Databases

In this rubric free­ly acces­si­ble data­ba­ses, inter­net sources, por­tals and search engi­nes of desi­gna­ted are­as of stu­dy are listed.

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Database info system

The inter­di­sci­pli­na­ry data­ba­se info sys­tem (DBIS) is a coope­ra­ti­ve ser­vice for the use of sci­en­ti­fic data­ba­ses. DBIS lists jour­nal data­ba­ses, essay data­ba­ses, spe­ci­fic por­tals, vir­tu­al spe­ci­fic libra­ri­es and sci­en­ti­fic search engi­nes, for exam­p­le. The data­ba­ses are lis­ted by area of stu­dy. Through an exten­ded search, it is pos­si­ble to direct­ly search for spe­ci­fic data­ba­ses, data­ba­se types and data­ba­ses with geo­gra­phic relevance.

DBIS

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Theology and Religious Studies

• Index Theo­lo­gi­cus – Inter­na­tio­nal Biblio­gra­phy of Theo­lo­gy and Reli­gious Studies 
• Rel­Bib – Biblio­gra­phy of the Stu­dy of Religion 
• Mena­Lib – Web Por­tal of the Spe­cia­li­zed Infor­ma­ti­on Ser­vice Midd­le East-, North Africa- and Isla­mic Studies 
• Augus­ti­nus Literaturdatenbank 
• Libra­ry of the Church Fathers 
• CRRA – Catho­lic Rese­arch Resour­ces Portal 
• Decre­tum magis­tri Gra­tia­ni (Cor­pus Iuris Cano­ni­ci, Teil 1) [© Baye­ri­sche Staats­bi­blio­thek, Digi­ta­le Biblio­thek, Münch­ner Digitalisierungszentrum] 
• Dic­tion­a­ry of Islam 
• WiRe­Lex – Sci­en­ti­fic Reli­gious Edu­ca­ti­on Lexicon 
• The Ter­tul­li­an Pro­ject – About the anci­ent Chris­ti­an Latin wri­ter Tertullian 
• Com­mis­si­on for Con­tem­po­ra­ry Histo­ry – Rese­arch and Docu­men­ta­ti­on of Ger­man Catho­li­cism in the 19th and 20th Centuries 

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Political Studies and Peace Studies

• POLLUX – Fach­in­for­ma­ti­ons­dienst Politikwissenschaft 
• ire­on – The Inter­na­tio­nal Rela­ti­ons and Area Stu­dies Gateway
• WAO – World Affairs Online 
• Fort­schritts­be­richt Afgha­ni­stan zur Unter­rich­tung des Deut­schen Bun­des­tags / Die Bundesregierung 
• Con­flict Baro­me­ter / Hei­del­ber­ger Insti­tut für inter­na­tio­na­le Konfliktforschung 
• Peace Accords Matrix: explo­re peace agree­ments and their imple­men­ta­ti­on around the world  / Uni­ver­si­ty of Not­re Dame 
• Por­tal für Poli­tik­wis­sen­schaft: Anno­tier­te Biblio­gra­phie / Stif­tung Wis­sen­schaft und Demokratie 
• Doku­men­ta­ti­on Abrüs­tung und Sicher­heit – DARUSI / Insti­tut für Sicher­heits­po­li­tik, Uni­ver­si­tät Kiel 

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Philosophy

• Sophi­kon – Vir­tu­el­le Fach­bi­blio­thek Philosophie 
• Cor­pus Thomisticum 
• Dic­tion­a­ry of phi­lo­so­phi­cal terms and names 
• Enzy­klo­pä­die zur Rechtsphilosophie 
• Globethics.net
• Hand­wör­ter­buch Philosophie 
• Kant-Forschungsstelle der Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz 
• Biblio­gra­phie der wich­tigs­ten phi­lo­so­phi­schen Wer­ke des 20. Jahr­hun­derts / Horst-Dieter Finke 

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Legal Studies

• Vir­tu­al Libra­ry for Inter­na­tio­nal and Inter­di­sci­pli­na­ry Legal Research
• Links to the Legal Histo­ry of the Law Facul­ty of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich 
• Decre­tum magis­tri Gra­tia­ni (Cor­pus Iuris Cano­ni­ci, Teil 1) [© Baye­ri­sche Staats­bi­blio­thek, Digi­ta­le Biblio­thek, Münch­ner Digitalisierungszentrum] 
• Publi­ca­ti­ons of the Max-Planck-Institute for Euro­pean Legal History 

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Social Studies

• Socio­Hub – Fach­in­for­ma­ti­ons­dienst Soziologie 
• Social Sci­ence Open Access Repo­si­to­ry – SSOAR 
• Sowi­port – Das Por­tal für die Sozialwissenschaften 

Journals

The sel­ec­tion of inter­di­sci­pli­na­ry and par­ti­al­ly free­ly acces­si­ble sources lis­ted below includes elec­tro­nic jour­nals with full text access, jour­nal biblio­gra­phies, jour­nals and essays, open-access jour­nals, as well as elec­tro­nic publi­ca­ti­ons of sci­en­ti­fic institutions.

