Description of databases

ASSIA

ASSIA currently contains over 375,000 records from over 500 journals published in 16 different countries, including the UK and US.Major areas of coverage include: Anxiety disorders, Communication, Criminology, Cultural anthropology, Education, Ethnic studies, Family, Geriatrics, Health, Housing, Marriage, Nursing, Unemployment, Immigration, Industrial relations, Child abuse, Legal issues, National Health Service reforms, Political science, Psychology, Race relations, Religion, Sociology, Social work, Substance abuse, Urban planning, Women's studies.

database

references

English

1987 until today

worldwide

monthly

licence required

http://www.nationallizenzen.de

Deutschland-Büro: E-Mail: vertrieb@germany.proquest.com; Tel: (+49) (0)30 2408823 0 Fax: (+49) (0)30 2408823 29

ProQuest CSA

United States of America

http://www.csa.com

In keeping with the longstanding social commitment of its founder, Reinhard Mohn, the Bertelsmann Stiftung is dedicated to serving the common good. Our work is based on the conviction that competition and civic engagement are essential for social progress. It focuses on areas where it has built compelling competence through years of experience. The foundation works toward improved education, a just and efficient economic system, a preventative healthcare system, a vibrant civil society and greater international understanding.

database

references

German, English

Nicole Adams, E-Mail: nicole.adams@berttelsmann.de; Tel: (+49) (5241) 8181136

Bertelsmann Stiftung

Germany

http://www.bertelsmann-stiftung.de

CSA SSA

More than 1,300 international journals and publications as well as recensions and dissertations build the foundation of the references in the database. About 5,500 documents are added annually. The DFG natioal licences for research in SOWIPORT contain the years 1996 till 2009. Subject areas are family welfare, social policy, gerontology, poverty research, social work, education, violence research and welfare.

database

references

Englisch

1996 until today

worldwide

monthly

licence required

http://www.nationallizenzen.de

Deutschland-Büro: E-Mail: vertrieb@germany.proquest.com; Tel: (+49) (0)30 2408823 0 Fax: (+49) (0)30 2408823 29

ProQuest CSA

United States of America

http://www.csa.com

CSA SA

The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,800+ serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers. Records published by Sociological Abstracts in print during the database's first 11 years, 1952-1962, have been added to the database as of November 2005, extending the depth of the backfile of this authoritative resource. Major areas of coverage include: culture and social structure, demography and human biology, economic development, environmental interactions, evaluation research, family and social welfare, health and medicine and law, history and theory of sociology, management and complex organizations, mass phenomena and political interactions, methodology and research technology, policy, planning, forecast and speculation, radical sociology, religion and science, rural and urban sociology, social development, social differentiation, social psychology and group interaction, sociology of the arts, business, education, studies in violence and power, substance abuse and addiction, welfare services and women's studies.

database

references

German, English

from 1915 until today

worldwide

monthly

Thesaurus of Sociological Indexing Terms

licence required

http://www.nationallizenzen.de

Deutschland-Büro: E-Mail: vertrieb@germany.proquest.com; Tel: (+49) (0)30 2408823 0 Fax: (+49) (0)30 2408823 29

ProQuest CSA

United States of America

http://www.csa.com

The database "Worldwide Political Science Abstracts" covers every area of political sciencs and considers related areas like f.e. law and international relationships, social policy, security policy, economics, environmental policy, and public administration. The database contains mainly journal articles and reviews, but also monographs (85% journals articles, 5% reviews, 9% monographs and 1% dissertations). Additionally, there are sources from the internet. The database analyzes about 1,500 scientific journals and serials worldwide. About one third of these are from North America, half of them from Western Europe and the rest from Eastern Europe, Central and South America, as well as, Africa, Asia, and Australia. Parts of the core journals are publications from political scientific associations, faculties and organisations.

database

references

English

1996 until today

worldwide

monthly

Thesaurus of Political Science Indexing Terms

licence required

http://www.nationallizenzen.de

Deutschland-Büro: E-Mail: vertrieb@germany.proquest.com; Tel: (+49) (0)30 2408823 0 Fax: (+49) (0)30 2408823 29

ProQuest CSA

United States of America

http://www.csa.com

DZI-SoLit

The database documents German and Englisch publications, journal articles, articles from collected editions and monographs. It offers about 160,000 entries and about 6,000 new entries are added each year. Areas of work: social work, social pedagogic, pedagogic, sociology, social policy, social medicine, social psychology, welfare work, social administration, social law, healthcare, elderly care, children, youth welfare service and further more...

