Databases and more
Here you will find our licensed databases our database information system (DBIS) and a selection of subject portals and search engines, as well as other library catalogs (regional & national).
KVK - Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog
The Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog (KVK) [Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog] is a meta-catalog for the detection of several hundred million books and journals in library and book trade catalogs worldwide. Holdings of Germany's academic libraries and the world's national libraries can be searched for ownership records via a search mask. The major portals of the book trade and online antiquarian can also be integrated into the search.
SWB - Southwest German Library Network
The SWB online catalog of the Southwest German Library Network (SWB) lists the media holdings of more than 1,200 libraries from the regions of Baden-Württemberg, Saarland, and Saxony, as well as from additional special libraries from other German states. Searches in the SWB can also be covered by the KVK.
In case of maintenance work or failure of the library catalog of the ZU library, the online catalog of the Southwest German Library Network (SWB) can be used as an alternative.
DNB - Catalog of the German National Library
The German National Library (DNB) collects and archives, as completely as possible, all German and German-language publications from 1913 onwards, Germanica published abroad and translations of German-language works, as well as the works of German-speaking emigrants published between 1933 and 1945, lists them bibliographically and makes the holdings available to the public. The holdings of the German National Library since 1913 can be searched via the DNB catalog.
ZDB - periodicals database
The "Zeitschriftendatenbank" (ZDB) [periodicals database] is the world's largest database for title and ownership records of serial publications, i.e. of journals, newspapers, publication series and periodicals from all countries and in all languages. Not only print journals but also electronic journals can be found. The ZDB contains more than 1.5 million titles from 1500 to the present day, and lists the holdings of 4,300 German and Austrian libraries for these titles. The ZDB does not list articles.
Libraries of the Lake Constance Region [Bodensee]
Scientific libraries of the four countries bordering Lake Constance: Germany, Liechtenstein, Austria and Switzerland. University, college, state and cantonal libraries are listed, as well as scientific city, municipal and special libraries.
Euregio Lake Constance Database (Lake Constance Bibliography)
Bibliographic record of literature on topics, places and people of the Lake Constance area. In the "Simple search" you can select the desired library in the top field. The "Advanced Search" allows the selection of several libraries by marking them.
The holdings of the public library Constance ("Stadtbücherei Konstanz") can no longer be searched in the regional catalog. To the online catalog of the Constance Public Library.
Medienhaus am See (Media house on the lake)
Media catalog of the "Medienhaus am See" (Friedrichshafen public library).
Constance regional catalog
The catalog contains media holdings (books, journal titles and articles, electronic media, etc.) from libraries in the Constance, West Lake Constance, Upper Swabia and Black Forest-Baar region that have recorded their titles in the SWB.
The holdings of the public library Constance ("Stadtbücherei Konstanz") can no longer be searched in the regional catalog. To the online catalog of the Constance Public Library.
BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine
BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) is one of the world's largest search engines for scientific web documents. The index includes over 140 million documents from over 6,000 sources. For about 60% of the documents indexed in BASE, the full texts are freely accessible (open access). The operator of the BASE search engine is Bielefeld University Library.
Fields of expertise: General / Interdisciplinary
EconBiz - Virtual Library of Economics | ViFaWiWi
EconBiz is a research portal / discovery system for economics. Among other things, it offers a literature search in important German and international economic databases including the ECONIS holdings of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics as well as access to free and licensed full texts on the Internet.
Fields of expertise: Economics, agriculture, forestry, horticulture, fisheries, home economics, nutrition
You can change the language of the page via the menu. The language may be adapted from the system language.
FID Media - Specialized Information Service for Communication and Media Studies
Portal for specialist information and open access publishing for communication and media studies. It is the central reference portal for all those researching and working in communication and media studies and related disciplines.
FID Media brings together two important services for the subjects: adlr.link as the previous special portal for literature supply and the open access publication services of the media studies repository media/rep/.
Fields of expertise: Media and communication studies, journalism, film and theater studies
Pollux - Subject information service for political science
POLLUX is the subject information service for political science and provides access to electronic publisher publications (e-books, e-journals, e-articles), scholarly open access documents, research data, and content from subject databases and newspaper archives, among other resources.
Fields of expertise: Political Science
SSOAR - Social Science Open Access Repository
SSOAR is a subject repository with the aim of making documents from the field of social sciences freely available through Open Access and to promote digital publishing and archiving (Green Open Access).
Fields of expertise: Media and communication studies, journalism, film and theater studies, political science, psychology, sociology
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