Specialist databases

What do specialist databases offer me?

Specialist databases provide information or literature from one or more subject areas. For example, legal databases contain jurisprudence relevant texts, multidisciplinary databases offer literature of different fields of science. The content can be i. a.:

references: bibliographic information such as author, title etc., possibly supplemented by abstracts, tables of contents or keywords,
full texts: complete electronic publications, e. g. e-books or electronic journal articles,
facts: statistical and numerical data such as time series, company information or market data.

Whether you can use a database (in full), depends on the respective offer: some databases are (partially) freely accessible, others can only be used by purchasing a license. The following overview lists all specialist databases that have been licensed by the Trier UAS for the Main Campus in Trier.

Metasearch tools such as DBIS give you the opportunity to search for freely accessible or commercial databases.

Overview: licensed databases

Link: BGL Baugeräteliste online
Access: Campus computers, VPN (Click on "Anmelden" without entering any further data. Simultaneous access by several users is currently not possible. If you receive an error message after trying to log in, the database is already in use. In this case, please try again at a later date. Important: Please log out if you have researched Baugeräte online, so that other users can also access the database.)
Subjects: architecture, civil engineering
Database type: full texts
Contents (DBIS): The database BGL - Baugeräteliste contains technical-economic construction machinery data. It offers research possibilities in 24 main equipment groups and contains more than 15000 data records.

Link: Business Source Premier
Access: Campus computers, VPN
Subject: economics
Database type: full texts (i. a. specialist journal articles)
Contents: Business Source Premier is one of the most widely used research databases on all economic disciplines, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. It contains full-text articles from more than 2300 journals, including over 1100 peer-reviewed titles. It also contains full texts back to the year 1886 as well as searchable, cited sources until 1998. It also offers company information about 10,000 of the largest companies in the world. The database also includes numerous Country Economic Reports from Economist Intelligence Units (EIU), DRI-WEFA, ICON Group and Country Watch, and MarketLine Company Profiles. The industry standard NAICS (North American Industry Classification System) is incorporated into the articles and therefore also serves as a search criterion. The database is daily updated via EBSCOhost.

Link: DATEV Students online
Access: campus computers, VPN
Subjects: finance, law, economics, administrative science, taxation
Database type: full texts, e-learnings, software
Contents: The learning platform DATEV Students i. a. offers access to the database "LEXinform Steuern, Recht und Wirtschaft". It is a comprehensive database on national and international tax law, business and civil law and business administration. The DATEV platform also offers you:

- programs on accounting, auditing, enterprise analysis, taxation and others
- e-learning (including credits)
- reference works on family law, accounting, tax declaration i. a.
- expertise systems

Link: Haufe Finance Office Professional & Steuer Office Kanzlei
Access: Campus computer, VPN
Subject: law, economics
Database type: full texts
Contents: The database offers a wide range of practice-oriented information in the fields of accounting, tax, controlling and finance. In addition to researching specialist content, it enables the use of numerous interactive tools (such as ABC analysis, ESt calculator, IFRS equity valuation). Legal foundations and work aids such as forms, sample letters, checklists etc. complete the offer.

Link: NWB-Datenbank
Access: campus computer, VPN
Subjects: law, economics
Database type: full texts, references
Contents: The online database of the publisher nwb (Neue Wirtschaftsbriefe) contains in various modules a comprehensive electronic range of tax and commercial law. Included are i. a.: trade journals of the publisher in full text, e. g.: BBK-accounting, inheritance and property (capital/assets), IWB - International Tax and Business Law, NWB - Tax and Business Law, StUB - company taxes and balance sheets, commenting works, bibliographic evidence ("Fachpresse kompakt"), legal decisions, administrative instructions (BMF letters, OFD / LFD orders, decrees of the Ministry of Finance, etc.), laws and directives (tax law, commercial law, double taxation agreements), tools (calculation programs, forms, checklists, sample contracts and letters etc.)

Link: PubMed
Access: partely freely available
Subjects: Medicine, pharmacy, biology, chemistry, agriculture and forestry, horticulture, fisheries, home economics, nutrition
Database type: full texts, references
Contents: PubMed contains the MEDLINE database published by the U.S. National Library of Medicine® (NLM), which covers the fields of medicine, dentistry, pre-clinical subjects, health care, nursing, veterinary medicine, etc., but also peripheral areas such as biology, biochemistry, psychology, or sports medicine. More than 5,200 biomedical journals are evaluated for MEDLINE. In addition, PubMed offers access to new MEDLINE citations that have not yet been fully processed. Furthermore, "links" to related articles and to full-text articles are provided.

