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)
61 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
Afghan Serials Collection
Partisan publications from the Wahdat Library
Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: General / Interdisciplinary, History, Political Science Language: Arabic, English, Persian, Urdu The database is a collection of rare newspapers and journals from different political groups from the Wahdat Library, a comprehensive private collection from Afghanistan. The collection includes over 45 titles published from the early 1970s to the late 1990s, at a critical time in the country's history. The Afghan Serials Collection contains press reports from various political epochs and from the most diverse groups and currents that sought to shape the social and intellectual landscape at this turbulent time. They range from the Taliban to anti-Taliban rebels, anti-Soviet Jihadi and Mujahedin groups and the Afghan People's Democratic Party. The database contains unique press materials from a crucial era that shaped not only Afghanistan and the Middle East, but the entire world. With content not collected anywhere else, the collection is a testimony to the diverse and vibrant Afghan press and an important source for scholars and researchers in the region. The texts have been published in Persian, Pushtu, Arabic, Urdu or English. -
Fulltext database, Article database
American Antiquarian Society (AAS) historical periodicals collection / series 1
1691- 1820
Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: History, Political Science Language: English Period: 1691 - 1820 The Historical Periodicals Collection of the American Antiquarian Society (AAS) documents the life of the American population and the American perspective on world events and the sciences from Colonial times to the Civil War and Reconstruction in the nineteenth century. Series 1 of the collection encompasses approximately 500 periodicals dating from 1691 through 1820. -
Fulltext database, Article database
American Antiquarian Society (AAS) historical periodicals collection / series 2
1821- 1837
Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: History, Political Science Language: English Period: 1821 - 1837 The Historical Periodicals Collection of the American Antiquarian Society (AAS) documents the life of the American population and the American perspective on world events and the sciences from the Colonial times to the Civil War and Reconstruction in the nineteenth century. Series 2 of the collection encompasses approximately 1,000 periodicals dating from 1821 through 1837. -
Fulltext database, Article database
American Antiquarian Society (AAS) historical periodicals collection / series 4
1853- 1865
Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: History, Political Science Language: English Period: 1853 - 1865 The Historical Periodicals Collection of the American Antiquarian Society (AAS) documents the life of the American population and the American perspective on world events and the sciences from Colonial times to the Civil War and Reconstruction in the nineteenth century. Series 4 of the collection encompasses approximately 1,200 periodicals dating from 1853 through 1865. -
Fulltext database, Article database
American Antiquarian Society (AAS) historical periodicals collection / series 5
1866- 1877
Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: History, Political Science Language: English Period: 1866 - 1877 The Historical Periodicals Collection of the American Antiquarian Society (AAS) documents the life of the American population and the American perspective on world events and the sciences from Colonial times to the Civil War and Reconstruction in the nineteenth century. Series 5 of the collection encompasses approximately 2,500 periodicals dating from 1866 through 1877. -
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. -
Article database, Fulltext database
Annual reviews
Access: Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: Sociology, Natural Sciences / Technology, Medicine / Healthcare, Philosophy, Economics, Political Science, Psychology Language: English Holding information: 1932 - 2016 Annual Reviews has published 43 collective volumes containing critical, state-of-the-art, scholarly research in specialized areas of scientific inquiry. The editorial board consists of recognized scholars from Stanford University, the University of California, Princeton, and Harvard. -
Fulltext database, Article database
Annual reviews social sciences collection
Research area: Geography, Mathematics / Computer Science, Medicine / Healthcare, Natural Sciences / Technology, Political Science, Psychology, Law, Sociology, Linguistics and Literature Science Language: English Holding information: Vol. 1 - The social sciences collection of the annual reviews includes 13 titles: - Annual review of anthropology - Annual review of clinical psychology - Annual review of criminology - Annual review of developmental psychology - Annual review of environment and resources - Annual review of law and social science - Annual review of linguistics - Annual review of organizational psychology and organizational behavior - Annual review of political science - Annual Review of psychology - Annual review of public health - Annual review of sociology - Annual review of statistics and its application -
Fulltext database
Area studies Japan
Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: History, Art, Political Science, Sociology Language: Japanese, English Die Datenbank Area Studies: Japan bietet eine breite Palette von Quellen von Schriftstellern, Diplomaten, Touristen, Geschäftsleuten und Missionaren. Diese dokumentieren die politische, kulturelle und soziale Geschichte Japans von 1400 bis zum 20. Jahrhundert. Highlights: Mittelalterliche Manuskripte über Japan, darunter ein Bericht von Marco Polo, oder das Logbuch von William Adams (1564 - 1620), alias Miura Anjin, der erste Engländer, der Japan besucht hat. Außerdem Zeitschriften, Druckartikel und andere Papiere von William Elliot Griffis (1843 - 1928), amerikanischer Autor, Lehrer und Bildungsreformer in Japan. -
