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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)

45 databases found.
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  1. Fulltext database, Newspaper database

    Database 17th- 18th century Burney collection newspapers

    Annotation:
    • German-wide access provided by the DFG
    Research area:General / Interdisciplinary, History, Political Science
    Language:English
    Period:1600 - 1800
    The database contains digitized eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English newspapers and pamphlets (totaling 1,270 titles) from the collection of Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817). The documents include parliamentary publications and daily news from London, the British empire, neighboring countries, and their royal houses or governments.
  2. Fulltext database, Newspaper database

    Database 19th century British Library newspapers

    Annotation:
    • German-wide access provided by the DFG
    Research area:General / Interdisciplinary, History, Political Science
    Language:English
    Period:1800 - 1900
    This databank contains a representative selection from the extensive newspaper collection of the British Library. It offers full runs of 48 national and regional nineteenth-century British newspapers
  3. Fulltext database, Newspaper database

    Database 19th century U.S. newspapers

    Annotation:
    • German-wide access provided by the DFG
    Research area:History, Political Science, General / Interdisciplinary
    Language:English
    Period:1800 - 1900
    The database consists solely of the full-text English content of 500 newspapers from all U.S. states and territories. The compilation focuses on material published between 1800 and 1900 and focuses on the American Civil War, Afro-American culture and history, western immigration, and Antebellum-era life.
  4. Database, Article database

    Database Arts & humanities citation index

    Web of science
    Research area:General / Interdisciplinary, Philosophy, Art, History, Geography, Linguistics and Literature Science
    Language:English
    Period:1972 -
    This collection is an interdisciplinary database that references articles from 1,144 arts and humanities journals. It also includes articles selected from 7,000 other periodicals in the natural sciences and social sciences. It provides bibliographic and citation information for articles cited in the listed publications
  5. Database

    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).
  6. Fulltext database, Article database

    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.
  7. Fulltext database, Article database

    Database British periodicals

    Collection I & II

    Access:
    Annotation:
    • German-wide access provided by the DFG
    Research area:Art, Linguistics and Literature Science, General / Interdisciplinary, Political Science
    Language:English
    Period:1681 - 2000
    The database of British periodicals contains the full-text content of 493 journals of popular science, art, and British literature from the seventeenth through twentieth centuries.
  8. Database

    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.
  9. Fulltext database, Article database, E book database

    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.
  10. Fulltext database, Newspaper database, Article database

    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.
  11. Fulltext database, Encyclopedia

    Database Encyclopaedia Britannica

    Academic edition

    Research area:General / Interdisciplinary
    Language:English
    Britannica.com, a search and directory site featuring Encyclopædia Britannica, the Web's best sites, news, magazines and more. Additionally, Britannica premium service provides exclusive member access to 3 encyclopedias: the 32-volume Encyclopaedia Britannica, Britannica Student Encyclopedia, and Britannica Concise Encyclopedia. Membership also includes access to research tools, Merriam-Webster's dictionary and thesaurus, and rich multimedia-all in an advertising-free environment.
  12. Fulltext database, Reference book

    Database Encyclopedia of social measurement

    Research area:General / Interdisciplinary
    Language:English
    Access the full text of this leading encyclopedia (via ScienceDirect website) which contains more than 300 articles on the theory, history and technqiues of gathering and analysing data in the Social Sciences. Topics covered include research design, analytical techniques, data collection, the handling of datasets, measurement models and data interpretation.
  13. Reference book, Language dictionary

    Database Fachwörterbuch Kompakt Recht Englisch

    Englisch-Deutsch, Deutsch-Englisch

    Langenscheidt Online-Wörterbücher
    Research area:General / Interdisciplinary, Law
    Language:German, English
    Online-Version von Langenscheidt/Alpmann Fachwörterbuch Kompakt Recht Englisch, rund 22.000 Fachbegriffe und mehr als 46.000 Übersetzungen, Englisch-Deutsch und Deutsch-Englisch
  14. Fulltext database, Newspaper database

