Databases
Periodicals | By form or region | By period or subject
- Über 360 gebührenfreie Datenbanken freely searchable Web databases in 24 subject areas
Databases of periodicals and historical newspapers: titles, locations
- Zeitschriftendatenbank (ZDB-Katalog) Database of periodicals and databases in German and Austrian libraries
- Digitalisierte Zeitschriften New from Wikisource. Journals of which at least one volume before 1930 is digitised - a huge list
- Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek from Regensburg: journals with articles in full text, alphabetically and by subject
- DigiZeitschriften e.V. New! Selection of journals in full text, accessible only on subscription
- Compact Memory: Internetarchiv jüdischer Periodika Over 100 peridicals from 1806 to 1938
- Die digitale Bibliothek from the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin: books, MSS, journals etc. New!
- Further online newspapers and periodicals sites
Databases by form or region
- Dissertationen online: Sammlung digitaler Dissertationen im Internet
- Österreichische Dissertationsdatenbank dissertations submitted at Austrian universities since 1990
- Regionalbibliographien Links to bibliographies of the German Länder, plus some regional bibliographies, and bibliographies from other German-speaking countries. Most are available as online databases
Databases by period or subject
- Herzog August-Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel: Kataloge und Datenbanken including:
- the HAB library OPAC and other local and regional catalogues
- Aufsatzdokumentation - HAB database of periodical articles on all aspects of early modern culture, with detailed search instructions
- Datenbank- Infosystem (DBIS) from Regensburg. Subject index to databases - on the web, on DVD, freely accessible and subscription-only
- Index deutschsprachiger Zeitschriften 1750-1815 (IDZ) From the Gemeinsamer Bibliotheksverbund, Göttingen
- Zeitschriftenfreihandmagazin searchable database of the contents pages of history journals. Mostly German, but includes some English titles too
- Österreichische Historische Bibliographie data since 1945, searchable by subject, author etc.
- Diplomatische Dokumente der Schweiz Searchable database of Swiss diplomatic documents, organizations etc from 1945-1952, plus federal laws, statutes etc from the 1930s to the 1960s. 2000 documents have so far been digitised in PDF format. Also available in English.
- GetInfo "the portal for science and technology provides access to more than 160 million data sets from specialised databases, publishers and library catalogues"
- Datenbank ECONIS economics database from Kiel. All publications acquired by the ZBW since 1986 searchable free
- POLDOK: Die Politik der 80er Jahre searchable database of 40,000 documents
- Datenbank ARIADNE Searchable database of book chapters and articles on women's studies held in the Austrian National Library. Contains records since 1990
- Innsbrucker Zeitungsarchiv zur deutsch- und fremdsprachigen Literatur 1,000,000 articles on 30,000 authors from 80 journals and newspapers. Most articles since 2000 are freely available; earlier references can be sent by post
- Internet Movie Database includes c. 3000 German films, giving studio, director, artist information etc
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