New acquisitions and test accesses

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Status: April 7, 2025

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.

New database - on offer until 31.12.2025 after a successful test phase!
*Scopus (incl. additional module Scopus AI)
Scopus is a multidisciplinary abstract and citation database for research literature and high-quality Internet sources (peer-reviewed).

New databases via nationwide national licenses
Subject area: Slavistics
*Bibliography of Slavic Linguistics online
International specialized bibliographic database with over 97,000 annotated references on Slavic linguistics.

*Sovetskaia Kul'tura Digital Archive
Kul’tura (Культура, Kultur), wie es heute genannt wird, ist die wichtigste sowjetische und russische Publikation zum Thema Kultur von 1929 bis heute, mit Rezensionen wichtiger Ereignisse in Literatur, Theater, Kinematographie und Kunst.

Note on the JSTOR database
Since the end of March 2025, the University of Cologne has been participating in a test program that provides access to JSTOR's interactive research tool. The tool uses advanced technologies, including AI, and is available for selected articles. The prerequisite for use is registration with a personal JSTOR account.

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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