Research

In the following overviews, sorted by subject area, you will find further links that will support you in your literature research and help you to retrieve facts or full texts.

Databases accessible via the SRH, sorted by subject:

• Computer Science
• Economics
• Energy and Environment
• Film and Televison
• General / Interdisciplinary
• Law Sciences
• Media and Communication Sciences
• Photography
• Psychology
• Social Sciences
• Studies in Music
• Tourism

Search for TU Libraries' databases. Usage note: Databases licensed by the Technical University are only accessible within the TU network. To access the full-text, you must be in the buildings of the TU Libraries.

Search within the Datenbank-Infosystem (DBIS). With the help of DBIS you can quickly and easily search a multitude of Germany's academic databases. Several of these databases are available on the web at no cost.

E-books SRH Universities (all subjects)
The libraries of the SRH Universities purchase e-books via ProQuest, the news aggregator. Please pay attention to the helptext before you use our e-books the first time. Search

Further e-books accessible via the SRH, sorted by subject:

Computer Science
Economics
General/Interdisciplinary
Law Sciences
Social Sciences

Search for e-books in the libraries of the TU Berlin. Using the TU knowledge portal "Primo" you will find, in addition to print media, a wealth of electronic resources including a variety of e-books. User note: e-books licensed by the Technical University are only accessible within the TU network. In order to access the full-text, you must be in one of the buildings of the TU Libraries.

E-journals accessible via the SRH, sorted by subject:

Computer Sciences
Economics
Energy & Environment
Law Sciences
Media and Communication Sciences
Photography
Psychology
Social Work

Search for e-journals in the libraries of the TU Berlin. User note: e-journals licensed by the Technical University are only accessible within the TU network. In order to retrieve the full-text content you must be in one of the buildings of the TU Libraries.

Search for e-journals in the entire German Republic. The Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek (EZB) offers an overview. Many sources are funded by the German Research Society (DFG) and can be accessed via the SRH Library. You will also find many free online journals on the EZB.

Would you like to know what academic publications the members and/or individual institutes of our university have published? You can use OPUS SRH to do this. If possible under copyright law, we also provide full-texts on this platform.

Since 2019 we have been publishing our students' Bachelor's and Master's theses, which have been graded at least a 1.7 and for which we have received the author's permission, on OPUS SRH.

As a member, you can publish your academic paper here. We will check the data and release the document.

An additional overview of repositories of other universities can be found here.

In our online catalogs you can research the print media and e-books of the SRH Libraries from anywhere and at any time. Extensions of borrowed media as well as reservations are also possible here.

Online Catalogue for the SRH Libraries Berlin
In addition: overview of the DVD collection at the Berlin School of Design and Communication

Here you can find more search portals and online catalogs of scientific and public libraries in Berlin, Dresden and Hamburg.

Please note that registration fees will only be refunded upon presentation of the issued library card and the corresponding fee receipt. For further information, please contact your library staff on site.

Berlin

Dresden

Hamburg

Many libraries in Germany, including the BSM and BST library, list their journals and newspapers in the Zeitschriftendatenbank (ZDB). There you will find both printed and electronic titles. Please note: the ZDB only lists titles and holdings. The database does not contain full texts.

Search all printed and electronic journals/newspapers of the SRH Library for BSM and BST.
Search all printed and electronic journals/newspapers of the SRH Library for SOPA.

Note: Click on the journal title and see which volumes are available at the SRH Library.

Search printed and electronic journals/newspapers located in libraries all over Germany.