Historical databases

bibliographic databases

Please consult first thematical databases of the national licenses (free in Germany) and of the database-informationsystem (DBIS)!

Dyabola, partly free, ancient times

Gnomon online

Historical Bibliography, 19th century ff., partly free

Annals for German History, 19th century ff.

Bibliography contemporary history

Regesta Imperii, middle ages


full text databasses

Acta Sanctorum, Nationallizenz

Europa Sacra Online, Nationallizenz

Library of Latin Texts, Nationallizenz

Monumenta Germaniae Historica (MGH)

Patrologia Latina Database, Nationallizenz

Perseus Digital Library, ancient times, in English


biographical databases

World Biographical Information System, Nationallizenz

General German Biography (ADB), free

Germania Sacra

Academic Live

Academic live, database with abstracts and citations, a competitor of Google Scholar.

Open J-Gate

Open J-Gate is a search engine for the meta data of the articoes of more than 3.000 free e-journals.

Politikwissenschaft

"Politikwissenschaft" is a Blog of a library of a institute of political science, dealing with news from political science, research and e-learning.

ROMSO news search

Romso is a german news search machine, with news matrix.