Database research
You can use the HTWK library to search literature databases and electronic journals. You can find the entire online collection of the HTWK here.
Particularly worth mentioning is the electronic journal library, which allows you to search in almost all journals available in German libraries.
You can find subject-specific offers for the social sciences directly here in our university library.
Please note: The search generally only works from HTWK computers or if you access the campus network from home via VPN.
Online dictionary English-German + German-English
This dictionary is so outstandingly good that more than 4 million enquiries are now received every day. Use is free of charge.
Access: http: //dict.leo.org/ .
Other freely accessible databases
- Medline (or PubMed for some years now): National Library of Medicine, includes over 15 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. These citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi
- Health reporting in Germany: joint service of the Federal Statistical Office and the Robert Koch Institute. Extensive information and data on the framework conditions of the healthcare system, health situation, health behaviour and health risks, diseases, healthcare resources, services and utilisation of the healthcare system, healthcare expenditure and healthcare financing. http://www.gbe-bund.de/
- The VDR provides huge data sets on insured persons, pensions, rehabilitation services, broken down by insurance provider, region, gender , etc. www.vdr.de
