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Print books / e-books in the university library
The monograph holdings (print books and e-books) of the University Library can be found in the OPAC.
The OPAC is the Witten/Herdecke University Library's online catalogue. It allows you to search for print books and e-books, place reservations on borrowed media, and manage your user account.
For example, use the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) to search for open-access books.
DOAB is a search service that indexes and makes accessible peer-reviewed scientific open-access books. All DOAB services are free of charge, and all data is freely available.
Journals | Newspapers
The Witten/Herdecke University Library offers access to electronic journals (e-journals) via the Electronic Journals Library (EZB). For licensing reasons, access to the full texts of the journals is only available to Witten/Herdecke University students and employees.
Video for getting started with the EZB
Please note the publishers' terms of use and licence conditions for all services!
The following applies to all offers:
- The full texts of the articles may only be printed out and saved for personal use, study, teaching and research. The same guidelines apply to reproduction as for printed journal articles.
- Systematic downloading of articles, search results or complete journals, in particular by robots, is prohibited.
- Articles may not be passed on to third parties electronically or in print and may not be made publicly accessible (no redistribution).
Some journals are published exclusively as paper editions or in combined form. The list of print journals includes these.
Here, you can find a list of the print journals of the Witten/Herdecke University Library.
Daily and weekly newspapers can be found on the newspaper rack in the Campus Library. They are not archived.
- DIE ZEIT (weekly newspaper)
- Vossische Zeitung Online: Berlinische Zeitung von Staats- und gelehrten Sachen (1918-1934) (Contents)
- Online Newspaper Directory for the World
Databases
The bibliographic databases (subject indexes) contain a collection of publications on a specific subject or subject area.
Please note the publishers' terms of use and licence conditions for all offers.
Leading databases for the subject areas
- Medicine, education, pharmacy, political science, psychology, sociology: APA PsycInfo (Content)
- Nursing: CINAHL (Content)
- Biology, medicine, pharmacy, psychology, sport: Cochrane Library (Content)
- Economics, economics, bibliography: EconLit (Content)
- Medicine, Pharmacy, Psychology: MEDLINE - PubMed
- Medicine, Pharmacy, Psychology: MEDLINE - Ovid MEDLINE
- General / interdisciplinary: Scopus (Inhalt) | Webinar for getting started with Scopus
Further databases
- APA PsycInfo (Content)
- ARTbibliographies Modern (national licence)
- BIOSIS Previews 1926-2004 (national licence)
- CAB Abstracts 1910-1989 (national licence)
- CAMbase (Virtual Database Network for Complementary Medicine, University of Witten/Herdecke)
- CINAHL (Content)
- Cochrane Library (Content)
- CSA social sience databases 1999-2012 (national licence)
- EconLit (Content)
- MEDLINE - PubMed
- MEDLINE - Ovid MEDLINE
- Online Contents (Special Subject Collections)
- Periodicals Index Online/PIO 1770-1995 (national licence)
- PsycInfo see APA PsycInfo
- Scopus (Content) | Webinar for beginners in Scopus
- Zoological Record Archive 1978-2007 (national license)
Full-text databases are an electronic collection of full texts. In contrast to bibliographic databases, in which only the descriptions of publications are recorded, the complete texts of the publications are directly accessible here.
Please note the publishers' terms of use and licence conditions for all offers.
Leading databases for the subject areas
- Psychology: APA PsycArticles | Content
- Economics, business administration, business information, companies: Business Source Premier | Content
- Biology, medicine, pharmacy, psychology: Cochrane Library | Content
- Medicine: DynaMed Plus / EbM-Guidelines | Content | Video-Tutorial
- Law, Economics: Juris Spectrum University | Content
- Law, economics: Juris additional module university | Content
- Medicine, Education, Psychology, Sociology: Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection (PBSC) | Content
- General / Interdisciplinary, History: Vossische Zeitung: Berlinische Zeitung von Staats- und gelehrten Sachen (1918-1934) | Content
- Law: Staudinger Online | Content
- Data protection: ZENDAS (Central Data Protection Centre) | Content
Further databases
- 18th/19th/20th Century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers 1688-2004 (national licence)
- Acta Sanctorum Database (national licence)
- African Writers Series (national licence)
- Analecta Hymnica Medii Aevi (national licence)
- APA PsycArticles (Content)
- Aristoteles Latinus Database (national licence)
- Art Sales Catalogues Online (national licence)
- Brill Online / E-Books : Human Rights and Humanitarian Law ; International Law 2006-2008 (national licence)
- Business Source Premier (Content)
- China Ancient Books (national licence)
- Chinamaxx / SSReaders (national licence)
- Cochrane Library (Content)
- Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) (national licence)
