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Specialist databases

What do specialist databases offer me?

With the help of free or licensed subject databases, you can search for scientific information beyond the library stock. Their content usually meets scientific criteria.

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subject-specific databases, e.g. to search for literature references, full texts or facts from a specific subject area.
multidisciplinary databases, e.g. to search for literature references, full texts or facts from several subject areas.
metasearch tools to find subject databases relevant to you.

Licensed databases

Link: beck-online
Access: Campus computer, home use: see below
Subject: law
Database type: fulltexts and references
Contents: Law texts, comments, decision collections, manuals, journals, form collections.
The university's license includes two modules:
- Specialist Module Energy Law PLUS ("This specialist module covers the public and private law regulatory framework of the energy industry, in particular also regulatory law. The energy transition is already largely taken into account. In addition to legal topics, energy industry contexts and energy policy objectives are also covered. The focus is on the numerous commentaries and handbooks as well as the journals EnWZ, EWeRK and IR. The module is always kept up to date with essays, case law and standards on energy law.")
- University Module ("With the university module, you receive a module that contains a variety of Beck's works available online, independent of the subject module." The exact content of the module can be found on the linked website.)
Home use: To use beck-online from home, you need to activate 2-factor authentication once in your personal account at beck-online. This step is only possible from a campus computer. Once set up, you will then also have access from home, independent of a VPN connection. You can find detailed instructions on the beck-online website: access procedure via 2FA. Please note that the authentication app recommended by the university - privacyIDEA Authenticator for Android and iOS - also works with beck-online. You do not need to install another app.

Link: DATEV Students online
Access: Campus computer, VPN
Subjects: finance, law, economics, administrative science, taxation
Database type: full texts, e-learnings, software
Contents: The learning platform DATEV Students i. a. offers access to the database "LEXinform Steuern, Recht und Wirtschaft". It is a comprehensive database on national and international tax law, business and civil law and business administration. The DATEV platform also offers you:

- programs on accounting, auditing, enterprise analysis, taxation and others
- e-learning (including credits)
- reference works on family law, accounting, tax declaration i. a.
- expertise systems

Link: Haufe Finance Office Professional & Steuer Office Kanzlei
Access: Campus computer, VPN
Subject: law, economics
Database type: full texts
Contents: The database offers a wide range of practice-oriented information in the fields of accounting, tax, controlling and finance. In addition to researching specialist content, it enables the use of numerous interactive tools (such as ABC analysis, ESt calculator, IFRS equity valuation). Legal foundations and work aids such as forms, sample letters, checklists etc. complete the offer.

Link: juris
Access: campus computer / campus WLAN, no VPN
Subject: law
Database type: full texts, references
Contents: The offer includes over 40 databases covering all areas of law, including case law, press releases, references, laws, ordinances and administrative regulations.

Link: Nautos
Access: Campus computer, VPN
Subject: General; Architecture, Civil Engineering and Surveying; Chemistry; Electrical Engineering, Measurement and Control; Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fisheries, Home Economics, Nutrition; Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Production Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy, Transport Engineering, Precision Mechanics; Law; Technology in General; Process Engineering, Biotechnology, Food Technology
Database type: Full texts, references
Contents: Nautos is the standards database of Beuth-Verlag and holds more than 2.5 million records from 27 countries for you. The database contains standards, technical rules, German legal regulations with technical relevance, VDI guidelines as well as European and international rules (e.g. CEN / CENELEC / ISO / IEC). The following can be searched as full texts:
- DIN standards without VDE designation,
- DIN-EN standards.
Note on rights of use: The full texts accessible via the licence may only be used by members of Trier University of Applied Sciences within the framework of the copyright law. Passing on to third parties is not permitted. Any unauthorised reproduction, disclosure to third parties or systematic download constitutes an infringement of rights liable to compensation and is punishable by law.

Link: Neues Handbuch Hochschullehre (NHHL)
Access: campus computer, VPN
Subjects: Pedagogy, Higher education pedagogy
Database type: Full texts
Contents: The journal is aimed at actors in all areas of higher education teaching and didactics and supports them with quality-assured expert contributions in the planning, design and reflection of teaching and learning in higher education or the framework conditions. You will find contributions from the following subject areas, among others:
- Fundamentals of university didactics
- Planning of university courses
- Teaching methods and learning situations
- Use of media
- Key skills and academic work
- Examinations and performance assessments
- Evaluation and quality management
- Development of framework conditions and study systems
- University didactic training and further education.

