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The database National Socialism, Holocaust, Resistance and Exile 1933–1945 starts the series of 20th century German history online. The database provides fundamental primary sources on the following topics:
This database represents the first online research centre for extensive academic studies of the “Third Reich” with unique collections of primary sources including:
This database can be searched in both English and German.
Historical Abstracts covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) focusing on the 15th century forward, including world history, military history, women’s history, history of education, and more.
This authoritative database provides indexing of more than 3,100 academic historical journals in over 40 languages back to 1955. History and social science researchers have used Historical Abstracts to discover significant and groundbreaking work for more than 50 years.
Based in Luxembourg, the Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l’Europe (CVCE) is an interdisciplinary research and documentation centre dedicated to the European integration process.
Its mission is to create, share and valorise knowledge in an innovative digital environment. As such, the CVCE’s digital collections contain a wide range of previously unpublished documents, oral accounts, contemporary film footage, analytical material and scholarly articles that document the European integration process.
America: History and Life is the definitive index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. With indexing for 1,700 journals from as far back as 1910, this database is without question the most important bibliographic reference tool for students and scholars of U.S. and Canadian history.
America: History and Life also includes citations and links to book and media reviews. Strong English-language journal coverage is balanced by an international perspective on topics and events, including abstracts in English of articles published in more than 40 languages.
In cooperation with the John Carter Brown Library, EBSCO Publishing created European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750, a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750 from European Americana: A Chronological Guide to Works Printed In Europe Relating to the Americas, 1493-1750. The database contains more than 32,000 records, and covers the history of European exploration as well as portrayals of Native American peoples.
The authoritative bibliography is well-known and respected by scholars worldwide, and a valuable index for libraries, researchers and individuals interested in European works that relate to the Americas. It was co-developed by John Alden and the 
Curator of European Books at The John Carter Brown Library, Dennis Landis. The John Carter Brown Library, founded in 1846, is a foremost repository of rare books and materials and is a centre for advanced research in history and the humanities.
Credo Reference provides authoritative content that covers every major subject – from art to medicine, psychology to history, and technology to literature. The award-winning titles in Credo Reference are from over eighty of the world’s leading academic publishers. Proposed content undergoes a highly-selective process before being chosen for the Credo platform and is selected from a range of reference types – including general and subject encyclopaedias, dictionaries, biographies, bibliographies, chronologies, handbooks, atlases, and more. Credo’s collections are continuously updated to reflect the most relevant, up-to-date content.
Credo Reference’s technology enhances the content by adding millions of cross-reference links – related entries – that cut across topics, titles and publishers to deliver accurate, contextual results from across the entire collection. The Concept Map, a data visualization tool, is ideal for visual learners for brainstorming and the discovery of related content.
Some of the titles provided in Credo Reference’s History Collection are:
This has just been a sampling of the principal resources available in History. Click here for access to the full list of resources.
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Der ETH-Bibliothek soll per Klage verboten werden, Dokumente in elektronischer Form an ihre Nutzer zu verschicken, Nutzer sollen die Artikel für 30 EUR (!) direkt beim Verlag kaufen.
Wissenschaftsverlag Elsevier unterstützt US Gesetzesvorschlag der die Open Access Plattform “Pub Med Central” mittelfristig den Garaus machen soll.
Mehr: Ein Bärendienst an der Forschung – Hintergrund, Wissenschaft, NZZ Online, 02.02.2012
Ausserdem: Petition by researchers against Elsevier: http://thecostofknowledge.com/
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The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Online offers a liberal and scholarly overview of the whole sphere of economic thought. It is a dynamic resource tailored for researchers in economics. The dictionary also offers non-economists the opportunity to find more information on issues that impact on them or to enhance their knowledge of a particular subject area from an economic perspective. Historians, for example, will find the biographies of key figures particularly interesting, and people in the field of international relations will find the economic look at terrorism, world trade and foreign aid an excellent addition to current literature.
The dictionary is a dynamic resource which:
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As the world’s foremost source of references to economic literature, EconLit —the American Economic Association’s electronic database—adheres to the high-quality standards long recognized by subscribers to the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL), and is a reliable source of citations and abstracts to economic research dating back to 1969. It provides links to articles in all fields of economics, including capital markets, country studies, econometrics, economic forecasting, environmental economics, government regulations, labour economics, monetary theory, urban economics and much more.
EconLit indexes six types of records: journal articles, books, collective volume articles, dissertations, working papers, and full-text book reviews from the Journal of Economic Literature. These sources bring the total records available on the database to more than one million.
As one of the most comprehensive online resources on the world economy, society, education and environment, OECD iLibrary is a powerful tool for people working at academic institutions, in the private sector and at governmental or non-governmental organisations.
