Databases

The joint union catalogue (GVK) is the freely accessible section of the union database K10plus of the GBV and the SWB. The OLC are also accessible via this database. The OLC contain more than 48.8 million articles from more than 27,900 journals. Since its publication in 1993, this database has included tables of contents of journals of all disciplines with a special focus on the natural sciences. It is supplemented weekly with articles from more than 8,700 journals of different libraries. The Joint Union Catalogue (GVK) contains over 72.6 million titles with more than 183.0 million proofs of ownership of books, journals, articles, congress reports, microforms, electronic documents, data carriers, music, maps, etc. from approx. 1,110 GBV and SWB libraries. In addition, the journal references of all subito delivery libraries from Germany and Austria as well as other German university libraries are included.

In OLC you have access to over 40,8 million articles from over 25.870 scientific periodicals. They are updated daily and supplemented weekly with the tables of contents of more than 10.000 periodicals from Special Subject Collections. Please press 'availability' to see if a journal in your result list is in the wzb-library.

Web of Science (WoS) is an extensive, multidisciplinary, bibliographical database with references to contributions in journals, books, proceedings, and other sources in the social sciences, the arts and humanities, natural science, and engineering. The WZB has licensed the following ancillary data banks: -Science Citation Index Expanded (1995 -) - Social Sciences Citation Index (includes approximately 4,500 social science and economics journals from 55 disciplines, such as psychology, sociology, and anthropology, 1972 -) - Arts & Humanities Citation Index (with references to approximately 2,300 journals in the arts and humanities, 1975 -) - Book Citation Index (with books published, 2005 -) - Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science (CPCI-S, conferences, 1990 -) - Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Social Science & Humanities (CPCI-SSH, conferences, 1990 -) - Current Contents Connect (1998 -) - Data Citation Index (research data, 1900 -) - Derwent Innovations Index (edited patents, 1963 -) - Zoological Records (technical database, 1964 -) - Biosis Citation Index (technical database, 1928 -) - Index Chemicus (with search function for chemical structures, 1993 -) - Current Chemical Reactions (technical database, 1985 -) Another special feature of the WoS is that it lists each document's sources (cited references) and gives their citation frequency (times cited).