Business, law, politics
Compilation of new acquisitions and electronic resources on the subjects of business, law and politics
New acquisitions
List of titlesexternal link on the subjects (last and current month)
Journals
List of titles on the subjects
Digital textbooks
List of titles on the subjects
Databases
A selection of the main databases
- Business Source Premier (external link) – world's most comprehensive full-text database in the field of business – Further information
- EconLit (external link) – database published by the American Economic Association covering a wide range of economic literature – Further information
- Emerald (external link) – one of the world's leading publishers in the field of management research, with a wide range of journals, series and books – Further information
- OECD iLibrary (external link) – portal for the online publications of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) providing books and reports, journals and statistical databases – Further information
- Wiso (external link) – most comprehensive range of German-language literature on business management and social sciences
- LexisNexis (external link) – covers a wide range of publications in the field of business, media and legal information – Further information
- Web of Science (external link) – interdisciplinary platform with Web of Science Core Collection, Journal Citation Reports and additional databases
- Scopus (external link) – interdisciplinary, the most comprehensive bibliographic database with respect to number of journals covered, particular focus on non-anglophone literature, enables citation analyses and includes unique author-ID's – Further information
- getAbstract (external link) – getAbstract provides business books and articles summaries, as well as video talks. The summaries cover the fundamental ideas of the book in just five pages and TED talks in two pages and can be downloaded to any device. Book summaries are available in English and German.
Additional databases
Reference works
Selection of the main reference works
- ZeFix (external link) – Central Business Names index of the Federal Commercial Registry Office of Switzerland
- Swiss Federal Statistical Office (external link) – statistical information from key areas of life, published by the Federal Office for Statistics (BFS)
- Concise Encyclopedia of Economics (external link) – articles by, and biographies of, famous economists
- Economics: The Basics (external link) – an introduction to the key issues in contemporary economics, covering major microeconomic and macroeconomic aspects (demand, supply, price theory, inflation, banking, international trade, developmental and environmental issues)
- Managerial Economics (external link) – tools and concepts of managerial economics, focusing on application to business decision-making
- An Introduction to International Economics (external link) – core issues of the world economy: international trade, international production, international finance and international development
- Logistics and Supply Chain Toolkit (external link) – information and practical ideas about warehouse, transport, inventory, supply chain and financial management tools
- Investments: Analysis and Management – information about investment opportunities, techniques and analytics
- SAGE Handbook of Comparative Politics – an overview of the theoretical and methodological elements of comparative political science
- A Dictionary of Law – major terms, concepts, processes, and the organization of the legal system
Additional reference works
Specialist information
- NationMaster.com (external link) – gathers data in the public domain for statistical comparisons between countries
- World Bank Open Data (external link) – free and open access to data about development in countries around the globe
- Annual macro-economic database (external link) – the annual macro-economic database of the European Commission's Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs (ECFIN) (external link)
- WTO international trade statistics (external link) – databases and publications providing extensive access to trade and tariff data
- The International Monetary Fund (IMF) (external link) and eLibrary Data (external link) – country reports for all countries of the world and data on international reserves, investment, finance
- NBERWorking Papers (The National Bureau of Economic Research) (external link) – Publication archives in the field of economics
- UNdata (external link) – various statistics and data from the United Nations