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)
6 databases found.
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Fulltext database, Newspaper 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. -
Fulltext database, Newspaper 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 -
Fulltext database, Newspaper 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. -
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. -
Fulltext database, Newspaper 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). -
Fulltext database, Newspaper database
ProQuest historical newspapers
Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: History, Political Science Language: English Period: 1791 - 1922 This site offers the complete pages of the newspapers (pdf files) as well as the individually indexed articles, commentaries, reviews, photos, caricatures, ads, letters from the reader, and personal announcements. Includes: The Guardian (1821-1900) The Observer (1791-1900) The New York Times (1851-1922) Boston Globe (1872-1922) The Wall Street Journal (1889-1922) Washington Post (1877-1922) The Stabi can be used in remote access to access further volumes that have been subscribed to there in addition: Boston Globe 1872 - 1922; Chicago Tribune 1849 - 1922; (Chinese Newspapers Collection 1832 - 1953); Guardian / Observer 1791 - 1900 (1901 - 2003); Los Angeles Times 1881 - 1922; (New York Tribune / Herald Tribune 1841 - 1962); New York Times with Index 1851 - 1922 (1923 - 2014); (South China Morning Post 1903 - 1996); (Times of India 1838 - 2006); Wall Street Journal 1889 - 1922; Washington Post 1877 - 2001. Please contact the library.