- COMINTERN Electronic Archives (national licence)
- Corpus de la première littérature francophone de l'Afrique noire (national licence)
- Corpus de la littérature médiévale (national licence)
- Corvey Digital Collection: Literature of the 18th and 19th Centuries (national licence)
- Digital Karl Barth Library (national licence)
- Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts (national licence)
- Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation (national licence)
- Digital National Security Archive / DNSA (national licence)
- Duncker & Humblot eLibrary / Economics (national licence)
- Duncker & Humblot eLibrary / Best of Reprints / Economics and Finance (national licence)
- DynaMed Plus / EbM-Guidelines (Content) | Video-Tutorial
- Early English Books Online / EEBO (national licence)
- Early Modern Pamphlets Online (TEMPO) - Dutch pamphlets (national licence)
- EbM-Guidelines s. DynaMed Plus
- EBSCOhost eBook collection (national licence)
- EconBiz (subject portal, Virtual Library of Economics)
- Education in Video: Volumes l + ll
- Edward Elgar E-Book Archive in Business & Management, Economics and Finance
- EHRAF World Cultures (national licence)
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO
- EIU Country Reports Archive (national licence)
- Elsevier eBook Collection on ScienceDirect - Mathematics (national licence)
- Elsevier Handbooks in Economics Series (national licence)
- Elsevier ScienceDirect - Specialised collection ‘Economics, Management and Accounting’
- Emerald Business, Management and Economics eBook Series Collection Archive 1991 - 2021 (national licence)
- Emerald eJournals Premier Collection Archive (start of publication - 2021) (national licence)
- Emerald Full Text Archive Database (start of publication - 2021) (national licence)
- Empire Online (national licence)
- Europa Sacra (national licence)
- Gerritsen Collection - Women's History Online (national licence)
- Historical newspapers (national licence)
- Hoppenstedt Share Guide (Archive) (national licence)
- Integrum World Wide (Integrum Profi) (national licence)
- E-Library of the International Monetary Fund (national licence)
- JSTOR
- Juris Spectrum Universities (content)
- Juris add-on module Universities (content)
- Karger eBooks Collection (national licence)
- Library of Latin Texts - Series A (national licence)
- Literary Expressionism Online (LEX) (national licence)
- The Emergence of Modern Law: Primary Sources (1620-1926) (national licence)
- Middle East Online / Series 1, Arab-Israeli Relations 1917-1970 (national licence)
- Middle East Online / Series 2, Iraq 1914-1974 (National licence)
- Music Online Reference (national licence)
- Patrologia graeco-latina (national licence)
- Post-War Europe: Refugees, Exile and Resettlement 1945-1950 (national licence)
- Primary sources for Slavic studies (national licence)
- PsycArticles s. APA PsycArticles
- PsyJournals (archive) (national licence)
- Psychology and Behavioural Sciences Collection (PBSC) (content)
- Regional Business News
- RSC eBook collection 1968-2009 (national licence)
- Shenbao (national licence)
- Social Theory (national licence)
- Springer ebook collection / Chemistry and Materials Science 2005-2008 (national licence)
- Springer ebook collection / Medicine 2005-2008 (national licence)
- Springer ebook collection / Palgrave Economics and Finance Collection 2000 - 2013 (national licence)
- Springer Lecture Notes Archive 1964-1996 (national licence)
- Staudinger Online (Content)
- Teatro Espanol del Siglo de Oro / TESO (national licence)
- Testaments to the Holocaust (national licence)
- Torrossa / Monograph (national licence)
- U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1980 (national licence)
- Ut per Litteras Apostolicas (national licence)
- Vossische Zeitung: Berlinische Zeitung von Staats- und gelehrten Sachen (1918-1934) (content)
- Wenshi ziliao (national licence)
- World Bank E-Library Archive (national licence)
- ZENDAS (Central Data Protection Agency) (content)
Please note the publishers' terms of use and licence conditions for all offers.
Journal Citation Reports (JCR) (search for impact factors) | (content)
Scopus (content) | Webinar for begginers in Scopus
STATISTA ⇒ (content) Tutorial-Video
- BASE (Content: General/interdisciplinary)
- CAMbase (Content: Anthroposophic medicine, balneology, homeopathy, complementary medicine, etc.)
- CORE (Content: General/interdisciplinary)
- COTIPUB
- DBIS
- Dimensions (Content): General/interdisciplinary, medicine, natural sciences in general)
- DOAJ
- EconBiz
- Google Scholar
- Hindawi
- LIVIVO (Content): Transdisciplinary Medicine, Healthcare, Nutritional, Environmental and Agricultural Sciences)
- MEDLINE - PubMed
- MEDLINE - Ovid MEDLINE
- PloS
- PubPsych
- PsyDok
- Journal database JDB
The university bibliography lists all publications by researchers at the University of Witten/Herdecke (UW/H) that were published during their time at the UW/H (optionally also before and after).
Semester apparatus for students - compilation of literature relevant to the course
- Course reserves are a compilation of literature relevant to the course. The lecturers can set them up for the participants; a semester collection is available on a separate shelf.
