Online resources by type of content
Please note
Full access to licensed content via the links in this list only within campus network.
If you are not on campus, please click on "more information" first and choose one of the remote access options (EZProxy / VPN). Only for members of the University of Applied Sciences Augsburg: login with IT account.
Literature research in library catalogues
Catalogues of libraries and booktrade
InfoGuide plus: Library catalogue of the University of Applied Sciences Augsburg. Covers also the collections of the University Library of Augsburg, the State Library Augsburg and the Bavarian Library Network.
Gateway Bayern: joint catalogue of all Bavarian scientific libraries. The SFX-button offers the possibility to order books not available in Augsburg via interlibrary loan.
Nationwide:
Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog(KVK): nationwide research in library catalogues
buchkatalog.de: books available in German booktrade.
ZVAB.com: books available at antiquarian booksellers.
Books not available in Augsburg or Bavarian libraries may be ordered via Gateway Bayern interlibrary loan nonetheless. Enter your "Heimatbibliothek" (HSB Augsburg), user number (on your CampusCard, 11 digits) and pin (date of birth, ddmmyy) and fill in the order form with the complete relevant data (ISBN if possible).
Reference Databases:
Business Source Elite: E-Journals and e-books on economy [more]
EBSCO Psychology: PsycINFO, PSYNDEX: high quality research literature in the field of psychology
RSWB: Bibliographic reference for German publications concerning urban and regional development, civil engineering and housing [more]
WISO Literaturnachweise: Literature references on psychology, social sciences and economy [more]
WTI: Literature references on technology, management, environment and sustainability [more]
E-books
E-books licensed by the library:
beck eLibrary - E-books from the publishers Vahlen, Schäffer-Poeschel, Haufe, UVK and Versus on economics [more information]
beck online - Legal comments and manuals on tax law [more information]
Beltz (via Content Select) - The entire e-book program on social work [more information]
Content Select - Many e-books by the publishers Kohlhammer, VDE-Verlag and the scholars-e-library (various publishers), as well as the entire e-book program of Beltz, O'Reilly and mitp-Verlag. [more information]
DATEV - 5 selected e-books on tax and finance [more information]
De Gruyter - E-books of the publishers DeGruyter, Birkhäuser, Oldenbourg, Böhlau, Transcript and Harvard University Press [more information]
Emerald insight - English e-books on business and economics
Encyclopedia of Electrochemical Power Sources[more information]
Hanser eLibrary - E-books on business, technology, mathematics, IT and science [more information]
IET E-Books - E-Books of the Institution of Engineering and Technology [more information]
Kohlhammer (via Content Select) - Selected e-books on social work and psychology [more information]
mitp-Verlag (via Content Select) - E-books on computer science and design (e.g. photography) [more information]
MIT Press E-Books (via IEEE) - Massachusetts Institute of Technology e-books on computer science and engineering [more information]
Nomos eLibrary - E-books and e-journals on social work and social economy [more information]
nwb - E-books on various tax issues, pensions, payroll and tax audits[more information]
O'Reilly (via Content Select) - The entire e-book program [more information]
O'Reilly - E-books and more of a variety of IT publishers (formerly Safari Books Online) [more information]
Packt Publishing: english e-books: Cloud & Networking, Game Development, IoT & Hardware, Mobile, Programming, Security, Web Development [more information]
scholars e-library (via Content Select) - E-books of various publishers on social work [more information]
SpringerLink - E-books and eJournals covering almost all subject areas [more information]
utb E-Books - E-books by utb [more information]
VDE-Verlag (via Content Select) - E-books on electrical engineering and construction [more information]
VR eLibrary - E-Books from Vandenhoeck&Ruprecht and Böhlau [more information]
Wiley E-Books - E-books on technology, architecture & construction, computer science, design, business [more information]
WISO - over 1500 e-books, mainly on economics [more information]
E-books for free available online:
Rheinwerk-Verlag - Computer science e-books (Galileo Computing books; however only old editions, the more recent ones are subject to a fee)
Legal texts, judgments, regulations
Beck-Online - database for several fields of law [more information]
BGB-Kommentar.de - open access legal commentary on German civil law
DATEV - research tool "LEXinform / Info database online" on taxes and finance [more information]
ibr-online - Real estate & construction law [more information]
Juris für Hochschulen - jurisdiction, administrative regulations, legal commentaries, ... [more information]
nwb - Jurisprudence on tax issues (BFH full texts, FG full texts, BVerfG full texts, ECJ, cases in tax law, BGH judgments, BAG judgments, BSG judgments, aBVerwG judgments)[more information]
UMWELT digital - environmental law regulations [more Information]
University papers
BASE - scientific search engine with the option to filter by document type "thesis"
Liste wissenschaftlicher Dokumentenserver - University publications and research reports of German universities and research institutions
Dissonline - German university publications via the catalogue of the German National Library (option to show only documents available online)
Gateway Bayern (possibilty to filter by document type "Hochschulschrift" and "Online access" in the "advanced search")
DART - Europe e-theses portal
Further sources - for international university publications
Conference reports
ACM Digital Library: Proceedings- Conference proceedings of the Association for Computing Machinery [more information]
IEEE-Xplore: Conference Proceedings - Reports of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers [more Information]
SpringerLink: Conference Paper - Conference reports published by Springer (focus on computer science and engineering) [more information]
Reference works
Baugeräteliste online - Information on construction equipment and building site equipment [more information]
DATEV - Research tool "LEXinform / Info database online" (taxes and finance) [more information]
Encyclopedia of Electrochemical Power Sources [more information]
Langenscheidt Wörterbuchportal - General and technical dictionaries and Duden [more information]
