Database-Access WAO and OLC via IBLK

International Relations and Area Studies Gateway (IBLK)
With free World Affairs Online (WAO) Access, also Treaties and - for users, who access the internet via a university network - the Database "Online Contents IBLK"

Sowiport

Sowiport ist ein Portal für die Sozialwissenschaften, welche einerseits durch den Zugriff auf den Thesaurus Sozialwissenschaften sowie durch die (parallele) Recherchemöglichkeit (für Benutzer in den Hochschulnetzen sowie für Benutzer, welche sich bei den Nationallizenzen registriert haben) der CSA-Datenbanken Sociological Abstracts (SA), Political Science (PS) und Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS).

DOAJ Custom Search Engine

The Directory of Open Access Journals offers for a part of the index an article search ("Find Articles") , which bases on metadatas of the single issues of the database (Thanks to Klaus Graf, who mentioned this several times). If you want to make a search based on full text, you must take the custom search engine "DOAJ English Content".

Virtual Libraries and Online Contents Special Subject Collections

Online Content Databases (OLC) are databases in the frame of virtual scientific libraries (Virtuelle Fachbibliotheken, ViFas). GBV provides an index of the several databases: http://www.gbv.de/vgm/vifa/. Sometimes the issues are free directly at the ViFas ("Metasearch").

Informaworld - article database

Informaworld

A common platform and search engine for the publications of Taylor & Francis, Routledge, Informa Healthcare sowie Psychology Press. Still beta. = Eine gemeinsame Plattform und Suchmaschine für die Publikationen von Taylor & Francis, Routledge, Informa Healthcare sowie Psychology Press, die aber sukzessive weiter ausgebaut werden soll.

DOAJ English Journal Content

DOAJ English Journal Content

A custom search engine for the content of english ejournals listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).

Scientific Commons | A Community for Scientific Information

Scientific Commons | A Community for Scientific Information

full text meta research in several text servers and depositories.

BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine: Standardsuche

BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine

Main Page - AcademicBlogs

AcademicBlogs
a collection of academic blogs.

FIS Bildung Datenbank

FIS Bildung

database for books and journals, short results are free.

Part of the Fachportal Pädagogik.

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.

New virtual library: historicum.net

German virtual library in history, maintained by the Bavarian State Library in Munich: historicum.net.

Social Sciences: General Index

Social Sciences Virtual Library
is a part of the WWW Virtual Library, maintained by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Florida. Please notice the entrances to the several subjects under the white box.

Research for home pages of journals: JournalSeek

JournalSeek,
a service of Generics. You can search with titles or ISSN for the homepages of journals. Also an thematical index can be browsed for relevant titles, for example jounals in the field of social sciences.

Research for databases, which index a special journal title

jake :
jointly administered knowledge environment
shows for single journal titles in which data banks they are indexed. This is a good tip where one can investigate in the contents of specific journals.

Social Sciences - Research Resources

Research Resources for the Social Sciences, vast index of sources in the several social sciences.