Database
Book citation index / social science & humanities Web of science
Research area: General / Interdisciplinary, Sociology, Political Science, Economics, Educational Research, Ethnology, Linguistics and Literature Science, History, Art, Philosophy, Law, Science, Psychology, Geography, Information Science Language: English Period: 2005 - The Book Citation Index contains over 40,000 (as per 2013) editorially selected scientific books (online and print editions) published since 2005 in a wide range of disciplines. 10,000 new titles are to be added each year, including volumes published as a series. As a module in the Web of Science Core Collection, the Book Citation Index adds over 13.5 million references to that collection. Among other things, it allows users to search for comprehensive bibliographic information and to display the accurate numbering of citations (in journals, conference papers, and books). -
Fulltext database, Article database
British periodicals
Collection I & II
Access: Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: Art, Linguistics and Literature Science, General / Interdisciplinary, Political Science Language: English Period: 1681 - 2000 The database of British periodicals contains the full-text content of 493 journals of popular science, art, and British literature from the seventeenth through twentieth centuries. -
Fulltext database, Article database
Cambridge journals
Humanities and social sciences (HSS)
Access: Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: Sociology, Political Science, History, Linguistics and Literature Science Language: English Period: 1827 - The link offers 138 journal titles in the humanities and social sciences published up to and including 2011. Among the main subject areas covered are history, political science and international relations, regional studies, classical studies, and the study of language and linguistics. -
Fulltext database
Cold War intelligence
Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: History, Political Science Language: English Period: 1945 - 1991 This collection of 2,360 formerly classified U.S. government documents (most of them classified Top Secret or higher) provides readers for the first time with the declassified documentary record about the successes and failures of the U.S. intelligence community in its efforts to spy on the Soviet Union during the Cold War. -
Fulltext database
Columbia international affairs online
Access: Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: Political Science, Sociology, Law, Economics Language: English Period: 1997 - Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is the most comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs. -
Database
Conference proceedings citation index / social science & humanities Web of science
Research area: General / Interdisciplinary, Educational Research, Ethnology, Geography, History, Information Science, Art, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Law, Religion, Sociology, Linguistics and Literature Science, Economics, Science Language: English Period: 1990 - Covers the proceedings of conferences, symposiums, seminars, workshops, and congresses worldwide. The "Cited Reference Search" tool allows users to identify the conference proceedings that were cited most frequently. -
Fulltext database, Article database
De Gruyter online / Berkeley electronic press academic journals
Access: Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: Medicine / Healthcare, Natural Sciences / Technology, Political Science, Law, Economics Language: English Holding information: 2006 - Berkeley Press publishes around 81 refereed e-journals in economics, political science, jurisprudence, and the area of science, technology, and medicine (STM). The collection also includes 46 mainly economics journals with Open Access components for hybrid journals from an offsetting contract (01.01.2019 - 31.12.2019) with the ZBW. -
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. -
Fulltext database
Digital national security archive
Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: History, Political Science Language: English Period: 1945 - The Digital National Security Archive contains the most comprehensive set of declassified government documents available. The resource now includes 37 collections consisting of over 90,000 meticulously indexed documents, with more than 617,000 total pages. Each of these collections, compiled by top scholars and experts, exhaustively covers the most critical world events, countries, and U.S. policy decisions from post World War II through the 21st century. Together, these collections offer unparalleled access to the defining international strategies of our time. Glossaries, chronologies, bibliographies, overviews, and photographs are included. -
Fulltext database, Article database, E book database
Eighteenth century collections online
Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: General / Interdisciplinary, Geography, History, Natural Sciences / Technology, Philosophy, Art, Political Science, Law, Sociology, Linguistics and Literature Science Language: English Period: 1701 - 1800 Drawing on the English Short Title Catalogue, the Eighteenth Century Collections Online offers access to more than 180,000 titles of books, pamphlets, essays, and broadsheets that appeared primarily in Great Britain. The e-book collection contains works on history, geography, the fine arts, the social sciences, language and literature, theology and philosophy, law, medicine, natural science, and technology. Nearly 40 million pages are available for full-text searches with simple and advanced search criteria. -
Fulltext database, Factual database
EIU country reports archive
Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: Political Science, Sociology, Economics Language: English Period: 1996 - 2011 (Juni) The EIU Country Reports Archive contains all country reports published by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) from 1996 through June 2011. The country reports feature information on economic and political developments and on foreign trade, as well as overviews of the most important economic indicators. -
Fulltext database
Empire online
Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: History, Political Science, Sociology Language: English The collection contains thematically arranged essays as well as source and data material on a wide range of topics relating to colonialism and imperialism. Scholarly texts introduce the material and suggest pathways to relevant sources in five thematic sections (Cultural Contacts, 1492-1969; Empire Writing & the Literature of Empire; The Visible Empire; Religion & Empire; and Race, Class, Imperialism, and Colonialism, 1607-2007). -
Fulltext database, Encyclopedia, Reference book
encyclopedia of political science (The)
Research area: Political Science Language: English This comprehensive work traces the evolution of political theories, concepts, research frameworks, and political practices from across the world. As it examines the interplay of political ideas and processes, the encyclopedia also conveys the vitality and excitement of politics in practice. Cognizant of the global nature of political ideas and movements. -
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
House of commons parliamentary papers
Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: History, Political Science Language: English Period: 1688 - 2004 This database contains the approximately 11 million pages of the British parliament's officially published documentation spanning 300 years and offers a wealth of material on the political and public issues of the period. In addition to parliamentary sessional papers, it contains reports and correspondence reflecting, among other things, the relations of the British empire to its colonies and the rest of the world. -
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). -
Database, Article database
International bibliography of the social sciences
Research area: Sociology, Political Science, Ethnology, Economics Language: English Period: 1951 - The International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) is an essential online resource for social science and interdisciplinary research. IBSS includes over two million bibliographic references to journal articles and to books, reviews and selected chapters dating back to 1951. It is unique in its broad coverage of international material and incorporates over 100 languages and countries. Over 2,800 journals are regularly indexed and some 7,000 books are included each year. Abstracts are provided for half of all current journal articles. -
Factual database
Journal citation reports Web of science
Research area: General / Interdisciplinary, Sociology, Political Science Language: English Period: 2003 - Evaluation of scientific journals according to the criteria of the Institute for Scientific Information (for example "impact factor"). The data refer to the journals evaluated in the databases JCR Science Edition or JCR Social Sciences Edition. The online access is divided into: JCR Science Edition (approx. 8000 journals evaluated) JCR Social Sciences Edition (approx. 2600 journals evaluated) The JCR can be used to answer the following questions: How often has a particular journal been cited? By which journals was a journal cited? How soon and how long after its publication was a magazine cited? What other journals were cited by a particular journal? The data provide annual informational indicators such as citation rate, impact factor, Immediacy Index (how many times an article is cited on average in the same year) and Cited Half-Life (the half-life of individual journals). In addition, the JCRs provide information on which other journals are cited by a particular journal. The Journal Impact Factor indicates the average citation rate of a journal's articles in a given year. The Journal Impact Factor refers to the entire journal; it is not representative of individual articles or their authors Indicator for the "relative importance" of a journal within a subject area. -
Fulltext database, Article database
JSTOR
Research area: Sociology, Political Science, General / Interdisciplinary, Ethnology, Science, Economics, Philosophy, Linguistics and Literature Science, Educational Research, History, Art, Geography, Mathematics / Computer Science, Law Language: English JSTOR offers access to the full-text versions of predeminantly anglo-american journals starting with the first volume up to the so-called 'moving wall'. JSTOR is not a current issues database. Because of JSTOR's archival mission, there is a gap, typically from 1 to 5 years, between the most recently published journal issue and the content available in JSTOR. The WZB license agreement with JSTOR includes access to the following collections: The Arts & Sciences I Collection (119 titles), the Arts & Sciences II Collection (125 titles) and the Business Collection (47 titles). -
Fulltext database
Macmillan cabinet papers
Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: History, Political Science Language: English Period: 1957 - 1963 The collection has more than 30,000 pages of original documents dating from Harold Macmillan's term as prime minister of Great Britain. This compilation includes all cabinet decisions and memoranda, along with documents from the prime minister's office and correspondence with leading contemporary politicians (e.g., Acheson, Adenauer, de Gaulle, Dulles, and Eisenhower). The collection represents a bedrock source of information on British politics of the time and on the international relations and conflicts in that phase of the Cold War. -
Fulltext database
making of modern law (The): legal treatises, 1800- 1926
Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: Law, History, Political Science Language: English Period: 1800 - 1926 The Making of Modern Law (MOML 1), by Thomson-Gale, facilitates extensive research on the modern legal system and its development in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Users can conduct full-text searches on more than 10 million pages from works about the American and British history of law that were published between 1800 and 1926. The material is indexed in a searchable presentation of 99 areas covering nearly all aspects of American and British law. The more than 21,000 works encompass case compilations, speeches, court books, pamphlets, and letters. -
Fulltext database
making of modern law: primary sources (The), 1620- 1926
Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: Law, History, Political Science Language: English Period: 1620 - 1926 This site gives access to 1,740 titles and 1,850,000 pages with cases, statues, and regulations from U.S. legal history. This material is drawn from the Lillian Goldman Law Library at Yale University. The database has texts (e.g., proceedings and reports) from constitutional conventions; city charters and early U.S. state codes; law dictionaries; and records from the Primary Source Microfilm collection Published Records of the American Colonies. This important digital archive for the legal, cultural, and social history of the Anglo-American cultural space is searchable in full-text. -
Fulltext database
making of modern law: trials (The), 1600- 1926
Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: Law, History, Political Science Language: English Period: 1600 - 1926 This full-text database comprises documents, reports, and literature on court proceedings in America, the British empire, and France from 1600 to 1926. It also contains spectacular court proceedings against historical figures and artists (e.g., Charles I., Oscar Wilde, Sacco and Vanzetti, and Joan of Arc) and other persons of note. The "unofficial published accounts of trials, official trial documents, briefs and arguments" are an important source of material for both legal and sociocultural history. More than 10,000 titles are available from the holdings of the Harvard and Yale law libraries, the library of the Bar of the City of New York, and the Law Library of Congress. Approximately 2 million pages are searchable in full-text. -
Fulltext database
making of modern law: U. S. supreme court records and briefs (The), 1832- 1978
Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: Law, History, Political Science Language: English Period: 1832 - 1978 This Thomson-Gale database permits extensive research on modern law and political changes in the United States from the perspective of the Supreme Court and the parties involved in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Users can conduct full-text searches of more than 350,000 records and court briefs from 150,000 cases that came before the Supreme Court between 1832 and 1978. Nearly all aspects of the rulings handed down by the Supreme Court during that period of American legal history are covered. In particular, the site contains primary documents on interpretations of the U.S. Constitution and its amendments, the part that the administration of justice has played in American history, state sovereignty, slavery, the government's role in wartime and peacetime, the free-market economy, the relation between management and organized labor, issues of discrimination and basic rights, the protection of intellectual property, environmental protection, public health, and the relation between race, gender, and social origin. -
Fulltext database, E book database
making of the modern world (The): economics, politics and industry
Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: Economics, Political Science, Sociology, History Language: English Period: 1460 - 1850 The Making of the Modern World is a comprehensive collection of literature on economics from the second half of the fifteenth century through the mid-nineteenth century. It is important chiefly for research on early economic, political, and social history. The site draws on collections of the Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature at the University of London and on the Kress Library of Business and Economics of Harvard University's Graduate School of Business Administration. The Making of the Modern World grants full-text access to more than 61,000 books that appeared between 1460 and 1850 as well as 466 series and individual journals predating 1906-nearly 12 million pages in all. The site focuses on economic activity in the broadest sense, including political science, history, sociology, and additional other special collections on transport, banking and finance, and the crafts. -
Fulltext database
Middle East online (The)
Series 2. Iraq 1914- 1974
Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: History, Political Science Language: English Period: 1914 - 1974 The online database encompasses important papers of the British government, diplomacy, and colonial administration that document policies of the new Iraqi state from the occupation by British troops during World War I to the rise of Saddam Hussein. The database gives access to original sources from the British cabinet and the foreign, colonial, and war ministries; to agreements, to documents relating to the weapons trade and oil business; to photographic collections, and maps; and to other material. Just under 70,000 pages from the National Archives in London are searchable in full-text. -
Fulltext database
Middle East online (The): series 1. Arab-Israeli relations 1917- 1970
Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: History, Political Science Language: English Period: 1917 - 1970 This online database provides access to the most important sources on the history of the Near East in the twentieth century: the British government documents kept in the national archive in Kew. Documents of the colonial administration, military, and diplomatic service pertaining to the territory of the Palestine Mandate and to the Arab-Israeli conflict are made accessible for international research. The government documents, diplomatic papers, correspondence, memoranda, conference reports, agreements, declarations, newspaper accounts, and the like are searchable in full-text. The database offers around 200,000 pages of text and covers all important events of the era, from the Balfour Declaration of 1917 to Nasser's death in 1970. -
Fulltext database, Article database
The nation archive
Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: Political Science, General / Interdisciplinary Language: English Period: 1865 - 2010 The Nation Archive contains the complete full-text issues of The Nation from its first issue of 1865 to 2010. As the oldest continuously published weekly periodical devoted to politics and culture, this publication has shaped critical opinion and development in the United States and elsewhere for 143 years. -
Fulltext database
Northern Ireland: A Divided Community, 1921- 1972
Cabinet Papers of the Stormont Administration
Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: History, Political Science Language: English Period: 1921 - 1972 The database contains digitized cabinet records and other files of the British regional government in Northern Ireland from 1921 to 1972. The minutes and memoranda of each cabinet meeting are included in their entirety. The collection is thus an important and fundamental source of information on the history of Northern Ireland and the conflict in Northern Ireland. In addition to a full-text search, you can also search for person and place names. -
Fulltext database, Statistics, Factual database
OECD iLibrary
Research area: General / Interdisciplinary, Political Science, Sociology, Economics, Educational Research, Law Language: English Period: 1961 - The OECD iLibrary includes all OECD books published since 1998. That means, a total of 8.330 books in PDF format with an additional 300 books annually. Over 20 OECD magazine series in PDF format, dated from 1961. All new releases will be included in the collection. Direct access to 23 OECD statistical databases. The IEA databases are not included. -
Statistics, Factual database
OECD social expenditure statistics / OECD social expenditure database
Research area: Medicine / Healthcare, Political Science, Economics Language: English, French The OECD Social Expenditure Database (SOCX) has been developed in order to serve a growing need for indicators of social policy. It includes reliable and internationally comparable statistics on public and mandatory and voluntary private social expenditure at programme level. SOCX provides a unique tool for monitoring trends in aggregate social expenditure and analysing changes in its composition. The main social policy areas are as follows: old age, survivors, incapacity-related benefits, health, family, active labor market programmes, unemployment, housing, and other social policy areas. -
Fulltext database, Article database
Oxford journals
Access: Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: General / Interdisciplinary, Educational Research, Ethnology, Geography, History, Art, Mathematics / Computer Science, Medicine / Healthcare, Natural Sciences / Technology, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Law, Religion, Sociology, Linguistics and Literature Science, Economics Language: English Period: 1849 - 2017 Oxford Journals belongs to Oxford University Press, the world's largest university publisher. The site encompasses 324 titles. -
Fulltext database, Article database
Oxford journals- HSS collection (law, humanities, social science)
Access: Research area: General / Interdisciplinary, Educational Research, Ethnology, Geography, History, Philosophy, Political Science, Law, Religion, Sociology, Linguistics and Literature Science, Economics Language: English Holding information: 2018 - Period: 2018 - The HSS collection includes 196 journals about law, humanities and social sciences. -
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, Article database
Periodicals archive online
PAO
Access: Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: General / Interdisciplinary, Educational Research, Ethnology, Geography, History, Information Science, Art, Philosophy, Political Science, Law, Sociology, Linguistics and Literature Science, Economics, Science Language: English Period: 1802 - 2000 Periodicals Archive Online offers the back issues of electronic journals on culture, the humanities, and the social sciences. This resource encompasses more than 700 periodicals, totaling over 3 million articles (15 million pages). The license covers collections 1 through 6. -
Database, Article database
Periodicals index online
PIO
Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: General / Interdisciplinary, Educational Research, Ethnology, Geography, History, Information Science, Art, Philosophy, Political Science, Law, Sociology, Linguistics and Literature Science, Economics, Science Language: English Period: 1739 -2000 This index of historical periodicals facilitates bibliographical research in approximately 4,800 journals in the arts, humanities, and social science in one user interface. It covers the period from 1739 to 2000 and gives access to publications in over 37 specialized areas and more than 40 languages and dialects. -
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, 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. -
Portal
Proquest Sozialwissenschaften
Research area: Sociology, Political Science, Geography, Law, Economics, Educational Research, Medicine / Healthcare, Psychology Language: English -
Database, Article database
Social sciences citation index Web of science
