New acquisitions and test accesses

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Status: May 6, 2025

Electronic collections with retro digitized data
As of now, the Cologne University Catalogue contains references from 15 electronic retro-digitized collections (e.g. Digitalisate Visual Library - Digital Collections of the ULB Münster) with approx. 220,000 digitized items.

Note on the database information system (DBIS)
The collection “Oriental Studies and other languages” has been deleted. The corresponding databases are now in the subject “General and Comparative Linguistics and Literature. Indo-European Studies. Non-European languages and literatures”.

New databases via nationwide national licenses
Subject area: Sociology ; Politics
*Social Movements and Political Events / Eastern European LGBTQ Collections
The collection contains ephemera from LGBTQ activism groups in various countries in East-Central and Southeast Europe.

Subject area: Politics
*Social Movements and Political Events / All-Russia Vote on Constitution, 2020
The database contains ephemera and official documents on the 2020 constitutional referendum in Russia.

*Global Elections Archive / Ukraine Presidential Election, 2019
The database contains ephemera and official documents on the 2019 presidential election in Ukraine.

*Global Elections Archive: Belarus Presidential Election 2020
The database contains ephemera and official documents on the 2020 presidential election in Belarus.

New database under test
Subject areas: General and comparative linguistics and literary studies. Indo-European Studies. Non-European languages and literatures ; English. American Studies ; German Studies. Dutch studies. Scandinavian Studies ; Romance Studies ; Slavic Studies
*LitBase - trial access until May 31, 2025
LitBase is an extensive global literature database with modern and intuitive search functions.

Initiative E-Books.NRW
Through the E-Books. NRW initiative, the state government has made available a total of 40 million euros for the cooperative purchase of e-book licenses by 2023 (in some cases even longer!). Since the beginning of 2021, more than 400,000 e-books from various publishers have been made available to students in North Rhine-Westphalia.
Further information on Initiative E-Books. NRW >>

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