Licensed Databases

The "große Beck", i.e. complete full-text versions of the online library with:

• Legal standard reference works by C.H. Beck
  
• Commentaries and handbooks, nearly all of Beck’s journals including the archives, comprehensive jurisdiction, and more than 4,000 laws.
  

• Fachmodul Hochschulrecht PLUS.

Here you will find tutorials and more information.

beck online

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Article database
Full text database

Database for business administration and economics that covers a broad range of topics in these subject areas.

• Contains the full texts of over 3,800 economics journals, including about 2000 peer-reviewed titles. A total of almost 10,000 journals are evaluated. 
• Over 40,000 author profiles 
• Over 900 eBooks 
• Over 1,400 Country Economic Reports 
• Over 7,600 Industry Reports 
• Over 8,800 interviews (executive & analyst) as well as case studies, videos with seminar recordings, SWOT analyses, working papers and much more.

Business Source Complete

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Article database
Subject bibliography
Full text database

The database offers comprehensive search possibilities in the areas of communication sciences and mass media. It includes the two databases "CommSearch" (bibliographic information on articles in journals of communication sciences), and "Mass Media Articles Index" (bibliographic information on articles in journals and monographs related to mass media and communication sciences).

• Full text on over 520 journals
• Indexing and abstracts of more than 670 titles
• More than 5,500 author profiles
• Communication Thesaurus
• Searchable Cited References
  

Topics include communication theory, mass media, linguistics, rhetoric, and sociolinguistics.

Communication and Mass Media Complete

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Subject bibliography
Full text database

Dafne offers contemporary and historical annual financial statements of over 800.000 German companies.

• Following the companies‘ publications there are both individual financial statements and consolidated financial statements.
  
• The international accounting criteria IAS and US-GAAP as well as the German HGB are implicated in the detailed account.
  

The company reports include in full details: contact details, business activity, (WZ codes and job description), detailed balance as well as profit and loss accounting, financial characteristic factors, microgeographical keys, import and export rates, managers, subcompanies, proprietors and stock prices.

Each company’s efficiency can be graphed through integrated schemata and graphs. The society structure and groups of companies can be pictured in a tree diagram. Economic information and the rating of the CREDITREFORM e.V. form the data basis.

Note on use: There is a restriction on data transfer for data fields that could be used for acquisition. Queries are limited to a total of 16,000 companies (e.g. address data, bank details, personal data (managers, board of directors, supervisory board, etc.), commercial register numbers, industry codes). A corresponding query should therefore be limited by the search beforehand.

• Tip: Limit the search to the desired industry (then there is no need to export the industry code).

Dafne

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Fact database
Full text database

DBIS is a cooperative service for the use of scientific databases. The database information system contains over 14465 entries, of which more than 6162 databases are freely available over the Internet.

• The recorded databases have content that can be specifically searched through search functions.
  
• The databases are offered sorted by subject.
  
• Via the advanced search, among others, keyword searches or searches for databases with geographical reference are possible.
  

The DBIS of ZU is a selection of databases and not the complete DBIS.

Here you will find information on using the database information system.

Datenbank-Infosystem

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[The DBIS total stock can be selected manually.]

Database Info System

The F.A.Z. BibloNet contains more than 1.6 million articles (from 1993) from

• FAZ
• Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung
• Rhein Main Zeitung
  
• FAZ.NET (as of 1999; incl. exclusive F.A.Z.-PLUS articles)
  
• F.A.Z-Magazin (from Jan. 1996 to Jun. 1999 and 2013 ff.)
  

The F.A.Z. Archive (1949-1992) contains over 2.8 million retrodigitized articles from more than 13,000 issues of the FAZ and its local section.

The FR contains the Frankfurter Rundschau with over 2 million articles in full text since 1995. Also included are the various issues of the Lokalrundschau and the Stadtteil-Rundschau.

Since April 2022, multimedia content has been included in the form of over 1000 podcasts.

