A - Z Databases

All That Stats

"AllThatStats provides access to official data time series statistics of the most important national and international sources".

Sources include: World Bank, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), European Commission, International Monetary Fund, Deutsche Bundesbank, US Federal Reserve Bank

^{Source: www.allthatstats.com/en/faq/sources/about-the-sources}

https://www.cambridge.org/core/publications/books

Access over 30,000 licensed titles in the Social Sciences Ebook Collection from Cambridge University Press. Users can download multiple chapters; send to Kindle, Dropbox or Google Drive; and easily export citations.

Cambridge University Press Journals

"Cambridge University Press... currently publish[es] more than 420 peer-reviewed academic journals covering subjects across the humanities, social sciences and science, technology and medicine"
_{Source: https://www.cambridge.org/core/publications/journals} 

Central and Eastern European Online Library (CEEOL) Archive

"CEEOL is a leading provider of academic eJournals, eBooks and Grey Literature documents in Humanities and Social Sciences from and about Central, East and Southeast Europe".
_{Source: www.ceeol.com} 

Includes Open Access and paid content. Users must register to access and download content from this database.

CEPR Discussion Paper Series And Policy Papers

The CEPR Discussion Paper Series and Policy Papers offers access to current publications from the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR).

^{Source: https://www.nationallizenzen.de}

China Academic Journals (CAJ)

Academic journals database covering over 8,500 Chinese and 75,000 international journals

Chinese Periodicals - Weipu (VIP) Portal = 维普中文期刊服务平台

This database offers access to full-text PDFs from scientific journals.

Users have access to the following series:
Technology and natural sciences
Agricultural sciences
Medicine and hygiene sciences
Literature, history and philosophy
Economy, politics, law, military
Educational and social sciences
Information sciences
Economics and management
Finance
Statistics

DFG-funded National Licence

CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online)

"Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is the world’s largest online resource of documents and articles devoted to research, analysis, and scholarship on international politics and related fields, including security studies, global finance, diplomatic practice, humanitarian law, global governance, development studies, and environmental studies." 
_{Source: www.ciaonet.org/pages/about-ciao} 

De Gruyter Online / Research Now E-Journals

Includes refereed journals, mainly from economics, but also from political science and law, and individual science, technology and medicine (STM) journals. The offer includes the current and retrospective content of the titles in full text. (Nationallizenz)
_{Source (translated): https://www.nationallizenzen.de/} 

DOAB Directory of Open Access Books

"DOAB is a community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books and helps users to find trusted open access book publishers. All DOAB services are free of charge and all data is freely available".

The directory of over 80,000 books covers a range of subjects including development studies; education; politics & government; migration, immigration & emigration; history; and medicine
_{Source:  www.doabooks.org} 

The EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) search tool allows you to search across most of our print and electronic resources - books, ebooks, journal articles - in one place.

The following databases are licensed through our content provider EBSCO and can be searched in the EDS. To view items in a particular database or databases, filter the search results by "Content provider".

eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
A collection of over 260,000 ebooks in a broad range of subject areas including business and economics, social science, political science, education and technology, and engineering.

EconLit with Full Text
EconLit with Full Text offers 495 active full-text peer-reviewed journals, and includes the American Economic Association journals with no embargo. Subjects include capital markets, econometrics, economic forecasting, macroeconomics, microeconomics, monetary theory and public economics.

Sociology Source Ultimate
This database includes over 1400 full-text journals and hundreds of videos. Subjects include behaviour and social issues, ethnic and racial studies, political sociology, social movements, and sociological history, theory and research.

EBSCO Open Dissertations

This portal provides access to 1.5 million theses and disserations from 320 universities worldwide.

EIU Country Reports

The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) database provides country reports from all countries in the world updated monthly.

The archive currently includes all country reports issued from 1996 to 2022, and is expanded annually with newer content. (Nationallizenz) 

The Electronic Journals Library (Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek, EZB) "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.

It comprises 116955 titles from all areas of research, 28978 of which are available online only. In addition, 145619 journals, which are provided by aggregators, are listed. The EZB contains 81129 journals which are accessible free of charge to anyone."