E-Journals
(Full text access only via the rese­arch site in the library.)

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Databases

Electronic Journals Library (EZB)

The Elec­tro­nic Jour­nals Libra­ry is a ser­vice to faci­li­ta­te the use of scho­lar­ly jour­nals on the inter­net. It offers a fast, struc­tu­red and uni­fied inter­face to access full-text artic­les online. The acces­si­bi­li­ty of full text artic­les depends upon the insti­tu­ti­on and is colour coded.

EZB

Index Theologicus

IxTheo is a com­pre­hen­si­ve biblio­gra­phy for theo­lo­gy and reli­gious stu­dies. In addi­ti­on to jour­nals and essays, mono­graphs, data­ba­ses and rele­vant inter­net links can be rese­ar­ched. A new addi­ti­on is the lis­ted data of fea­tured revie­w­ing bodies. Publishers of the IxTheo are the Tübin­gen Uni­ver­si­ty Libra­ry, the Evan­ge­li­cal Theo­lo­gy and the Catho­lic Theo­lo­gi­cy facul­ties of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Tübingen.

Index Theologicus

ZDB – German Union Catalogue of Serials

The Uni­on Cata­lo­gue of Seri­als (ZDB) is one of the world’s lar­gest data­ba­ses for jour­nals, news­pa­pers, mono­gra­phic series and other seri­al publi­ca­ti­ons from all count­ries, in all lan­guages, wit­hout time rest­ric­tions, in prin­ted, elec­tro­nic or digi­ti­sed form. Curr­ent­ly more than 3.700 libra­ri­es in Ger­ma­ny and Aus­tria cata­lo­gue seri­al titles and local hol­dings infor­ma­ti­on in the ZDB.

ZDB

Directory of Open Access Journals – DOAJ

DOAJ is a community-curated online direc­to­ry that inde­xes and pro­vi­des access to high qua­li­ty, open access, peer-reviewed jour­nals. The Direc­to­ry of Open Access Jour­nals was laun­ched in 2003 at Lund Uni­ver­si­ty, Swe­den, with 300 open access jour­nals and today con­ta­ins ca. 9000 open access jour­nals cove­ring all are­as of sci­ence, tech­no­lo­gy, medi­ci­ne, social sci­ence and humanities.

DOAJ

Periodicals Archive Online – PAO

Peri­odi­cals Archi­ve Online is a com­pre­hen­si­ve archi­ve of back issues of elec­tro­nic jour­nals in the arts, huma­ni­ties and social sci­en­ces, pro­vi­ding access to searcha­ble full text of hundreds of titles. The data­ba­se includes con­tent span­ning more than two cen­tu­ries, cove­ring 37 major sub­ject are­as and mul­ti­ple languages.

PAO

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Individual E-Journals and Yearbooks

• Pre-print of the pro­cee­dings of the Year­book for Chris­ti­an Social Sciences
• Com­mu­ni­ca­tio Socialis 
  (Jour­nal for Media Ethics and Com­mu­ni­ca­ti­on in Church and Society)
• Mili­ta­ry Ethics: Con­tro­ver­sies of Mili­ta­ry Ethics and Secu­ri­ty Culture 
  (E-Journal of the Cent­re of Ethi­cal Edu­ca­ti­on in the Armed Forces)
• Gerech­tig­keit & Frieden 
  (Series by the Ger­man Com­mis­si­on Jus­ti­tia et Pax)
• Open Theo­lo­gy / de Gruyter 
  (Open Access E-Journal by de Gruyter)
• Rechts­ge­schich­te 
  (Jour­nal of the Max-Planck Insti­tut for Euro­pean Legal History)

Essays

Specialist Essay Databases

Index Theologicus

IxTheo is a com­pre­hen­si­ve biblio­gra­phy for theo­lo­gy and reli­gious stu­dies. In addi­ti­on to jour­nals and essays, mono­graphs, data­ba­ses and rele­vant inter­net links can be rese­ar­ched. A new addi­ti­on is the lis­ted data of fea­tured revie­w­ing bodies. Publishers of the IxTheo are the Tübin­gen Uni­ver­si­ty Libra­ry, the Evan­ge­li­cal Theo­lo­gy and the Catho­lic Theo­lo­gi­cy facul­ties of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Tübingen.

