Databases

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.

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).