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)
24 databases found.
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Fulltext database, Article database
De Gruyter online / Walter de Gruyter Online-Zeitschriften Archiv Access: Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: History, Law, Mathematics / Computer Science, Natural Sciences / Technology, Information Science, Linguistics and Literature Science, Medicine / Healthcare, Philosophy Language: German, English 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. -
Fulltext 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. -
Portal
DIMDI
Access: - free access
Annotation: - Free overview search, fee-based fulltexts
Research area: Medicine / Healthcare Language: German, English DIMDI offers access to about 50 databases with approx. 100 million documents. Approximately one third of the databases is available free of charge. The databases contain scientific literature references and facts from the entire field of medicine and its adjacent fields, for instance, drugs, toxicology, medical devices, biology and psychology. -
Reference book, Language dictionary
Fachwörterbuch Kompakt Recht Englisch
Englisch-Deutsch, Deutsch-Englisch
Langenscheidt Online-WörterbücherResearch 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 -
Fulltext 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) -
Reference book, Language dictionary
Langenscheidt Muret-Sanders Großwörterbuch Englisch Langenscheidt Online-Wörterbücher
Research area: General / Interdisciplinary Language: German, English -
Reference book, Language dictionary
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. -
Reference book, Language dictionary
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. -
Reference book, Language dictionary
Langenscheidt Online-Fachwörterbuch E-Technik Langenscheidt Online-Wörterbücher
Research area: General / Interdisciplinary, Natural Sciences / Technology Language: German, English -
Reference book, Language dictionary
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 -
Reference book, Language dictionary
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. -
Reference book, Language dictionary
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. -
Reference book, Language dictionary
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. -
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 -
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
Post-war Europe
Refugees, exile and resettlement 1945- 1950
Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: History, Political Science Language: German, English Period: 1945 - 1950 The database focuses on the history of displaced persons (DP) in Europe. About 3,000 documents are offered as image files and made available by means of full-text search. The data come mainly from the Vienna Library in London and from the National Archives of the United Kingdom. It draws on material from the General Correspondence of the Foreign Office, the Control Office for Germany and Austria, and the Control Commission for Germany. The scholarship in this project is supervised by Dan Stone (Royal Holloway College, University of London), who composed the introductory essay. -
Fulltext database, Article database
PsyJournals
Access: Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: Psychology Language: German, English The offer includes the 2015 volume (Moving Wall 2 years) of 31 psychological and psychiatric journals from the Psychology package. These include both highly specialized (Aviation Psychology and Applied Human Factors) and thematically more comprehensive titles (European Psychologist). The publishing house guarantees high scientific standards and promotes these through elements such as peer reviewing. The journals are of high scientific value for research in the fields of psychology and psychiatry. -
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. -
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. -
Fulltext 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, Statistics, Factual database
Statista
Corporate account
Research area: General / Interdisciplinary, Economics Language: German, English, French, Spanish Statista is a port that clusters statistical data from various institutes and sources. It offers statistics on more than 60,000 topics from over 18,000 sources across 20 categories of economic activity ranging from farming to administration and social affairs. The key content of this site consists of data that is relevant to decision-making yet both difficult to ferret out and complicated to analyze and interpret. They are drawn mostly from studies and results of current market research. The source, date of publication, number of persons surveyed, and other available metadata on each statistic are published, so the figures can be checked on Statista. Analyses and interpretations of data sets are based on scientific criteria. Note: The language selection not only changes the language, but also changes the content. In the selection "German", the focus is on Germany, Austria and Switzerland, with the selection "English" the focus is on USA, China, UK, Europe. The selection "French" and "Spanish" refers to the respective country. -
Fulltext database
Testaments to the Holocaust
Documents and rare printed materials from the Wiener Library, London
Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: History Language: German, English Period: 1889 - 1965 This digital collection contains handwritten notes and rare printed material from the Wiener Library in London, the oldest Holocaust museum in the world, founded by Alfred Wiener (1885-1964). It offers access to personal testimony of life in national socialism, which gives insights into the internal politics of National Socialist Germany, the Jewish life in Germany from 1933 to post-war period, life in concentration camps, in underground and in exile. All sources can be searched in the full text. The majority of the documents are in German. -
Fulltext database, Article database
Thieme-connect / Thieme Zeitschriftenarchive
Access: Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: Medicine / Healthcare, Natural Sciences / Technology Language: German, English Period: 1980 - 2008 This site gives electronic access to the full-text archives containing 36 selected titles of periodicals published by Thieme in the fields of medicine, chemistry, and biology.