Databases

The Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies offers access to the following databases for members of the institute (further information and import information only for members)
 
Sorted by: Subjects | Alphabetical
 

Available Subjects:

TOP Databases |  Sociology |  Politics and International Relations |  Law |  Economics |  History |  Education and Psychology |  Philosophy and Religion |  Science and Technology |  Multidisciplinary |  Statistics |  Newspapers |  Biography |  Information Portal |  Dictionaries and Encyclopedias | 
 
TOP Databases

[]   Ebsco (Business Source Premier, Socindex...)   

SocINDEX, Humanities International Complete, Business Source Premier.

[]   elibrary   

Library’s search portal. With just one query, you have access to the Library’s collection as well as to a wide range of metadata and sources in external databases.

[]   International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences IESBS   

IESBS is the world's largest encyclopedia of the Social Sciences.

[]   JSTOR   

Discipline-specific and multidisciplinary journal collections, full text.

[]   Primo Central Index (PCI)   

Mega-aggregation of hundreds of millions of scholarly e-resources of global and regional importance.Journal articles, e-books, reviews, legal documents

[]   Springer electronic Books and Journals   

Journals and Ebooks. Contains Springer, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Gabler.

[]   Web of Science   
[]   wiso   

Access to international & German-language literature - business, economics, social science

  Sociology

[]   Art Libraries Network - kubikat   
[]   CAIRN   

Collection of journals available online in French language for the Humanities and Social Sciences.

[]   International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences IESBS   

IESBS is the world's largest encyclopedia of the Social Sciences.

[]   JSTOR   

Discipline-specific and multidisciplinary journal collections, full text.

[]   Oxford Reference Online   

English & bilingual dictionaries, politics & social sciences & economic reference works.

[]   Social Science Open Access Repository (SSOAR)   

Scientific electronic documents from the social sciences.

[]   Social Theory

Sociological thought from the eighteenth century to the present day, fulltext.

[]   Sowiport   

German subject gateway for the social sciences.

[]   Springer electronic Books and Journals   

Journals and Ebooks. Contains Springer, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Gabler.

[]   The Classical Treasury

Founders and Pioneers of the Social Sciences.

[]   Web of Science   
[]   World Bank eLibrary   

Books, reports, journals, and working papers

  Politics and International Relations

[]   CAIRN   

Collection of journals available online in French language for the Humanities and Social Sciences.

[]   German Bundestag / Library catalogue - http://opac.bibliothek.bundestag.de/   
[]   IMF e-Library   

Books, papers, journals and statistics of the International Monetary Fund.

[]   NationMaster

Compilation of data from CIA World Factbook, United Nations, World Health Organization, World Bank.

[]   Oxford Reference Online   

English & bilingual dictionaries, politics & social sciences & economic reference works.

[]   Oxford Scholarship Online, OSO   

Full text of Oxford books in the areas of Economics and Finance, Philosophy, Political Science, and Religion.

[]   Sozialpolitik aktuell

Information about German welfare state, social security, labor, working conditions.

[]   Springer electronic Books and Journals   

Journals and Ebooks. Contains Springer, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Gabler.

[]   The Making of Modern World 1450-1850 (Gale)   
[]   Web of Science   
[]   World Affairs Online / Int. Beziehungen u. Länderkunde

International relations from a European perspective.

[]   World Bank eLibrary   

Books, reports, journals, and working papers

  Economics

[]   IMF e-Library   

Books, papers, journals and statistics of the International Monetary Fund.

[]   Labourline

ETUI Documentation Centre: Labour, industrial relations, socio-economic issues, trade unionism.

[]   OECD iLibrary   

OECD’s Online Library for Books, Papers and Statistics and the gateway to OECD’s analysis and data.

[]   Oxford Reference Online   

English & bilingual dictionaries, politics & social sciences & economic reference works.

[]   Oxford Scholarship Online, OSO   

Full text of Oxford books in the areas of Economics and Finance, Philosophy, Political Science, and Religion.

