The ACM Digital Library is a research, discovery and networking platform containing the fulltext collection of all ACM publications, including journals, conference proceedings, technical magazines, newsletters and books. The MPG subscription provides access to nearly the entire ACM Digital Library, excluding the ACM Books series content. In addition, the Max Planck Society covers open access publication charges for Max Planck affiliated corresponding authors. Further details are available on the MPDL website.

Complete archive of AIAA conference proceedings (approximately 120,000 papers) and the content from nine AIAA journals (about 50,000 journal articles), within the period 1963 - 2007.

AIP Conference Proceedings contain over 100,000 articles available from Vol. 1 (1970) onwards and is growing by 100 volumes every year. High quality proceedings of events in physics, materials science and relevant mathematical disciplines are published.

The Scitation platform offers access to electronic journals published by the American Institute of Physics and its member societies. Users from the MPG have access to journals of following societies: * Acoustical Society of America (ASA) * American Association of Physics Teacher (AAPT) * American Institute of Physics (AIP), incl. AIP Conference Proceedings * Chinese Physical Society * Laser Institute of America * Science & Technology of Materials, Interfaces, and Processing (AVS) * Society of Rheology The MPG subscription covers article-processing charges for Max Planck authors in AIP's own journals and in most of AIP's partner societies journals. Further details are available on the MPDL website.

The Islamic Studies Collection of the Arabic provider Al Manhal provides access to more than 2,000 ebooks mainly in Arabic on the topics of Islamic theology, Islamic law and Islamic history.

ALEX umfasst digitalisierte historische österreichische Rechts- und Gesetzestexte. Neben den gesamtstaatlichen Gesetzblättern stehen die Landesgesetzblätter, die Justizgesetzsammlung, die Stenographischen Protokolle und das Deutsche Reichsgesetzblatt zur Verfügung.

Art Source führt folgende Quellen unter einer Suchoberfläche zusammen: • Art Index Retrospective • Art Index • Art Abstracts • Art Full Text • Art & Architecture Complete Durch die Ergänzung von mehr als 220 bisher in keiner Datenbank erfassten Zeitschriften besteht Zugang zu mehr als 770 Volltext-Zeitschriften. Darüber hinaus bietet die Datenbank Zugriff auf mehr als 220 ebooks und über 63.000 Bildern aus verschiedenen Quellen. Der Nachweis von Literatur beginnt 1921 und ist international ausgerichtet.

Kubikat is the collective catalog of four of the leading German scholarly research institutes in the field of art history * Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence (Max-Planck-Institut) * Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in Munich - funded by the Bavarian Ministry of Sciences, Research and the Arts * Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte (Centre allemand d'histoire de l'art) in Paris - funded by the Foundation of German Humanities Institutes Abroad (DGIA) * Bibliotheca Hertziana (Max Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte) in Rome The catalog project began in 1993 as a joint initiative of the institutes in Munich, Rome and Florence, supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG)

The database provides access to full texts of international auction catalogues published between 1600 and 1900. Approx. 35,000 titles are planned to be digitized. Electronic fulltexts are based on filmed versions of holdings from diverse libraries, among others the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (RKD), The Hague; the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; the National Art Library, Victoria and Albert Museum, London; the Courtauld Institute, London.

ARTbibliographies Modern (ABM) provides full abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, PhD dissertations, and exhibition reviews on all forms of modern and contemporary art, with approximately 12-13,000 new entries being added each year. Entries date back as far as the late 1960s. ABM is the premier source of information on modern and contemporary arts dating from the late 19th century onwards, and including photography since its invention. It includes abstracts of English and foreign-language material on famous and lesser-known artists, movements, and trends. The coverage of ABM is wide-ranging and includes performance art and installation works, video art, computer and electronic art, body art, graffiti, artists' books, theatre arts, conservation, crafts, ceramic and glass art, ethnic arts, graphic and museum design, fashion, and calligraphy, as well as traditional media including illustration, painting, printmaking, sculpture, and drawing.

The database is a contemporary, reliable and extensive reference work on artists. It contains authoritative, up-to-date biographical information on more than 1 million artists. The database offers biographies in full text from A to Z. The extended scope is due to the incorporation of the renowned Thieme-Becker/Vollmer1 encyclopedia, the Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon and the Lexikon der Künstlerinnen into the database.

