Web resources
- Fachportal Pädagogik database search (in particular FIS and pedocs)
- ERIC - Educational Resources Information Centre
- DE GRUYTER Reference Global - International Bibliography of Periodical Literature in the Humanities and Social Sciences
- PSYINDEXplus Literature & Media (via WISO)
- PSYINDEXplus Tests (via WISO; enables the search for existing scales and test procedures)
- PsyJournals
- PsycArticles (via EBSCOHOST)
- Web of Science
- Primo Central of the Paderborn University Library
- Complete index of publishing products of the BIBB (Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training)
- LDBB - Literature Database for Vocational Education and Training
- SSOAR - Social Science Open Access Repository
- SSRN - Social Science Research Network
- Open Library - Free Online Book Catalogue
- ProQuest - Doctoral dissertation and theses database
- DissOnline - Full text and metadata search for digitally available doctoral dissertations
- UPB database information system: Pedagogy
- UPB database information system: Psychology
- UPB database information system: Sociology
- EZB - Electronic Journals Library
- Compilation of social science items and scales (ZIS)
- Open Test Archive
- Google Scholar - for general literature research of scientific documents
Non-Open Access (access usually only possible from the university network)
- Vocations and Learning
- Journal of Workplace Learning
- Journal of Education and Work
- Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training
- Educational Research Review
- Educational Researcher
- Journal of Education Studies
- Educational Psychologist
- Journal of Organisational Behavior
- Research in Organisational Behavior
- Organizational Research Methods
- Various journals that are not available digitally (e.g. Zeitschrift für Berufs- und Wirtschaftspädagogik, Zeitschrift für Pädagogik etc.) can be found in the library catalogue and also in the ZDB catalogue
Open Access
- DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals
- Directory of Open Access Scholarly Journals in Education
- bwp@ - Vocational and Business Education (Open Access journal)
- jero - Journal for Educational Research Online / Journal für Bildungsforschung Online (Open Access journal)
- Die berufsbildende Schule - Association organ of the BLBS (Federal Association of Teachers at Vocational Schools)
- FQS - Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research (Open Access journal)
- Database of legal norms on education in Germany
- German Education Server - Comprehensive offer from the field of education
- German-English glossary of vocational education and training
- Cedefop glossary on European education policy
- Materials on teaching methods and learning arrangements
- Learning as Work: Teaching and Learning Processes in the Contemporary Work Organisation (several working papers for download)
- TextLog - Collection of historical texts and dictionaries (philosophy, art and aesthetics) (Open Access)
- The Internet Archive - web archive of images, texts, audio files etc.
- arXiv.org - Open access to e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics
- Dictionary of synonyms and opposites for essays, term papers and theses
- OpenThesaurus - Dictionary for synonyms and associations
- WortSchatz - German vocabulary project (word synonyms, word relations, co-occurrences, meaning groups, etc.)
- Leo - Online dictionaries - German vs. English, French, Spanish, Italian, Chinese
- English online thesaurus
- Linguee - Shows real translation examples for words and expressions in the context of their use
Editing PDFs
WYSIWYG word processing
- Libre Office - Free (Open Source) Office Suite
- PDFCreator - Free (Open Source) PDF Printer for Windows
- PDFSAM - Free (Open Source) PDF - merger
Non-WYSIWYG word processing
- LaTeX - Free (Open Source) typesetting system
- TexnicCenter - Free (Open Source) Windows Latex Suite
- Kile - Free (Open Source) Linux Latex Suite
Statistics & data analysis