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)
4 databases found.
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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
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, E book database
Springer ebook collection
Medicine
Access: Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: Medicine / Healthcare Language: English, French, Spanish Period: 2005 - 2008 This resource is a collection of 1,306 e-books published by Springer in English from 2005 through 2008. It includes a few French and Spanish titles as well. -
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.