By Faculty Learn more about sources related to specifically to FoB and FoAD Faculty of Business Administration (FoB) See the  DBIS subject overview for a comprehensive list of business and economics sources. Case Studies Business Source Ultimate Among other sources, Business Source Complete provides tens of thousands of case studies. Emerald Case Studies A growing digital library of over 1,500 real-world case studies on a wide range of industries and disciplines including content from Emerald and licensed cases from international business schools. MIT LearningEdge Provides case studies divided into the following categories: Accounting and Finance Case Studies, Entrepreneurship Case Studies, Leadership and Ethics Case Studies, Operations Management Case Studies, Strategy Case Studies, Sustainability Case Studies, System Dynamics Case Studies. Market Research ABI/INFORM Collection Read more The most comprehensive ABI/INFORM™ database, this comprises ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry, and ABI/INFORM Dateline. The database features thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, working papers, key business and economics periodicals such as the Economist, country-and industry-focused reports, and downloadable data. Its international coverage gives researchers a complete picture of companies and business trends around the world. Business Market Research Collection Read more Conduct company, industry, economic and geopolitical market research with information from these sources: Hoover's Company Profiles - covering 40,000 global public and non-public companies including financials, competitors, officers, and more; OxResearch - succinct articles covering regional economic and political developments of significance; US and Worldwide Industry & Market Reports from Barnes Reports - covering global industries in depth; and Snapshots - market research overviews on 40+ industries and 40 countries. Coverage: 1986 - current Business Source Ultimate Contains peer-reviewed, business related journals. Provides detailed company information for more than 1.1 million of the world's largest public and private companies. Market Research & American Business, 1935 - 1965 Read more This database is a source for American consumer history as well as for the history of transnational marketing. Market Research & American Business is based on the corporate archives of the Institute for Motivational Research, Inc, a firm founded in 1946 by Ernest Dichter (1907 - 1991), who emigrated to the United States from Vienna in 1938. The materials focus on the post-1945 period, and the database provides access to memoranda, reports, meeting minutes, letters, account records, promotional materials, and more. ProQuest Central Read more A broad array of business, humanities, and science & technology information, from scholarly journals and dissertations, to company, industry and market-focused trade news. ABI/INFORM features the latest news from top sources like the Wall Street Journal and Financial Times and is widely recommended as an excellent source for all business disciplines and courses. Research Articles ABI/INFORM Collection Read more The most comprehensive ABI/INFORM™ database, this comprises ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry, and ABI/INFORM Dateline. The database features thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, working papers, key business and economics periodicals such as the Economist, country-and industry-focused reports, and downloadable data. Its international coverage gives researchers a complete picture of companies and business trends around the world. Accounting, Tax & Banking Collection Read more This database brings together global scholarly journals with other key resources for access to reliable information in this continuously evolving area of study. Quickly locate precise results from sources ranging from current news to professional and academic journal articles covering the trends and history influencing important accounting, tax, banking, and financial issues of the day. Business Source Ultimate Contains peer-reviewed, business related journals. Provides detailed company information for more than 1.1 million of the world's largest public and private companies. Emerald Premier Provides full-text access to journals in management, HR, marketing, the sciences and technology. Statistics ABI/INFORM Collection Read more The most comprehensive ABI/INFORM™ database, this comprises ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry, and ABI/INFORM Dateline. The database features thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, working papers, key business and economics periodicals such as the Economist, country-and industry-focused reports, and downloadable data. Its international coverage gives researchers a complete picture of companies and business trends around the world. Eurostat Read more Publications and statistics from the EU, with data in economics, population, agriculture, trade, transportation, the environment and more. IMF eLibrary Read more Data on exchange and interest rates, balance of payments, government finance, national accounts, trade, foreign reserves & more. OECD iLibrary Read more Data on economics, finance, trade, telecommunications, development, aid, migration, and other categories. Statista Read more Statista is a statistic portal that integrates data on over 80.000 topics from over 18.000 sources onto a single searching platform.  Categorized into 21 market sectors, Statista provides direct access to quantitative data on media, business, finance, politics, and a wide variety of other areas of interest or markets.  