database

references

German, English

19th century, 20th century, 21st century

Germany, Austria, Switzerland

quaterly

DZI-Thesaurus mit 3.250 Begriffen

licence required

Silvia Lehmann, E-Mail: lehmann@dzi.de; Tel. (+49) (030) 83900119

Deutsches Zentralinstitut für soziale Fragen (DZI)

Germany

http://www.dzi.de

FES-Bibliothekskatalog

The Friedrich Ebert Foundation Library is one of the world's largest scientific specialized libraries, with the following areas of collection emphasis: 1) Past and present of the German and international Labour Movements. 2) German and international social and contemporary history. 3) current publications by political parties and trade unions from Germany and selected countries.

database

references

German, English, French

Geographic FES-Thesaurus

monthly

Sachschlagwortkatalog der FES

Dr. Rüdiger Zimmermann; E-Mail: ruediger.zimmermann@fes.de; Tel: (+49) (0228) 883550

Bibliothek der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES)

Germany

http://library.fes.de

Gerontologische Literatur

Literaturdatenbank des DZA

The library catalogue GeroLit provides a quickly and convenient search in the library via the Internet which is free of charge. At the present time, the library offers more than 28.000 volumes and about 140 journals which are thematically orientated towards the DZA and its aims to "increase, collect, evaluate, process and disseminate knowledge about the living arrangements of ageing and old people". Main knowledge fields are sociological and psychological gerontology, social and behavioural sciences, cultural studies, ageing, elderly care and old people's welfare and policy.

database

references

German, English, Spanish, French, Italian

1950 until today

worldwide

bimonthly

GeroLit-Thesaurus

free of charge

Beate Schwichtenberg-Hilmert, E-Mail: beate.schwichtenberg@dza.de; Tel: (+49) (030) 26074084

Deutsches Zentrum für Altersfragen (DZA)

Germany

http://www.dza.de

PAIS

More than 1,200 international journals, as well as government documnts, grey literature, conference proceedings, internet sources and research reports have been searched to get the refecences provided. The national licence for the research in SOWIPORT contains the years 1996 to 2009. The fields covered are politics, administration, economics and social sciences.

database

references

English

1996 until today

worldwide

monthly

licence required

http://www.nationallizenzen.de

ProQuest CSA

Deutschland-Büro: E-Mail: vertrieb@germany.proquest.com; Tel: (+49) (0)30 2408823 0 Fax: (+49) (0)30 2408823 29

United States of America

http://www.csa.com

PEI

The references consist of scientific publications, conference proceedings, patents as well as articles from consumer press and other literature. About 12,000 new references are added annually to the database. The DFG national licence to research within SOWIPORT includes the volumes 1996 until 2009. Fields: sociology, sport sociology, sport psychology, administration, health, history, law.

database

references

Englisch

1996 until today

worldwide

monthly

licence required

http://www.nationallizenzen.de

Deutschland-Büro: E-Mail: vertrieb@germany.proquest.com; Tel: (+49) (0)30 2408823 0 Fax: (+49) (0)30 2408823 29

ProQuest CSA

United States of America

http://www.csa.com

SOFIS contains descriptions of planned, current and completed (in the last 10 years) research projects in the social sciences including psychology, pedagogics and economics. Around 7,000 records per year are added to or updated in the current version of the database. The references contain information about the project topics, about the practical methods, about project publications, about the responsible staff as well as relevant contact details. Project information in SOFIS comes primarily from the higher education sector. Research from the non-university sector is included only insofar as the results from that research may be published in the open literature and not - as is so often the case with market and opinion research - designed only for the commissioning agency.

database

project references

German, English

1997 to the present

Germany, Austria, Switzerland

monthly

Thesaurus Sozialwissenschaften

free of charge

Allgemeines zur Datenbank: Monika Zimmer; E-Mail: monika.zimmer@gesis.org; Tel: (+49) (0228) 2281134; Fax: (+49) (0228) 22814134

GESIS

Germany

http://www.gesis.org

More than 360,000 social science publications are presented together in SOLIS with a short description of the contents from the following disciplines: Sociology, Methods in the Social Sciences, Political Science, Social Policy, Social Psychology, Educational Research, Science of Communication, Demography, Ethnology, Historical Social Research, Labour Market and Employment Research as well as from further interdisciplinary areas of the social sciences, such as, for example, research on women, research on leisure, gerontology, social welfare. The references base on monographs, compilations, contributions in compilations, articles out of around 350 examined journals and grey literature. 16,000 to 18,000 new references are added annually. There are web links to full text entries for more than 22,000 references to new publications: included therein are articles in online journals, research reports - predominantly from institutional series -, as well as congress reports and dissertations.