Here you will find a brief introduction to the database.

Frankfurter Allgemeine Archiv

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Full text database
Newspaper

The data archive of the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) offers access to over 250,000 research data sets from the social and behavioral sciences. These include 21 data collections, including on education, minorities, violence, elites, the environment, medical care, organizations, institutions, law and other subject areas. 

Access: The majority of these data sets have restricted access. To gain access to these data sets, create your personal ICPSR account on the university's campus network for the first time. This requires a ZU e-mail address.

Your account is valid for six months after each login and is renewed accordingly with each login.

Here you will find tutorials and more information.

ICPSR

Requires a personal ICPSR account with ZU e-mail address.

Full text database

JSTOR provides access to over 12 million articles from journals, books, and source materials. 75 subject areas are covered. Over 2600 journals are covered (more recent volumes may be embargoed by a moving wall (embargo of about 2-5 years before the current volume)).
Over 70,000 books are available as DRM-free files. Source materials are grouped into four collections: Global Plants, 19th Century British Pamphlets, Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa, and World Heritage Sites: Africa.

Artstor has been in JSTOR's portfolio since 2022. [ZU has not licensed Artstor. Institutions with an Artstor license can also use Artstor content on the JSTOR interface].

Here you will find tutorials and more information.

Here you will find "Research Basics".

JSTOR

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Article database
Full text database

Juris is the legal information system of the Federal Republic of Germany. Using databases that are available online, it is possible to carry out searches on legal norms, jurisdiction, administrative directives, books, and journal articles on nearly all areas of German law.

Here you can find tutorials and webinars | tips and tricks | video tutorials

juris

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Article database
Subject bibliography
Full text database

Nexis Uni includes data from over 17,000 news, corporate and legal sources.

News: Articles from several thousand journals, magazines and newspapers from around the world including archives.
Companies: Companies in different countries, company profiles or specific details like finance and M&A.
Industries and Countries: International industry information, economic articles on individual countries, industry news.
People: Biographical information on people in business, politics, celebrities and other leaders in specific fields.
Law: Legal information on cases, decisions and laws especially for the Anglo-American region.

Here you will find tutorials and more information.

Here you will find: Course to learn the skills to get started in Nexis

Nexis Uni

Directly to the Nexis Uni source search

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Article database
Full text database
Newspaper

former: Nexis ;  LexisNexis / Business

OECD is the portal for the online publications of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

The portal provides access to all studies and statistics of the OECD and can be considered one of the largest online libraries for data and analyses concerning economics, society, and the environment.

There is access to (depending on licensing):

• Approx. 17820 e-books
• E-journals containing most of the literature published by the OECD since 1998
• Approx. 8530 Working papers and policy responses
  
• Statistical databases of the OECD
• Podcasts
  

Find here a User guide

Find here a Video tutorial Introduction and Personal Registration.

Resources for Users and Researchers.

OECD

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Fact database
Portal
Full text database

Political Science Complete (PSC) is an internationally oriented database of political sciences, addressing the topics:

political theory, comparative politics, international relations, law and legislation, humanitarian issues, and globalization.

It provides access to more than 3100 academic journals as well as full-texts from 700 journals, e-books, and 48000 conference papers (conference journals), among others of the American Political Science Association.

Political Science Complete

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Subject bibliography
Full text database

APA PsycARTICLES is the full-text journal database of the American Psychological Association (APA). PsycARTICLES indexes articles from all areas of psychology, including basic research.

The full text database contains articles from over 100 journals (peer reviewed) of the APA and other leading publishers / organizations.
The database contains articles from 1894 onwards and is updated weekly.

APA PsycARTICLES

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Subject bibliography
Full text database

PsycINFO is produced by the American Psychological Association (APA). It is a bibliographic database on psychology and related fields such as psychiatry, sociology, education, anthropology, and linguistics, provided they are relevant to psychology.

