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 ABI Inform
Primarily business and economics (management, finance and banking, accounting, trade, etc.), but includes journals from other fields as well, more than a third of which are available in fulltext. ABI Inform Global and Trade&Industry are included in the subscription. |
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ACM Digital Library
Information Technology:
- ACM Digital Library: all their publications available in full-text (journals, conference reports, newsletters, special interest groups)
- The Guide to Computing Literature: references to other - non-ACM - literature including dissertations and technical reports. |
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CAB Abstracts
Agriculture and forestry, chemistry, nutrition, food technology and science, medicinal plants and pharmacology, biotechnology, environmental sciences, tourism, etc. |
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EconLit
Electronic bibliography of the American Economic Association (AEA): ecnomic theories, production, country studies, trade, social indicators, etc. |
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Factiva
Newspapers and magazines worldwide, including several Swiss publications, as well as company information and press photographs. Alerts are not possible.
Limited access: please leave the database as soon as possible after your search with |
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Francis
Multidisciplinary database produced by INIST-CNRS (Centre National de Recherche Scientifique) in France containing French and international sources from the humanities and social sciences. |
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IBSS
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences of the London School of Economics: Economics, Political Science, Sociology, Anthropology. |
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Journal Citation Reports
Provides information on academic journals, such as the impact factor, as a measure to assess the significance of a publication. |
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LexisNexis - deutsche Suchoberfläche
Swiss and international newspapers and magazines (e.g. Tages-Anzeiger, Handelszeitung, Le Temps, Le Monde, Washington Post, The Economist) as well as country and company information. |
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LexisNexis - interface française
Swiss and international newspapers and magazines (e.g. Tages-Anzeiger, Handelszeitung, Le Temps, Le Monde, The Economist) as well as country and company information. |
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LISA
"Library and Information Sciences Abstracts": library and information sciences journals. |
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NCJRS
US Department of Justice: criminal law and criminology. |
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NZZ Online
Archive of the NZZ from 1993 to the present and the NZZ am Sonntag from 2002 to the present. |
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OECDiLibrary
The Swiss Fachhochschulen have a subscription to the OECD Statistics, Books & Periodicals, such as OECD Economic Outlook, OECD Economic Surveys, OECD Journal. |
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Perinorm
Information on important national and international norms.Please request user name and password in your library. |
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PsycInfo
Psychology and related fields of interest: psychiatry, medical care, sociology, economics. |
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Sociological Abstracts
Social sciences and sociology, including "Social Services Abstracts". Bibliographic references from 1952 to the present. |
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Web of Knowledge
Search interface for Web of Science and Journal Citation Reports. Under "additional resources" access to: ISI Highly-cited.com, BiologyBrowser, Index to Organism Names, etc. and the search engine "Thomson Scientific WebPlus". |
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Web of Science
Multidispiplinary database including the Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index (with economics) and Arts&Humanities Citation Index (with architecture). Cited reference search. |
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WISO
References to articles in the German language on sociology, social work, business and economics, political science. WISO Wirtschaftswissenschaften contains approx. 300 magazines and 500 e-books in full-text. |
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Zentralblatt für Mathematik
Pure and applied mathematics (mechanics, physics, economics, biology, chemistry, information technology, communications, operations research, statistics, etc.) |
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| Reference books |
A Dictionary of Law |
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A Dictionary of Accounting |
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A Dictionary of Business |
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A Dictionary of Economics |
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A Dictionary of Finance and Banking |
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A Dictionary of Human Resource Management |
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A Dictionary of Statistics |
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A-Z of Countries of the World |
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Brockhaus and Duden
Brockhaus Enzyklopädie, Brockhaus Duden. |
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Business French Dictionary, The Oxford (English-French) |
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Business French Dictionary, The Oxford (French-English) |
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Encyclopaedia Britannica Online
Complete Encyclopaedia Britannica plus Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and the Internet Dictionary. |
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Enzyklopädie der Wirtschaftsinformatik
Encyclopedia for business informatics. This encyclopedia is still in the development stage. |
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Oxford English Dictionary Online |
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Oxford Reference Online
Collection of reference works for specific subjects, such as sociology, chemistry, statistics. |
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PONS dictionaries
German - English, French, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Russian and vice versa. |
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Publicus
Swiss yearbook of public life. |
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics |
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The Handbook of International Financial Terms |
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The Oxford Companion to the Politics of the World |
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Ulrich's
Worldwide directory of available journals, series, yearbooks and newspapers. |
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| Statistics |
Swiss statistical encyclopaedia
Statistical tables and reports on the Swiss population, society, state, economy and environment. |
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Superweb
Contains data of the |
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COMPASS
Communication Portal for Accessing Social Statistics in Switzerland. |
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DARIS
Data and research information services for the social sciences. |
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Eurostat
Statistics of the EU member countries; cooperation with the OECD and UN as well as with Central and Eastern European countries, the former Soviet Union and Mediterranean countries. |
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OECD Statistics
Statistical databases of the OECD. |
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Swiss National Bank
Contains Swiss National Bank publications on financial stability, monthly economic and bank statistics, etc. |
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Swiss Exchange
Homepage of the Swiss stock market with information on listed companies, regulations, statistics, etc. |
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BIS - Bank for International Settlements
THE BIS fosters cooperation among central banks and other agencies in pursuit of monetary and financial stability. The website contains international financial and banking statistics. |
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International Monetary Fund
Publications include World Economic Outlook, Global Financial Stability Report, Finance & Development as well as country information. |
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IMD - World Competitiveness Center
Information and summaries from the World Competitiveness Report. |
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Oanda
Currency information and conversion tables. |
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FORS
Swiss Foundation for Research in Social Sciences
FORS surveys:
- Swiss household statistics
- Swiss electoral surveys
- International surveys (European Social Survey, MOSAiCH-ISSP) |
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Intute: Social Sciences
Internet portal for the social sciences (business and management, economics, hospitality, tourism, sports) |
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