, Educational Research, Sociology, General / Interdisciplinary Language: Italian 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. -
Database, Article 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: - Social Sciences Citation Index (includes approximately 4,500 social science and economics journals from 55 disciplines, such as psychology, sociology, and anthropology as of 1972) - Arts & Humanities Citation Index (with references to approximately 2,300 journals in the arts and humanities as of 1975) - Book Citation Index (with books published as of 2005) - Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science (CPCI-S, conferences as of 1990) - Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Social Science & Humanities (CPCI-SSH, conferences as of 1990) - Current Contents Connect (as of 1998) - Data Citation Index (research data, as of 1900) - Derwent Innovations Index (edited patents, as of 1963) - Zoological Records (technical database, as of 1964) - Biosis Citation Index (technical database, as of 1928) - Index Chemicus (with search function for chemical structures, as of 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, Article database
Wiley online library / Blackwell publishing journal backfiles
Access: Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: History, Political Science, Sociology, Natural Sciences / Technology, Economics, Philosophy, Medicine / Healthcare, Educational Research, Psychology Language: English Period: 1879 - 2005 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. -
Fulltext database, Article 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. -
Database, Article database, Article database
Wiso Sozialwissenschaften Wiso Wissenschaften
Research area: Sociology, Political Science, Educational Research, Economics Language: German Literaturnachweise aus den Bereichen Sozialwissenschaft, Sozialarbeit, Sozialpädagogik sowie Politik und Internationale Beziehungen. -
Database, Article database, Article database
Wiso Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wiso Wissenschaften
Research area: Economics, Political Science, Sociology Language: German, English Literaturnachweise aus den Bereichen BWL, VWL, Kreditwirtschaft und Arbeitswissenschaft. Zusätzlich stehen ca. 1.700 E-Books zu den verschiedensten betriebswirtschaftlichen Fachgebieten sowie aus den Bereichen VWL und Sozialwissenschaften zur Verfügung. Vertreten sind u.a. die Verlage Deutscher Fachverlag, Haufe Verlag, Rainer Hampp Verlag, Diplomica Verlag. -
Database, Fulltext database, Portal
Wiso Wissenschaften
Research area: Sociology, Political Science, Economics Language: German, English Portal zu den lizenzierten Datenbanken wiso Sozialwissenschaften und wiso Wirtschaftswissenschaften. Zusätzlich stehen ca. 4.025 E-Books zu den verschiedensten betriebswirtschaftlichen Fachgebieten sowie aus den Bereichen VWL oder Sozialwissenschaften zur Verfügung. -
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, E book database
World Bank e-library
Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: Sociology, Political Science, Economics Language: English Period: 1993 - 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.