    Database Financial Times historical archive

    Annotation:
    • German-wide access provided by the DFG
    Research area:General / Interdisciplinary, Economics
    Language:English
    Period:1888 - 2010
    The Financial Times Historical Archive contains the complete content of all printed issues of the Financial Times from 1888 through 2010. 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.
  15. Factual database

    Database Journal citation reports

    Social sciences edition

    Web of science
    Research 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.
  16. Fulltext database, Article database

    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).
  17. Reference book, Language dictionary

    Database Langenscheidt Muret-Sanders Großwörterbuch Englisch

    Langenscheidt Online-Wörterbücher
    Research area:General / Interdisciplinary
    Language:German, English
  18. Reference book, Language dictionary

    Database Langenscheidt Online-Fachwörterbuch Architektur

    Langenscheidt Online-Wörterbücher
    Research area:General / Interdisciplinary
    Language:German, English
    Langenscheidt Fachverlag - Routledge. Fachwörterbuch Architektur und Bauwesen von Dr.-Ing. Uli Gelbrich. Englisch-Deutsch, Deutsch-Englisch.
  19. Reference book, Language dictionary

    Database Langenscheidt Online-Fachwörterbuch Biologie

    Langenscheidt Online-Wörterbücher
    Research area:General / Interdisciplinary, Natural Sciences / Technology
    Language:German, English
    Zweisprachiges biologisches Fachwörterbuch Deutsch-Englisch und Englisch-Deutsch.
  20. Reference book, Language dictionary

    Database Langenscheidt Online-Fachwörterbuch E-Technik

    Langenscheidt Online-Wörterbücher
    Research area:General / Interdisciplinary, Natural Sciences / Technology
    Language:German, English
  21. Reference book, Language dictionary

    Database Langenscheidt Online-Fachwörterbuch Maschinenbau

    Langenscheidt Online-Wörterbücher
    Research area:General / Interdisciplinary, Natural Sciences / Technology
    Language:German, English
    Zweisprachiges Fachwörterbuch zum Maschinen- und Anlagenbau, Deutsch-Englisch und Englisch-Deutsch
  22. Reference book, Language dictionary

    Database Langenscheidt Online-Fachwörterbuch Physik

    Langenscheidt Online-Wörterbücher
    Research area:General / Interdisciplinary, Natural Sciences / Technology
    Language:German, English
    Das Fachwörterbuch Physik von Langenscheidt deckt mit einem Wortschatz von rund 124.000 Einträgen (deutsch - englisch) alle wesentlichen Wissensgebiete der Physik ab.
  23. Reference book, Language dictionary

    Database Langenscheidt Online-Fachwörterbuch Technik Englisch

    Langenscheidt Online-Wörterbücher
    Research area:General / Interdisciplinary, Natural Sciences / Technology
    Language:German, English
    Fachwörterbuch Technik mit rund 200.000 Fachbegriffen aus zahlreichen Fachgebieten. Fachgebiete sind u. a. Abfallwirtschaft; Akustik; Bauwesen; Chemie; Chemotechnik; Computertechnik und Datenverarbeitung; Druckereiwesen; Eisenbahnbau; Elektronik; Elektrotechnik; Erdöltechnologie; Ergonomie; Fernsehtechnik; Fertigungstechnik; Fotografie; Heizungs- und Kältetechnik; hydraulische Anlagen; Keramik und Glas; Kerntechnik; Kohletechnik; Kraftfahrzeugtechnik; künstliche Intelligenz; Kunststoffindustrie; Laboreinrichtungen; Lebensmitteltechnik; Maschinenbau; Mathematik; Mechanik; Metallurgie; Metrologie; Optik; Papier; Patente und Warenzeichen; Physik; Qualitätssicherung; Radiotechnik und Radar; Raumfahrttechnik; Regelungs- und Steuerungstechnik; Sicherheitstechnik; Telekommunikation; Textiltechnik; Thermodynamik; Transportwesen; Umweltverschmutzung; Verpackungstechnik; Werkstoffprüfung u.v.m.
  24. Reference book, Language dictionary

    Database Langenscheidt Online-Fachwörterbuch Wirtschaft, Handel und Finanzen Englisch

