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)
36 databases found.
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Article database, 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, 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 -
Database
BIOSIS previews
Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: Natural Sciences / Technology, Medicine / Healthcare Language: English Period: 1926 - 2004 This database contains: Biological Abstracts Archive, 1926-1968 Biological Abstracts, 1969-2004 References to articles from approximately 6,500 periodicals in the fields of biology, botany, medicine, pharmacology, microbiology, ecology, parasitology, toxicology, and environmental sciences. BIOSIS Previews Archive, 1926-1968 BIOSIS Previews, 1969-2004 BIOSIS Previews contains the references of journal articles and references to conference reports, books, dissertations, and gray literature. The collection comprises more than 3.5 million bibliographical entries, generally with abstracts. -
Fulltext database, Article database, Article database
BMJ journals online collection
Access: Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: Medicine / Healthcare Language: English Period: 2006 - 2011 The selection offers access to the archived volumes of 29 periodicals of the British Medical Journals Publishing Group. The site has some of the most influential journals in the field, including the British Medical Journal. After free registration, the user has open access to content before 2006 -
Database
Book citation index / science Web of science
Research area: Mathematics / Computer Science, Medicine / Healthcare, Natural Sciences / Technology 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). -
Database
Conference proceedings citation index /science Web of science
Research area: Mathematics / Computer Science, Natural Sciences / Technology, Medicine / Healthcare 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, 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, Article database
De Gruyter online / Walter de Gruyter Online-Zeitschriften Archiv
Access: Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: History, Law, Mathematics / Computer Science, Natural Sciences / Technology, Information Science, Linguistics and Literature Science, Medicine / Healthcare, Philosophy Language: German, English The site gives access to about 250 journals, which cover a broad spectrum of subjects in the humanities and the natural sciences. Most of the titles from the area of science, technology, and medicine (STM) date from 1998 onward. All backfiles are available for most of the titles in the humanities (H). All the journals have a one-year period between their latest issue available in JSTOR and their most recently published issue. -
Portal
DIMDI
Access: - free access
Annotation: - Free overview search, fee-based fulltexts
Research area: Medicine / Healthcare Language: German, English DIMDI offers access to about 50 databases with approx. 100 million documents. Approximately one third of the databases is available free of charge. The databases contain scientific literature references and facts from the entire field of medicine and its adjacent fields, for instance, drugs, toxicology, medical devices, biology and psychology. -
Reference book, Technical dictionary
Duden- Wörterbuch medizinischer Fachbegriffe
Das Standardwerk für Fachleute und Laien
Langenscheidt Online-WörterbücherResearch area: General / Interdisciplinary, Medicine / Healthcare Language: German -
Fulltext database, Article database, Article database
Elsevier journal backfiles on ScienceDirect / SciVerse ScienceDirect
Access: Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: General / Interdisciplinary, Natural Sciences / Technology, Medicine / Healthcare, Sociology, Economics, Psychology Period: 1907 - 2002 Elsevier offers its journal archive in subject-related collections. The national license contains approximately 1,500 titles. -
Article database, Article database
GeroLit
Access: - free access
Research area: Medicine / Healthcare, Psychology, Sociology Language: German The database contains articles, monographs, collective works, contributions to collective works, research reports, electronic documents. Collection focus: Gerontology, sociology, in particular sociology of old age, sociology of life course, developmental psychology of old age, old-age/senior citizen and social policy, health care of older people, old-age care/nursing care science with reference to older people. -
Fulltext database, Factual database
Informa healthcare digital archive
Access: Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: Medicine / Healthcare Language: English Period: 1896 - 2009 This resource contains the archive of 153 medical and pharmaceutical journals of seven renowned publishers: Marcel Dekker, Taylor & Francis, Routledge, CRC Press, Gordon & Breach, Swets & Zeitlinger, and Ashley. -
Fulltext database, E book database
Karger eBooks collection
Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: Medicine / Healthcare Language: English Period: 1997 - 2013 The 579 e-books in this collection appeared with the Karger medical publishing company between 1997 and 2013 and span a broad spectrum in the field of biomedicine. They are drawn from 38 series that are still running-some of them for many years-and from 10 series that have ended. -
Fulltext database, Article database, Article database
Karger journals / Karger journals Archiv
Access: Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: Medicine / Healthcare Language: English Period: 1998 - 2014 This site offers the electronic backfiles of 104 titles that have appeared with the Karger medical publishing house since 1998. -
Fulltext database, Language dictionary, Technical dictionary
Langenscheidt Online-Wörterbücher
Research area: General / Interdisciplinary, Linguistics and Literature Science, Natural Sciences / Technology, Economics, Medicine / Healthcare * Großwörterbuch Deutsch als Fremdsprache * Muret-Sanders Großwörterbuch Englisch * Handwörterbuch Französisch * Handwörterbuch Italienisch * Handwörterbuch Spanisch * Taschenwörterbuch Polnisch * Taschenwörterbuch Russisch * Pocket Dictionary Chinese Fachwörterbücher: * Fachwörterbuch Architektur und Bauwesen Englisch * Fachwörterbuch Biologie Englisch * Fachwörterbuch Chemie und chemische Technik Englisch * Fachwörterbuch Elektrotechnik und Elektronik Englisch * Fachwörterbuch Physik Deutsch - Englisch * Fachwörterbuch Technik und angewandte Wissenschaften Englisch * Fachwörterbuch Technik Französisch * Fachwörterbuch Technik Italienisch * Fachwörterbuch Wirtschaft, Handel und Finanzen Englisch * Fachwörterbuch Kompakt Recht Englisch Duden: * Duden 1 - Die deutsche Rechtschreibung * Duden 5 - Das Fremdwörterbuch * Duden 8 - Das Synonymwörterbuch * Duden Deutsches Universalwörterbuch * Duden Wörterbuch chemischer Fachausdrücke -
Fulltext database, Article database, Article database
Liebert online
Liebert online archive
Access: Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: General / Interdisciplinary, Medicine / Healthcare, Natural Sciences / Technology Language: English Period: 1.Jg - 2005 This resource is an electronic archive of the Mary Ann Liebert publishing company. It offers 59 journal titles from the fields of medicine, process engineering, technology and engineering science, biotechnology, and food technology. -
Fulltext database, Article database, Article database
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 'LWW legacy archive'
Access: Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: Medicine / Healthcare Language: English Period: 1. Ausg. - 2004 The LWW Legacy Archive has 220 medical periodicals from their first issue through 2004. Prominent titles include Anesthesiology, Circulation, Spine, and Stroke. -
Fulltext database, Article database, Article database
Nature.com
Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: Natural Sciences / Technology, Medicine / Healthcare Language: English Period: 1869 - 2009 The archive has the full texts of the multidisciplinary weekly periodical Nature dating from 1869 through 2009. The following associated monthly publications are included as well: Nature research journals, Nature Reviews journals (life science), Nature clinical reviews journals, and Nature Protocols. -
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, 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. -
Database, Article database, Article database
Physical education index Proquest Sozialwissenschaften
Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: Sociology, Educational Research, Medicine / Healthcare Language: English The database indexes journal essays, reports, congress reports, and other kinds of literature on all areas of sports sciences, including sports medicine and sports sociology. It also has abstracts dating back to 2001. -
Bibliography, Article database, Article database
Pilots Proquest Sozialwissenschaften
Research area: Medicine / Healthcare, Psychology Language: English This bibliographical database covers the Published International Literature on Traumatic Stress (PILOTS) and is funded by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. It offers figures and summaries relating to the international literature on posttraumatic stress disorders (PTSD) and other complications of traumatic events. -
Portal
Proquest Sozialwissenschaften
Research area: Sociology, Political Science, Geography, Law, Economics, Educational Research, Medicine / Healthcare, Psychology Language: English -
Database
PsycINFO
Research area: Medicine / Healthcare, Sociology, Psychology Language: English Period: 1806 - PsycINFO (American Psychological Association) covers the international literature in all areas of psychology and in related fields of medicine, psychiatry, of nursing care, sociology, pedagogics, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, economic and legal sciences. Sources include approx. 2,000 journals, books, dissertations, and technical reports via platform Ovid. Bibliographic information, indexing terms, and abstracts are searchable. -