- As a rule, course reserves exist for the duration of a semester and are not available for loan.
- In the OPAC, the books from the semester reserve collections are displayed with the status ‘Semesterapparat’.
- All books in semester reserves are not available for loan but can be read, copied, or scanned within the campus library.
- The shelf with the term books is located in the entrance area of the library, to the left of the information desk.
- Each term apparatus is assigned a number that helps you find it on the shelf.
- Books in term reserves are identified by the red dots on the spine, which show the number of term reserves.
S1 - ‘International Relations / Comparative Politics’ - Bormann
S2 - ‘Pharmacology for Human Medicine and Dentistry’ - Bachmann
S3 - ‘More than pressing the shutter button - Theory of photography in contemporary art’ - Buschmann
S5 - ‘Health Psychology’ / ‘Health Psychology and Public Health’ - Milek
S6 - ‘Educational psychology’ - Glowalla
S7 - ‘Digitalisation in nursing care’ - Meister
S8 - ‘Personality Psychology’ - Dufner
S9 - ‘Strategy’ - Wilhelm
Reference books & dictionaries
The classic ⇒ Brockhaus Enzyklopädie
Animal Health and Production Compendium (national licence)
Aquaculture Compendium (national licence)
Brockhaus Online
Crop Protection Compendium (national licence)
Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du 9e au 15e siècle / Frédéric Godefroy (national licence)
Dictionnaire de la langue française du 16e siècle (1925-1967) / Edmond Huguet (national licence)
Forestry Compendium (national licence)
Scriptores possessoresque codicum medii aevi (national licence)
World Biographical Information System / WBIS (national licence)
Specialised portals
ArtHist - Network for Art History in H-Net
ArtHist is an international, non-commercial forum for art history in the H-Net (Humanities and Social Sciences Online) network. It is open to contributions from the various fields of art history, cultural studies, and media studies.
The network primarily targets graduate art and cultural historians, advanced students, and academically interested individuals with a formulable specialisation.
Virtual Library of Art History
The Virtual Library of Art History arthistoricum.net, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), is a joint project of the library of the Central Institute of Art History in Munich, the Heidelberg University Library and the Institute of Art History at the LMU Munich (Chair of Prof. Dr. H. Kohle), the University Library of Heidelberg and the Institute of Art History at the LMU Munich. Dr H. Kohle), the historical network historicum.net, the Sächsische Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden, and other partners. arthistoricum.net aims to provide as comprehensive a record as possible of art historical publications, whether printed, hybrid or genuinely published online. Special attention is paid to essay literature.
Florence - Munich - Rome Art Libraries Network
The libraries of the three German university-independent art history research institutes work together in an online specialised network funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) as a pilot project.
Virtual Catalogue of Art History (VKK)
The Virtual Catalogue of Art History (VKK) is a European meta-subject catalogue that provides integrated access to digital bibliographical references and, where applicable, other objects in important art history databases.
Webop
Access is only possible for selected groups of people at the UW/H!
Webop offers an online surgical operating theatre course. It supports learning in the surgical field. Video sequences show the individual surgical steps with text and image material. The surgical procedure is thus broken down into its most essential steps and presented in a didactic manner. Both the principle of the operation and important details are conveyed in video sequences, text and illustrations.
This allows you to prepare for and follow up on operations you are involved in during your clinical studies and practical year. This supports in-depth learning during the block placement and PJ.
Webop was developed by the Chair of Surgery I at UW/H. In addition, several contributions were created with the participation of the Chair and Institute of Anatomy and Clinical Morphology at the UW/H.
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EconBiz
EconBiz is the virtual library for economics. It offers centralised access to economic information on the Internet.
EconBiz contains freely accessible websites, electronic working papers, library catalogues and databases relevant to economics, and additional services related to specialist economic information (e.g., a calendar of events).
EconBiz offers various specialised economic information, which is described below:
Internet resources:
The core element of EconBiz is the directory of Internet sources, which contains, for example, institutional websites, full texts available online, Internet sources on research projects or forums, reference works from the Internet (e.g., encyclopaedias), link lists, and publication directories.
The internet sources in EconBiz are mostly freely available on the web and deal exclusively with topics relevant to economics. You can search in the directory of Internet sources or click through various directories (economics, business administration, economic sectors, countries, resource types) until you reach the desired result.
Full texts:
The full texts section includes electronic working and discussion papers, as well as articles and journals on business administration and economics available online.
Catalogues and databases:
EconBiz offers you central access to library catalogues relevant to economics. Here, you will find the catalogues of the University and City Library of Cologne (USB) and the German National Library of Economics (ZBW). This section also provides access to economic databases.
EconBiz app for the iPad:
With the free EconBiz iPad app, you can access economic literature references and full texts on the go. The application interface, designed for tablet PCs, integrates new EconBiz and tried and tested functions.