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• subjects: communication, linguistics, rhetoric, speech-language pathology, publishing studies
• contents: journal articles, e-books
• language: English
• additional information: full texts often with read-aloud function

• subjects: computer and information technology
• contents: journal articles, congress reports, newsletters, reviews
• language: English
• additional information: User Guide

• subjects: computer science, economic sciences
• contents: journal articles, method descriptions
• language: English
• access: contents only partially licensed; limited EZproxy access, i. e. you need to start EZproxy afterwards

• subjects: electrical engineering, communications, and computing.
• contents: journal articles and conference proceedings of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
• language: Englisch
• access: not all content is licensed, for full texts only, please restrict the hit list to "Subscribed Content".
• additional information: User Guide and Video Tutorials

• subjects: computer science
• contents: HTML versions of previous editions or books that are no longer available are available. In individual cases, you will find open books here that only contain parts of a printed book
• language: German
• access: open access

• subjects: economic sciences, management
• contents: journal articles, newspaper articles, theses
• language: English

• subjects: economic sciences, management
• contents: journal articles, e-books, company information
• language: English
• additional information: full texts often with read-aloud function;  video tutorial

• subjects: Business administration, economics
• contents: Journal articles, working papers, conference papers (references and full texts)
• language: German, English
• access: freely accessible search portal of the Leibniz Information Centre for Economics (ZBW); new search tool: search in the so-called "TOP 5" journals of economics

• subjects: economic sciences
• contents: journal articles
• language: English

• subjects: economic sciences
• contents: statistics and visual dashboards on markets, industries, countries and companies
• language: English
• additional information:  video tutorial; user guide as PDF (4 MB, opens new window)

• subjects: fiscal law, business law, accounting
• contents: journal articles, jurisdiction, commentaries, model contracts, tools
• language: German

• subjects: economics
• contents: studies, statistics
• language: English
• additional information: 2 video tutorials (introduction and advanced)

• subjects: economic sciences, social sciences

• contents: journal articles, newspaper articles
• language: mainly German
• additional information: full texts with read-aloud function

• subjects: economic sciences, politic sciences, law
• contents: journal articles
• language: English

• subjects: economic sciences
• contents: full text archive of The Economist (1843-2010)
• language: English

• subjects: economics
• contents: statistics (monthly reports on all countries)
• language: English

• subjects: economics, econometrics, finance
• contents: handbooks
• language: English

• subjects: economics, finance
• contents: journal articles, e-books, statistics
• language: English
• access: open access

• subjects: economic sciences, web design
• contents: journal articles
• language: German, English
• access: contents only partially licensed

• subjects: all World Bank publications since 1993
• contents: e-books, working papers, journal articles
• language: German, English

• subjects: general

• contents: full text archive of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
• language: German

• contents: video courses on software, creativity and business
• Language: in English, German and more languages.

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• subjects: general
• contents: full text archive of Sueddeutsche Zeitung
• language: German

• subjects: cultural sciences, humanities, social sciences, technology, medicine
• contents: journal articles

• with Book Citation Index and Conference Proceedings Citation Index 

• language: English

• subjects: biosciences
• contents: journal articles
• language: English

• subjects: non-specific
• contents: journal articles, partly also full texts
• language: English

• subjects: ecology, environmentalism
• contents: journal articles
• language: English
• additional information: full texts often with read-aloud function

• subjects: non-specific
• contents: journal articles
• language: English

• subjects: cultural sciences, humanities, social sciences
• contents: journal articles
• language: English

• subjects: non-specific
• contents: journal articles
• language: English

• subjects: health management
• contents: journal articles, theses
• language: English

• subjects: life sciences
• contents: references (i. e. no full texts) of journal articles, grey literature
• language: German
• access: open access

• subjects: health management, hospital management
• contents: handbooks, textbooks, journal articles
• language: German

• subjects: biomedicine, life sciences
• contents: references (and sometimes full texts) of journal articles, grey literature, and e-books
• language: English
• access: open access

• subjects: medicine
• contains: interactive learning modules for the entire medical degree programme; original IMPP exam questions for unlimited cross-checking, e-books and journals; case studies and visual diagnoses
• language: German

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• subjects: law
• contents: legislative texts (i. a. Schönfelder, Sartorius), standard legal works, journal articles (i. a. Die Wirtschaftsprüfung and Neue Juristische Wochenschrift), judgments and all publications of IDW
• language: German
• access: contents only partially licensed

• subjects: fiscal law, EU law, civil law, economic law
• contents: jurisdictions, commentaries, news, thematic lexica, tools
• language: German
• access: for students via DFN (use your HNU computer credentials)

• subjects: law
• contents: references (i. e. no full texts) of journal articles, grey literature
• language: mainly German
• access: open access

• subjects: psychology
• contents: journal articles
• language: English

• subjects: psychology
• contents: journal articles (from 2015, not the last two volumes)
• language: English, German

• formerly under the name "Bisnode Firmendatenbank"
• subjects: business economics
• contents: company profiles
• language: German
• Licence expires at 30.09.2024.

• subjects: economic sciences
• contents: statistics and visual dashboards on markets, industries, countries and companies
• language: English
• additional information: video tutorial (opens new window); user guide as PDF (4 MB, opens new window)

• subjects: non-specific
• contents: statistics, industry information, company information, infographics from more than 18.000 sources
• language: German, English, Spanish, French

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