Humanities, social sciences

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

• external pageBibliography of the History of Art (BHA)call_made – Specialist literature from all areas of art history from 1973 to 2007
• external pageEducation Resources Information Center (ERIC)call_made – Part of the ProQuest platform
  
• external pageHistorical Abstracts Indexcall_made – Specialist literature from 1953 on world history (15th century to the present, without history of North America)
  
• external pageInternational Bibliography of the History of Art (IBA)call_made – Specialist literature from all areas of art history from 2008, continuation of the BHA database
  
• external pageMLA International Bibliographycall_made – Specialist literature on language and literature from 1926 onwards
• external pagePhilosopher’s Indexcall_made – Specialist literature from all areas of philosophy from 1940 onwards – Further information
• external pagePsycINFOcall_made – Specialist literature from the area of psychology and neighbouring disciplines – Further information
• external pagePSYNDEXcall_made – Psychological literature in German and English from 1977 onwards by authors from German-speaking countries, also describes psychological testing procedures – Further information
  
• external pageScopuscall_made – 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 pageSociological Abstractscall_made – Part of the ProQuest platform – Further information
• external pageSwissdox@LiRIcall_made – Tool that allows to retrieve large quantities of Swiss media data for research purposes
  
• external pageWeb of Sciencecall_made – 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 pageA Dictionary of Psychologycall_made – Lexicon on psychology (Oxford University Press)
• external pageEncyclopaedia Britannica Onlinecall_made – English-language general encyclopaedia with various search functions
• external pageEncyclopedia of Sociologycall_made – Lexicon on sociology (Macmillan Reference)
• external pageHistorical Lexicon of Switzerlandcall_made – Comprehensive reference work on the history of Switzerland in German, French and Italian
  
• external pageMunzinger-Dudencall_made – German-language general encyclopaedia, lexicons from various fields, German spelling rules
• external pageOxford Art Onlinecall_made – Portal with English-language lexicons on the study of art, includes Grove Art Online
  
• external pageOxford Reference Onlinecall_made – Collection of general and subject-specific English-language lexicons and dictionaries
• external pageSIKARTcall_made – Lexicon and database on art in Switzerland and the Principality of Liechtenstein
• external pageStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophycall_made – Lexicon on philosophy, continuously updated

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