Users can search for journals, or browse by subject. Traffic-light symbols show the availability of full texts.
_{Source: http://ezb.uni-regensburg.de/about.phtml?bibid=HSG&colors=7&lang=en} 

Elgaronline

Hertie School library offers access to the following ebook collections:

Essentials in Climate Change

Essentials in Public Administration & Public Policy

Edward Elgar E-Book Archive in Business & Management, Economics and Finance. This package includes over 2000 titles published since 1989. Titles are available with a moving wall delay of 3 years. (Nationallizenz)

ScienceDirect is Elsevier's online publishing portal. Hertie users have access to:

Journals: Almost all Elsevier journals including Cell Press and The Lancet titles ("DEAL" contract)

Ebooks: Elsevier Handbooks in Economics Series

"The Handbooks in Economics series provides the various branches of economics with definitive reference sources, suitable for use by professional researchers, advanced graduate students, or by those seeking a teaching supplement. With contributions from leading researchers in the field, each volume presents an authoritative, self-contained survey of the topic under examination." (Nationallizenz)

_{Source: https://www.elsevier.com/books-and-journals/book-series/handbooks-in-economics}

Emerald Insight

Emerald Business, Management and Economics eBook Series Collection Archive (Nationallizenz) and Emerald eJournals Premier Collection Archive (Nationallizenz)

Embargo: 2-year moving wall - the current year and two previous years are unavailable.

Eurostat Microdata (europa.eu)

The Hertie School is recognized as a research entity by Eurostat. This means that microdata can be ordered from Eurostat. Please see the website for how to apply for access.

The microdata includes, for example: European Community Household Panel, European Union Labour Force Survey, Community Innovation Survey, European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions, Structure of Earnings Survey, Adult Education Survey, European Health Interview Survey, Household Budget Survey.
_{Source: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/microdata} 

Factiva 

Factiva is a business information and news database which contains over 30,000 sources including newspapers, newswires, trade journals, company reports and websites. Content is available in 32 languages.

Access is limited to three users at the same time.

Permalinks
You must be logged in to Factiva to open links to articles. First log in to Factiva by clicking on the link above, then click on the article link.

FAZ Bibliotheksportal - Frankfurter Allgemeine Archiv

Includes Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung ab 1993; Seiten Archiv

Financial Times

Access to the Financial Times is available to all Hertie School members. 

Please visit https://join.ft.com/07249093-9d0b-41c9-8832-f71fd480e5f4 to create a FT Professional Account using your Hertie email address.

The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) 

"ICPSR maintains a data archive of more than 250,000 files of research in the social and behavioral sciences. It hosts 21 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields."

^{Source: https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/pages/about/}

Users must create a Researcher Passport account in order to use the database. To create an account, users must be within the Hertie School IP range, or using the VPN. Use the "sign in with email" link and set up a new account using your Hertie School email address.

Integrum World Wide

"Integrum World Wide is the largest full-text database of Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), which currently contains over 360 million documents. The electronic full text in Russian and English languages have their focus in the areas of politics, culture, economy and society of Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)."
_{(translated from original) Source: https://www.nationallizenzen.de/angebote/nlproduct.2009-02-27.6766314168}  

International Encyclopedia of Comparative Law Online

The International Encyclopedia of Comparative Law Online includes "detailed descriptions of the legal systems of more than 150 countries" and "comparative analyses of the main issues in civil and commercial law and related issues world-wide".

^{Source: https://referenceworks.brill.com/display/db/ieco} 

IOP Historic Archive Journal

The Institute of Physics’ publications include central basic physics journals, such as the Journal of Physics A-G and the New Journal of Physics. This package includes over 100 titles; issues in the date range 1874-2013 are available.

JSTOR

"JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines."
_{Source: https://about.jstor.org/} 

Hertie users have access to:

JSTOR Archive Collections

• Arts & Sciences I-XV
• Business IV
• Hebrew Journals
• Ireland
• Life Sciences
• Lives of Literature
• Public Health Journals
• Security Studies
• Sustainability

JSTOR Primary Sources Collections

• 19th Century British Pamphlets
• World Heritage Sites: Africa
• Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa

Global Plants

Kanopy - Stream Classic Cinema, Indie Film and Top Documentaries

A comprehensive streaming media resource made available and financed through the OSUN Library Resources Program. The collection includes films, documentaries and educational videos.

For course instructors only: To request films, create an account using your Hertie School email address.

Max Planck Encyclopedias of International Law

"The Max Planck Encyclopedias of International Law is a comprehensive, analytical resource containing peer-reviewed articles on every aspect of international law. This definitive reference work contains both the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law and the Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law."
_{Source: https://opil.ouplaw.com/page/788} 

http://www.nature.com/

Includes full texts of the journal Nature from 1869-2009. Nature is one of the world's most renowned scientific journals.

Also includes Nature Protocols and the monthly Nature journals in the following collections: Nature Research Journals, Nature Reviews Journals (Life Science), Nature Clinical Reviews Journals. (Nationallizenz)
_{Source (translated): https://www.nationallizenzen.de/} 

NBER Working Papers

Fulltext database of working papers of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Around 1200 working papers are posted per year.

"The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) is a private, nonprofit organization that facilitates cutting-edge research on and analysis of major economic issues."

