Subject information History
Subject portals and databases, RUB subject libraries and other subject-related services are compiled here. In the materials section you will find tips on how to get started with literature research and other recommendations. The topic Open Access offers specific information for the subject History and on publication opportunities at RUB.
Subject portals
- Specialised Information Service for Historical Studies
- Historicum.net
- Propylaeum (Specialized Information Service Classics)
- Clio Online (Subject portal for the historical sciences) | Info
- H Soz Kult | Info
- SocialMediaHistory
- Visual History Archive
- The Library of the Ruhr Area in the House of the History of the Ruhr Area
- Mining collections
Specialized databases
TOP databases
- Acta Sanctorum | Info
- Année Philologique | Info
- Biographisch-bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon | Info
- Brill's New Pauly | Info
- Cambridge Histories | Info
- Enzyklopädie der Neuzeit online | Info
- Gnomon Bibliographische Datenbank | Info
- Historical Abstracts with Full Text | Info
- Historische Bibliographie Online | Info
- International Medieval Bibliography | Info
- Lexikon des Mittelalters Online | Info
- Library of Latin Texts Complete Plus | Info
- Monumenta Germaniae Historica | Info
- OLC Geschichte - Online Contents | Info
- Regesta Imperii | Info
Further databases / subject information
E-media at the RUB
In the RUB Primo Catalogue you can search for individual e-media titles and access the full text directly from there.
RUB campus
- Faculty of History
- Department of History
- Institute of Art History
- GA Joint Library: Library for educational science, history, art history and philosophy
- Mediterranean Library (ZMS)
- Book suggestion University Library
Helpful materials
Literature research first steps
- Search Guidelines for students
- „Blaues Wunder“ - Information for students of history at the RUB
- Einführung in die Literaturrecherche für Erstsemester
Open Access