Link: NWB-Datenbank
Access: campus computer, VPN
Subjects: law, economics
Database type: full texts, references
Contents: The online database of the publisher nwb (Neue Wirtschaftsbriefe) contains in various modules a comprehensive electronic range of tax and commercial law. Included are i. a.: trade journals of the publisher in full text, e. g.: BBK-accounting, inheritance and property (capital/assets), IWB - International Tax and Business Law, NWB - Tax and Business Law, StUB - company taxes and balance sheets, commenting works, bibliographic evidence ("Fachpresse kompakt"), legal decisions, administrative instructions (BMF letters, OFD / LFD orders, decrees of the Ministry of Finance, etc.), laws and directives (tax law, commercial law, double taxation agreements), tools (calculation programs, forms, checklists, sample contracts and letters etc.)

Link: ScienceDirect (campus computer, VPN)
Access: campus computer, VPN
Subjects: multidisciplinary
Database type: full texts (journal articles), references
Contents: ScienceDirect is the online portal of the Elsevier publishing group and offers references and full texts of electronic journals and e-books. The database provides access to numerous peer-reviewed journals in the fields of natural sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences and humanities.

Links: SpringerLink (Campus computer, VPN), SpringerLink (Shibboleth)
Access: Campus computer, VPN, Shibboleth
Subjects: multidisciplinary
Database type: full texts (i. a. e-books, e-articles), references
Contents: Licensed are the packages:

- Business and Economics (2010 to 2015)
- Business and Management (as of 2016)
- Earth and Environmental Science (as of 2009)
- Economics (as of 2007)
- Economics and Finance (as of 2016)
- Energy (2013 to 2020 and as of 2025)
- Technology and Computer Science (as of 2010)

Link: Statista
Access: Campus computer, Shibboleth
Subjects: multidisciplinary, ecomonics
Database type: facts (statistical data)
Contents: Statista is one of the world's first statistics portals that professionally aggregates statistical data from various institutes and sources. At Statista.com, users can find statistics on over 80,000 topics from more than 18,000 different sources. Statista covers 20 different industry categories from agriculture to administration and social affairs.

Link: VDE Standards Library Online
Access: campus computer, VPN
Subject areas: electrical engineering, electronics, information technology
Database type: full texts (read only), references
Contents: VDE is the abbreviation for the Association of German Electrical, Electronic and Information Technologies. The VDE defines regulations and guidelines that serve the safety of the fields of electrical engineering, electronics and information technology and publishes them as VDE standards. The entire VDE body of regulations comprises several thousand valid DIN VDE standards, which are updated automatically. Groups 0 to 8 of the standards are unlocked for university members (including VDE guidelines, DIN-EN, DIN-IEC-EN standards, etc.).
Search hints:
- If you are searching for "VDE 0687", for example, please always search with the leading "0", i.e. "0687" and not "687". The prefix "VDE" can be omitted.
- Currently, no PDF download or print option is offered for full texts of standards. They are only displayed in the browser window.
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Link: Wiley Online Library (campus computer, VPN)
Access: campus computer, VPN
Subjects: multidisciplinary
Database type: full texts (journal articles), references (also: books, reference works)
Contents (DBIS): The "Wiley Online Library" is a multidisciplinary publishing portal that offers a variety of sources under one interface: electronic journals, books and book series as well as reference works published by Wiley / Wiley-VCH. The portal offers search options under various aspects including access to abstracts and full texts of open access journals. With purchased licenses, further full texts can be accessed.

Link: wiso
Access: Campus computer, VPN
Subjects: Economics, social sciences, psychology, law, technology
Database type: full texts (journal articles, newspaper articles), facts (company and market information)
Contents: The wiso database offers various media formats in the fields of economics and social sciences, psychology, law and technology. The University of Trier has licensed access to the module "journals" for its members. It makes it possible to access more than thirteen million German and English-language full texts from national and international (practitioner) journals, for example in the fields of 'Marketing & Advertising', 'Electrical Industry', 'IT', 'Legislation' or 'Environmental Management'.

Metasearch tools

Link: Datenbank-Infosystem DBIS
Provider: University Library of Regensburg
Contens: specialist databases, document servers (repositories), information portals, scientific search engines, other meta search tools
Description (by provider): The Database Information System (DBIS) is a cooperative service for the use of scientific databases. This service was developed by the University Library of Regensburg with financial support from the Bavarian State Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts and the German Research Foundation (DFG). Meanwhile the Database Infosystem is used as a user service in 328 libraries. At the moment the Database Infosystem contains 12687 entries. Of these, 5396 databases are freely available on the Internet. DBIS lists databases whose contents can be searched via a search function (status: 05/2018).

Link: Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR)
Provider: University of Nottingham
Contents: open access document server
Description (by DBIS): directory of scientific full text servers worldwide with freely accessible publications (Open Access) from all subject areas

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Access to databases: via campus computer or VPN. Exceptions: juris (only campus computer / campus WLAN, no VPN) and Statista (only campus computer, Shibboleth). For SpringerLink, there is the additional option of authenticating via Shibboleth.

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