_{Source: https://www.nber.org/about-nber}

Find ETDs - Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations

The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) has a directory of resources for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs).

The New York Times - Breaking News, US News, World News and Videos (nytimes.com)

Access to The New York Times is available to all Hertie School members. 

Please visit https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/edu-access/ and create an account using your Hertie School email address.

https://www.nexisuni.com/

Comprehensive database with more than more than 17,000 news, business and legal sources, including journals, television and radio broadcasts, newswires, blogs; local, regional, national and international newspapers; legal sources for federal and state cases and statutes; business information on more than 80 million U.S. and international companies and more than 75 million executives

Campus License (unlimited access)

Nomos eLibrary

eBook-Collection (law, economics, social sciences and humanities) from the years 2017-2020 from German publisher Nomos Verlag.
(Nationallizenz)

OECD iLibrary

OECD iLibrary is the online library of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

"OECD iLibrary contains thousands of e-books, chapters, tables and graphs, papers, articles, summaries, indicators, databases and now also Podcasts - discoverable by theme, country or content type.

Every year around 500 new titles are published via OECD iLibrary."
_{Source: https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/oecd/about} 

Hertie School Research Repository (OPUS)

OPUS holds Hertie School Open Access publications, manuscript versions of research articles, PhD dissertations and selected Master's theses, and metadata of our Faculty and researcher publications. 

Oxford Academic (oup.com)

Access to Oxford Academic books and journals including:

Political Science and Law ebook collections: includes over 5000 titles

Oxford Handbooks Online Political Science Collection

Law, Social Sciences and Economics & Finance journal collections: includes over 170 titles

Oxford Journals Digital Archive: includes over 300 journals across various subject areas; issues up to and including 2017 (Nationallizenz)

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics

"Substantive, peer-reviewed, and regularly updated, the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics combines the speed & flexibility of digital with the rigorous standards of academic publishing."
_{Source: https://oxfordre.com/politics/page/about} 

PAIS Index - ProQuest

"This resource covers issues in the public debate through selective coverage of a wide variety of international sources including journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference papers, web content, and more. PAIS International is the current file covering 1972 to present, and PAIS Archive includes the content from printed volumes published 1915-1976".
_{Source: https://www.proquest.com/pais} 

https://policycommons.net/modules/global-think-tanks/

"Global Think Tanks is a collection of objective, fact-based research from the world’s leading policy experts, think tanks, IGOs and NGOs.

It provides in-depth search and access to some 5m reports from over 25,000 organizations.

[It] cover[s] many disciplines—agriculture, energy, pharmaceuticals, diversity, crime, librarianship, and much more. Content is thoroughly vetted by the organizations that produce it, and it’s curated by [their] editors...

[The] 30 million pages of books, articles, working papers, reports, policy briefs, data sets, tables, charts, media, case studies, and statistical publications provide current, vetted, hard statistical and factual content."

_{Source: coherentdigital.net/policycommons}

Pollux - Informationsdienst Politikwissenschaft

"Pollux, funded by the German Research Foundation, optimises the supply of literature and the information infrastructure in the field of political science in Germany."
_{Source: https://www.pollux-fid.de/about}

Political scientists can create an account to access licensed literature.

PressReader.com

Digital newspaper and magazine database offering publications from over 150 countries in over 60 different languages. Features include text-to-speech and translation into up to 21 languages

Titles include: Tagesspiegel, The Washington Post, El País, Forbes, Deutsch perfekt, The Guardian

PNAS

"The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), is an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans the biological, physical, and social sciences."

PNAS includes open access and subscribed content, and all content is freely available within six months.
_{Source: https://www.pnas.org/about} 

Project Syndicate - The World's Opinion Page

"Project Syndicate produces and delivers original, high-quality commentaries to a global audience. Featuring exclusive contributions by prominent political leaders, policymakers, scholars, business leaders, and civic activists from around the world, [Project Syndicate] provide[s] news media and their readers with cutting-edge analysis and insight, regardless of ability to pay. "
_{Source: https://www.project-syndicate.org/about} 

ABI/INFORM Collection - ProQuest

"The most comprehensive ABI/INFORM™ database, this comprises ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry, and ABI/INFORM Dateline. The database features thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, working papers, key business and economics periodicals such as the Economist, country-and industry-focused reports, and downloadable data. Its international coverage gives researchers a complete picture of companies and business trends around the world."

_{Source: https://www.proquest.com/abicomplete}

ProQuest Ebook Central

Ebook lending platform with over 475,000 titles

Hertie users have instant access to over 50,000 owned and subscribed ebook titles, with many more available on request.

