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Further catalogs & databases

Common Union Catalog - GVK

The GVK contains titles with their holdings information from over 1000 libraries.

Essay Database Online Contents - OLC

OLC lists article titles from journals.

Periodicals database - ZDB

The ZDB is the world's largest directory of serial publications such as magazines and newspapers.

Karlsruhe Virtual Catalogue - KVK

The KVK is a service of the Karlsruhe University Library for the identification of books and journals in library and bookseller catalogs worldwide.

Electronic Journals Library - EZB

The Electronic Journals Library is a freely accessible bibliographic database of scientific electronic journals.

Database Information System - DBIS

The database information system provides access to scientific databases from all subject areas.

Core

Core collects open access publications from international open access journals and repositories worldwide.

BASE

BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) is one of the world's largest search engines for academic web documents. The full texts of many of these documents are freely accessible.

Other databases of the Common Library Network- GBV

Metasearch catalogs - Bielefeld University Library

Browse multiple library catalogs simultaneously under a single interface. Includes German, European, and international catalogs.

Selected TOP databases

The database information system DBIS gives you access to our licensed and freely available databases on the Internet.

A small selection of important databases licensed for you:

DIN Normen und VDI RichtlinienDIN standards and VDI guidelines

For researching DIN standards and VDI guidelines, we offer you the Nautos database.

VDE Standards Library

With the VDE Standards Library, you have direct access to all valid VDE regulations.

SciFinder-n

SciFinder-n is a database of articles and facts. It contains bibliographic data for documents, chemical substances with suppliers, and chemical reactions with legal regulations and inventory lists. You can find research tips in the Moodle course. "Recherche in SciFinder 2022 / Research in SciFinder 2022".

Web of Science

Web of Science is a research interface where you can search for scientific literature in various literature and citation databases.

MSI Eureka

The database provides collected information on inorganic material systems, from bibliographic data to phase diagrams.

Reaxys

Reaxys provides information on organic, inorganic and organometallic compounds with structures, physical data and chemical properties (reactions) as well as the associated literature from 1771 onwards, and also patents (WO, EP, US) from life sciences and organic chemistry.

IEEE Xplore

IEEE Xplore offers you full-text access to over 5 million IEEE publications.
You can find tips and video tutorials on the "Help page" . The written guide "Getting started with your search" will also help you with your research.