Data sources include market research reports, trade publications, scientific journals, and government databases. For each statistic, Statista provides available meta data including but not limited to source, release date, number of respondents, and any other relevant details to facilitate verification of all statistical information available on Statista. UNdata Read more Economic, social, cultural, & demographic indicators from the United Nations and a selection of United Nations affiliated or related organisations. World Bank Open Data Read more Free and open access to data about development in countries around the globe. Further Information Exploring the (Information) Landscape: Introduction to Library Research / Resources -- FoB MBA Edition (Presentation) Exploring the (Information) Landscape: Introduction to Library Research / Resources -- FoB BA Edition (Presentation) Faculty of Architecture and Design (FoAD) See the DBIS subject overview for a comprehensive list of architecture and design sources. Articles / Databases ArchInform The world's largest online architecture database (projects, architecture offices and architect biographies, references). The focus is on architecture of the 20th century. Detail Inspiration / Archiv The architecture database Detail Inspiration of Detail Business Information GmbH contains project documentation of building objects from the magazine Detail. A national license archive for the reporting period 2017 to 2023 was set up and hosted by TIB after a one-year embargo period and is available to all authorized institutions and users throughout Germany via the TIB portal as part of a national license. GreenFILE Read more Offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 538,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 5,800 records. JSTOR Access to full-text or indexed journal articles, books covering Architecture & Architectural History, Art & Art History, and Garden & Landscape. Directories Architektenkammer Berlin [Berlin Chamber of Architects] - Member Search Offers search of members of the Berlin Chamber of Architects; including architects, interior architects, landscape architects and city planners. BauNetz Rankings Offers an up-to-date ranking of architectural firms in Germany. Read more "For the office ranking, publications made within the previous 24 months are taken into account. The evaluation includes the printed main issues of each magazine. The  national ranking lists are based on evaluation of six German (Bauwelt, Detail) and six international professional journals (Architectural Review, a+u, architektur aktuell, Werk Bauen und Wohnen, domus)." - BauNetz: Procedure Rules Images ARTstor Read more Updated regularly. Comprised of over 2.5 million digital images of visual material encompassing artistic and historical traditions across many time periods and cultures. Focuses on, but is not limited to, the arts. Includes architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design as well as many other forms of visual culture. Designed to be used by researchers in fields that do not traditionally use images as well as by art historians. In order to take advantage of all the features of the site, you must register or log in with the service. The registration and login links are visible once you enter the database. Archnet.org Open access to a very unique set of resources related to the built environment of the Muslim world. Catena: Digital Archive of Historic Gardens & Landscapes Read more Updated regularly. A typologically organized archive of digital images with accompanying educational materials. The initial component of Catena is built around the villa, an important landscape type in garden history. Serves as an educational tool for teachers and scholars of landscape history affiliated with schools and universities. The images and intellectual content on this site should be used for educational purposes only. Note: Pop-up blockers on browsers must be disabled for viewing content. Cities / Buildings Database Updated regularly. Offers more than 5,000 images of buildings from across time and throughout the world. Search for buildings by country, city, style, title of building, architect and/or date of construction. Historic American Buildings Survey / Historic American Engineering Record / Historic American Landscapes Survey Read more Updated regularly. The Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) collections are among the largest and most heavily used in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress. Since 2000, documentation from the Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS) has been added to the holdings. The collections document achievements in architecture, engineering, and landscape design in the United States and its territories through a comprehensive range of building types, engineering technologies, and landscapes. This online presentation of the HABS/HAER/HALS collections includes digitized images of measured drawings, black-and-white photographs, color transparencies, photo captions, written history pages, and supplemental materials. New York Public Library Digital Gallery Open access to over 800,000 images from the New York Public Library's vast collections, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints, photographs. VADS (Visual Arts Data Services) Updated regularly. Provides a central resource of over 100, 000 high quality digital images from across a range of visual arts subjects (including applied arts, architecture, design, fine art and media) from across the UK. RIBApix