Subject Portal Business and Economics (Departmental Library 13/03)

• Leibniz Information Centre for Economics – ZBW
  The ZBW, with its locations in Kiel and Hamburg, is the world's largest specialist library for economics. As the Leibniz Information Center for Economics, it performs the tasks of a specialist information service.
• EconBiz
  EconBiz is a virtual library for economics, which offers a comprehensive research portal for searching in important national and international economic databases. EconBiz is a service of the German National Library of Economics (ZBW).
• Resources for Economists on the Internet
  RFE is an extensive collection of links in English from the American Economic Association.

You can find a complete list of the databases under this link: DBIS

TOP offers (a selection)

• Web of Science / Social Sciences Citation Index
  Article database with more than 3.45 million title references, covering all areas of the social sciences, including the natural science-oriented neighbouring disciplines of social medicine and psychology.
• EconLit
  EconLit records economic publications since 1969 and is compiled by the American Economic Association. A total of approx. 750 important journals are analyzed as well as more than 200 collected works (from 1984) and dissertations (from 1987).
• EconBiz
  EconBiz is a research portal for economics. It offers, among other things, a literature search in important German and international economic databases, including the holdings of the ZBW and further title references of free and licensed full texts on the Internet.

You can find a complete list of fact databases under this link: DBIS

TOP offers (a selection)

• OECD iLibrary
  The OECD iLibrary is the OECD's online library. It provides access to all OECD studies and statistics and is one of the largest collections of data and analyses on the economy, society and the environment.   
• Nexis Uni
  contains data from over 17,000 news, company and legal sources. Users can search all sources via one interface and personalize their search with alerts, saved searches and other functions.
• Refinitiv Workspace (Eikon)
  Since January 2022, the Refinitiv Workspace - formerly Eikon - including DataStream has been available to researchers, teachers and students at the Faculty of Business, Economics and Informatics. Financial market data, economic figures and news can be researched and extracted in this fact database. The offer is initially limited until the end of 2023.

  Applying for access:

  Researchers in the economic sciences can apply for licenses for projects and research plans. Please send an informal application for access to the database by email to: johanna.vompras@uni-bielefeld.de. To set up access, we need your name, e-mail address, telephone number and the desired period of use of the database.
  We also grant temporary licenses to students of economics for research in the course of writing their Bachelor's, seminar or Master's theses. Please enter your name, your student e-mail address, the purpose (Master's thesis, Bachelor's thesis), the chair, the name of the supervisor and the expected duration of use.

• WISO incl. Modul Finanzpraxis (with daily press)
  WISO offers approx. 480 specialist journals and 3440 e-books for the specialist areas of economics, as well as the business practice module with press articles, company information and market data.

• Open Economics Guide
  The Open Economics Guide is the central point of contact for researchers from the economic sciences on the topic of Open Science, Open Data and Open Access.

Platforms for freely accessible scientific publications / data:

• RePEc
  World's largest collection of economics working papers, journal articles and software.
• SSRN – Social Science Research Network
  comprises a constantly growing extensive collection of discussion papers (approx. 713,000 research papers, from approx. 329,000 researchers / as at January 2017). The scientists themselves actively participate in the network with their research focuses and results. In addition to a lot of free content, there is also paid content that requires a subscription, especially for institutional use.
• Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE)
  BASE is one of the largest multidisciplinary scientific search engines in the world and includes around 350 million documents from over 11,000 sources. Around 60% of the documents are freely accessible in the sense of Open Access. BASE evaluates, for example, RePEc (Research Papers in Economics), DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) and ArXiv.org.
• KonsortSWD
  offers searches for social and economic data in most of the 39 research data centers accredited by the German Data Forum (RatSWD).