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) / Alternativly:

• 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 / Alternativly:

• Business Source Complete,
• ABI/Inform Collection

Springer e-Book package Economics - German/ Alternativly:

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

wiso Wirtschaftswissenschaften / Alternativly:

• Econbiz

wiso Wirtschaftspraxis / Alternativly:

• Factiva,
• Nexis Uni

Social Science

International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) ProQuest CSA / Alternativly:

• SocIndex with Fulltext,
• Political Science Complete, Columbia Affairs Online,
• EconLit with Fulltext,
• Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science),
• Internationale Bibliographie der Rezensionen geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlicher Literatur (IBR) Saur, DeGruyter,
• RiffReporter

wiso Sozialwissenschaften / Alternativly:

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

Interdisciplinary

Duden dictionary (via Munzinger) / Alternativly:

• Duden.de

Neues Handbuch Hochschullehre / Alternativ:

•  printed Version from 2023 available in the Martha-Muchow-Bibliothek

Philosopher’s Index (Philosophy Collection) (ProQuest, vorher: OVID) / Alternativly:

• International Philosophical Bibliography, PhilPapers

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses / Alternativly:

• 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 / Alternativly:

• PsycArticles, Psyndex (German-language literature)

Statista / Alternativly:

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

Chicago Manual of Style Online - CMOS Online (Boysen/Schweitzer) / Alternativly:

• Purdue Online Writing Lab: CMOS