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)
 
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TOP Databases

[]   All That Stats

Economic databases from the World Bank, the UN, the IMF, the OECD, the European Union and further official and semi-official sources.

[]   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 (2. Ed.)   

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

[]   JSTOR   

Discipline-specific and multidisciplinary journal collections, full text.

[]   Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog (KVK)

Meta search interface for German and international library catalogs.

[]   Nexis News   

Formerly known as Lexis Nexis. News sources from around the Globe with up to 30 years’ archive.

[]   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 Social Sciences   

International literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.

[]   SpringerLink   

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

[]   Web of Knowledge / Web of Science   

Citation database with multidisciplinary coverage (SSCI, SCI, AHI).

[]   wiso   

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

  Sociology

[]   50 Klassiker der Soziologie

Sociology’s major classic scholars.

[]   Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)   

Multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text.

[]   Anthropology Online (Alexander Street Press)   

Anthropology books and written ethnographies plus films.

[]   CAIRN   

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

[]   International Bibliography of Periodical Literature (IBZ)   

Interdisciplinary bibliography of academic periodical literature mainly from the Humanities, Social Sciences and Arts.

[]   International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences IESBS (2. Ed.)   

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.

[]   ProQuest Social Sciences   

International literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.

[]   Social Science Open Access Repository (SSOAR)   

Scientific electronic documents from the social sciences.

[]   Social Science Research Network (SSRN)

Social science research paper.

[]   Social Theory

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

[]   SocINDEX with Full Text (EBSCO)   

Fulltext articles: political sociology,social structure, anthropology, sociological history, sociological theory, demography…

[]   Sowiport   

German subject gateway for the social sciences.

[]   SpringerLink   

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

[]   The Classical Treasury

Founders and Pioneers of the Social Sciences.

[]   UDB-EDU Social Sci & Humanities e-Journals (East View)

Major Russian periodicals on social sciences

[]   Web of Knowledge / Web of Science   

Citation database with multidisciplinary coverage (SSCI, SCI, AHI).

[]   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.

[]   Columbia International Affairs Online

Database for theory and research in international affairs.

[]   Datenbank zur Europ. Gewerkschaftspublikationen (DEGPOL)

Trade union press in Western Europe since 1987.

[]   DIP Informationssystem für Parlamentarische Vorgänge

Information System of German Parliamentary Documents.

[]   Econlit (Ebsco)   

Economic journals, fulltext. Topics: capital markets, country studies, econometrics, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory.

[]   Einiras Database Network (EDN)

International relations and area studies.

[]   German Bundestag / Library catalogue   

Politics, public administration, law, economics, social sciences and modern history.

[]   IMF e-Library   

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

[]   International Bibliography of Periodical Literature (IBZ)   

Interdisciplinary bibliography of academic periodical literature mainly from the Humanities, Social Sciences and Arts.

[]   Making of Modern World / Goldsmiths-Kress Libr. Of Economic Lit. 1450-1850   

Digital facsimile images of literature on economic and business

[]   Marxists internet archive

The most complete library of Marxism.

[]   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.

[]   ProQuest Social Sciences   

International literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.

[]   Public Affairs Information Service International - PAIS (Pro Quest)   

Bibliographic index to the literature of public policy, social policy, and the social sciences in general.

[]   Social Science Research Network (SSRN)

Social science research paper.

[]   Sozialpolitik aktuell

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

[]   SpringerLink   

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

[]   U.S. Congressional Serial Set (NewsBank)

Committees and working groups of the U.S. Congress as well as from governmental departments.

[]   ViFaPol   

Virtual library for political science.

[]   Web of Knowledge / Web of Science   

Citation database with multidisciplinary coverage (SSCI, SCI, AHI).

[]   World Affairs Online / Int. Beziehungen u. Länderkunde

International relations from a European perspective.

[]   World Bank eLibrary   

Books, reports, journals, and working papers

  Economics

[]   ABI/Inform (Lexis Nexis)   

Full-text and abstract documents from over 1,000 business publications.

[]   Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)   

Multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text.

[]   Business Source Premier (EBSCO)   

Business research database, providing full text for nearly 8,200 serials.

[]   Concise Encyclopedia of Economics

Articles by over 150 top economists, including Nobel Prize winners, over 80 biographies of famous economists.

[]   Econlit (Ebsco)   

Economic journals, fulltext. Topics: capital markets, country studies, econometrics, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory.

