When using electronic media licensed for Pforzheim University (e.g. databases, e-books, e-journals, e-tutorials), please note our statutes, in particular §10 Computerarbeitsplätze und digitale Informationsangebote and §11 Urheberrecht, and the terms of use of the providers.
- The full texts of articles may only be printed or saved for personal use and for purposes in research and teaching. The systematic download of articles, electronic books or search results, especially by robots or similar software, is prohibited.
- The contents may not be distributed (personally or commercially) in electronic or printed form.
- Limits set by the providers for printing, copying and downloading, e.g. within a browser session, must be observed. In particular, the printing or copying of complete e-books by any stringing together of browser sessions is prohibited.
You can find all our accessible databases here:
Some important databases:
- Digital SAP Library
subject area: Computer science
content: practical manuals and learning videos in German and English on SAP software
number: more than 300 Title list
Title list
Special features: E-books and videos via livestream - No PDF files - Printout of individual pages possible - Access only with Firefox and Chrome
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- LinkedIn Learning
subject areas: Computer science, economics
contents: More than 14,000 instructional and training videos in 7 languages on software, creative and business topics - including office software, web design, programming, 3D design & CAD, IT administration, development and IT infrastructure, graphics and creative software, photography, mobile computing, digital lifestyle and much more
Before using for the first time: Confirm your university email address at URL https://www.linkedin.com/learning/activate?lang=de and then register for free with LinkedIn Learning
Special features: no access for guest users of the library
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- Central repository for Open Educational Resources of the universities in Baden-Württemberg “ZOERR”
content: Open teaching materials, images, graphics and videos from the higher education sector. They can be used in a presentation or lecture provided the author is credited.
Further information ... Explanatory video
- Agence photographique de la Réunion des Musées nationaux
Photo library of the French national museums - provides access to images from French national museums, regional museums and international collections
- Architonic
area: Design, interior architecture
content: Online reference work for products in the field of interior furnishing and design
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- Archive of Digital Art
subject area: Art history
content: ADA is one of the most comprehensive and important international documentary archives of contemporary digital art
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- Art & Architecture Source (accessible in the university network)
Full text database
subject areas: Architecture, art history, media and communication sciences, research, higher education, museums, art history
contents: Full-text journals, e-books and over 63,000 images from various sources
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- ARTbibliographies Modern / Archive (national licence)
subject areas: Photography, action art, installation art, video art, graffiti, design, fashion, illustration, printmaking, sculpture, painting and drawing
content: Specialized bibliography on modern art. It contains bibliographical references and abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, dissertations and exhibition reviews on all forms of modern and contemporary art.
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- Artcyclopedia
subject area: Art history
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- ART-Dok - Publication platform for art and visual studies
subject area: Art history
content: Full-text server of arthistoricum.net - specialized art information service
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- arthistoricum.net : specialized information service art
specialized bibliography
content: Portal for art historical research and teaching
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- ARTigo
ARTigo is an online game. The game consists of describing the artwork as accurately as possible using keywords.
- Artists of the world (formerly Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon) (accessible on the university network)
subject area: Art history
content: Reference work on artists with more than 1.2 million entries. Contains biographical information on individuals and entries on groups of visual artists from all over the world and from all eras. Covers all genres of the visual arts, i.e. painting, graphics, sculpture, architecture, photography, video and installation art and much more.
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- artlog.net (powered by Kunst-Bulletin)
subject area: Art history
content: Information, navigation and communication network on contemporary art with information on people, institutions, calls for proposals, exhibitions, events and works of art
- Image index of art and architecture
subject areas: Image Archive Photo Marburg, Image Archive of Art and Architecture Marburg
content: Image database with a total of around 2 million digitized images of works of art and architecture in Germany and Europe
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- Image portal of the cultural institutions (bpk Bildagentur)
subject area: Art history
content: Database with a digitized image stock of over 250,000 works in German art museums and cultural institutions as well as those in France and Italy
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Bloomsbury Applied Visual Arts
Fachgebiet: Design, Fashion, Photography, Marketing & Advertising
Inhalt: Full text database (eBooks) with an interdisciplinary focus for research and teaching in the fields of design, art, architecture and related areas.
