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• The database information system DBIS provides an overview of the databases available at the Ansbach University Library.
• Database WISO: Comprehensive German-language database for economic literature.
• Database INSPEC: INSPEC contains bibliographic references from physics, electrical engineering, electronics, computer and information engineering, control engineering, and related fields such as mechanical engineering, manufacturing engineering, materials science, nuclear engineering, geophysics, oceanography, nanotechnology, biophysics, biomedical engineering, and others.
• Database EBSCO Business Source: EBSCO Business Source Elite contains bibliographic references, abstracts, or full texts from journals in business and economics.
• Database Beck online: Database with legal literature
• Newspapers in full text (wiso module press, SZ archive, FAZ archive) can also be found via our DBIS. More information about newspapers can be found here.

• ANNE (=Ansbacher Nachweis elektronischer Ressourcen) Internet platform on which scientific documents of the Ansbach University of Applied Sciences (e.g. final theses, project papers, student research projects, research reports) can be digitally archived and made available to the entire university. Here you will find the info text (German) and the relevant form (German).
• The Die Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek (EZB) (Electronic Journals Library) offers easy and convenient access to electronic journals.

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