Research area: Sociology, Political Science, Law, Economics, General / Interdisciplinary, Ethnology, Information Science, Psychology Language: English Period: 1972 - Provides access to current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references found in over 2,474 of the world's leading scholarly social sciences journals covering more than 50 disciplines. This database is part of Web of Science. -
Database, Article database
Sociological abstracts Proquest Sozialwissenschaften
Research area: Sociology, Political Science Language: English Period: 1952 - Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from thousands of serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers. Records published by Sociological Abstracts in print during the database's first 11 years, 1952-1962, have been added to the database extending the depth of the backfile of this authoritative resource. Since 2002, most records from scholarly journals also include the references cited in the bibliography of the source article. These references are linked both within Sociological Abstracts and across other social science databases available on ProQuest. -
Fulltext database, Article database
The Times digital archive
Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: General / Interdisciplinary, Educational Research, Ethnology, Geography, History, Art, Medicine / Healthcare, Natural Sciences / Technology, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Law, Religion, Sociology, Linguistics and Literature Science, Economics, Science Language: English Period: 1785 - 1985 As a "newspaper documenting everything", the Times from London has been offering authoritative, award-winning coverage since 1785, information on parliamentary debates, critical interpretation of facts, and a unique historical insight into the views of major reporters and editions of the respective epoch. The Times Digital Archive is an unrivaled opportunity to explore the content of one of the most popular and most frequently cited daily newspapers - online and in the respective context of the original edition. Thanks to the full-text search and classification of each article, each issue can be searched through by keywords in the title or article text, author and subject categories. Afterwards, the article can be viewed completely and quickly on the screen as a full text or the whole page on which a requested article appears. In addition, it is possible to watch a certain issue of the newspaper from a particular day and "leaf through" it. -
Fulltext database, Official publication
U.S. congressional serial set
Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: Political Science, History, Law, Economics Language: English Period: 1817 - 1980 The U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1980, has 12 million digitized pages from 350,000 publications and 52,000 "serial set maps." The publications come from U.S. congressional committees and working groups and from other government authorities. The database thus offers an abundance of material on all areas of U.S. history, policy, economy, and culture. In many cases the scope broadens if relations with the United States are involved. -
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Wiley online library / Blackwell publishing journal backfiles
Access: Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: History, Political Science, Sociology, Natural Sciences / Technology, Economics, Philosophy, Medicine / Healthcare, Educational Research, Psychology Language: English Period: 1879 - 2005 The site has the electronic files of the Blackwell Publishing Company (Wiley-Blackwell) back to 2005. This digitized resource has been in the making for several years. It currently provides 242 titles covering a broad spectrum of subject matter. -
Fulltext database, Article database
Wiley Zeitschriften- DEAL
Research area: Sociology, Economics, Psychology, Ethnology, Geography, Philosophy, History, Educational Research, Art, Political Science, Religion, Linguistics and Literature Science, Mathematics / Computer Science, Medicine / Healthcare, General / Interdisciplinary Language: English Online Wiley journals. -
Fulltext database, Statistics, Factual database
World Bank e-atlas of global development
Access: - free access
Research area: Geography, Sociology, Economics, Political Science, General / Interdisciplinary Language: English The database comprises the 175 development indicators from the printed Atlas of Global Development. One can select the facts either by using the search function or by browsing topics. The data are diagrammed and presented as comparisons between countries. Users must register to export the data, but there is no charge. -
Fulltext database, E book database
World Bank e-library
Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: Sociology, Political Science, Economics Language: English Period: 1993 - The World Bank e-library is a database of more than 6,000 World Bank documents indexed in full-text. The compilation consists of more than 2,000 publications by the World Bank, over 3,200 policy research working papers, and all other papers and new publications. -
Fulltext database, Factual database, Annual
The world factbook
Access: - free access
Research area: General / Interdisciplinary, Geography, Political Science, Economics Language: English This site gives access to material from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency about all counties in the world. The information is primarily political, economic, and geographic in nature. -
Database, Article database
Worldwide political science abstracts Proquest Sozialwissenschaften
Research area: Political Science Language: English Period: 1987 - This database encompasses indexes and summaries of the international literature on political science and international relations, along with related fields such as international law, public administration, and public policy. The database contains summaries of journal articles and information on book reviews from more than 1,500 publication series. It also has summaries of books, book chapters, dissertations, and working papers.