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
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
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. -
Portal, Newspaper database, Fulltext database
Genios
Annotation: - Free overview search, fee-based fulltexts
Research area: General / Interdisciplinary, Political Science, Sociology Period: 1983 - The information offered by Genios encompasses more than 1,300 databases, 340 daily and weekly newspapers, 140 million details about businesses, 800 professional journals, 20,000 e-books, 270,000 market studies, and 3 million details about individuals. -
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
Nexis Uni (früher LexisNexis)
Research area: Economics, Political Science, Sociology, Law, General / Interdisciplinary Articles from several thousand magazines, periodicals and newspapers are contained in the archive as well as daily updated in full text, e.g., Berliner Zeitung, Financial Times (London), The Independent, Le Monde, New York Times, NZZ Folio, El Pais, Der Spiegel, Der Tagesspiegel, Die TAZ, The Times. The World, The Time. Not included: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frankfurter Rundschau, Handelsblatt, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Wall Street Journal. Nexis Uni also contains: company and financial information, information on business, politics and current affairs, economic analyses, country reports and legal information (US, UK and EU law and law of other countries such as Australia, France, Northern Ireland, Mexico, Argentina). Search help: The source search is in the large search line above. The selected source is displayed on the left. Select multiple sources: You use the "advanced search", there you search in the field source for the newspaper or source you want to have - always write in one and select it and then write in the next and select it. You get a list of all sources: Nexis Uni Content Listing Key-Excel version. https://www.lexisnexis.com/doc/nexisuni/Nexis%20Uni%20--%20Content%20Listing%20--%20February%202019.xlsx If you copy a newspaper link from the list and call it up, the source is set as a filter. Note: you can only download 100 documents at a time. This is not done by selecting "print e.g. 1-130", but by selecting the documents of one page, then selecting the documents of the next page, etc. until you reach 100 documents. Then you can download the documents. Then you can repeat the process for the other documents. Increasing the result display: You can register to make individual settings such as increasing the number of hits per page. Click on SignIn / Register at the top right of the page and create a user ID. If you are logged in to Nexis Uni with your user ID, you will see the name you have assigned in the upper right corner of the screen and, using the pop-up function, also "Settings". Here you can increase the number of hits up to 50 per page. You can set up alerts when you are logged in: perform a search, then click on the bell next to "Results for...", enter your email address at the "Deliver" tab (scroll down), create an alert. -
Fulltext database, Newspaper database, Article 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.