    Langenscheidt Online-Wörterbücher
    Research 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.
  25. Reference book, Language dictionary

    Database Langenscheidt Online-Praxiswörterbuch Gastronomie Englisch

    Langenscheidt Online-Wörterbücher
    Research area:General / Interdisciplinary, Sociology, Economics
    Language:German, English
  26. Reference book, Language dictionary

    Database Langenscheidt Online-Praxiswörterbuch Tourismus Englisch

    Langenscheidt Online-Wörterbücher
    Research area:General / Interdisciplinary, Sociology, Economics
    Language:German, English
  27. Reference book, Language dictionary

    Database Langenscheidt Pocket Dictionary Chinese

    Langenscheidt Online-Wörterbücher
    Research area:General / Interdisciplinary
    Language:English, Chinese
    rund 40.000 Einträge Standardwörterbuch für Beruf und Freizeit mit aktuellem Wortschatz, Grammatikangaben, zahlreichen Anwendungsbeispielen und Abkürzungsverzeichnis english-chinese.
  28. Fulltext database, Article database

    Database Liebert online

    Liebert online archive

    Access:
    Annotation:
    • German-wide access provided by the DFG
    Research area:General / Interdisciplinary, Medicine / Healthcare, Natural Sciences / Technology
    Language:English
    Period:1.Jg - 2005
    This resource is an electronic archive of the Mary Ann Liebert publishing company. It offers 59 journal titles from the fields of medicine, process engineering, technology and engineering science, biotechnology, and food technology.
  29. Fulltext database, Article database

    Database The nation archive

    Annotation:
    • German-wide access provided by the DFG
    Research area:Political Science, General / Interdisciplinary
    Language:English
    Period:1865 - 2010
    The Nation Archive contains the complete full-text issues of The Nation from its first issue of 1865 to 2010. As the oldest continuously published weekly periodical devoted to politics and culture, this publication has shaped critical opinion and development in the United States and elsewhere for 143 years.
  30. Fulltext database, Statistics, Factual database

    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.
  31. Fulltext database, Article database

    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.
  32. Fulltext database, Article database

    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.
  33. Fulltext database, Article database

    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.
  34. Database, Article database

    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.
  35. Article database

    Database Science citation index

    Web of science
    Research area:General / Interdisciplinary, Geography, Information Science, Mathematics / Computer Science, Medicine / Healthcare, Natural Sciences / Technology, Psychology
    Language:English
    Period:1995 -
    Article database with several million title references from all areas of natural sciences, medicine and engineering from more than 8,800 evaluated journals; Type of references: bibliographical information with references cited in the referenced publications. Weekly increase: approx. 17,000 references. With the Cited Reference Search a citation analysis is possible.
  36. Database, Article database

    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.
  37. Fulltext database, Article database, E book database

    Database SpringerLink / Springer Online journal archives

    Access:
    Annotation:
    • German-wide access provided by the DFG
    Research area:General / Interdisciplinary, Natural Sciences / Technology, Mathematics / Computer Science
    Language:English
    Period:1860 - 2002
    The archive contains the full texts of more than 1,050 periodicals of the Springer Publishing Company (including Kluwer), generally as of vol. 1 through the year 2002. The Lecture Notes archive, too, is available in the Springer online journal archives and dates back to 2009. It contains 3,593 volumes in the following series, from vol. 1 through the year 1996: Computer Science, Control and Information Science, Earth Sciences, Mathematics, and Physics.
  38. Reference book, Language dictionary

    Database Standard Dictionary Spanish

    Langenscheidt Online-Wörterbücher
    Research area:General / Interdisciplinary
    Language:English, Spanish
  39. Fulltext database, Statistics, Factual database

    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.
  40. Fulltext database, Article database

    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).
  41. Fulltext database, Article database

    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.
  42. Fulltext database, Newspaper database, Article database

    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.
  43. Fulltext database, Article database

    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.
  44. Fulltext database, Statistics, Factual database

    Database World Bank e-atlas of global development

    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.
  45. Fulltext database, Factual database, Annual

    Database The world factbook

    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.

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