Link: RSWB PLUS
Access: Campus computer, VPN
Subjects: architecture, civil engineering, construction law, interior design, building services engineering
Database type: references (incl. abstracts)
Contents: In addition to the bibliography of the German databases of buildings RSWB, RSWB PLUS also contains information from the international databases of buildings ICONDA. RSWB provides bibliographic references to publications from the German-speaking area in the areas of spatial planning, urban planning, housing and construction. ICONDA is created in international cooperation and contains contributions from various countries in the fields of structural engineering, civil engineering, architecture and urban planning. It contains references to articles from specialist journals, textbooks and book chapters, building standards and regulations, laws, research reports, dissertations, company publications, etc. The abstracts are in German or English. The search result improves when searching bilingual.

Links: SpringerLink (Campus computer, VPN), SpringerLink (Shibboleth)
Access: Campus computer, VPN, Shibboleth
Subjects: multidisciplinary
Database type: full texts (i. a. e-books, e-articles), references
Contents: Licensed are the packages: Business and Economics (2010 to 2015), Business and Management (as of 2016), Earth and Environmental Science (as of 2009), Economics and Finance (as of 2016), Energy (as of 2013), Technology and Computer Science (as of 2010), Economics (as of 2007)

Link: Statista
Access: Campus computer, VPN
Subjects: multidisciplinary, ecomonics
Database type: facts (statistical data)
Contents: Statista is one of the world's first statistics portals that professionally aggregates statistical data from various institutes and sources. At Statista.com, users can find statistics on over 80,000 topics from more than 18,000 different sources. Statista covers 20 different industry categories from agriculture to administration and social affairs.

Link: TEMA - Technology and Management
Access: Campus computer, VPN
Subjects: Mechanical and plant engineering, electrical engineering, electronics and information technology, energy technology, materials, textile technology, medical technology, mining, business management and organisation
Database type: references (incl. abstracts)
Contents: The database aggregates information from German and international scientific and applied specialist literature such as journals, conference reports, research reports and dissertations, as well as other hard-to-find literature. It includes the subject databases:
- DOMA® mechanical engineering and plant engineering,
- ZDE - electrical engineering, electronics and information technology,
- ENTEC energy technology,
- WEMA® materials
- TOGA® textile technology,
- MEDITEC medical technology,
- BERG mining,
- BEFO management and organization.

Link: wiso
Access: Campus computer, VPN
Subjects: Economics, social sciences, psychology, law, technology
Database type: full texts (journal articles, newspaper articles), facts (company and market information)
Contents: The wiso database offers various media formats in the fields of economics and social sciences, psychology, law and technology. The University of Trier has licensed access to the module "journals" for its members. It makes it possible to access more than thirteen million German and English-language full texts from national and international (practitioner) journals, for example in the fields of 'Marketing & Advertising', 'Electrical Industry', 'IT', 'Legislation' or 'Environmental Management'.

Overview: metasearch tools for databases

Link: Datenbank-Infosystem DBIS
Provider: University Library of Regensburg
Contens: specialist databases, document servers (repositories), information portals, scientific search engines, other meta search tools
Description (by provider): The Database Information System (DBIS) is a cooperative service for the use of scientific databases. This service was developed by the University Library of Regensburg with financial support from the Bavarian State Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts and the German Research Foundation (DFG). Meanwhile the Database Infosystem is used as a user service in 328 libraries. At the moment the Database Infosystem contains 12687 entries. Of these, 5396 databases are freely available on the Internet. DBIS lists databases whose contents can be searched via a search function (status: 05/2018).

Link: Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR)
Provider: University of Nottingham
Contents: open access document server
Description (by DBIS): directory of scientific full text servers worldwide with freely accessible publications (Open Access) from all subject areas

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BGL construction equipment list online (access see info text)
Business Source Premier
DATEV: LEXinform
Haufe Finance & Steuer Office
NWB-Datenbank
PubMed
RSWB PLUS
SpringerLink (→ Shibboleth)
Statista
TEMA
wiso

Access to databases: via campus computer or VPN.

Specialist databases

What do specialist databases offer me?

Overview: licensed databases

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