Historical E-Resources A-Z

 

• International Bibliography of Book Reviews - IBR -  IBR contains over 1.2 million entries about book reviews from 1985. The database is international and interdisciplinary, the reviews have been published in over. 6800 academic journals mainly in the Humanities and Social Sciences. IBR is updated on a monthly basis, the annual addition to the database is approx. 50.000 entries. All articles contain German and English subject classifications. This makes it easy to find book reviews written in different languages from all over the world.
• International Bibliography of Periodical Literature - IBZ  als o known as "The Dietrich", has been published since 1896 and is an international and interdisciplinary bibliography of academic periodical literature mainly from the Humanities, Social Sciences and Arts. IBZ online contains over 2,553,260 journal articles from about 10,785 journals covering the years 1983ff. Approximately 120,000 entries are added to the database annually containing a subject classification. IBZ is updated on a monthly basis and is therefore more up-to-date than the CD-ROM edition which is updated twice a year. The article data in IBZ includes a subject classification in German and English based on the German Personennormdatei (name authority file -PND) and Schlagwortnormdatei (controlled vocabulary - SWD). Thus an easy and fast access to articles is ensured, unrespective of the language the original article was written in. Additionally a number of articles are included in the database which have not yet received the subject classification. Those articles can be accessed through the main index. Searching the database is possible through the main index, subjects, subject headings, publication year, volume and issue, author, title keyword, language, journal title, publisher, ISSN, ZDB-ID.
• IngentaConnect  - Most comprehensive collection of academic and professional journals available online. Gateway to academic and professional publications with journal titles from more than 280 publishers. IngentaConnect has replaced Ingenta.com and IngentSelect in 2004. The EUI Library subscribes to a selection of titles only"
• Index Translationum  "is a list of books translated in the world, i.e. an international bibliography of translations. The Index Translationum was created in 1932. The database contains cumulative bibliographical information on books translated and published in about one hundred of the UNESCO Member States since 1979 and totals more than 1.800,000 entries in all disciplines: literature, social and human sciences, natural and exact sciences, art, history and so forth. It is planned to update the work every four months. The references registered before 1979 can be found in the printed editions of the Index Translationum, available in all National depository libraries and at the UNESCO library in Paris.
• Index to Social Science and Humanities Proceedings - ISSHP -  Bibliographic information on recently published social sciences and humanities conference proceedings
• Index to theses  accepted for higher degrees by the universities of Great Britain and Ireland and the Council for National Academic Awards. (A comprehensive listing of theses with abstracts accepted for higher degrees by universities in Great Britain and Ireland since 1716).
• International Encyclopedia of the social and behavioral sciences  - Online edition of the International Encyclopedia of the social and behavioral sciences from ScienceDirect, consisting of 4,000 articles, 90,000 bibliographic references, as well as comprehensive name and subject indexes.
• International encyclopedia of the social sciences  (GVRL) - 9-volume encyclopedia on the social sciences is hosted on the Gale Virtual Reference Library platform. The new online version highlights the expanding influence of economics in social science research and has nearly 3,000 new articles and important biographies contributed by scholars from around the world.
• Irish History Online , "is "an authoritative guide to what has been written about Irish history from earliest times to the present. It currently contains approximately 70,000 bibliographic records (December 2009). IHO was established in 2003 with funding from the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences and was developed in association with the Royal Historical Society Bibliography of British and Irish History. From January 2010 Irish History Online will be published separately from the Royal Historical Society bibliography. Irish History Online is now hosted by the Royal Irish Academy (Dublin). [...] Irish History Online includes articles from journals, both national and local history journals, and collective volumes. Searches can be made by author, by subject, by publication details, or by period covered. It is an essential resource for the study of Irish history at any level, and is free of charge to users."
• Index Islamicus online  - The Index Islamicus database indexes literature on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. It is produced by an editorial team working at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, established to transmit knowledge about Islamic and Middle East studies. Records included in the database cover almost 100 years of publications on the world of Islam. Material cited in the Index Islamicus includes not only work written about the Middle East, but also about the other main Muslim areas of Asia and Africa, plus Muslim minorities elsewhere. Over 3,000 journals are monitored for inclusion in the database, together with conference proceedings, monographs, multi-authored works and book reviews. Journals and books are indexed down to the article and chapter level.