Data sources
Here you will find an overview of all data sources that are searchable in the TIB Portal.
Click on the name of a data source to display all hits from this source.
| Source | Description | Licence |
|---|---|---|
| AAAS | Journal articles of the American Association for the Advancement of Science from 1880 | Licensed (where required), National licence, Free access |
| AIAA | Journal articles, conference paper, book chapter and standards of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics from 1961 | Licensed (where required), National licence, Free access |
| Alfred Wegener Institut | Journal articles, reports, book chapter and conference papers from German Alfred Wegener Institute for polar research from 1925 | Free access |
| American Chemical Society | Journal articles of the American Chemical Society from 1879 | Licensed (where required), National licence, Free access |
| American Institute of Physics | Journal articles of the American Institute of Physics from 1936 | Licensed (where required), Consortial licence, National licence, Free access |
| American Physical Society | Journal articles of the American Physical Society from 1900 onwards | Licensed (where required), National licence, Free access |
| ArXiv | Open Access journal articles mainly in physics, mathematics and computer science since 1992 | Free access |
| ASCE | Conference papers and journal articles of the American Society of Civil Engineers from 1996 | Licensed (where required), Free access |
| Automotive engineering | Automotive engineering: Journals, conference reports, research reports, thesis and company publications in the field of automotive technology 1974 - 2017. | Licensed (where required) |
| BASE | A TIB-relevant selection of freely accessible international academic repositories contained in BASE, including around 73,000 electronic university publications and numerous commercial Open Access publications (including from Elsevier) | Free access |
| Bentham Science Publishers | Journal articles and book chapters published by Bentham Science | Licensed (where required), Free access |
| Biochemical Society Journals | 5 Journals of the Biochemical Society (2019-2021) | National licence, Free access |
| British Library Conference Proceedings | British Library Conference Proceedings: complete coverage (exceeding the TIB's holdings, from 1993 to date) | Licensed (where required) |
| British Library Online Contents | British Library Online Contents (excerpt of the TIB's holdings, from 1993 to date) | Licensed (where required) |
| Catalogue agriculture | Catalogue Nutrition. Environment. Agriculture. of the German National Library of Medicine, ZB MED (ca. 200,000 entries) | Licensed (where required), Free access |
| Catalogue medicine | Catalogue Medicine. Health. of the German National Library of Medicine, ZB MED (ca. 800,000 entries) | Licensed (where required), National licence |
| ChemRxiv | Preprint server for chemistry | Free access |
| DataCite | Excerpt from the DataCite metadata collection: primary data and grey literature from science and technology | Licensed (where required), Free access |
| DeGruyter | Journal articles published by deGruyter from 1826 onwards | Licensed (where required), Free access |
| Detail | Articles from the architecture journal "Detail" from 2018 - (2020) | National licence |
| DOAJ | Excerpt from the Directory of Open Access Journals: Open Access journal articles, mainly from the TIB core subjects and geology since 1943 | Free access |
| DSpace@MIT | Direct access to Open Access publications from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1903 | Free access |
| Duke University Press | Articles from four renowned maths journals | Licensed (where required), Free access |
| ECV, Editio Cantor Verlag | Journal articles published in TechnoPharm and Pharmind - Die Pharmazeutische Industrie from 2012 | Licensed (where required) |
| EDP Sciences | Articles from the journals of EDP Sciences (Édition Diffusion Presse Sciences) from 1872 onwards | Licensed (where required), Free access |
| Elsevier | More than 5 million journal articles published by Elsevier from 1827 | Licensed (where required), National licence, Free access |
| Emerald Group Publishing | Articles from journals published by Emerald Publishing Group from 1899 | Licensed (where required), Free access |
| Engineering Index Backfile | Full texts and bibliographical references from the Engineering Index 1885 - 1969 | Licensed (where required) |
| EU Bookshop | electronic publications of the European Union in the field of economics since 1981 | Free access |
| Eurographics | Journal articles and conference proceedings published by Eurographics mainly in the field of computer science since 1997 | Licensed (where required) |
| European Patent Office | Published patent documents of the last 7 years, link to the full text of the Espacenet database. | Free access |
| Forschungszentrum Jülich | Reports of the Jülich Research Centre from 1963 | Licensed (where required), Free access |
| Fraunhofer Publica | Free accessible research publications and patents from the institutes of German Fraunhofer Society for the Advancement of Applied Research from 1974 | Free access |
| GWLB - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Bibliothek | Alliance licence, Licensed (where required), Consortial licence, National licence, Free access | |
| HENRY – Federal Waterways Engineering and Research Institute (BAW) | Free access | |
| IEEE | Conference proceedings and journal articles of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers from 1957 | Licensed (where required), Free access |
