Reduction in database licenses 2026

15 October 2025

Due to the current financial situation, the following licenses will no longer be available as of January 1, 2026. Please note the recommended alternatives:

Economics

Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Economics (Springer direkt) / use the following alternative:

• printed edition from 2018 (Business and Economics Libray,  shelf mark: 2:6/450),
• other Dictionaries or Encyclopedias,
• The Library of Economics and Liberty: Encyclopedia

Gale Research Complete, inkl. Gale Business Insights / use the following alternative:

• Business Source Complete,
• ABI/Inform Collection

Springer e-Book package Wirtschaftswissenschaften (German) / use the following alternative:

• Selected titles are purchased in printed or electronic form (if available via EBC). Please use our acquisition proposal - form (German only). 

wiso Wirtschaftswissenschaften / use the following alternative:

• Econbiz

wiso Wirtschaftspraxis / use the following alternative:

• Factiva,
• Nexis Uni

Social Science

wiso Sozialwissenschaften / use the following alternative:

• SocioHub,
• POLLUX,
• FID Media,
• Econbiz

Interdisciplinary

Duden dictionary (via Munzinger) / use the following alternative:

• Duden.de

Neues Handbuch Hochschullehre / use the following alternative:

•  printed Version (edition 2023) available in the Martha-Muchow-Bibliothek

Philosopher’s Index (Philosophy Collection) / use the following alternative:

• International Philosophical Bibliography, PhilPapers

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses / use the following alternative:

• Worldwide: Global ETD Search. Attention: currently offline, a new search interface is being developed (06.10.2025).
• Worldwide: Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OATD),
• Worldwide: Ebsco Open Dissertations,
• Dissertations in Economics at Econbiz, in Social Sciences at Sociohub.

PsycInfo / use the following alternative:

• PsycArticles
• Psyndex (German-language literature)

Statista / use the following alternative:

• Statistical offices,
• see also: Forschungsdaten und Statistiken > Makrodaten,
• Search Google using the term in combination with statistics

Chicago Manual of Style Online - CMOS Online / use the following alternative:

• Purdue Online Writing Lab: CMOS

Please,  also note the information by Stabi: Einschränkung des E-Medien-Angebots ab 2026 (11.11.2025)

Update 12.11.2025 (IBSS)