OECD iLibrary contains all the publications and datasets released by OECD, The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, The International Energy Agency (IEA), The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), The OECD Development Centre, PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment), 
and The International Transport Forum (ITF) since 1998 – over 1 200 journal issues, 3 300 working papers, 2 900 multi-lingual summaries, 7 700 e-book titles, 16 000 tables and graphs, 25 000 chapters and articles, and 480 complete databases with more than 4.5 billion data points.
Emerald Management Plus offers a growing collection of high quality, peer reviewed articles from over 230 online business and management journals, spanning 24 subject areas. New titles in the field of management are automatically available as soon as they are published.
In the Economics arena, Emerald Management Plus provides full-text access to the following journals:
Agricultural Finance Review
This has just been a sampling of the principal resources available in Economy. Click here for access to the full list of resources including Bankscope, Factiva and IBFD.
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Lots of statistics about Repositories, updated live at OpenDOAR – Open Access Repositories.
Some examples: Most used software by far is Dspace and repositories hold on average 1433 journal articles.
Nothing from Luxembourg either in ROAR (Registry of Open Access Repositories) which also provides interesting statistics on the repositories’ activity levels.
On to the DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) which manages a curated list of quality controlled open access journals, also showing massive growth. And there is one registered journal from Luxembourg, called Articulo (published via the French open access platform revues.org)!
The same astounding growth of Open Access publishing can be seen in BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine)
All of this is made possible through open access policies and lots of open source software under the hood, such as the metadata exchange protocol OAI from Open Archives.
The big questions: Is Luxembourg missing a megatrend, or is there simply no awareness to register open access publications and repositories?
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The FRANCIS database is created by the Institut de l’Information Scientifique et Technique of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (INIST-CNRS) in Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France and is an invaluable resource for research libraries. FRANCIS is a multilingual, multidisciplinary database covering the humanities and social sciences. Its broad subject areas and international scope make it an ideal stand-alone social science database, as well as a suitable complement for more specialised databases. FRANCIS is strong in areas such as archaeology, geography, linguistics, philosophy, psychology, religion, and sociology. The database contains approximately 2 million records, with abstracts in French or English, and descriptors in both languages, and includes coverage of journals, books, conference papers and other documents.
FRANCIS can be accessed directly by clicking here or can be searched within the findit.lu portal. Find out how by clicking here.
The Modern Language Association (MLA) International Bibliography indexes books, articles and dissertations published on modern languages, literature, folklore, and linguistics, providing coverage from 1926 to the present from all over the world. It includes the MLA Thesaurus or Subject Guide providing the user with a means to obtain highly precise results, to discover related terms on which to search, and to develop ideas for refining or expanding your research.
The MLA International Bibliography also includes the MLA’s Directory of Periodicals, 
which offers detailed information on more than 5,500 journals, with 4,400 currently indexed in the Bibliography. The entries include editorial contact information as well as frequency, circulation, subscription prices and submission guidelines.
JSTOR is a not–for–profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive of over one thousand academic journals and other scholarly content.
The 58 titles in the JSTOR Language & Linguistics Collection span the literary cultures of many different countries, containing articles in several languages, including Arabic, Italian, and German. 
Developed with the help of the Modern Language Association, the collection includes PMLA, the journal of the Modern Language Association of America, and a range of core journals in the diverse fields of literary criticism that have emerged in the last thirty years.
Credo Reference provides authoritative content that covers every major subject – from art to medicine, psychology to history, and technology to literature. The award-winning titles in Credo Reference are from over eighty of the world’s leading academic publishers. Proposed content undergoes a highly-selective process before being chosen for the Credo platform and is selected from a range of reference types – including general and subject encyclopaedias, dictionaries, biographies, bibliographies, chronologies, handbooks, atlases, and more. Credo’s collections are continuously updated to reflect the most relevant, up-to-date content.
Credo Reference’s technology enhances the content by adding millions of cross-reference links – related entries – that cut across topics, titles and publishers to deliver accurate, contextual results from across the entire collection. The Concept Map, a data visualization tool, is ideal for visual learners for brainstorming and the discovery of related content.
Some of the titles provided in Credo Reference’s Language Collection are:
This has just been a sampling of the principal resources available in Linguistics. Click here for access to the full list of resources.
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The IEEE digital library, IEEE Xplore and IEEE Xplore mobile are all working again.
Apologies for any inconvenience!
Due to a communication error between the agency from which purchase the IEEE products and IEEE, our access has been suspended since yesterday. The error message is “Subscription expired”. Be assured that our subscription to IEEE continues in 2012 and we have escalated the problem at both the agency and IEEE. Apologies for any inconvenience.