Databases
The following portals can be used to search for specialised literature:
Our discovery system allows literature searches of several databases at the same time and is therefore well suited for a thematic entry. Searches can be subsequently restricted, combined, saved and exported. Each result leads to the catalogue, the full text, the location or displays an order option.
PubMed is based on the MEDLINE database of the National Library of Medicine (USA) and covers the diverse fields of medicine, nursing, veterinary medicine and related sciences.
DBIS - Database Information System
DBIS is a cooperative service for the use of scientific databases and lists over 13100 databases, more than half of which are freely available on the Internet.
CAB Abstracts (1910 to 1989) and CAB Abstracts (1990 to date)
The CAB Abstracts contain bibliographic references to the literature published worldwide in all fields of agriculture and related disciplines (including veterinary medicine).
An interdisciplinary database with a wide range of subjects.
A public and library-moderated collection of interesting online resources for veterinary medicine. You are welcome to send us suggestions for new entries via email.
National library services
KVK - Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog
The Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog (KVK) is a meta-search engine for finding several hundred million media in library and book trade catalogues worldwide.
The GVB Union Catalogue (GVK) is the freely accessible section of the library union databases of the GBV and the SWB, in which over 65 million titles are listed.
The Common Library Network (GBV) includes libraries in the states of Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, Hamburg, Bremen, Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern as well as the libraries of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz.
The Library Network Southwest Germany (SWB) includes libraries of the states of Baden-Württemberg, Saxony and Saarland, the Goethe Institutes and a large number of Max Planck Institutes.
WorldCat
WorldCat is a meta-search engine that searches catalogues of thousands of member libraries worldwide.
