Databases

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

In addition to legal texts (e.g., Aichberger; Nipperdey; Sartorius; and Schönfelder), Beck-online contains a large array of other essential standard reference works on law from the Beck publishing company in Munich, Germany. They encompass commentaries (e.g., Schönke & Schröder; Staudinger; criminal code; Schoch, Schmidt-Aßmann, & Pietzner; Rules of the Administrative Courts [VwGO]), manuals (e.g., Fritz; Hannemann; and Langenfeld), and journals (e.g., Neue Juristische Wochenschrift). Beck-online also contains current court rulings and a few compilations of forms. A personal user account can be set up to administer located documents.

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.

This link offers 261 e-books published from 2006 through 2008 in the collection for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law and the collection for International Law. The following subcategories are covered: - Collection on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law: Asylum and refugee law, immigration law, health law, children's rights, minority rights, humanitarian law, and international criminal law - Collection on International Law: International public law, law of the sea, international commercial law, international labor law, environmental law, European law, Islamic law, international relations, international organizations, terrorism, and history of law

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.

Berkeley Press publishes around 81 refereed e-journals in economics, political science, jurisprudence, and the area of science, technology, and medicine (STM). The collection also includes 46 mainly economics journals with Open Access components for hybrid journals from an offsetting contract (01.01.2019 - 31.12.2019) with the ZBW.

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.

Since 1 January 1998, the decisions of Germany's Federal Constitutional Court have been published in full. The text is official and corresponds to that which the Court sends upon request. The decisions are digitally signed.

The database has all the law reports documenting the decisions of the Supreme Court of the German Reich in Civil Cases (RGZ) from 1880 to 1945. The compilation contains 172 volumes (approximately 91,000 pages) covering 15,000 rulings. The decisions of the Supreme Court of the German Reich in Criminal Cases (RGSt) encompasses the period from 1880 through 1944. This latter collection consists of 77 volumes (about 39,000 pages).

Eur-Lex provides access to the collections of all the European Union's legal texts: Official Journal of the European Union/L & C series: (L for legislation and C for information and notices); Official Journal of the European Union, S series (the supplement containing the current invitations to tender); contracts; international agreements; legislation in force; preparatory acts: COM documents and SEC documents; case law; parliamentary questions.

Online-Version von Langenscheidt/Alpmann Fachwörterbuch Kompakt Recht Englisch, rund 22.000 Fachbegriffe und mehr als 46.000 Übersetzungen, Englisch-Deutsch und Deutsch-Englisch

In a joint project with juris GmbH, the German Federal Ministry of Justice provides interested citizens free Internet access to nearly the entire body of Germany's current federal law. The current version of the laws and statutory regulations can be retrieved. They are continuously consolidated by the ministry's documentation service. All new provisions promulgated in the Federal Law Gazette Part I and not yet processed by the documentation service can be retrieved directly from the Legal Update Service. Enclosures, graphics, and other still missing parts of the laws and statutory regulations are being successively added.

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.

With articles on more than 5,000 keywords, this standard work on the history of German law encompasses the knowledge on the subject up to the present. It also addresses the legal history of other European countries.

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).

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 Kluwer Law International Journals available in this set of periodicals cover several areas: commercial law, corporate law, trade law, competition law, tax law, labor law, environmental law, public law, air and space law, and international arbitration law.

The Making of Modern Law (MOML 1), by Thomson-Gale, facilitates extensive research on the modern legal system and its development in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Users can conduct full-text searches on more than 10 million pages from works about the American and British history of law that were published between 1800 and 1926. The material is indexed in a searchable presentation of 99 areas covering nearly all aspects of American and British law. The more than 21,000 works encompass case compilations, speeches, court books, pamphlets, and letters.

This site gives access to 1,740 titles and 1,850,000 pages with cases, statues, and regulations from U.S. legal history. This material is drawn from the Lillian Goldman Law Library at Yale University. The database has texts (e.g., proceedings and reports) from constitutional conventions; city charters and early U.S. state codes; law dictionaries; and records from the Primary Source Microfilm collection Published Records of the American Colonies. This important digital archive for the legal, cultural, and social history of the Anglo-American cultural space is searchable in full-text.

This full-text database comprises documents, reports, and literature on court proceedings in America, the British empire, and France from 1600 to 1926. It also contains spectacular court proceedings against historical figures and artists (e.g., Charles I., Oscar Wilde, Sacco and Vanzetti, and Joan of Arc) and other persons of note. The "unofficial published accounts of trials, official trial documents, briefs and arguments" are an important source of material for both legal and sociocultural history. More than 10,000 titles are available from the holdings of the Harvard and Yale law libraries, the library of the Bar of the City of New York, and the Law Library of Congress. Approximately 2 million pages are searchable in full-text.

This Thomson-Gale database permits extensive research on modern law and political changes in the United States from the perspective of the Supreme Court and the parties involved in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Users can conduct full-text searches of more than 350,000 records and court briefs from 150,000 cases that came before the Supreme Court between 1832 and 1978. Nearly all aspects of the rulings handed down by the Supreme Court during that period of American legal history are covered. In particular, the site contains primary documents on interpretations of the U.S. Constitution and its amendments, the part that the administration of justice has played in American history, state sovereignty, slavery, the government's role in wartime and peacetime, the free-market economy, the relation between management and organized labor, issues of discrimination and basic rights, the protection of intellectual property, environmental protection, public health, and the relation between race, gender, and social origin.

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. Or you go via Menu / All Sources and select there. 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.

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.

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.

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.

The U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1980, has 12 million digitized pages from 350,000 publications and 52,000 "serial set maps." The publications come from U.S. congressional committees and working groups and from other government authorities. The database thus offers an abundance of material on all areas of U.S. history, policy, economy, and culture. In many cases the scope broadens if relations with the United States are involved.

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).