[]   Springer electronic Books and Journals   

Journals and Ebooks. Contains Springer, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Gabler.

[]   The Economist Historical Archive - 1843 - 2010 (Gale)   
[]   The Making of Modern World 1450-1850 (Gale)   
[]   Web of Science   
[]   World Bank eLibrary   

Books, reports, journals, and working papers

  Law

[]   Gesetze im Internet

Comprehensive and complete online texts of current German Federal law.

[]   Juris

German legal informations.

[]   KrimDok - Institut für Kriminologie, Tübingen   
[]   Verhandlungen des deutschen Reichstags

Session proceedings of the Reichstag.

  History

[]   Brill Online Reference Works   

New Pauly, Encyclopaedia of Islam,Encyclopaedia of the Quran, Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics and Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World.

[]   Clio-online   

Central Internet gateway for historical scholarship in teaching and research.

[]   histat - Zeitreihen zur Historischen Statistik von Deutschland online

Viertelmillion Zeitreihen aus über 360 Studien

[]   historicum.net   

Entry point for historical sciences and arts.

[]   IDZ - Index Deutschsprachiger Zeitschriften 1750 - 1815   

German-language newspapers from the years 1750 through 1815.

[]   The Making of Modern World 1450-1850 (Gale)   

  Education and Psychology

[]   Fachportal Pädagogik / FIS Bildung Literaturdatenbank 1980 - present   
[]   Sowiport   

German subject gateway for the social sciences.

[]   Web of Science   

  Philosophy and Religion

[]   Brill Online Reference Works   

New Pauly, Encyclopaedia of Islam,Encyclopaedia of the Quran, Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics and Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World.

[]   Oxford Scholarship Online, OSO   

Full text of Oxford books in the areas of Economics and Finance, Philosophy, Political Science, and Religion.

[]   World Christian Database

Information on 9,000 Christian denominations and on religions in every country of the world.

[]   World Religion Database

Detailed statistics on religious affiliation for every country of the world.

  Science and Technology

[]   MEDPILOT (German National Library of Medicine)   

Online Catalog for medicine and health.

[]   Web of Science   

  Multidisciplinary

[]   BASE   

Metadata from scientific repository servers.

[]   DigiBib   

Information portal of NRW-Libraries.

[]   Ebsco (Business Source Premier, Socindex...)   

SocINDEX, Humanities International Complete, Business Source Premier.

[]   EconBiz   
[]   Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek EZB

German central database for electonic journals with holding information for the MPIfG. Journal titles only.

[]   IDZ - Index Deutschsprachiger Zeitschriften 1750 - 1815   

German-language newspapers from the years 1750 through 1815.

[]   JCR - ISI Journal Citations Reports

Resource for journal evaluation.

[]   JSTOR   

Discipline-specific and multidisciplinary journal collections, full text.

[]   MPG eBooks Catalog   

Holdings of electronic books licensed for users in the Max Planck Society.

[]   MPG Journal Index   

Journal Index of all Max-Planck-Institutes, kept as print version or electronically accessible.

[]   NationMaster

Compilation of data from CIA World Factbook, United Nations, World Health Organization, World Bank.

[]   OECD iLibrary   

OECD’s Online Library for Books, Papers and Statistics and the gateway to OECD’s analysis and data.

[]   Oxford English Dictionary   

Most authoritative and comprehensive dictionary of English online.

[]   Primo Central Index (PCI)   

Mega-aggregation of hundreds of millions of scholarly e-resources of global and regional importance.Journal articles, e-books, reviews, legal documents

[]   ProQuest - Various Databases (e.g. Dissertations & Theses,Research Library, ERIC, …)   

Metasearch in Sociological Abstract, WPSA, PAIS, ProQuest Dissertations and Historical Newspapers.

[]   Scopus   

Abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources with tools to track, analyze and visualize research

[]   Web of Science   
[]   Worldcat   
[]   Zeitschriftendatenbank (ZDB)

Specialized database for serial titles with holdings information.

