Humanities, social sciences

These databases (selection) support you in your studies and research:

• external page Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) – Specialist literature from all areas of art history from 1973 to 2007
• external page Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) – Part of the ProQuest platform
  
• external page Historical Abstracts Index – Specialist literature from 1953 on world history (15th century to the present, without history of North America)
  
• external page International Bibliography of the History of Art (IBA) – Specialist literature from all areas of art history from 2008, continuation of the BHA database
  
• external page MLA International Bibliography – Specialist literature on language and literature from 1926 onwards
• external page Philosopher’s Index – Specialist literature from all areas of philosophy from 1940 onwards – Further information
• external page PsycINFO – Specialist literature from the area of psychology and neighbouring disciplines – Further information
• external page PSYNDEX – Psychological literature in German and English from 1977 onwards by authors from German-speaking countries, also describes psychological testing procedures – Further information
  
• external page Scopus – 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 page Sociological Abstracts – Part of the ProQuest platform – Further information
• external page Swissdox@LiRI – Tool that allows to retrieve large quantities of Swiss media data for research purposes
  
• external page Web 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
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Reference works

Analog or digital, the most important reference books are available for you:

• external page A Dictionary of Psychology – Lexicon on psychology (Oxford University Press)
• external page Encyclopaedia Britannica Online – English-language general encyclopaedia with various search functions
• external page Encyclopedia of Sociology – Lexicon on sociology (Macmillan Reference)
• external page Historical Lexicon of Switzerland – Comprehensive reference work on the history of Switzerland in German, French and Italian
  
• external page Munzinger-Duden – German-language general encyclopaedia, lexicons from various fields, German spelling rules
• external page Oxford Art Online – Portal with English-language lexicons on the study of art, includes Grove Art Online
  
• external page Oxford Reference Online – Collection of general and subject-specific English-language lexicons and dictionaries
• external page SIKART – Lexicon and database on art in Switzerland and the Principality of Liechtenstein
• external page Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy – Lexicon on philosophy, continuously updated

• external page Bibliosuisse – National Swiss specialist association for librarianship and information science
  
• external page infoclio.ch | The Swiss portal for the historical sciences – Contains extensive information and news on all aspects of the historical sciences
  
• external page International Center of Photography (ICP) – Museum and training centre for photography (New York) with a comprehensive collection on the history of photography
  
• external page Philosophy Pages (by Dieter Köhler) – Portal with annotated references to global data sources on philosophy
• external page Photo Foundation Switzerland (formerly the Swiss Foundation for Photography) – Archive and collection on the history of Swiss photography, public specialist library affiliated to the Museum of Photography in Winterthur
• external page Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences (SAGW) – As an umbrella organization, unites 62 scientific societies and forms the largest network in the humanities and social sciences in Switzerland
• external page Swiss Competence Center for the Social Sciences (FORS) – Conducts large national and international surveys, provides data and research information services to researchers and academic institutions, and conducts methodological and thematic research.
• external page Swiss Sociological Association (SGS) – Scientific association representing the interests of Swiss sociology at national and international level