To request ebooks which are not in the Library collection, sign in using your Hertie School login credentials. The first time you sign in, please check your email address on the Profile screen.

Requests are sent to the Library for approval, and we aim to reply as soon as possible (during office hours). It is free to request ebooks.

Political Science Database (ProQuest)

"Political Science Database gives users access to hundreds of leading political science, public policy, and international relations journals. It also includes thousands of recent full-text doctoral dissertations on political science topics, together with working papers, conference proceedings, country reports, policy papers and other sources.

Coverage: 1985 - current"
_{Source: https://www.proquest.com/politicalscience} 

Sage Journals

"The Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) Package provides access to 740+ journals, including leading international peer-reviewed titles."
_{Source: https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/sage-journals-packages} 

Social Theory (Alexander Street) 

"Social Theory is an innovative and highly practical resource for students and scholars in the humanities and social sciences. Originally conceived in 2005, the database brings together an extensive range of influential writings representing the most important trends of sociological thought from the eighteenth century to the present day. Included in the more than 150,000 pages of searchable content are seminal works by such theorists as Harriet Martineau, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Max Weber, Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, Jürgen Habermas, Talcott Parsons, Michel Foucault and Jean Baudrillard."
_{Source: https://search.alexanderstreet.com/soth} 

Springer Nature Link

Includes full and free access to all Springer, Palgrave, Adis und Macmillan journals (> 2000) and journal archive ("DEAL" contract);

Springer Political Science and International Studies ebooks;

Springer ebook collection / Palgrave Economics and Finance Collection 2000 – 2013: almost 1000 e-books from the years 2000-2013 with a focus on economics (Nationallizenz)

Statista

Statista is a global data and business intelligence platform with statistics, reports, and insights on over 80,000 topics from 22,500 sources in 170 industries. It is available in English, German, French and Spanish.

Statista features a Research AI tool which produces responses using Statista’s data. Responses include citations as well as recommendations for follow-up queries and related content.

The link to Statista changed in July 2025. Please update your bookmarks.

Statista uses single sign on. You may be prompted for your Hertie School login credentials if you are not already signed in.

FAQs for students: English and German

SZ Archiv (Süddeutsche Zeitung Archiv)

SZ Archiv offers:

• Süddeutsche Zeitung (Germany, Bavaria and Munich edition) from 1992
• SZ Landkreis editions from 1994
• SZ supplements such as the SZ Magazin, SZ für Kinder, Jetzt, and Süddeutsche.de

Please note: Any bookmark you set in the SZ Archiv is visible to, and can be deleted by, other Hertie School users. Please delete your bookmarks before closing your session.

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/

Access to over 2200 licensed ebooks and over 2300 fully Open Access ebooks in a range of subject areas including: Politics & International Relations; Social Sciences; Humanities; Area Studies; Economics, Finance, Business & Industry; Law; Global Development; Environment and Sustainability; and more

Taylor & Francis Online: Peer-reviewed journals

Access to the Taylor & Francis Social Science and Humanities Library (>1400 titles), Taylor & Francis Online Archives 1799 - 2000 (DFG Nationallizenz) (>370 titles), and Taylor & Francis Business, Management & Economics Archive - 2000 (DFG Nationallizenz) (45 titles).

The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) provides "comprehensive information about staffing, spending, and enforcement activities of the United States federal government".

_{Source: https://tracreports.org/about/}

De Gruyter Brill

Includes approximately 250 journals covering a broad range of subjects in the humanities and natural sciences. For most of the titles from the subject package 'Science, Technology, Medicine' (STM), the coverage is from 1998 to 2013, and for most of the titles focusing on the humanities, all back issues are available. The archive will be continuously expanded during the contract period of the associated alliance licenses "Walter de Gruyter Online-Zeitschriften Linguistics, Literature and Humanities" (LLH 1 and 2) for the current volumes with a moving wall of one year. (Nationallizenz)
_{Source (translated): https://www.nationallizenzen.de/} 

Wiley Online Library (journals)

Full and free access to all Wiley journals (>1600) and archive ("DEAL" contract)

The World Bank Open Knowlege Repository contains research outputs and knowledge products of the World Bank.

This open access repository holds over 37,000 publications, including books, journal articles, country strategy documents, working papers and more.
_{Source: https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/home, https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/community-list}

World Biographical Information System (WBIS Online) (Nationallizenz)

"WBIS Online provides,

• biographies - data and digitized biographical articles - on over 6 million people
• 8.5 million original biographical articles, published from 1559 to the end of the 20^th century
• biographical articles of people who lived and were influential in all the countries and regions of the earth."

_{Source: https://wbis.degruyter.com/WBISHelp/en/html/help.html}