The library provides numerous licensed databases for research purposes.
These and other databases are also available sorted by topic in the Database Information System DBIS available.
Beck online is a full-text database for law. It can be accessed by university members campus-wide and also from outside the campus network.
You have access to the following modules:
Please log in using your university account details via the following link: beck-online.hs-nordhausen.de
Then please use the following instructions to create a free account with your university e-mail address for the first time: Shibboleth instructions
Both accounts will then be linked and you only need to log in via the first link.
Electronic pocket book for mechanical engineering.
Link: Full text
External access from home or mobile: Shibboleth instructions
EconBiz is the search engine of the German National Library of Economics (ZBW) and lists up to 3.4 million online documents on economic topics.
In addition to journals and individual articles, the offer also includes eBooks and working papers, most of which can be read and downloaded free of charge. Freely available texts can be filtered out separately within the search engine.
EconBiz is freely accessible on the Internet.
Access:
EconBiz
The scientific publisher Elsevier provides English-language e-books and freely accessible e-journals from social, economic and technical subject areas via its online portal ScienceDirect.
Note: This database also contains content not licensed by us. You can recognise full-text access by the orange box in the results list.
Access: ScienceDirect
ScienceDirect - Help: Help file
External access from home or mobile: Shibboleth - Instructions
In the list below you will find databases that have been acquired by the library as part of the national licences.
The acquisition of national licences is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
For more detailed information on the individual national licence databases, please visit the Database information system DBIS.
Nautos is a full-text database of all currently valid DIN standards and draft standards, including preliminary standards and supplements as well as VDI guidelines. Access is via Nautos. Authorised users are members of the university, lecturers and guest lecturers, other members of the university, students and visitors to the library who use an IP address within the defined address ranges. Standards may only be printed out or permanently saved for personal academic use.
Commercial use is not permitted.
Please note: VDE standards can be found in a separate database (see below).
Link: Nautos
VDE standards
Full-text database of all valid DIN standards for electrical engineering and information technology. The standards are also labelled VDE (e.g. DIN VDE 0100-570/ VDE 0100-570). It is not possible to download documents.
Access: only via research PCs (Discovery Tool and OPAC) in the library
Link: VDE standards
There is access to around 2,700 e-books, mainly on legal topics.
All titles are available as a complete download from the campus network and via Shibboleth. The e-books are also available via the Discovery Tool or the OPAC can be researched in the university library.
Link: Inlibra/Nomos eLibrary
External access from home or mobile: Shibboleth instructions
Around 1,000 e-books from the social sciences are available via the ProQuest platform. It is possible to download the e-books chapter by chapter.
The e-books are also available via the Discovery Tool or the OPAC can be researched in the university library.
External access from home or mobile: Shibboleth instructions
SpringerLink is one of the best-known databases for e-books and e-journals.
Here you will find full-text access to around 2,800 e-journals published by Springer Nature (including Springer Medical, Palgrave, Adis and Macmillan Academic) in the fields of social sciences, economics and technology.
The following journals are not included: Nature journals, magazines (e.g. Scientific American, Spektrum der Wissenschaft), technical journals (e.g. ATZ and MTZ).
A lot of content from the period 1860 - 1997 has also been made researchable and freely accessible.
A detailed list of the journals included can be found under the following link: keeper.mpdl.mpg.de
Link: SpringerLink
External access from home or mobile: Shibboleth instructions
The statistics portal Statista gives you direct access to relevant statistics on markets, consumers and social issues. Statista does not generate statistics itself, but works together with well-known partners.
Link: Statista
Statista - Help: Tips for use
Video - Tutorial: Video - Tutorial
External access from home or mobile: Shibboleth - Instructions
62 e-books on psychology and psychotherapy topics are available via the Thieme Connect publishing database.
Link: Thieme Connect
External access from home or mobile: Shibboleth instructions
Bibliographical information on all new and amended environmental regulations from the EU, federal and state governments as well as selected regulations from international and public international law.
Link: Digital environment
The UTB eLibrary gives you access to around 2,700 e-books on economic, social science and engineering subjects.
The e-books are also available via the Discovery Tool or the OPAC can be researched in the university library.
Link: UTB eLibrary
External access from home or mobile: Shibboleth instructions
The database of the publisher "Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht" offers you access to a large number of e-books on humanities and social science topics.
The e-books are also available via the Discovery Tool or the OPAC can be researched in the university library.
Link: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
External access from home or mobile: Shibboleth instructions
The VDI Heat Atlas contains all the important calculation methods for the thermal design of equipment and systems.
Access from all computers in the university network.
Link: VDI Heat Atlas
External access from home or mobile: Shibboleth instructions
The Content Select platform provides access to around 550 e-book titles from the Walhalla publishing house. These include legal and economic topics.
Link: Valhalla
External access from home or mobile: Shibboleth instructions
The Wiley Online Library offers you full-text access to approx. 1,700 e-journals published by Wiley / Wiley-VCH.
The journal articles included cover social, economic and scientific topics.
All journals are available from the campus network and can be accessed in the OPAC or in the Discovery Tool researchable.
Link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com
External access from home or mobile: Shibboleth - Instructions
This database offers access to approx. 14 million journal articles from the economic and social sciences. Access is possible from all computers in the university network.
Link: WISO
WISO - Help: Help file
Video - Tutorial: Video - Tutorial
External access from home or mobile: Shibboleth instructions
ScienceDirect
Online database of the publisher Elsevier
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