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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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ArtBibliographies Modern
Contemporary art and photography from the end of the 19th, the 20th and 21st centuries: articles, monographs, dissertations and exhibition catalogs since 1974. |
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ARTstor Digital Library
Collections of images from museums, private collectors, photographic agencies, photographers of architecture, etc. for use in research and teaching. |
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Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
Architecture, history of architecture, protection of historical monuments, interior architecture, landscape architecture, furniture and interior design, urban planning and development. |
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BHA - Bibliography of the History of Art
Comprehensive bibliography about the history of western art, produced jointly by the Getty Research Institute and INIST, France. Since 2009 the database is no longer updated. |
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FIAF
Abstracts from 300 film journals since 1972, brief information on 22'000 silent movies, a bibliography of the publications of the members of FIAF (International Federation of Film Archives) and an international directory of film and TV documentation collections. |
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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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Inspec
Published by the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE): Physics, Electronics, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology as well as interdisciplinary fields such as Nanotechnology, Geophysics, Biomedical and Material Sciences. |
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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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MLA International Bibliography
International literature, linguistics, folklore and languages. |
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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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Oxford Art Online
Contains Grove Art, a 34 volume encyclopedia of international art and culture with links to pictures and information in museums and art collections as well as other Oxford reference works. |
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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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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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Wilson Art Full-Text
Articles from journals, museum catalogs and annuals on contemporary art, art history, archeology, architecture, design, etc. |
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| Reference books |
A Dictionary of Modern Design |
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A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art |
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Brockhaus and Duden
Brockhaus Enzyklopädie, Brockhaus Duden. |
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Encyclopaedia Britannica Online
Complete Encyclopaedia Britannica plus Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and the Internet Dictionary. |
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Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts |
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Grove Encyclopedia of Materials and Techniques in Art |
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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 Art and Artists |
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms |
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The Oxford Dictionary of American Art and Artists |
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The Oxford Dictionary of Art |
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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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| Further links for «Arts and Design» |
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Archipool
Tables of contents of the following Swiss architecture journals: Hochparterre (from 1988), archithese (from 1971), tec21 (from 2001), werk (from 2001), Tracés (from 2000), rt et FACES (from 1985). |
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ViFaArt - Virtuelle Fachbibliothek Gegenwartskunst
Internet site specialized in art after 1945, produced by the Sächsische Landesbibliothek, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden (SLUB). |
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Art theses
Titles of master's and doctoral theses (submitted and in process) published 1985-2004 in the journal "Kunstchronik". |
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ArtLibraries Net
Virtual catalogue for art history. |
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Intute: Arts & Humanities
Internet portal for architecture, design, visual arts, music, etc. incl. a search function for freely available e-journals. |
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