Articles from about 2,500 journals are evaluated. In total, PsycINFO offers about 60000 new entries per year with weekly updates.

APA PsycINFO

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Subject bibliography

Sage Journals Online contains journal titles with a focus on social sciences as well as humanities and medicine. The journals are searchable via EDS Journals.

SAGE Journals Online

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Article database

A multidisciplinary abstract- and citation data bank for scientific literature and high end online resources (peer-reviewed).

Different tools for tracking, analysis and visualization of scientific information are available for:
| Social sciences
| Cultural studies and humanities
| Natural sciences, technology and medicine

Furthermore, Scorpus allows references and citations for scientific articles that allow citation analysis (Who quotes who? Who is quoted by whom?). The evaluation starts from 1996 as publication year.

• 75 million references and abstracts from more than 23,500 peer-reviewed journals
• 44 million patent specifications and 9.8 million conference papers
• 16 million author profiles
• Abstracts searchable back to 1970 (partly back to 1788)
• For all articles published since 1996, in addition to the abstract, also literature references, many of them in linked form
• Links to full-text articles and other bibliographic sources
• Open Access as well as Electronic-Only journals
• Book Titles (as of November 2022: over 210,000)
  

Scorpus complements the existing archive (2000 until december 2014) of the Social Science Citation Index, that is still available for members of the ZU.

Here you can find tutorials on how to use Scopus

Scopus

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Article database
Subject bibliography

The comprehensive full-text database of social sciences contains more than 2,1 million data sets from approximately 4,200 different journals. Regarding their content, these data sets are linked by means of a thesaurus. Abstracts are provided for the articles of more than 1,300 journals.

"SocINDEX with Full Text" provides the full-text versions of more than 860 journals, partly reaching back as far as 1908. Additionally, there are full-text versions of more than 830 e-books and 16,800 conference papers. The continuously updated authors´ profiles provide biographic and bibliographic information on more than 25,000 authors.

Sociological Index

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Subject bibliography
Full text database

Archive access from 2000 - 2014

Article database including more than 3.45 million titles, comprising all areas of political and social sciences including the neighboring disciplines of social medicine and psychology that are oriented towards natural sciences. It draws from approximately 2,500 academic journals from more than 50 disciplines of social sciences, and contains all relevant articles from additional 3,300 periodicals from medicine and natural sciences. Type of reference: bibliographic information including the sources cited in the listed publications. 60 percent of the references include an abstract. Weekly addition of approximately 2,700 references.

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STATISTA is a statistics portal that bundles statistical data from various institutes and sources.

It provides access to facts and figures on more than 80,000 topics from more than 18000 different sources.

• Industry categories: Agribusiness to Administration and Socialeds

Available metadata such as source, publication date, number of respondents, etc. are published for each statistic, making the information verifiable on STATISTA. Data sets are processed according to scientific criteria.

Here you will find the training portal with information on live training, the tutorial portal or the search functions explained in 3 minutes.

STATISTA

STATISTA - German platform

On-site and remote access via login.

Included:

Statista Market Insights

Statista Consumer Insights

Fact database

Contains

• the editions Germany, Bavaria, and Munich of the Süddeutsche Zeitung, including the administrative district editions (since 1992)
• Online edition sueddeutsche.de (as of 2008)
• SZ-Magazin (as of 1999)
• SZ-Extra (as of 1993)
• SZ Prime Time (2007-2009; Only published until 2009)
• SZ Wissen (2005-2009)

Starting in1998, the articles can also be accessed as newspaper pages in pdf format. The daily Germany edition is available at 10 p.m. the day before. The Bavaria and Munich editions are available from 7 a.m. each morning.

[ZU has licensed the above content. Other licenses may contain additional content].

Here you will find tutorials and more information.

Süddeutsche Zeitung

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Full text database
Newspaper

Comprehensive database for the areas of economic theory and practice. The database provides access to 5.8 million full-texts in German and English from more than 340 national and international academic journals.

WISO

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