| IET | Journal articles from more than 40 Journals of the Institution of Engineering and Technology since 1994 | Licensed (where required), Free access |
| IET Digital Library Archive | Journal articles of the Institution of Engineering and Technology from 1873 - 2008 | Licensed (where required) |
| Institution of Civil Engineers | ICE Publishing journals in the field of material science | Licensed (where required), Free access |
| International Federation of Automatic Control | Free access | |
| IOP Institute of Physics | Journal articles from 59 journals of the Institute of Physics since 1999 | Licensed (where required), National licence, Free access |
| IOS Press | Articles published in IOS Press journals since 1988 | Licensed (where required), Free access |
| IUCr | Journal articles of the International Union of Crystalloggraphie since 1948 | Licensed (where required), National licence, Free access |
| IuD Bahn | "Information und Dokumentation Bahn" – database with focus on railroading, public transport, transport policy. More than 69,000 entries of journal articles, conference proceedings and reports. Coverage 1994 to 2014. | Licensed (where required) |
| Karger Verlag | Journal articles since 2002 | Licensed (where required), Free access |
| Landolt-Börnstein / Springer Materials | Comprehensive data collection on physical and chemical properties of materials from all fields of physics, chemistry, engineering, materials science and related disciplines (1961 - 2018) | Licensed (where required) |
| LUH institutes collections | Licensed (where required), Free access | |
| Nature Publishing Group | Journal articles since 1916 | National licence |
| NTIS | Database of the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) – Reports and other publications from over 600 US government agencies or institutions (e.g. NASA, Department of Energy). Contains more than 2.5 million bibliographic data sets, covering 1964 until today. | Licensed (where required) |
| NTRS | NASA Technical Reports Server | Licensed (where required) |
| OERSI | Free educational materials from the Open Educational Resources Search Index (OERSI) | Free access |
| Online Contents | Interdisciplinary tables of contents of journals in the TIB holdings since 1993 | Licensed (where required), Free access |
| ORKG Comparisons | Licensed (where required), Free access | |
| Oxford University Press | Journal articles since 1849 | Licensed (where required), Free access |
| Project Euclid | Electronic publications in mathematics since 1883 | Licensed (where required) |
| Radio Electronics, Computer Science, Control | Journal articles of the Zaporizhzhya National Technical University (Ukraine) since 2008 | Free access |
| Royal Society of Chemistry | Articles from journals and books oft he Royal Society of Chemistry since 1843 | Licensed (where required), National licence, Free access |
| RÖMPP | Chemistry – Online encyclopedia in German. Over 62.000 entries, linked by over 215.000 cross-references | Licensed (where required) |
| SAE Technical Papers | Society of Automotive Engineers: more than 125,000 papers dating back to 1906 | Licensed (where required) |
| SAGE Publications | Journal articles of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers since 2011 | Licensed (where required), Free access |
| Scientific Periodicals of Ukraine | Articles from 5 electronic journals in the field of technology since 2006 | Free access |
| SCOAP³ Repository | Open Access journal articles in the field of high-energy physics since 2014 | Free access |
| SPIE | Journal articles and conference proceedings of the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers since 1971 | Licensed (where required), Free access |
| Springer Verlag | Journal articles and book chapters of the SpringerLink online platform from 1855 onwards; E-book packages "Engineering" and "Intelligent Technology & Robotics" with publication year 2024 | Licensed (where required), Free access (if necessary), National licence, Free access |
| Taylor & Francis Verlag | Journal articles published by Taylor & Francis from 1799 onwards | Licensed (where required), National licence, Free access |
| Tema Archive | Engineering and management: bibliographic references including abstract, 1967 to 1987 | Licensed (where required) |
| TEWISS Verlag | Dissertations from the Leibniz University Hannover | Licensed (where required) |
| Thesis Peter the Great Saint-Petersburg Polytechnic University | Theses of the Peter the Great Saint-Petersburg Polytechnic University in Russian with abstracts in English | Free access |
| Thieme Verlag | Journal articles and book chapter published by Thieme from 1876 onwards | Licensed (where required), Free access |
| TIB AV-Portal | Scientific films and videos from science and technology provided by the TIB-AV-Portal. | Licensed (where required), Free access |
| TIBKAT | Entries of the complete library catalog of the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB) | Alliance licence, Licensed (where required), Consortial licence, National licence, Free access |
| TIB Open Publishing | Open Access journal articles and conference reports from TIB Open Publishing | Free access |
| Trans Tech Publications | Journal articles from 1985 onwards | Alliance licence, Licensed (where required), National licence, Free access |
| VDE-Verlag | VDE Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies: conference proceedings from 2005 onwards | Licensed (where required) |
| Wiley | Journal articles from 1927 onwards | Licensed (where required), Free access (if necessary), Free access |