Index Theologicus

International Relations and Area Studies

The mul­ti­di­sci­pli­na­ry data­ba­se OLC Inter­na­tio­nal Rela­ti­ons and Area Stu­dies con­ta­ins table of con­tents of jour­nals from seve­ral spe­cial sub­ject coll­ec­tions, inclu­ding poli­ti­cal sci­ence, eco­no­mics, the Midd­le East and other regio­nal spe­cial sub­ject coll­ec­tions. It offers a mul­ti­di­sci­pli­na­ry sel­ec­tion from the Data­ba­se Online-Contents, with addi­tio­nal input from other spe­cial sub­ject collections.

Inter­na­tio­nal Rela­ti­ons and Area Studies

Philosophy

Online Con­tents Phi­lo­so­phy pro­vi­des access to the tables of con­tents of jour­nals in the field of phi­lo­so­phy. It is a subject-oriented sel­ec­tion of biblio­gra­phic data from the Data­ba­se Online Con­tents. This data­ba­se is regu­lar­ly enhan­ced by table of con­tents data from addi­tio­nal peri­odi­cals out of the spe­cial coll­ec­tions of the UB Erlangen-Nürnberg as Ger­man cen­tral sub­ject libra­ry for Philosophy.

Philosophy 

Political Science and Peace Research

The Online Con­tents ser­vice of the Spe­cial Sub­ject Coll­ec­tion Poli­ti­cal Sci­ence and Peace Rese­arch is part of the Online Con­tents Data­ba­se. It offers access to tables of con­tents of more than 877 jour­nals rele­vant for stu­dy and rese­arch. New jour­nals were added until Decem­ber 2013 by the Spe­cial Sub­ject Collection.

Poli­ti­cal Sci­ence and Peace Research

Law

Online Con­tents Law is a subject-based sel­ec­tion of biblio­gra­phic data from the data­ba­se Online Con­tents. The impro­ve­ment of the Online Con­tents Law data­ba­se is sup­port­ed by the Deut­sche For­schungs­ge­mein­schaft (Ger­man Rese­arch Foun­da­ti­on) – from 2006 – within Inter­net por­tal Vir­tu­el­le Fach­bi­blio­thek Recht (Vir­tu­al Libra­ry Law). The fur­ther deve­lo­p­ment of the data­ba­se is coor­di­na­ted by the the­ma­ti­schen Aus­schnitt Rechts­wis­sen­schaft (Spe­cial Coll­ec­tion Law) of the Staats­bi­blio­thek zu Ber­lin – Preu­ßi­scher Kul­tur­be­sitz (Ber­lin Sta­te Libra­ry – Prus­si­an Cul­tu­ral Heritage).

Law

Social Sciences

Online Con­tents Social Sci­en­ces pro­vi­des access to the tables of con­tents of jour­nals in the field of socio­lo­gy and social poli­cy. It is a subject-oriented sel­ec­tion of biblio­gra­phic data from the Data­ba­se Online Con­tents. The data­ba­se is regu­lar­ly enhan­ced by table of con­tents data from addi­tio­nal peri­odi­cals out of the spe­cial coll­ec­tions of the Uni­ver­si­ty Libra­ry Cologne.

Social Sciences

Middle East and North Africa

The Online Con­tents ser­vice of the Midd­le East and North Afri­ca Spe­cial Sub­ject Coll­ec­tion offers access to tables of con­tents of more than 274 jour­nals rele­vant for stu­dy and rese­arch on cul­tu­re, poli­tics and lan­guages of the Midd­le East, North Afri­ca and Cen­tral Asia. Thus the data­ba­se con­ta­ins appro­xi­m­ate­ly 286,400 records of jour­nal artic­les and reviews.

Midd­le East and North Africa

Contemporary History

The crea­ti­on and impro­ve­ment of the Online Con­tents Con­tem­po­ra­ry Histo­ry data­ba­se was sup­port­ed by the Deut­sche For­schungs­ge­mein­schaft within the frame­work of the Clio-online net­work and the Inter­net por­tal Zeitgeschichte-online until 2008. The fur­ther deve­lo­p­ment of the data­ba­se is co-ordinated by the Staats­bi­blio­thek zu Ber­lin – Preu­ßi­scher Kul­tur­be­sitz (SBB-PK) in coope­ra­ti­on with the Rese­arch Cent­re for Con­tem­po­ra­ry Histo­ry in Pots­dam, the Ger­man cen­tral sub­ject libra­ry for Anglo-American histo­ry, the Baye­ri­sche Staats­bi­blio­thek (BSB; Bava­ri­an Sta­te Libra­ry), the Ger­man cen­tral sub­ject libra­ry for Gene­ral Histo­ry; Histo­ry of Ger­ma­ny, Aus­tria, Switz­er­land, France and Ita­ly, East-European Histo­ry, the Biblio­thek für Zeit­ge­schich­te in der Würt­tem­ber­gi­schen Lan­des­bi­blio­thek Stutt­gart as spe­cial libra­ry for the con­tem­po­ra­ry histo­ry and the libra­ry of the Stif­tung Topo­gra­phie des Ter­rors (Foun­da­ti­on Topo­gra­phy of Ter­ror Berlin).