Digitized images from the Royal Institution of British Architects collections Maps & GIS ArcGIS Open Data Hub ArcGIS Hub is a cloud-based platform that enables organizations (including government agencies and institutions) to publish and share open geospatial data, maps, and documents through searchable catalogs and web portals. For interior architecture research, it provides free access to downloadable GIS datasets, CAD files, and spatial information useful for site analysis and urban context studies. CADMapper Transforms data from public sources such as OpenStreetMap, NASA, and USGS into neatly organized CAD files. DataONE Community driven program providing access to data across multiple member repositories, supporting enhanced search and discovery of Earth and environmental data. Digital Maps & Geospatial Data Portal Princeton University Library Historical Maps of Berlin (ZLB) You can find maps and plans of Berlin here. Many of them are in the public domain and free for re-use. Library of Congress Map Collections The focus of the collection is Americana and Cartographic Treasures of the Library of Congress. These images were created from maps and atlases and, in general, are restricted to items that are not covered by copyright protection. Digital maps represent a small fraction of the LOC's 4.5 million items in its Geography and Map Division. United Nations Environment Programme Geospatial data sets (maps), covering themes like Freshwater, Population, Forests, Emissions, Climate, Disasters, Health and GDP. Display them on-the-fly as maps, graphs, data tables or download the data in different formats. USGS Historic Topographic Maps Currently more than 141,000 GeoPDF maps of the approximate 180,000 in the full collection are available for download. The project is ongoing. World Digital Library The World Digital Library (WDL) is available free and offers multilingual options. It offers a wide-range of primary materials from countries and cultures around the world. Materials Architecture and Design Materials Library (ADML) Here you will find an index of the design materials archived in Klingemann Library Periodicals DETAIL Magazine Current print issues are also available in the library. Reference Books Contemporary world architecture This work presents a comprehensive survey of international architecture at the end of the century and offers a critical study of the social, cultural and political changes that are shaping the built environment today. Continual advances in science and technology, shifting demographics and greater global communications constantly transform lifestyles and business practices, and prompt a perpetual reinterpretation of architectural ideology and building types. Encyclopedia of 20th century architecture A complete reference resource exploring architecture worldwide during the twentieth century. Exploring architecture from all regions of the world, this three-volume set chronicles and analyzes the twentieth century's vast architectural achievements, both within and well beyond the parameters of Modernism. A global history of architecture The gold-standard exploration of architecture's global evolution. A Global History of Architecture provides a comprehensive tour through the ages, spinning the globe to present the landmark architectural movements that characterized each time period. Spanning from 3,500 b.c.e. to the present, this unique guide is written by an architectural all-star team who emphasize connections, contrasts and influences, reminding us that history is not linear and that everything was 'modern architecture' in its day. Modern architecture : a critical history This acclaimed survey of modern architecture and its origins has become a classic since it first appeared in 1980. For the fourth edition Kenneth Frampton has added a major new chapter that explores the effects of globalization on architecture in recent years, the rise of the celebrity architect, and the way in which practices worldwide have addressed such issues as sustainability and habitat. The bibliography has been updated and expanded, making this volume more complete and indispensable than ever. Sir Banister Fletcher's global history of architecture Sir Banister Fletcher's Global History of Architecture is the acknowledged classic reference work for architectural history. It has been essential reading for generations of architects and students since the first edition was published in 1896 - and this tradition continues today as the new 21st edition provides the most up-to-date, authoritative and detailed account of the global history of architecture available in any form. World architecture 1900-2000 : a critical mosaic World Architecture 1900-2000' records the major architectural contributions made in all regions of the world to the development of human culture. Grouped into ten geographical regions and representing five twenty-year-periods, the buildings have been selected by over 75 internationally acknowledged architectural critics. Further Information Introduction to Library Research - Faculty of Architecture & Design -- BA (Presentation 01.12.2025) Electronic resources for architecture / interior architecture research (Presentation) Open Educational Resources (OER) Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research materials that are free to access, adapt, and share thanks to open licenses that explicitly permit retention, reuse, revision, remixing, and redistribution —the “5 Rs”. Why Use OER? Cost savings for students by replacing high-priced textbooks with free alternatives. 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