Screenshot of EconBiz
Latest screenshot: 2024-07-22
Access to search interface:
open
Last major interface update:
N/A
Owner of search system:
ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics
Location of system headquarters:
Kiel and Hamburg, DE
Year of launch:
2001
Type:
Bibliographic database
Twitter:
Description of search system (by system owner)

With EconBiz you search for scholarly literature quickly and professionally: - For students, researchers and teachers EconBiz offers orientation and help in the search for articles, working papers, e-books and more. - Result lists can be sorted according to relevance or date. - A variety of filter options help you find the relevant titles more quickly. - Individual support helps you with the search for and access to the full text. - The integrated Thesaurus for Economics (STW) helps with topic searches by e.g. including synonyms in the search.

Total coverage:
12.05M
Year-over-year growth (2021-2022):
-11.43%
Subject coverage:
Economics, Econometrics and Finance (48.93 %); Business, Management and Accounting (21.23 %); Social Sciences (15.96 %)
Retrospective coverage:
1689–2023
Record types:
30
Open Access records:
2.19M / 18.21%

Search functionality and interface

Systematic keyword searching:
limited 
Backward citation searching:
limited 
Forward citation searching:
limited 
Query builder:
Search history:
Match preview:
Sorting options:
3

Query

Latency with short query:
0.8 seconds
Latency with long query:
8.5 seconds
Controlled vocabulary:
Field codes:
9
Full text search:
Search string length (narrow):
250 terms max.
Search string length (wide):
50 terms max.
Language support: Chinese:
Language support: Cyrillic:
Truncation:
Wildcards:
Keyword position irrelevant:
Longer strings, fewer hits:
Automatic query expansion (stemming):
Verbatim queries:
Reproducible queries (time):
Reproducible queries (locations):

Operators

Search operators:
3
Boolean 'OR':
Boolean 'AND':
Boolean 'NOT':
Proximity operator:
Boolean works exact:
Nested search (parentheses):

Citation search / filtering

Record type filters:
30
Results filters:
10
Suggested related records:
Supported by bibliometric tools:
N/A
Backward citation information:
Backward citation score:
N/A
Forward citation information:
Forward citation score:
N/A

Retrieval

Number of accessible records:
1000000
Bulk select records:
Bulk export records:
250
Export formats:
4
API:
open 
Bulk select records' backward citations:
Bulk export backward citations:
N/A
Bulk select records' forward citations:
Bulk export forward citations:
N/A
Pinned databases 0/6
Trusted by
JKU LinzUniversität Innsbruck
Funded by
FWF