Periodical Holdings

The Institute’s catalog lists 6,000 periodicals, including 260 current periodical subscriptions and 2,300 periodical titles in the archive’s Special Collection on Protest Movements. The “Advanced Search” form enables users to limit their research to periodicals only. The content of all periodicals is indexed.
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Our periodical holdings are also recorded in the German Union Catalog of Serials (ZDB), the Common Library Network Catalog (GBV) and the Electronic Journals Library (EZB).

 

Journals in print

Alphabetical List of Current Subscriptions to Periodicals in Print
The HIS Library currently subscribes to about 260 print periodicals, which include scholarly journals as well as political, cultural, and news magazines and newspapers.


Journals online

Electronic Journals Library (EZB)
The EZB is a service that provides effective use of full-text academic periodicals on the Internet. It currently encompasses 90,000 titles. 56,000 of these are available free of charge and marked with a green button.
About 6,000 periodicals in a full-text version are licensed by the Institute's library. They are marked with an orange button.

Oxford Journals Online - Social Sciences (Allianz-Licence)
(Full-text database, access from HIS IP addresses only)
The Oxford publishing house issues 160 online periodicals in the humanities and social sciences. The license also applies to current volumes.

Cambridge University Press
(Full-text database, access from HIS IP addresses only)
Cambridge University Press publishes more than 400 peer-reviewed academic journals covering subjects across the humanities, social sciences and science, technology and medicine.

Sage Journals Online - Social Sciences and Humanities (Allianz-Licence)
(Full-text database, access from HIS IP addresses only)
The Sage publishing house issues 520 online periodicals in the humanities and social sciences. The license also applies to current volumes.

SpringerNature
(Full-text database, access from HIS IP addresses only)
Permanent access to the current years of around 2800 Springer journals within the contract period (including Springer Medical, Palgrave, Adis and Macmillan Academic). Nature journals, magazines and technical journals are not included. All journals under the DEAL contract with Springer Nature are accessible in the EZB (Electronic Journal Library) and are also available in our catalog.

Wiley Online Library
(Full-text database, access from HIS IP addresses only)
The Wiley publishing house issues 1,600 online periodicals licensed by the library. The license also applies to current volumes.


Daily Newspapers online

FAZ and FR (FAZ-Corporate)
(German language)
(Full-text database, access from HIS IP addresses only)
The FAZ Corporate provides access to the latest issue of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and the Frankfurter Rundschau daily newspapers and to all full texts filed in the FAZ archives dating back to the 1940s and in the FR archives since 1995.

Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ LibraryNet)
(German language)
(Full-text database, access from HIS IP addresses only)
SZ LibraryNet provides access to the latest issue of the Süddeutsche Zeitung daily newspaper with an archive dating back to the 1940s.

Nexis [LexisNexis]
(Full-text database, access from HIS IP addresses only)
This database comprises various kinds of texts related to economic issues, such as press releases and other media texts, legal documents, financial data, and business reports. These texts are compiled from 45,000 sources, including 300 German periodical and media products and the most important international media sources