Event details

09. January 2025

Database licenses extended

Access to a wide range of online resources via the HSB

The HSB was able to extend the majority of its database licenses for the year 2025 and thus provides a wide range of electronic resources for all subject areas of the university!

The following databases were not licensed until 2024 and can now continue to be used in 2025:

 

ISO standards via Nautos

International standards can be searched and accessed via Nautos. DIN and VDI standards are also accessible here in full text.

Hogrefe PsyJournals

Access includes journals from the fields of psychology and psychiatry in German or English. In addition, corresponding authors of the HSZG can publish Open Access articles in the journals via the Publish & Read agreement.

PressReader

The portal includes international, national and regional daily newspapers and magazines from 120 countries, including numerous lifestyle and special interest titles. It includes Sächsische Zeitung, Die Welt, Der Tagesspiegel, ZEIT Sprachen, Focus, Guter Rat, PC Welt and many more.

JSTOR

The database offers access to electronic journals from the JSTOR Archival Journals and Primary Sources Collection and to e-books up to the year of publication 2022. It contains publications from numerous subject areas such as social and economic sciences, media and communication sciences, law, psychology and many more.

FOKUS Social Law

The specialist portal with the integrated SOLEX database contains over 200 laws and ordinances at federal and state level. In addition to articles on social benefits, proposed legislation and case law, it also contains calculator tools, e.g. for citizens' allowance, care allowance, housing benefit, etc.

 

Extensive e-book packages are also available:

 

Kohlhammer eLibrary

All e-books in the Kohlhammer eLibrary will be made available in 2025. These include titles from the fields of medicine, nursing and healthcare, psychology, education, cultural studies, sociology, law and economics.

Nomos Science Packages 2025

The Nomos eLibrary provides e-books from the fields of economics, social economy, social work, sociology, social law, cultural studies and history, media/communication studies, education, psychology, psychotherapy, medicine and health as well as medical law.

Springer Nature CRY 2025

The e-book packages Economics, Natural and Basic Sciences incl. Mathematics, J.B. Metzler Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education and Social Work, Medicine, Psychology, Engineering and Computer Science, Energy, Artificial Intelligence, Earth & Environmental Science, Professional and Applied Computing, Behavioral Science & Psychology are accessible via Springer Nature Link.

utb-studi-e-book

The utb elibrary provides access to the digital textbooks of the utb publishing association with titles from the humanities, natural sciences, social sciences and economics.

Oxford Scholarship Online

Access to e-books published by Oxford University Press has been extended until 31.03.2025 as part of the Saxony Consortium.

You can find an overview of all licensed databases here:
Ansprechperson
B.A.
Katrin Müller
University Library
02763 Zittau
Hochwaldstr. 12
Building Z X, Room 2.1.10
1st floor
+49 3583 612-4228