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- Bloomsbury Fashion Central / Berg Fashion Library (accessible via the university network)
Full text database
subject areas: Fashion, Design, Art
content: Berg Fashion Library
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- Car Design News (accessible in the university network)
subject areas: Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Production Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy, Transportation Engineering, Precision Engineering
content: Transportation Design
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- German Digital Library
subject areas: General / Interdisciplinary
content: Central, national portal, which in future will link the digital offerings of all German cultural and scientific institutions and then provide free access to Germany's cultural and scientific heritage with millions of books, archival documents, images, sculptures, pieces of music and other audio documents, films and sheet music
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- German Photo Library
subject areas: Photography, Art History
contents: Image database of the Deutsche Fotothek in the Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library. Universal photo archive on art and cultural history
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- eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
subject areas: General / Interdisciplinary
contents: 4,400 e-books from the fields of Business and Economics, Science and Engineering, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Humanities and Area Studies. Years of publication 1996 to 2006
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- Europeana
contents: digital holdings from around 1,500 museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual collections in Europe
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- Gender : Identity and Social Change (National License)
subject areas: Women's Studies, Gender Studies
contents: Sources on the history of feminism and gender with a focus on the Anglo-American cultural area
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- Getty Research Portal
subject area: Art history
content: Online search platform for digitized scientific sources from all over the world in the field of art and architectural history
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- Graphics portal
subject areas: Graphics, Art History
content: Graphics portal presents for the first time the holdings of graphic collections from Germany, Italy, Austria and Switzerland on a joint online platform.
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- KUNSTFORUM International : the current journal for all areas of the visual arts
Full text database
contents: all contents of all issues since 1973
- Material ConneXion (accessible in the university network)
subject area: Materials science, production engineering, traffic engineering, precision engineering
content: Comprehensive database on innovative and sustainable materials and substances
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- New York Public Library Digital Collections
Image Database
subject area: Art history
content: Digitized manuscripts, paintings, maps, rare prints, photographs and much more from the holdings of the New York Public Library
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- raumprobe
content: Online material database & physical material exhibition in Stuttgart
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- Sage journals (accessible in the university network)
Article database, full text database
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- Social Theory (national license)
Subject bibliography, full text database
subject area: Sociology
content: International and interdisciplinary collection of influential writings representing the most important trends in sociological theory from the 18th century to the present day
Note: Germany-wide access is made possible by funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG) and organized by the Bavarian State Library in Munich.
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- Structurae
subject areas: Architecture, Art History
contents: technical and historical information on buildings from all over the world and all periods
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- SYMBOLS.com
Encyclopedia of pictograms with over 2500 symbols of western origin
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- Tate Collection Online
Image database
subject area: Art history
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- Taylor & Francis Online
subject areas: general / interdisciplinary
contents: References, tables of contents and abstracts of journals and e-books published by Taylor & Francis, Routledge, Psychology Press and Informa Healthcare
note: Full texts only available for e-books of the licensed package BME (Business, Management & Economics)
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- WebMuseums
subject area: Museums
content: Portal to museums and their exhibitions and special exhibitions in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, South Tyrol, Liechtenstein, Alsace and Luxembourg
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- Web of Science / Arts & Humanities Citation Index
Article database, subject bibliography
subject areas: Arts & Humanities
contents: Index of articles from over 1,800 journals from 28 disciplines in the arts and humanities from 1975 to the present. In addition, a list of the bibliography for each article and details of later articles in which this article is cited. This also makes it an important tool for citation analyses.
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- Wiley Online Library
Full text database
contents: approx. 1500 e-journals from all subject areas
note: e-books not licensed
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- WISO
with Wiso Praxis (business press, company information and market data)
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- Worth global style network (WGSN) (university network accessible)
subject areas: Fashion, design
content: Fashion forecasts, trend forecasts, retail analyses and consumer information on the topics of fashion, design, shopping, retail and customer behavior
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- IGI Global InfoSci Journals - Archives (National License)
subject areas: Management, Information Systems, Knowledge Management
content: Full texts of 158 peer-reviewed journals on the main topics of management, information systems and knowledge management
period: 2000 - 2015
note: Germany-wide access to the database as part of a DFG-funded national license is financed and organized by the ZBW - German National Library of Economics.
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- Nautos
DIN standards in full text
VDI guidelines in full text
Please note: DIN-VDE standards are only listed here with bibliographic information. The full texts can only be found in the VDE Standards Library.
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- ScienceDirect (Elsevier)
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Elsevier archive collection state license Baden-Württemberg 2015-2017
content: Archive volumes of approx. 1000 electronic journals from the publisher Elsevier in full text.
period: 2015 - 2017.
subject areas: Natural sciences, engineering, biological sciences, economics, social sciences and medicine.
language: English language.
Elsevier Journal Backfiles on ScienceDirect 1907-2002 (national license Germany)
content: Archive volumes of approx. 1500 electronic journals from the publisher Elsevier in full text.
period: 1907 - 2002.
subject areas: Biology, chemistry, geosciences, medicine, physics, psychology, sociology, economics.
language: English.