  Statistics

[]   EU Open Data Portal (beta)

Locate data from institutions such as Eurostat, the Committee of the Regions, the EC Directorate-General for Competition.

[]   European Central Bank (ECB) data

Data on Eurozone monetary policy, financial stability and the activities of the European System of Central Banks (ESCB).

[]   European Values Study

EVS Longitudinal data File 1981-2008 describes value change in 47 countries

[]   Eurostat

Key to European statistics.

[]   GESIS Datenbestandskatalog

5500 Studien nationaler und internationaler Herkunft, z.B. ISSP , Eurobarometer, EVS, ALLBUS oder Politbarometer

[]   GovData

Datenportal für Deutschland - Daten aller Verwaltungsebenen zentral zugänglich

[]   histat - Zeitreihen zur Historischen Statistik von Deutschland online

Viertelmillion Zeitreihen aus über 360 Studien

[]   Lending to Households in Europe (ECRI)

Covers the entire retail loan market, including time series on consumer credit, housing loans and other loans

[]   NationMaster

Compilation of data from CIA World Factbook, United Nations, World Health Organization, World Bank.

[]   OECD iLibrary   

OECD’s Online Library for Books, Papers and Statistics and the gateway to OECD’s analysis and data.

[]   OECD.Stat extracts

Data and metadata for OECD countries and selected non-member economies.

[]   Penn World Table

Purchasing power parity and national income accounts converted to international prices for 188 countries

[]   Sozialpolitik aktuell

Information about German welfare state, social security, labor, working conditions.

[]   Statista (German sources)

The German Statista portal provides access to statistics, studies and reports

[]   Statista (international sources)

Statista provides statistical data from thousands of institutions and sources.

[]   Statistisches Bundesamt | Genesis

Data collection of the Statistical Information System of the German Federal Government, original interface.

[]   World Christian Database

Information on 9,000 Christian denominations and on religions in every country of the world.

[]   World Religion Database

Detailed statistics on religious affiliation for every country of the world.

[]   ZACAT - GESIS Online Study Catalogue

Access to 200 studies with a focus on international comparative studies and election studies.Eurobarometer, EVS, ISSP, Studies Eastern Europe, Election Studies Germany, Politbarometer.

  Newspapers

[]   Financial Times

Finanancial Times current edition. Please ask the library for access

[]   Financial Times Historical Archive 1888-2010 (Gale)   
[]   Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Online version of one of Germany's most important newspapers. The archive dates back to 1949.

[]   Gale NewsVault   

Ability to cross-search our library's historical newspaper like FT, Times, Economist.

[]   Library Press Display

Up to 60 days access to international newspaper in their traditional format.

[]   Newspaper Archives Online

Online access to nationally read newspapers archives and weeklies.

[]   Online Newspaper Directory for the World

Thousands of Newspapers Listed by Country & Region

[]   The Economist Historical Archive - 1843 - 2010 (Gale)   
[]   The Times Digital Archive 1795-1985 (Gale)   
[]   The Times Literary Supplement 1912-2012 (Gale)   
[]   Zeitungswebsites

German Newspapers. Alphabetically or regional.

  Biography

[]   World Biographical Information

Biographical articles from printed reference works.

  Information Portal

[]   Clio-online   

Central Internet gateway for historical scholarship in teaching and research.

[]   DigiBib   

Information portal of NRW-Libraries.

[]   elibrary   

Library’s search portal. With just one query, you have access to the Library’s collection as well as to a wide range of metadata and sources in external databases.

[]   historicum.net   

Entry point for historical sciences and arts.

[]   Sowiport   

German subject gateway for the social sciences.

  Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

[]   Credo Reference   
[]   Oxford English Dictionary   

Most authoritative and comprehensive dictionary of English online.

[]   Oxford Reference Online   

English & bilingual dictionaries, politics & social sciences & economic reference works.