The Artstor Digital Library provides more than two million images with tools for teaching and research. Its over 300 collections comprise contributions from outstanding museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, artists and artists' estates from all over the world. With the integration of Artstor into the JSTOR platform, Artstor’s images are searchable alongside JSTOR’s image collections, full-texts and other media. Being also accompanied by high-quality metadata furthermore helps situating Artstor’s images in a historical, critical or cultural context.

arXiv is an e-print service in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics. It provides access to more the 1.3 million e-prints. The Max Planck Society is a member institution of arXiv.

Inhalt: 622.500 Literaturnachweise aus über 2.800 Zeitschriften (davon ca. 300 aktuell ausgewertet) zur Architektur, Architekturgeschichte, sowie Archäologie, Bauentwurf, Wohnungsbau, Denkmalpflege, Innenarchitektur, Landschaftsarchitektur, Stadtplanung. Neben Zeitschriftenartikeln werden auch Interviews, Buchrezensionen, Ausstellungskataloge u.ä. ausgewertet, wobei 75% der Zeitschriften für keine andere Datenbank ausgewertet werden. Abdeckung international, 80% des Materials stammt von außerhalb der USA, 60% sind Nachweise nicht-englischsprachige Veröffentlichungen. Die Datenbank enthält auch einen mehr als 15.000 Einträge umfassenden Index von Nachrufen auf bedeutende Architekten (Avery's Obituary Index) und den 10-bd. Burnham Index to Architectural Literature des Art Institute of Chicago (1870 - ca. 1965).

Besides the “Awards and Decisions”, the following documents are available: "Declaration of the government of the democratic and popular Republic of Algeria" also known as: "General Declaration", "Declaration of the government of the democratic and popular republic of Algeria concerning the settlement of claims by the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran" also known as "Claims settlement declaration" and "Tribunal rules of procedure".

beck-eLibrary.DIE FACHBIBLIOTHEK provides access to academic books, textbooks, non fiction and fiction books in a variety of fields ranging from business to law, and even history and philosophy. The eLibrary is a special offer for libraries and currently contains more than 1000 book titles from the publishing houses C.H.BECK LSW, C.H.Beck RSW, Haufe, MWV, Schäffer-Poeschel, UVK, Vahlen and Versus. Max Planck researchers have access to e-books purchased by single e-book acquisitions by MPG libraries.

Legal journals, commentaries and loose-leaf editions of the publisher C. H. Beck in full text. Juristische Zeitschriften, Kommentare und Loseblattausgaben des Verlags C. H. Beck im Volltext.

Bio-bibliographisches Nachschlagewerk mit über 170.000 Einträgen zu Künstlern, auch weniger bekannten, weltweit von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Die Einträge beinhalten neben einer Darstellung von Leben und Werk des Künstlers weiterführende Literaturhinweise, Abbildungen von Künstlersignaturen, Museumsnachweise und Auktionsergebnisse.

Die Datenbank bietet Zugang zur steuerrechtlichen Entscheidungssammlung und Kommentierung aller V-Entscheidungen des Bundesfinanzhofs sowie zur Online-Version der beiden Zeitschriften „BFH/NV“ sowie „BFH/PR“. Sie beinhaltet: - V- und NV-Entscheidungen des Bundesfinanzhofs - Urteile der Finanzgerichte, des EuGH, des BVerfG und der Obersten Bundesgerichte zu Steuerfragen - Kommentierungen zu BFH-Entscheidungen sowie zu Urteilen der Finanzgerichte, des BVerfG sowie des EuGH - Online-Seminare "Steuerrecht aktuell".

Contains all decisions of the criminal divisions of the German Supreme Court (BGH) since autumn 1991. Collection of over 8,000 documents in full text, including also unpublished documents. In addition to that, the following statutes relevant to the criminal law are included: German Penal Code (StGB); GVG (Excerpt); German Opium Act (BtMG; Excerpt); WaffG (Excerpt); German Code of Criminal Procedure (StPO), JGG; GG, AO (excerpt). Updates: four-monthly -- -- Enthält alle Entscheidungen der Strafsenate des BGH seit Herbst 1991. Sammlung mit über 8.000, auch unveröffentlichten, Dokumenten im Volltext. Ergänzend sind folgende für das Strafrecht relevante Gesetze enthalten: StGB; GVG (Auszug); BtMG (Auszug); WaffG (Auszug); StPO; JGG; GG; AO (Auszug). Updates: viermonatlich -- Zusätzliches Schlüsselwort: Strafrecht