Further information: https://www.nationallizenzen.de/angebote/nlproduct.2006-03-10.4713615682
- SpringerLink
Full-text database with e-books and e-journals from Springer Science+Business Media and its imprints such as Gabler, Vieweg and VS as well as the merged publishing house Palgrave Macmillan
subject areas: Science, Technology, Medicine (STM) = medicine, mathematics and computer science, biomedicine and life sciences, humanities, economics and technology
Please note: Only the following collections are licensed for the university:
E-Books:
Business & Economics 2005 - 2020 (German language)
Business & Management 2005 - 2020 (English language)
Economics & Finance 2005 - 2020 (English language)
Humanities, Social Sciences and Law 2010 - 2020 (German language)
Engineering and Computer Science 2009 - 2020 (German language)
Medicine 2005 - 2008 (English language)
Chemistry and Materials Science 2005 - 2008 (English language)
E-Journals:
Springer-Landeslizenz Baden-Württemberg (2003 to date): more than 1,900 journals with full texts from 2003 to date
Springer Online Journal Archives (1860 - 2002): over 1,050 journals from Springer and Kluwer with full texts up to 2002 and Springer Lecture Notes Archive with full texts up to 1996
- VDE Standards Library
subject areas: Electrical engineering, Technology
geography: Germany
contents: Full texts of all DIN-VDE standards - including drafts and withdrawn / historical VDE regulations
special features: still no print and download option!
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- Wiley Online Library
full-text database
approx. 1500 e-journals from all subject areas
E-books not licensed
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- beck-online
licensed modules: University module + NomosOnline Federal Law
subject area: Law
geography: Germany
contents: Full texts of legal texts, commentaries, handbooks, journal articles, collections of forms and standards and case law
external access for university members = students, professors and staff: via 2-factor authentication (requirements: Smartphone with an authentication app and valid e-mail address of Pforzheim University)
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- Business Source Ultimate
subject areas: BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION, ECONOMICS
geography: Worldwide - with a focus on the Anglo-American region
contents: Literature references and full texts of articles in specialist journals, e-books, case studies, country reports, industry reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses, working papers and more
special features: Full texts of the most recent months and years partly not accessible
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- DATEV Students online
subject areas: Tax law, tax consulting, business consulting
geography: Germany
contents: DATEV software (trial version), LEXinform/Info database, e-learnings and more
Login: with user name and password for the university network
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- EconBiz
Virtual Library of Economics
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- EconLit with Fulltext
subject areas: Economics, economic geography, economic history, economic policy, economic theory
geography: Worldwide - with a focus on the Anglo-American region
contents: Literature references, partly also full texts of articles in specialist journals
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- Emerald Management Premier Collection
Areas of specialization: Management (especially strategy, leadership, marketing and human resources, library management, information management and knowledge management)
Contents: Full-text articles from more than 300 journals published by Emerald
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- Emerald Fulltext Archive Database (national license)
subject areas: mainly economics, but also library science and engineering
contents: Full-text articles from over 400 journals published by Emerald from the respective publication date up to and including 2020
note: Germany-wide access is made possible and organized by the ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics (for content up to and including 2018 through funding from the German Research Foundation).
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- Gender : Identity and Social Change (National License)
subject areas: Women's Studies, Gender Studies
geography: Anglo-American cultural area
contents: Sources on the history of feminism and gender
period: 19th and 20th century
note: Germany-wide access is provided within the framework of the funding programme “Specialized Information Services for Science” with financial support from the German Research Foundation (DFG) and organized by the Specialized Information Service Anglo-American Culture.
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- GENIOS : German Business Information
Access to the full texts for members of the university is possible to a limited extent and against reimbursement of costs via the Departmental Library of Technology + Economics. Contact us
- IGI Global InfoSci Journals - Archives (National License)
subject areas: Management, Information Systems, Knowledge Management
content: Full texts of 158 peer-reviewed journals on the main topics of management, information systems and knowledge management
period: 2000 - 2015
note: Germany-wide access to the database as part of a DFG-funded national license is financed and organized by the ZBW - German National Library of Economics.
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- International Monetary Fund (IMF) eLibrary
Subject area: economics
Geography: worldwide
Contents: E-books and periodicals in full text as well as statistics of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Macroeconomic data for almost all countries in the world
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- J. Walter Thompson : Advertising America (National License)
subject area: Advertising (History)
geography: USA
contents: Documents from the history of one of the oldest and largest US advertising agencies, J. Walter Thompson - source material for American consumer history as well as for the history of transnational marketing
period: 20th century with a focus on the period after 1945
note: Germany-wide access is provided within the framework of the funding programme “Specialized Information Services for Science” with financial support from the German Research Foundation (DFG) and organized by the Specialized Information Service Anglo-American Culture.
