Sophia includes following databases: 

ETHOLOGICA EUROPAEA

• Ethno-Fennica. SKS.(Finnish Literature Society), Helsinki. A collection of articles from Finnish and Scandinavian ethnological journals. 

• Lapponica. Municipal Library, Rovaniemi. The Lapponica database contains literature concerning Lapland, Northern Scandinavia, and the Arctic Region, in many different fields. In addition to books, the database includes articles and audio-visual material, for a total of some 20 000 references in several languages. The most important special areas covered are: the Saami language and Saami culture (Lappish and the Lapps), local history of Northern Scandinavia, and aboriginal studies. 

• Ungarische Bibliographie für Volkskunde, Budapest. This collection covers the field of anthropology (years 1922-1995).

• East European and Russian Studies. COSEELIS, Brookhouse, Lanc.

• Russia Mediaevalis. Osteuropa-Institut München.

• Sucoline, South Jutland University Center Esbjerg. A collection of Middle European/East European Studies.

• Blaise, British Library. A collection of references from French, German and English studies in history, philology and literature studies, selected from this database.

• International Bibliographies on Terminological Data, Infoterm, Wien in cooperation with Termnet. A new significant philological tool. It contains references in the study of language for special purposes.

• Kleine Bibliographie fachsprachlicher Untersuchungen, Universität Leipzig, Fachsprachliches Zentrum. References in the study of language for special purposes.

• Referatedienst zur Literaturwissenschaft, Geisteswissenschaftliche Zentren Berlin, Zentrum für Literaturforschung, Berlin. A tool in literature studies.

• Semiosis, the group's own database. This is the only existing database in Semiotics, it gives abstracts of semiotic journal articles. It is meant for the use of semioticians, philologists and anthropologists. Includes a Bibliography of Prague Linguistic Circle (University of Düsseldorf Institute of Philosophy). 
• Lingua, the group's own database, analyses and abstracts 25 mainly German, English and French journals. The main accent is on philology, history, literature studies, seen in a European context. Includes: Datenbank für Interkulturelle Wirtschaftskommunikation. Europa University Viadrina, Frankfurt an der Oder.

• Sprach- und Literaturstudien. Institut für Deutsche Sprache und Literatur Universität zu Köln.

• ATLA, Eastern Orthodox Church from Religion Index One: Periodicals. Religion index is the well known authority in religion studies, produced by the American Theological Library Association.
• Donnerska Institutet, Turku/Abo. A catalogue of books in the history of religion. This is in the European context a major collection in the study of religion and related subjects of philosophy. In the same file with Donnerska is: Temenos a Scandinavian Bibliography for Religion Study. It contains all Scandinavian studies in this field since 1972.

• Internationale Bibliographie zur Deutschen Klassik, Anna Amalia Bibliothek, Stiftung Weimarer Klassik.  An important tool for studying German literature and culture of the classical age. Up to the year 1991.

• Philis, Philosophisches Institut, Forschungsabteilung für philosophische Information und Dokumentation, Universität Düsseldorf. This is a major tool in philosophy and related fields. It scans 250 journals in the field. A particular note should he made about its special kind of citation indexing, every author mentioned in the article is indexed. The keywords are from the article itself and are copious. In addition, there is a Francis Bacon Bibliography incorporated in the database Philis.

• Österreichische Historische Bibliographie, Institut für Geschichte, Universität Klagenfurt, a comprehensive historical database from Austria.

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