Online databases

Numerous online databases and other freely accessible services can be accessed via the Database Information System (DBIS) interface.

These include access to databases acquired with the support of the German Research Foundation (DFG) and its partner institutions. DBIS also provides an overview of the database offering of a number of German-language libraries.

Database
Content
Location/Access
Law Database: Judgments, comments and papers, manuals, forms and Contract templates. Full text versions of current case law, monthly updated about 4,500 full texts and trade news
Access via EZPROXY with library identification and Beck Online Account
German-language online encyclopedia.
Access via EZPROXY with library identification.
4,300 journals in full text, 2,900 of which are peer-reviewed plus 75,000 videos from the Associated Press news agency

The database also contains case studies, company profiles, SWOT analyses, e-books, market analyzes and articles from business and trade journals. Additional databases, e.g. Econlit and GreenFILE, can be accessed via the EBSCO host.
Access via EZPROXY with library identification.
The multidisciplinary journal database DACH Information offers access to the full t exts of over 550 journals and magazines. Topics include business and economics, law, management, marketing, psychology and social sciences.
Access via EZPROXY with library identification.
The primary aim of DOAB is to increase traceability of Open Access books. The directory is open to all publishers who publish academic, peer reviewed books in Open Access and should contain as many books as possible, provided that these publications are in Open Access and meet academic standards.
Open Access
More than 18,000 Open Access journals with 7,900,000 referenced articles.
Open Access
EconLit, American Economic Association's electronic database contains more than 1,500,000 records for literature from 1969 to the present. EconLit covers almost all areas of the economy and related areas with references to relevant documents. In addition, leading important journals and books (e-books) are included in full text that are not part of the Business Source Complete, e.g. the Handbook of World Trade.
Access via EZPROXY with library identification.
The Entrepreneurial Studies Source database provides the latest insights into issues relevant to entrepreneurs in general and small businesses in particular. This resource provides users with full text for more than 110 professionally relevant journals, 147 reference works and manuals, case studies, thousands of company profiles and over 64,600 videos with transcripts and related articles from the Harvard Faculty Series and Vator.TV.
Access via EZPROXY with library identification.
The Gabler Wirtschafts¬lexikon by Springer-Gabler has been a classic in business literature for over 50 years. Since 2009, the work has been available as a freely accessible online offering with an expanded range of uses. The freely accessible expert knowledge includes 25,000 keywords - written by 200 proven experts and continuously checked by the editors.
Free Access
Database featuring documents related to environmental protection and environmental technology.
Access via EZPROXY with library identification.
With over 10,000 industry reports worldwide, the IBISWorld database provides in-depth market analysis for Germany, 37 countries in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, the US, Canada, China and key global markets. Each report contains both quantitative and qualitative trend analyses of key industry statistics, operating conditions, product and market segments and the competitive environment, including major industry players.
Access via EZPROXY with library identification
The extensive law database Juris contains law texts. The following products are available through the university license:
- Deutsches Gesetzesportal
- Fachportal öffentliche Verwaltung Hochschulen
- Staudinger Online
- juris Spectrum Hochschulen
- juris Zusatzmodul Hochschulen
Access via EZPROXY with library identification. Password access for professors and senior academic staff of HWR-Berlin. Please send your request to hsb.cs@hwr-berlin.de
The video-on-demand streaming service Kanopy offers its service to educational institutions and currently provides access to around 17,000 films, documentaries, series and instructional videos, mainly in English, on a wide range of topics. Kanopy works directly with filmmakers and film distribution companies to provide, among other things: Material from the Media Education Foundation, PBS and the BBC. For licensing reasons, some titles are only released for users from North America, including a large part of the feature films from the wellknown Criterion Collection. Optionally, English-language subtitles can be displayed for the films, which are mostly of good quality. After registering with the provider free of charge, lists of favorites or excerpts can be created and shared via social networks such as Facebook or Twitter.
Access without restriction within the campus network of the HWR Berlin / outside via EZPROXY with library identification.
Website of the Kommunale Gemeinschaftsstelle für Verwaltungsmanagement (KGSt), the local government association for public administrators regarding local authority management. The knowledge database contains a variety of documents (statements, expert opinions, manuals, materials, reports and position papers) regarding local authority management issues.
Access with personal password for members (teachers, employees and students) of the HWR Berlin. Personal access by registering with the HWR email address as your "user name". By registering, you accept the KGSt's general terms and conditions, which creates a contract between you and the KGSt - not between the HWR and the KGSt.
Information science database with documents from the fields of library science, documentation science, online retrieval and information competence
Access via EZPROXY with library identification.
Macrobond
Economic, monetary, financial and fiscal statistics. Reference framework: EU, US, emerging economies.
Single-user access in the library on Campus Schöneberg for university members. Please ask for log-in-data at the information desk.
The MPIL is an extensive work on international law, the Max Planck Encyclopaedia of Public International Law and the Max Planck Encyclopaedia of International Procedural Law encloses.
Access without restrictions within the campus network of the HWR Berlin / outside via EZPROXY with library identification
Jurisprudence, administrative instructions, laws and regulations, specialised press, commentaries and working aids in the field of tax law, including subject-related labour law, social law, civil law, criminal law and commercial and corporate law.
Access without restriction within the campus network of the HWR Berlin / outside via VPN
OECD iLibrary is the online publication portal of the "Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development" (OECD). It contains all publications and data records issued since 1998. It also includes electronic resources for the following organisations: International Energy Agency (IEA), the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), the OECD Development Centre, PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment), and the International Transport Forum (ITF).
Free Access
Open Dissertations is a freely accessible database from EBSCOhost with worldwide records of over 1,400,000 electronic dissertations from all disciplines in the sense of Open Access.
Free Access
The institutional publication server of HWR Berlin includes the university’s theses and scientific publications from members of the university. If you want to upload your work or have any queries, please contact hsb.cs@hwr-berlin.de
Access without restriction within the campus network of the HWR Berlin / outside via
Psychology and psychological aspects from the following disciplines: Medicine, Psychiatry, Healthcare, Sociology, Education, Pharmacy, Physiology, Linguistics, Anthropology, Law, Business Management
Access via EZPROXY with library identification.
Full-text-database with regional business publications for the United States and Canadian provinces. Users can search newspapers, magazines and other resources from trusted news sources
Access via EZPROXY with library identification.
Springer Nature Link offers full-text access to over 2,800 archived and current online journals and eBooks from various fields of science.
Access via EZPROXY with library identification.
Statistics portal with over 1,000,000 statistics on industries, companies and current topics from numerous studies and current surveys.
Access via EZPROXY with library identification.
Database with standards and guidelines civil engineers (in German).
Access via EZPROXY with library identification, further information (in German).
Database for economics and social sciences. 18 million full texts from 450 journals. 12 million literature references, 234 million full texts from the daily and weekly press, 102 million company information and over 5,500 e-books from various publishers.
Access via EZPROXY with library identification.
In Wolters Kluwer you can find materials from the publishers Carl Heymanns, Luchterhand and the Werner Verlag. You will find legal resources like textbooks and journals in German.
Access via EZPROXY with library identification.
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