Data sources
This is what you will find in the TIB Portal
The TIB Portal offers the possibility of searching simultaneously for specialist literature and information in the library's own holdings and other data sources, which mainly list articles from journals, conference reports, etc.
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 |
| AIAA | Journal articles, conference paper, book chapter and standards of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics from 1961 | Licensed (where required), National licence |
| 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 | National licence |
| 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 |
| DuraArK | 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 |
| 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) |
| Online Contents | Interdisciplinary tables of contents of journals in the TIB holdings since 1993 | Licensed (where required) |
| 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 | Licensed (where required), 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) |
| 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 |
| 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 |