WISO Personeninformationen - Biographies and other personal information [more information]
Standards, patents
DIN standards /VDI guidelines (Perinorm) [more information]
DIN-VDE-standards and DIN-VDE drafts(access only via one PC in the library) [more information]
IEEE-Xplore: Standards of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers [more information]
FGSV - Technisches Regelwerk - Road construction engineering and road traffic engineering [more information]
Straßenbau A-Z - Collection of technical guidelines and official regulations for the road system [more information]
DepatisNet - online research in the database of the German Patent and Trade Mark Office: covers patent publications from all over the world. Full texts available)
Statistical data
Statista - Reliable data, surveys and dossiers by market research institutions, organizations, governments and scientific publishers [more information]
GENIOS Statistiken (WISO) - statistics of top companies, internet / electronic commerce, information technology and telecommunications, media research, advertising, financial market, health and society (sources: business and news magazines, trade journals, newspapers, reports of trade associations and market research studies released by TNS Infratest)
Genesis/DESTATIS - open access database of the Federal Statistical Office of Germany (data on regions, population, employment, elections / education, social benefits, health, law / housing, environment / economic sectors / foreign trade, companies, crafts / prices, income and consumption / public finances /accounts)
Company data
Alpha Vantage: financial data API [more information]
Financial Times: Companies & Industries: Company and industry reports [more infomation]
MarketLine - information on companies, industry and countries [more information]
WISO Wirtschaftswissenschaften: Firmeninformationen - Company profiles, M&A background information, commercial register announcements and annual accounts [more information]
Videos
Espresso Tutorials: SAP - video tutorials on the economic and IT aspects of SAP
LinkedIn Learning: Video courses on various topics (e.g. 3D & CAD, image processing, business, programming, web, social skills, ... [more information]
O'Reilly - Video courses (Learning Paths, Case Studies) for computer scientists [more information]
TIB AV-Portal: quality-controlled scientific films (mainly technology and natural sciences, but also e.g. architecture and media); search function covers not only metadata, but also spoken word, captions and images; semantic search: synonyms, related words and translations with one search term.
Scientific search engines
Google Scholar: Google search specifically for scientific literature (books, journal articles, technical papers)
BASE: Search engine for scientific open access documents (videotutorial)
EconBiz: Research portal of the German Central Library for Economic Sciences (ZBW) (literature references and in some cases also full texts)more information
TIB Dokumente: Research portal of the Technical Information Library Hanover (TIB) (main focus of its collection: technology, architecture, chemistry, computer science, mathematics and physics); literature references as well as full texts (for a fee, sometimes open access)
InfoGuide plus - "articles & more" - Catalogue of the Library of Applied Sciences Augsburg. This tab in the result list offers articles of journals / conference proceedings. Covers only some of the databases licensed by the library (indexed contents) - please access the relevant databases directly for a comprehensive research.
Documents without direct online access may be ordered for free / at low costs via Gateway Bayern interlibrary loan.
Magazines/journals and journal articles
Journal articles
Full text search of journal articles in the following databases:
ACM Digital Library - journals and magazines of the Association for Computing Machinery [more information]
Business Source Elite - economics (in English) [more information]
DeGruyter Open Access Journals: [more information]
DETAIL inspiration - more than 3,000 project documentations published in DETAIL magazine [more information]
DZI-Zeitschrift "Soziale Arbeit": journal for current developments in the fields of social work and social education [more information]
Content Select - German magazines on education, social work and social sciences published by Beltz-Juventa [more information]
The Economist [more information]
Emerald insight - English e-articles on business and economics
Hogrefe PsyJOURNALS - over 40 journals on psychology and psychiatry [more information]
IEEE-Xplore - journals on electrical engineering and computer science [mehr Infos]
Juris Zusatzmodul Hochschulen - magazines on various fields of law [more information]
Marketing - Zeitschrift für Forschung und Praxis (ZFP) (via beck eLibrary)
Nomos eLibrary - E-journals on social work and social economy [more information]
NWB - access to the following journals: NWB Steuer und Wirtschaftsrecht, NWB online, NWB Rechnungswesen – BBK online, NWB Unternehmensteuern und Bilanzen – StuB online, NWB Betriebswirtschaftliche Beratung, NWB Erben und Vermögen – NWB-EV, NWB Internationale Rechnungslegung – PiR, NWB Internationales Steuer und Wirtschaftsrecht – IWBB, WP Praxis[more information]
SAGE Journals - more than 1100 scientific e-journals with a wide range of topics [more information]
Science & Science Robotics (by AAAS) [more information]
ScienceDirect - Journals on the sciences and engineering [more information]
SpringerLink: Zeitschriften - journals published by Springer more information]
Werkstattstechnik online - the magazine [more information]
Wiley E-Journals [more information]
WISO Fachzeitschriften [more information]
Print journals
List of print journal subscriptions of the library (with reference to the electronic edition, if available)
Electronic journals
Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek (EZB)
Directory of about 105000 electronic journals, 69000 of them are open access [more information]
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) - Directory of quality-controlled scientific electronic open access journals. (Full-text search for single articles in about 50% of the listed journals.)
Newspapers
Financial Times - Economic and financial newspaper [more information]
PressReader - over 4400 newspapers from all over the world, updated daily (e.g. Augsburger Allgemeine) [more information]
Süddeutsche Zeitung - Archiv - all issues from 1992 on [mehr Infos]
WISO Presse - Newspapers from Germany, Austria and Switzerland [more information]
More open access newspapers and newspaper archives can be found in DBIS.