ABI/INFORM Collection (ProQuest)
ABI/INFORM Collection provides data in the field of economics and business (management, finance, banking, accounting, trade, etc.), as well as in technology, computer science, and other related areas; more than one-third of the sources are available in full text. The university licenses both the ABI/INFORM Collection and the Business Market Research Collection.
The database evaluates approximately 4,000 journal titles, mainly from the Anglo-American region, but also includes German titles. The Financial Times (since 1996) and the Wall Street Journal (since 1984) are available in full text. ABI/INFORM also provides access to Anglo-American business dissertations in full text, extensive information on companies worldwide, business cases, and author profiles from the academic world.
- Business Economics
- Licensed
- Full-text Database
AIS eLibrary (Association for Information Systems)
The AIS eLibrary is the central digital archive of the Association for Information Systems and is one of the most comprehensive scientific resources in the field of information systems worldwide. With over 60,000 articles, it offers researchers, teachers, and students access to a wide range of journals, conference papers, and other scholarly works.
- Business Economics
- Licensed
- Full-text Database
Business Source Premier (EBSCOhost)
Business Source Premier (EBSCO) regularly evaluates over 10,000 full-text business publications, including about 1,800 peer-reviewed titles. It provides the full texts of more than 3,800 journals, about 2,000 of which are peer-reviewed, along with a selection of full-text e-books.
Additionally, Business Source Premier offers company information on about 10,000 of the world’s largest corporations and includes numerous country economic reports from Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), DRI-WEFA, ICON Group, and Country Watch. The industry standard NAICS (North American Industry Classification System) is integrated into the articles, making it a searchable criterion.
Since 2025, EBSCO has introduced the Business Searching Interface (BSI), an enhanced view of the standard EBSCOhost platform tailored to the needs of students, researchers, and educators in business and management sciences.
- Business Economics
- Licensed
- Full-text Database
EconBiz
EconBiz, continuously developed by the German National Library of Economics (ZBW), aims to provide a central entry point for accessing economic information and direct access to full texts.
The database consists of various components:
- Full texts: Access to freely available electronic full texts, particularly academic working papers from leading international economics series
- Subject information guide: A directory of relevant websites in all areas of economics, focusing on German-language resources, European Union institutions, and key international economic research organizations
- Library catalogues: Integrated catalogues from cooperating institutions
- Business Economics
- Licensed
- Full-text and Reference Database
EconLit (ProQuest)
EconLit (ProQuest), produced by the American Economic Association since 1969, indexes economic publications worldwide. It evaluates around 750 key journals, more than 200 collected works (since 1984), and dissertations (since 1987). It also includes monographs, many with abstracts, and features book reviews published in the Journal of Economic Literature.
Additionally, it integrates the Abstracts of Working Papers in Economics (Cambridge University Press) and indexes working papers from RePEc projects. EconLit covers macroeconomics, economic geography, economic history, economic policy, economic theory, and includes some business literature.
Its subject indexing follows the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) classification.
- Business Economics
- Licensed
- Reference Database
Emerald Insight
Emerald Insight provides access to 140 licensed academic journals from the Emerald publishing group, primarily in business and management sciences. The content is supplemented by case studies, interviews, and teaching resources for research and education.
- Business Economics
- Licensed
- Full-text Database
JSTOR - Journal Storage
JSTOR offers full-text electronic and digitized journals in business administration, management, and economics.
The university subscribes to JSTOR- Journal Storage Business Collection I und II
Journals are available from their first published year up to a so-called “moving wall” (usually two to five years before the current issue). Some of the most recent issues are accessible through JSTOR’s Current Scholarship Program.
- Business Economics
- Licensed
- Full-text Database
SAGE Journals
The SAGE Journals collection includes the New Style Management & Organization Studies series with 20 full-text journals in management and organizational research, available from 1999 onward.
ScienceDirect (Elsevier)
ScienceDirect (Elsevier) is one of the largest full-text databases, providing access to over 16 million publications from more than 2,500 journals across 24 disciplines.
The university’s access to ScienceDirect is based on an agreement negotiated by swissuniversities and the Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries.
Journals relevant to business economics and architecture are included in the licensed coverage.
Springer Nature Link (Springer Nature)
Springer Nature Link provides access to a wide range of primary resources on a unified platform, including electronic journals, books, book series, and reference works from Springer publishing houses (e.g., Birkhäuser, Gabler, Spektrum, Springer, Vieweg, VS).
The university licenses the following e-collections:
- German-language e-books in Economics since 2013
- English-language e-books in Business & Management since 2024
- E-books in Artificial Intelligence since 2025
- E-journals across all disciplines under the Read & Publish Agreement by swissuniversities
Statista (Statista GmbH)
Statista (Statista GmbH) is a data portal aggregating statistical information from a variety of institutes and sources. It provides international data from over 150 countries and about 170 industries.
The database includes:
- Over 1 million statistics on more than 80,000 topics from more than 18,000 sources
- Industry insights across sectors from agriculture to social services
- Company information including KPIs for over 1,000 companies
- Infographics on current topics
- Dossiers compiling all relevant statistics for specific themes
Access is provided via AAI login using your university email address and password (Shibboleth).
- Multidisciplinary
- Licensed
- Full-text Database
Wiley Online Library (Wiley-Blackwell)
Wiley online library offers access to around 1,400 full-text journals across all disciplines.
WISO (Genios)
WISO (Genios) provides one of the largest German-language collections of bibliographic records and full texts in economics, social sciences, and related disciplines such as psychology, law, and technology.
It includes references from various specialist databases, around 1,000 academic journals, press articles from daily and weekly newspapers, approximately 120 million company records, market and industry data, as well as numerous e-books and educational videos across multiple subject areas.
The university licenses the WISO modules Economics, Social Sciences, and Psychology.
- Business Economics
- Licensed
- Full-text Database
