Universitätsbibliothek Mainz

Middle and Modern History

Databases

The most important databases:

International Medieval Bibliography

Bibliographie de Civilisation Médiévale

MGH-Opac / Monumenta Germaniae Historica

Regesta Imperii / Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz

Historical Abstracts

OLC History – Online Contents

IfZ-OPAC / Institute of Contemporary History

OLC History – Online Contents

European history (beta)

recensio.net — review platform for European historical studies

Annual Reports on German History

German Historical Bibliography (beta)

Virtual German State Bibliography

recensio.regio – review platform for regional history

America: History and Life

Bibliographische Datenbank Historische Grundwissenschaften

More databases:

DBIS History

Full texts

The most important full-text collections:

Empire Online — Colonialism and Imperialism 1492-2007

European History 1450-1950 Online

IEG-Maps – Server for Digital Historical Maps/Institute of European History, Mainz

MOM – Europe's Virtual Certificate Archive

Monumenta Germaniae Historica Digital

The deeds of the archbishops of Mainz (706-1454) / Institute of Historical Regional Studies, Mainz

RG Online — Repertorium Germanicum and Repertory Poenitentiariae Germanicum / German Historical Institute, Rome

Acta Pacis Westphalicae

Negotiations of the German Reichstag (1867-1942)

The German Reichsgesetzblatt 1867-1945 online

Files of the Reich Chancellery – Weimar Republic

Nuremberg Trials Project

Cabinet Protocols of the German Federal Government (1949-1982)

HISTAT – database on historical statistics in Germany

French Revolution Digital Archive

House of Commons Parliamentary Papers

Hansard – Parliamentary debates, 1803–2005

More full-text collections:

DBIS History

Journals

EZB History

Reference books / dictionaries online

Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages Online

Europa Sacra Online

World Biographical Information System Online

Encyclopaedia Judaica

Deutsches Biographisches Archiv

Online encyclopedia of modern times

Germania Sacra — Digital Personal Register of the Church of the Old Kingdom

1914-1918-online : International Encyclopedia of the First World War

Holocaust Encyclopedia

The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names / Yad Vashem

Wer war wer in der DDR? - Deutsche Kommunisten

Blogs

H-Soz-u-Kult

Middle Ages. Interdisciplinary research and reception history

Local Institutions

Department of History

Department of Regional History at the University of Mainz

Leibniz Institute of European History, Mainz

Mainz City Scientific Library

Fritz Bauer Institute – History and Impact of the Holocaust, at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt/Main

New literature for you

New Acquisitions History

Location Notice

In the Central Library you will find History under the classification number 20D in the textbook collection and under HIST J in the reading room.

In the Humanities Library, you will find Medieval and Modern History in rooms 00/614, 00/622, 00/636, 00/578 and 00/586.

The journals of the years 2005 and older can be found in the journal magazine Humanities in the Central Library.

Cataloging systems at our locations

More information

Clio Online — specialist portal for historians

European History Web Portal

France portal

Great Britain portal

regionalgeschichte.net — Internet portal on regional and local history in Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland

Contemporary history online

Archivportal-D

Biography portal

Epigraphica Europea

genealogy.net

historicum.net – Specialized Information Service (FID) Historical Studies (beta)

Library of Anglo-American Culture & History — Specialized Information Service (FID) Anglo-American Culture

Verband der Historiker und Historikerinnen Deutschlands (VHD)

Verband der Geschichtslehrer Deutschlands e.V.