Digitales Wörterbuch der Deutschen Sprache

Das frei verfügbare DWDS-Projekt hat es sich zum Ziel gesetzt, den deutschen Wortschatz in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart abzubilden. Neben den Wörterbucheinträgen aus verschiedenen Quellen werden weitere nützliche Dienste wie Synonyme, Wortprofile und zahlreiche Beispiele angeboten.

Digitales Wörterbuch der Deutschen Sprache – DWDS
http://www.dwds.de/

Mendeley Guides and Video Tutorials

A good way to get started with Mendeley is to visit the Information Retrieval Services’ (IVS-BM) website. The page Mendeley short notes will give you a quick overview and by attending an online workshop you could learn more about the system.

Some other guides and video tutorials we would like to recommend you are the following:

You are not sure which system best suits your needs?
See a nice video from Portland State University Library Zotero vs. Mendeley.

How to get proceedings papers?

We have access to the following proceedings:

AIP Conference Proceedings
http://proceedings.aip.org/proceedings/
The proceedings of the American Institute of Physics are available from Iss. 500 (2000) onwards.

IEEE Proceedings
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/
The content in IEEE Xplore comprises beside journals, transactions and technical standards about 4000 conference proceedings.

OSA Topical Meetings
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/conferences.cfm
OSA manages up to 30 topical meetings annually. We can access all available topical meeting papers – only some conference papers of the Major Meeting Series are not part of our license.

SPIE Proceedings
http://spiedigitallibrary.org/
SPIE conferences result in over 350 proceedings annually. Access to technical papers in optics and photonics from 1963 to the present is possible.

Searching for proceedings papers
Conference literature is included in the following databases:

  • Web of Science (Conference Proceedings Citation Index Science)
  • Inspec (poceedings literature in physics and engineering)
  • SciFinder (chemistry and chemistry related conference papers)
  • ProQuest (including Materials Research Database‎, Solid State and Superconductivity Abstracts‎)

The British Library Conference Proceedings are the most comprehensive collection of conference literature in the world. The records are available through Getinfo, the portal for science and technology offered by the German National Library of Science and Technology.

If the wanted literature is not available online or by printed copies in the FHI library your librarian may order the requested proceedings paper for you.

Using Firefox’s Search Bar

There are two ways to run a search in a search engine, library catalog or other databases.

  1. Go to the appropriate website and enter your search query in the search box.
  2. Use Firefox’s Search bar – you find it in the top right corner of the Firefox window.

By default, Firefox includes only seven search engines but you may install additional search tools. See http://mzl.la/MOtkQ0

Finding Add-ons
Firefox Add-ons: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search-tools/
Mycroft project: http://mycroft.mozdev.org/index.html

Including FHI Library Online Catalog Search
You will not find our FHI library online catalog at the above mentioned websites. Although it is possible to add our library catalog (or any other search tool) to the search bar by using the Add-on Add to Search Bar.

After installing the add-on just move your mouse cursor on the page’s search box, click the right mouse button (Ctrl+click on a Mac) and choose Add to Search Bar….

Now your search bar includes the FHI catalog title search.

Further Links
Max Planck vLib: Search Plug-ins
Change or choose a search provider in Internet Explorer

Read International Newspapers

Would you like to read the electronic version of your favorite newspaper like The Washington Post, International Herald TribuneLe Figaro, Neue Zürcher Zeitung or Der Tagesspiegel?
PressDisplay which is licensed for our institute offers more than 2200 newspapers in 54 languages. It is possible to read all of the issues from the last 60 days in a traditional 2-page newspaper view or in easy to read text views.

Find (nearly) all licensed newspaper titles in the Electronic Journals Library.

Die Volltexte (ohne Abbildungen) von ca. 100 deutschsprachigen Tages- und Wochenzeitungen stehen über die für uns lizensierte Plattform Wiso praxis zur Verfügung. Es können allerdings nur einzelne Artikel über die Suche ermittelt werden, das Browsen über Inhaltsverzeichnisse ist leider nicht möglich.