Databases
Here you can find databases licensed for the WZB and other electronic
ressouces.
For information on WZB licensed and freely accessible databases please visit DBIS, the "Database Information System" of the University Library of Regensburg. Information on DBIS holdings in general can be found here. (german only)
31 databases found.
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Fulltext database, E book database
Die 1848/49er Revolutionäre und ihre Einflüsse in den USA Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: History, Sociology Language: German This collection contains about 60 books by German-speaking citizens who emigrated to the United States in the 19th century. -
Fulltext database, Article database, E book database
Beck online
Und Modul Datenschutzrecht- und Informationsfreiheitsrecht Premium
Research area: Law Language: German 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. -
Fulltext database, Encyclopedia
Brockhaus Wissensservice
Research area: General / Interdisciplinary Language: German The Brockhaus Wissensservice centers on the Brockhaus encyclopedia online, the largest professionally edited German-language encyclopedia. Its more than 300,000 keyword entries and the content of more than 1,500 tables and synopses are constantly updated and complemented by new entries. -
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. -
Article database, Fulltext database
DigiZeitschriften
Research area: General / Interdisciplinary, Linguistics and Literature Science, Educational Research, Geography, History, Art, Mathematics / Computer Science, Philosophy, Law, Sociology, Economics Language: German DigiZeitschriften is a research service which offers an electronic archive of core German journals of scientific importance. These are mainly journals with a long-established tradition in their field. All magazines are available in full-text from their first year up to a so-called ?moving wall? (about 3-5 years before the current year, depending on the publication). -
Fulltext database, E book database
Duncker & Humblot E-Books
"best of reprints" Wirtschaft & Finanzen 1875-1941
Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
- Recommended registration prior to first use
Research area: Economics Language: German Period: 1875 - 1941 E-books from the publisher Duncker & Humblot regarding economics and finance -
Fulltext database, E book database
Duncker & Humblot E-Books
Wirtschaftswissenschaften 1996-2005
Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
- Recommended registration prior to first use
Research area: Economics Language: German Period: 1996 - 2005 E-books from the publisher Duncker & Humblot regarding economics and finance -
Fulltext database, Factual database
ELFI- Servicestelle für elektronische Forschungsförderinformationen
Research area: General / Interdisciplinary Language: German Period: 1998 - ELFI is the electronic information brokerage system that centrally supplies institutions of higher education throughout the German-speaking area with current details on opportunities to acquire research funding. It contains information on the modalities of acquiring funds (e.g., support programs, prices, fellowships, and the financing of material and travel costs) as well as details about 3,700 national and international funding institutions and about more than 8,000 research funding programs (link to the original source of information, leaflets, and forms can be downloaded directly). Each funding possibility is accompanied by a abstracts, addresses, contact persons, submission deadlines, and amount of funding. Users may call retrieve on more than 256 research disciplines and 35 interdisciplinary themes. The initial use of the database requires registration, to which one proceeds by clicking on the link "Einstieg in die Recherche." The information pages and certain services on offer are available even without registration. -
Fulltext database, Statute book
Entscheidungen des Bundesverfassungsgerichts
Access: - free access
Research area: Law Language: German Period: 1998 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. -
Fulltext database, Statute book
Entscheidungssammlungen der Entscheidungen des Reichsgerichts in Zivilsachen (RGZ) und der Entscheidungen des Reichsgerichts in Strafsachen (RGSt) (Die)
Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: Law Language: German Period: 1880 - 1944/45 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). -
Fulltext database, Official publication
EUR-Lex- der Zugang zum EU-Recht
Access: - free access
Research area: Law, Political Science Language: German Period: 1951 (2001) - 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. -
Fulltext database, Newspaper database
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
F.A.Z.-Corporate