[]   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.

[]   Lexis Nexis Companies   

Fka Lexis Nexis. Profiles of companies and company executives, annual reports and other SEC filings, merger and acquisition transactions, earnings reports.

[]   Lexis Nexis Industry Reports   

Formerly known as Lexis Nexis. News from over 25 industries.

[]   Making of Modern World / Goldsmiths-Kress Libr. Of Economic Lit. 1450-1850   

Digital facsimile images of literature on economic and business

[]   Nexis News   

Formerly known as Lexis Nexis. News sources from around the Globe with up to 30 years’ archive.

[]   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.

[]   Regional Business News (EBSCO)   

Journals and newspapers from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.

[]   Social Science Research Network (SSRN)

Social science research paper.

[]   SpringerLink   

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

[]   The Economist Historical Archive   

Complete content of all printed editions of the Economist from the years 1843 - 2010.

[]   Web of Knowledge / Web of Science   

Citation database with multidisciplinary coverage (SSCI, SCI, AHI).

[]   wiso Firmeninformationen   

wiso Companies enables full text access to company databases and commercial registers.

[]   wiso Marktdaten   

wiso Markets enables full text access to market-related data (Germany)

[]   World Bank eLibrary   

Books, reports, journals, and working papers

  Law

[]   Beck online

Juristische Literatur des Beck-Verlages.

[]   Gesetze im Internet

Comprehensive and complete online texts of current German Federal law.

[]   Jurion (formerly LexisNexis Recht)   

German law information system, including laws and decisions, all relevant legal standards plus version documentation.

[]   Juris

German legal informations.

[]   KrimDok

Database of criminological literature.

[]   Lexis Nexis international law   

Formerly known as Lexis Nexis. American, UK and European law Databases, law journals online

[]   OLC-SSG Law   

Provides access to the tables of contents of journals in the field of law.

[]   The Making of Modern Law

Full-text collection of Anglo-American legal treatises, 1800 - 1926.

[]   Verhandlungen des deutschen Reichstags

Session proceedings of the Reichstag.

[]   Westlaw International

Online legal research service. US Law Reviews.

  History

[]   Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)   

Multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text.

[]   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.

[]   Early English Books Online (EEBO)   

Facsimile page images of works printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700.

[]   histat - Zeitreihen zur Historischen Statistik von Deutschland online

Viertelmillion Zeitreihen aus über 360 Studien

[]   Historical Abstracts (EBSCO)   

History of the world, 1450 to the present.Journal articles.

[]   historicum.net   

Entry point for historical sciences and arts.

[]   IDZ - Index Deutschsprachiger Zeitschriften 1750 - 1815   

German-language newspapers from the years 1750 through 1815.

[]   International Bibliography of Periodical Literature (IBZ)   

Interdisciplinary bibliography of academic periodical literature mainly from the Humanities, Social Sciences and Arts.

[]   Internet Archive

Collections of digitized materials, including websites, , music, movies and videos, and nearly three million public-domain books.

[]   Making of Modern World / Goldsmiths-Kress Libr. Of Economic Lit. 1450-1850   

Digital facsimile images of literature on economic and business

[]   Post-War Europe   

Primary sources for the study of the challenges facing the European peoples in the aftermath of World War II.

  Education and Psychology

[]   Fachportal Pädagogik / FIS Bildung Literaturdatenbank   

Educational science from Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Articles, books, papers.

[]   SocINDEX with Full Text (EBSCO)   

Fulltext articles: political sociology,social structure, anthropology, sociological history, sociological theory, demography…

[]   Sowiport   

German subject gateway for the social sciences.

[]   Web of Knowledge / Web of Science   

Citation database with multidisciplinary coverage (SSCI, SCI, AHI).

  Philosophy and Religion

[]   Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)   

Multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text.

[]   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.

[]   Early English Books Online (EEBO)   

Facsimile page images of works printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700.

[]   ProQuest Social Sciences   

International literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.

[]   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 Knowledge / Web of Science   

Citation database with multidisciplinary coverage (SSCI, SCI, AHI).

  Multidisciplinary

[]   Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)   

Multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text.

[]   BASE   

Metadata from scientific repository servers.

[]   Datenbank-Infosystem (DBIS)

A gateway to (free) electronic resources at German universities, arranged by subject.

[]   DigiBib   

Information portal of NRW-Libraries.

