Business, law, politics
Here you can find a structured compilation of scientifically relevant new acquisitions and electronic media for the fields of economics, law and politics.
These databases (selection) support you in your studies and research:
- external pageBusiness Source Premier – The world’s most comprehensive full-text database in the field of business – Further information
- external pageCapital IQ Pro – global financial database, providing news data and analysis – Further information
- external pageEconLit – Database published by the American Economic Association covering a wide range of economic literature – Further information
- external pageEmerald – One of the world’s leading publishers in the field of management research, with a wide range of journals, series and books – Further information
- external pagegetAbstract – getAbstract provides business books and article summaries and video talks. The summaries cover the fundamental ideas of the book in just five pages and TED talks in double-page format and can be downloaded to any device. Book summaries are available in English and German.
- external pageIMF eLIBRARY – Offers direct access to the IMF’s periodicals, books, working papers and studies, data and statistical tools – Further information
- external pageNexis Uni – Covers a wide range of publications in the field of business, media and legal information – Further information
- external pageOECD iLibrary – Portal for the online publications of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), providing books, reports, journals and statistical databases – Further information
- external pageOrbis – A global company database from Bureau van Dijk – Further information
- external pageOrbis Intellectual Property – Pulls data from the Orbis database and uses Lighthouse IP as an information source for patent data. – Further information
- external pageScopus – Interdisciplinary, the most comprehensive bibliographic database with respect to the number of journals covered, particular focus on non-anglophone literature, enables citation analyses and includes unique author IDs – Further information
- external pageSwissdox@LiRI – Tool that allows to retrieve large quantities of Swiss media data for research purposes
- external pageWeb of Science – Interdisciplinary database including the Derwent Innovations Index (patents), Web of Science Core Collection (journal articles), Science Citation Index and Journal Citation Reports – Further information
- external pageWiso – Most comprehensive range of German-language literature on business management and social sciences
- More databases
Analog or digital, the most important reference books are available for you:
- external pageA Dictionary of Law – Major terms, concepts, processes and the organisation of the legal systemZefix – Central Business Name Index of the Swiss Federal Commercial Registry Office
- external pageAn Introduction to International Economics – Core issues of the world economy: international trade, international production, international finance and international development
- external pageConcise Encyclopedia of Economics – Articles by, and biographies of, famous economists
- external pageLogistics and Supply Chain Toolkit – Information and practical ideas about warehouse, transport, inventory, supply chain and financial management tools
- external pageManagerial Economics – Tools and concepts of managerial economics, focusing on application to business decision-making
- external pageSAGE Handbook of Comparative Politics – An overview of the theoretical and methodological elements of comparative political science
- external pageSwiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO) – Statistical information from key areas of life, published by the FSO
- external pageAnnual macro-economic database – The annual macro-economic database of the European Commission’s Directorate General for external pageEconomic and Financial Affairs (ECFIN)
- external pageNationMaster.com – Gathers data in the public domain for statistical comparisons between countries
- external pageNBER Working Papers (The National Bureau of Economic Research) – Publication archives in the field of economics
- external pageUNdata – Various statistics and data from the United Nations
- external pageWorld Bank Open Data – Free and open access to data about development in countries around the globe
- external pageWTO international trade statistics – Databases and publications providing extensive access to trade and tariff data