Con­tem­po­ra­ry History

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Publications by ITHF

• Essays by the sci­en­ti­fic staff of ithf: 
  Excerpt from the cata­lo­gue Theo­lo­gy & Peace
• Koch, Bern­hard: Bewaff­ne­te Droh­nen und Ethik. 
  In: kreuz-und-quer.de (19.1.2015)
• Koch, Bern­hard: Leben unter Drohnen. 
  In: FAZ, 28 (3.2.2014), S. 7

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Internet Sources (freely accessible)

• Living under Dro­nes: Death, Inju­ry and Trau­ma to Civi­li­ans from US Dro­ne Prac­ti­ces in Pakistan 
  Stan­ford, Calif.: Inter­na­tio­nal Human Rights and Con­flict Reso­lu­ti­on Cli­nic, Stan­ford Law School; New York: NYU School of Law, Glo­bal Jus­ti­ce Cli­nic, 2012

Publishings of the Institute for Theology and Peace

Publications

• Over­view of Publications
• Stu­dies on Peace Ethics (Cata­lo­gue Entry)
• Poli­ti­cal Phi­lo­so­phy and Legal Theo­ry of the Midd­le Ages and the Modern Age (Cata­lo­gue Entry)
• Theo­lo­gy and Peace (available under Stu­dies on Peace Ethics) 
  • You can find indi­vi­du­al publi­ca­ti­ons available online here: Theo­lo­gy and Peace
• Con­tri­bu­ti­ons to Peace Ethics (available under Stu­dies on Peace Ethics) 
  • You can find indi­vi­du­al publi­ca­ti­ons available online here: Con­tri­bu­ti­ons to Peace Ethics

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Essays

• Essays by the sci­en­ti­fic staff of ithf: 
  Aus­zug aus dem Kata­log Theo­lo­gie & Frieden
• Koch, Bern­hard: Bewaff­ne­te Droh­nen und Ethik. 
  In: kreuz-und-quer.de (19.1.2015)
• Koch, Bern­hard: Leben unter Drohnen. 
  In: FAZ, 28 (3.2.2014), S. 7

Links

• Arbeits­ge­mein­schaft für Friedens- und Kon­flikt­for­schung e.V.
• Arbeits­stel­le Theo­lo­gie der Frie­dens­kir­chen (Uni­ver­si­tät Hamburg) 
• Arms Con­trol Association 
• Biblio­gra­phies on the Net (Reli­gious Stu­dies Web Guide) 
• Catho­lic Peace­buil­ding Network 
• Con­flict Reso­lu­ti­on Infor­ma­ti­on Source 
• Docu­ments on Peace and Secu­ri­ty (Insti­tu­te for Reli­gi­on and Peace, AT) 
• Euro­pean Uni­on Insti­tu­te for Secu­ri­ty Studies 
• For­schungs­stät­te der evan­ge­li­schen Studiengemeinschaft 
• Ger­man Com­mis­si­on for Jus­ti­ce and Peace 
• Ger­man Foun­da­ti­on for Peace Rese­arch (Deut­sche Stif­tung Frie­dens­for­schung – DSF) 
• Hes­si­sche Stif­tung Friedens- und Kon­flikt­for­schung (HSFK)
• Insti­tut für Frie­dens­for­schung und Sicher­heits­po­li­tik an der Uni­ver­si­tät Ham­burg (IFSH)
• Insti­tu­te for Inter­na­tio­nal Peace and Secu­ri­ty Law der Uni­ver­si­tät zu Köln 
• Justiceinfo.net
• JustWarTheory.com
• Katholische-Theologie.info
• Kroc Insti­tu­te for Inter­na­tio­nal Peace Studies 
• Net­work Peace­buil­ding in Hamburg 
• Oxford Tra­di­tio­nal Jus­ti­ce Rese­arch – OTJR 
• Philosophisch-Theologische Hoch­schu­le Sankt Geor­gen, Frank­furt am Main 
• Reli­gi­on and Ethics in the Making of War and Peace Project 
• Reli­gi­on und Kon­flikt (For­schungs­ver­bund)
• Reli­gi­ons for Peace 
• The Socie­ty of Chris­ti­an Ethics (SCE)
• Stif­tung Wis­sen­schaft und Poli­tik, Deut­sches Insti­tut für Inter­na­tio­na­le Poli­tik und Sicher­heit, Berlin 
• United Sta­tes Army Cha­p­lain Cen­ter and School (USACHCS)
• United Sta­tes Insti­tu­te of Peace (USIP)
• Uni­ver­si­täts­bi­blio­thek Tübin­gen – Fach­in­for­ma­ti­ons­dienst Theologie