database

referencesv

German, English, French

1945 to the present

Germany, Austria, Switzerland

monthly

Thesaurus Sozialwissenschaften

Allgemeines zur Datenbank: Monika Zimmer; E-Mail: monika.zimmer@gesis.org; Tel: (+49) (0228) 2281134; Fax: (+49) (0228) 22814134

GESIS

Deutschland

http://www.gesis.org

During the two-year term of the project (2007-2008), SSOAR will be implemented using qualitative research as a prototype. We will start by storing manuscripts by German-speaking authors, relying mainly on the network which originates in Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research (FQS), the biggest international open-access journal on qualitative research. Documents by non-German-speaking contributors will follow. The project is coordinated by an editorial team and is supported by an Advisory Board made up of members of scholarly societies. In addition, SSOAR aims to win new cooperation partner such as journals, publishers and other institutions. The first documents became available online in January 2008. You as an author are kindly invited to deposit your texts. We also actively recruit content in consultation with authors and journal editors. And, of course, manuscripts may be submitted directly to SSOAR's editorial team. Furthermore we would appreciate it if you would spread the word about SSOAR to your friends and colleagues.

database

full texts

DGerman, English, Spanish

3335 documents

redaktion@ssoar.info

GESIS
FU Berlin

Germany

http://www.gesis.org/
http://www.cedis.fu-berlin.de/
http://www.qualitative-forschung.de/institut/

Supplementary to GESIS' spectrum on the Internet, which is based primarily on our own products and services and partly on those of co-operating partners, the GESIS SocioGuide offers an additional reference system to external sources, completing the spectrum of GESIS products and giving the social scientist in German speaking countries an initial orientation over and above technical and regional limits. In order to take the source state and the interests of foreign participants into account, the language of description is preferably English. Access to two main regions is offered on one common homepage: 1) Sources in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, other western European and non-European countries ('GESIS SocioGuide Germany and International') 2) Sources in Eastern Europe ('GESIS SocioGuide Eastern Europe')

database

institutions, contact details, events, journals, networks & collections

German, English

worldwide; main focus: Eastern Europe

free of charge

GESIS

Germany

http://www.gesis.org

USB Sowi OPAC

The economics and social sciences departement of the online catalogue of the university and city library cologne provides books and journals with a special focus on the Anglo American as well as grey literature (working papers etc.) of the German language area.

database

references

German, English

daily

free of charge

Claudia Dembek; E-Mail: dembek@ub.uni-koeln.de
Wilfried Steinhoff; E-Mail:steinhof@ub.uni-koeln.de

Universitäts- und Stadtbibliothek (USB) Köln

Germany

http://www.ub.uni-koeln.de/

WZB-Bibliothekskatalog

The WZB library is a resource for professionals working and conducting research here. Most of the collection is open shelf and is housed in the eight storey "Library Tower." The library collection includes around 145,000 volumes of social, political and economic professional literature. Among these are more than 12,650 WZB research publications and 580 current serials. The entire collection is also available on the web through the online catalog. Library services are orientated toward the structure and content of the research conducted at the WZB. Additionally, library support services and research consultations are part of the services offered.

database

references

German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese

19th century, 20th century, 21st century

Europe, Asia, Latin America, Australia, North-America

daily

Thesaurus Sozialwissenschaften

free of charge

Gerd Paul; E-Mail: gerd.paul@wzb.eu; Tel: (+49) (030) 254 91518

Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB)

Germany

http://bibliothek.wzb.eu

The expanded edition of the former GESIS list of keywords contains about 11,600 entries, of which more than 7,750 are descriptors (authorised keywords) and about 3,850 non-descriptors. Topics in all of the social science disciplines are included. The Thesaurus is used for the description within SOLIS, SOFIS and SocioGuide. The integrated search in all SOWIPORT databases is possible by using intellectual cross concordances.

tool

keywords

DGerman, English, Russian

German: EUR 35; German-English: EUR 35; English-German: EUR 35 (in combination: EUR 84); German - English - Russian/Russian - German - English/Index: EUR 84

Hannelore Schott; E-Mail: hannelore.schott@gesis.org; Tel: (+49) (0228) 2281162; Fax: (0228) 22814162

GESIS

Deutschland

http://www.gesis.org