Research area: General / Interdisciplinary Language: German Period: 1993 - The access is daily updated and includes all articles from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung since 1993, the online articles from FAZ.NET since 2001, the articles from the magazines F.A.Z.-Woche, Frankfurter Allgemeine Quarterly and Frankfurter Allgemeine Metropol since 2016 as well as the article from the digital offer F.A.Z. Objection since 2017. "FAZ-Seiten" take you to the pages in the newspaper layout. -
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) -
Fulltext database, Statute book
Gesetze im Internet
Access: - free access
Research area: Law Language: German 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. -
Fulltext database, Technical dictionary
Handwörterbuch zur deutschen Rechtsgeschichte
Research area: Law Language: German 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. -
Fulltext database, Bibliography
Kürschners Deutscher Gelehrten-Kalender Online
Research area: General / Interdisciplinary, Science Language: German The database has the names and dates of more than 78,000 living and about 9,500 deceased scholars of German-speaking academic institutions. It lists their key biographical details, addresses, information on their focuses and fields of research. It also contains extensive bibliographical material, including a selection of the most important publications in journals, collective volumes, and encyclopedias. -
Fulltext database, Article database
LexisNexis- siehe Eintrag: Nexis Uni
Research area: General / Interdisciplinary Language: German -
Fulltext database, E book database
Nomos eLibrary
Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: History, Philosophy, Political Science, Law, Sociology, Economics Language: German Period: 2017 - 2018 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. -
Fulltext database, Article database
NWB Rechnungswesen digital
Research area: General / Interdisciplinary Language: German -
Fulltext database
Polit-X
Research area: Political Science Language: German Period: 2007 - Polit-X contains information on the documentation of the Bundestag, Bundesrat and Landtage as well as the European Parliament and political organisations. In the archive, various filter combinations can be used to conduct cross-parliament searches. With the Polit-X ANALYSE, the activities of all approx. 2500 members of parliament in the Bundestag and 16 federal states as well as the processing of individual topics can be tracked. -
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. -
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 ebook collection
Chemistry and materials science
Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: Natural Sciences / Technology Language: German Period: 2005 - 2008 The Springer eBook collection of chemistry and materials science is an extensive collection of English monographs, manuals and encyclopedias. With 624 titles from 2005-2008 it provides a very good insight into current research in chemistry and materials science. -
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, Newspaper database
Süddeutsche Zeitung
SZ LibraryNet
Research area: General / Interdisciplinary Language: German Holding information: 1992 - The access is daily updated and includes all articles from the Süddeutsche Zeitung (Germany, Bavaria and Munich issue) since 1992, SZ Landkreis issues since 1994; SZ supplements such as SZ Magazin, SZ für Kinder and Süddeutsche.de The newspaper is also available in e-paper format. Bei Nutzung der Datenbank stimmen Sie den Nutzungsrechten und -bedingungen zu. Nutzungsberechtigt sind Mitarbeiter*innen des WZB und Personen, die Zugriff auf das Intranet des WZB haben. Auch der Zugriff über VPN ist für diese Personen zulässig. Gemäß der Lizenz haben die nutzungsberechtigten Personen die Möglichkeit in der datenbank zu recherchieren, Dokumente zum eigenen, nichtgewerblichen Gebrauch abzurufen und für die Dauer von 180 Tagen zu speichern und auszudrucken. Eine gewerbliche Nutzung sowie sonstige Weitergabe an Dritte ist untersagt. Vervielfältigung, Verbreitung, Nachdruck und Speichern der vom DIZ bezogenen Daten über die Dauer von 180 Tagen hinaus auf Systemen/Datenträger des Beziehers sind nicht zulässig. Der Bezieher bzw. die Nutzer sind verpflichtet, die Werkintegrität der von ihnen abgerufenen Dokumente nicht zu verletzen, insbesondere Eingriffe in die einzelnen Dokumente, wie deren Kürzung, Umformung, Umgestaltung und Entstellung zu unterlassen. -
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. -
Fulltext database, E book database
Wegbereiter der Österreichischen Psychologie
Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: History, Psychology Language: German This collection contains 34 titles (mostly as first editions) in German language by 5 authors with a total of 13,000 full text pages. These titles were written by psychologists and psychoanalysts who are considered to be the forerunners of Austrian psychology. Ernst von Feuchtersleben (29.04.1806 - 03.09.1849) Alexius Meinong (17.07.1853 - 27.11.1920) Sándor Ferenczi (07.07.1873 - 22.05.1933) Otto Rank (22.04.1884 - 31.10.1939) Wilhelm Stekel (18.03.1868 - 25.06.1940) Their writing reflects an important role in psychology and psychoanalysis.