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- Market Research & American Business (1935-1965) (National License)
subject area: Marketing (History)
geography: USA
contents: Documents from the corporate archives of the Institute for Motivational Research, Inc. - source material for American consumer history as well as for the history of transnational marketing
period: 1935-1965 with a focus on the period after 1945
note: Germany-wide access is provided within the framework of the funding programme “Specialized Information Services for Science” with financial support from the German Research Foundation (DFG) and organized by the Specialized Information Service Anglo-American Culture.
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- NWB database with the modules
Tax and business law
Accounting / Corporate taxes and balance sheets
International tax and business law
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- OECD iLibrary
E-books, electronic journals, working papers and statistical databases of the OECD;
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- Project Syndicate
Project Syndicate produces and delivers original commentaries by prominent political and business leaders, policymakers, scholars, and civic activists from around the world. Access includes more than 100 monthly commentaries, podcasts, videos, virtual events, magazines, and an archive of over 14,000 commentaries in up to 13 languages dating back to 1994.
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- RuW-Online
subject areas: Law, Economics
geography: Germany
contents: Full texts of 17 e-journals (including Betriebs-Berater and Wettbewerb in Recht und Praxis) and approx. 80 e-books from the publishers Fachmedien für Recht und Wirtschaft and Boorberg
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- Sage Journals - Collection Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS)
subject areas: Humanities and social sciences incl. economics
geography: Worldwide - with a focus on the Anglo-American region
contents: Full texts of articles in 760 journals
Please note: The contents of the other collections are not licensed!
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Elsevier archive collection state license Baden-Württemberg 2015-2017
content: Archive volumes of approx. 1000 electronic journals from the publisher Elsevier in full text.
period: 2015 - 2017.
subject areas: Natural sciences, engineering, biological sciences, economics, social sciences and medicine.
language: English language.
Elsevier Journal Backfiles on ScienceDirect 1907-2002 (national license Germany)
content: Archive volumes of approx. 1500 electronic journals from the publisher Elsevier in full text.
period: 1907 - 2002.
subject areas: Biology, chemistry, geosciences, medicine, physics, psychology, sociology, economics.
language: English.
Further information: https://www.nationallizenzen.de/angebote/nlproduct.2006-03-10.4713615682
- SpringerLink
Full-text database with e-books and e-journals from Springer Science+Business Media and its imprints such as Gabler, Vieweg and VS as well as the merged publishing house Palgrave Macmillan
subject areas: Science, Technology, Medicine (STM) = medicine, mathematics and computer science, biomedicine and life sciences, humanities, economics and technology
Please note: Only the following collections are licensed for the university:
E-Books:
Business & Economics 2005 - 2020 (German language)
Business & Management 2005 - 2020 (English language)
Economics & Finance 2005 - 2020 (English language)
Humanities, Social Sciences and Law 2010 - 2020 (German language)
Engineering and Computer Science 2009 - 2020 (German language)
Medicine 2005 - 2008 (English language)
Chemistry and Materials Science 2005 - 2008 (English language)
E-Journals:
Springer-Landeslizenz Baden-Württemberg (2003 to date): more than 1,900 journals with full texts from 2003 to date
Springer Online Journal Archives (1860 - 2002): over 1,050 journals from Springer and Kluwer with full texts up to 2002 and Springer Lecture Notes Archive with full texts up to 1996
- Statista
license: Campus License International
subject areas: General / Interdisciplinary, Economics
geography: worldwide
content: more than 1 million statistics on over 80,000 topics from more than 18,000 different sources, industry and company information, infographics on current topics, dossiers
Further information...
- Taylor & Francis Online
References, tables of contents and abstracts of journals and e-books published by Taylor & Francis, Routledge, Psychology Press and Informa Healthcare
Full texts of journals from the BME (Business, Management & Economics) package
Further information ...
Web of Science:
Article database with information on citations
consists of:Social Sciences Citation Index (1900 - present)
Further information ...Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975 - present)
Further information ...- Wiley Online Library
Full text database
Approx. 1500 e-journals from all subject areas
E-books not licensed
- WISO - with Wiso Praxis (business press, company information and market data)
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- World Bank E-Library - Archive
E-books, e-journals and working papers of the World Bank up to and including 2023
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