Database, Article database, Article database
PSYNDEX
Access: - free access
Research area: Medicine / Healthcare, Sociology, Psychology Language: German, English PSYNDEX covers German and English publications from authors in the German-speaking countries from all areas of psychology and related behavioral and social sciences such as psychiatry, psychosomatic medicine, sociology, education, philosophy, sports, criminology, linguistics, and applied economics. Also included are audiovisual media as well as psychological, psychiatric, and educational tests developed or in use in the German-speaking countries (including published and nonpublished tests, adaptations of American, English and other-language tests, informal research instruments). Sources include approximately 540 journals, books, chapters, reports, and dissertations. Bibliographic information, indexing terms, and abstracts are searchable in German and English. -
Database, Portal
PubPsych
Access: - free access
Research area: Psychology, Medicine / Healthcare, Sociology PubPsych is a free information retrieval system for psychological resources. It offers a comprehensive and balanced selection of resources from a growing number of international databases with a European focus, covering the needs of academic and professional psychologists. Includes: PSYNDEX, PASCAL, ISOC-Psicologia, MEDLINE, ERIC, NARCIS, NORART, PsychOpen, PsychData About PubPsych: https://pubpsych.zpid.de/pubpsych/about.jsp -
Fulltext database, Article database, Article database
Sage journals online
Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: General / Interdisciplinary, Sociology, History, Educational Research, Philosophy, Political Science, Economics, Medicine / Healthcare, Ethnology, Geography, Information Science, Linguistics and Literature Science, Law, Natural Sciences / Technology, Psychology Period: 1879 - The site offers more than 705 electronic periodicals that appear with Sage Publications. They cover a wide range of subjects. -
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, Article database, Article database
Taylor & Francis online archives
Access: Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: General / Interdisciplinary, Mathematics / Computer Science, Natural Sciences / Technology, Economics, Educational Research, Psychology, Medicine / Healthcare Language: English Period: 1799 - 2000 This resource encompasses around 370 periodicals of the archive packages available from Taylor & Francis (vols. 1 through the year 2000). -
Fulltext database, Article database, Article database
Thieme-connect / Thieme Zeitschriftenarchive
Access: Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: Medicine / Healthcare, Natural Sciences / Technology Language: German, English Period: 1980 - 2008 This site gives electronic access to the full-text archives containing 36 selected titles of periodicals published by Thieme in the fields of medicine, chemistry, and biology. -
Fulltext database, Article 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 - 2011 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. -
Database, Article database, Article database, Portal
Web of science
Research area: General / Interdisciplinary, Sociology, Political Science, Linguistics and Literature Science, Educational Research, History, Art, Mathematics / Computer Science, Philosophy, Law, Economics, Natural Sciences / Technology, Ethnology, Science, Geography, Medicine / Healthcare, Psychology Period: 1972 - 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: - Social Sciences Citation Index (includes approximately 4,500 social science and economics journals from 55 disciplines, such as psychology, sociology, and anthropology as of 1972) - Arts & Humanities Citation Index (with references to approximately 2,300 journals in the arts and humanities as of 1975) - Book Citation Index (with books published as of 2005) - Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science (CPCI-S, conferences as of 1990) - Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Social Science & Humanities (CPCI-SSH, conferences as of 1990) - Current Contents Connect (as of 1998) - Data Citation Index (research data, as of 1900) - Derwent Innovations Index (edited patents, as of 1963) - Zoological Records (technical database, as of 1964) - Biosis Citation Index (technical database, as of 1928) - Index Chemicus (with search function for chemical structures, as of 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). -
Fulltext database, Article database, Article database
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, Article database
Wiley online library / Wiley Interscience backfile collection
Access: Annotation: - German-wide access provided by the DFG
Research area: Medicine / Healthcare, Natural Sciences / Technology, Mathematics / Computer Science, Psychology Language: English Period: 1832 - 2005 About 250 titles are offered in the fields of chemistry, mathematics, medicine, pharmacy, physics, and psychology. -
Fulltext database, Article 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.