[]   DIP Informationssystem für Parlamentarische Vorgänge

Information System of German Parliamentary Documents.

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

SocINDEX, Humanities International Complete, Business Source Premier.

[]   EconBiz   

Virtual library for economics.

[]   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.

[]   International Bibliography of Book Reviews (IBR)   

Book reviews from the years 1985ff, mainly in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

[]   International Bibliography of Periodical Literature (IBZ)   

Interdisciplinary bibliography of academic periodical literature mainly from the Humanities, Social Sciences and Arts.

[]   Internet Archive

Collections of digitized materials, including websites, , music, movies and videos, and nearly three million public-domain books.

[]   JCR - ISI Journal Citations Reports

Resource for journal evaluation.

[]   JSTOR   

Discipline-specific and multidisciplinary journal collections, full text.

[]   Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog (KVK)

Meta search interface for German and international library catalogs.

[]   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.

[]   Nexis News   

Formerly known as Lexis Nexis. News sources from around the Globe with up to 30 years’ archive.

[]   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   

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

[]   ProQuest Dissertations & Theses   

Dissertations - full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997.

[]   Scopus   

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

[]   VLIB - Max Planck Virtual Library   

Max Planck Society information portal, allows you to search certain different databases in parallel.

[]   Web of Knowledge / Web of Science   

Citation database with multidisciplinary coverage (SSCI, SCI, AHI).

[]   Worldcat   

Connects you to the collections of more than 10,000 libraries worldwide

[]   Zeitschriftendatenbank (ZDB)

Specialized database for serial titles with holdings information.

  Statistics

[]   All That Stats

Economic databases from the World Bank, the UN, the IMF, the OECD, the European Union and further official and semi-official sources.

[]   China Statistical Yearbook

Statistical data in a Zip-File

[]   CNTS - Cross-National Time-Series

Longitudinal data series

[]   Council of European Social Science Data Archives

the union catalogue of the principal European data archives for social scientists

[]   Destatis

Basic statistical information Germany.

[]   ECMI Statistical Package 2011 - Excel Version

Data on the dynamics of various segments of the European capital markets

[]   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

[]   IMF eLibrary - Data

The IMF publishes a range of time series data on lending, exchange rates, and other economic and financial indicators.

[]   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. Complete facsimile run of the world’s most authoritative daily business newspaper.

[]   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.

[]   Nexis News   

Formerly known as Lexis Nexis. News sources from around the Globe with up to 30 years’ archive.

[]   Online Newspaper Directory for the World

Thousands of Newspapers Listed by Country & Region

[]   The Economist Historical Archive   

Complete content of all printed editions of the Economist from the years 1843 - 2010.

[]   The New Republic Archive (EBSCO)   

All editions of the journal "The New Republic" in full text

[]   The Times Digital Archive   

Historical Archive from 1785-1985.

[]   The Times Literary Supplement   

The Times Literary Supplement reviews titles from all academic disciplines as well as literature, current theater and cinema productions, and exhibitions.

[]   Westlaw International

Online legal research service. US Law Reviews.

[]   wiso Fachzeitschriften   

wiso Fachzeitschriften enables full text access to periodicals and magazines (Handelsblatt, Wirtschaftswoche)

[]   Zeitungswebsites

German Newspapers. Alphabetically or regional.

  Biography

[]   Lexis-Nexis Biographies   

Formerly known as Lexis Nexis. Biographical sources and people-related news sources.

[]   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.

[]   Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog (KVK)

Meta search interface for German and international library catalogs.

[]   Social Science Research Network (SSRN)

Social science research paper.

[]   Sowiport   

German subject gateway for the social sciences.

[]   ViFaPol   

Virtual library for political science.

[]   VLIB - Max Planck Virtual Library   

Max Planck Society information portal, allows you to search certain different databases in parallel.

  Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

[]   Chicago Manual of Style

Style guide for American English.

[]   Concise Encyclopedia of Economics

Articles by over 150 top economists, including Nobel Prize winners, over 80 biographies of famous economists.

[]   Credo Reference   

Full text access to a selection of reference books (Sociology, Economics, Law)

[]   Encyclopædia Britannica Online

Britannica online, Academic Edition.

[]   Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary   

One of the most popular English language dictionaries.

[]   Oxford English Dictionary   

Most authoritative and comprehensive dictionary of English online.

[]   Oxford Reference Online   

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