Databases and specialist portals
A database is an electronic record of information and data, in which publications are integrated as references or full texts.
You have unlimited access to all databases when you are on campus at the University of Applied Sciences Erfurt. Many of our databases are also available off-campus using Shibboleth or Web-VPN.
You can find an alphabetical overview of our licensed databases and their accessibility in the downloads.
Materials for independent work:
- Tutorial External access to e-media via Shibboleth
- Tutorial External access to e-media via Web-VPN
- Tutorials on individual databases can be found at Advice & Service | Training | Databases - Welcome to the world of data
In addition to searching the catalogues, you can also use various databases and specialist portals on the subject areas of humanity, space, nature and technology.
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- Education: Enzyklopädie Erziehungswissenschaft online (EEO)
- Law, Economics: Beck-online | Juris | WPH Edition online - IDW Verlag
- Social Studies: Web of Science
- Statistical data: Statista
- Tax and Commercial Law: NWB MAX
- Psychology, Law, Economics and Social Sciences: Wiso
- Specialist portal for Early Childhood Education
- Specialist portal for Life Sciences
- Specialist portal for Psychology
- Specialist portal for Sociology
- Specialist portal for Economics
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- Civil Engineering: Engineering tables
- Collection of images and projects: DETAIL inspiration
- Architecture, Civil Engineering, Spatial Planning, Urban Development, Housing: RSWBplus - Planen und Bauen International
- Specialist portal for Architecture, Urban and Spatial Planning
- Specialist portal for Art
- Specialist portal for Archaeology
- Structural damage: Schadis
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- Chemistry: Römpp-Online
- Horticulture: Deutsche Gartenbaubibliothek | Gartentexte digital
- Garden Culture, Open Space Development in the 20th Century: garden-cult
- Medicine, Sciences: Web of Science
- Meteorology: Kostra-DWD 2010
- Specialist portal for Regional Planning
- Specialist information service for cartography and official geodata
- Specialist information service for Earth Sciences
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- Architecture Building Types Online
- Architectre, Civil Engineering: Bautechnik digital
- Civil Engineering: BGL list of construction equipment 2020
- Gas and water supply DVGW regulations
- Computer science, electrical engineering, measurement and control technology: ACM digital library
- Standards (DIN, DWA, VDI): Nautos (following on from Perinorm)
- SAP software Digital SAP library
- Roads, transport: FGSV technical regulations
- Technology: Wiso
- VDE regulations
- Specialist library for technology, chemistry, computer science, mathematics and physics: TIB Hanover
Discover a variety of research tools
While carrying out your research, you can find specialist information on your chosen subject and check whether it is relevant.
Information is identified by bibliographical details such as title, author, publisher, etc., all of which are necessary to provide an unambiguous and unmistakeable description.
With this information, you can easily create your own bibliographies and source lists as well as short references for quotations. Literature management programs such as Citavi or EndNote or the bookmark function in library catalogues, subject databases or subject portals can be helpful tools for this purpose.
For your research, we have selected trustworthy academic directories and databases that give you access to a wide range of knowledge - even beyond the borders of our library and Erfurt.
Our catalogues
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Katalog+ lists the entire holdings of our university library in Erfurt, including where they are located and information on borrowing and downloading items. The catalogue also displays a wide range of individual chapters or essays. It is also possible to carry out a detailed search of the Erfurt library networks and GVKplus.
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OPAC lists the entire media holdings of our university library including where they are located and information on borrowing and downloading items. OPAC complements effective search strategies in Katalog+ with additional search options.
Nationwide catalogues
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The Common Union Catalogue (GVK) is a library network system that links our university library with other academic libraries in Thuringia and ten further federal states.
The holdings records of all publications in the participating libraries are brought together in a common catalogue and constantly updated. It provides added value by enabling users to explore the media holdings beyond our region.
It is even possible to borrow media from libraries within the network via interlibrary loan.
In order to do research or to order items for loan, you need to obtain an interlibrary loan account from our service desk.
Concurrent searches of the holdings are possible.
We recommend you search for journal articles using Online Contents (OLC). Here you will find articles from selected electronic and print periodicals from central specialist libraries.
OLC thus expands the holdings of our university library to include journal articles that are not systematically recorded in Katalog+. Our holdings are integrated into the search and recognizable as such.
If a search is carried out in the FH campus network or through external access via WebVPN or Shibboleth, it is possible to access those full texts for which download rights exist. This is indicated by a green and yellow button.
Journal articles not held by the University of Applied Sciences Erfurt can be ordered directly from the OLC via interlibrary loan.
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The KVK simultaneously searches the holdings of a considerable number of domestic and foreign libraries. At the same time, open access platforms and trade catalogues can be included in the search. This makes it possible to access numerous freely available documents on Base or Google Books and to integrate popular search options such as Amazon or Booklooker into the search.
Its particular advantage is its wide range of search options and the associated comprehensive overview of printed and electronic media for your search query. -
The ZDB lists the newspaper and periodical holdings of libraries in Germany and Austria.