General-access databases
ALEX – The Historic Legal Texts Archive
ALEX is the Austrian National Library's digital reading room for legal texts and legislation. The online system allows you to search and browse Austrian legal texts and legislation issued between 1780 and 1945. Austrian laws adopted since 1945 are documented in the Federal Chancellery's Legal Information System (known as RIS).
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Labour market and employment information (Arbeitsmarktinformationssystem)
The Austrian Federal Ministry of Labour and Economy's labour market and employment database provides a range of information for job seekers in Austria, including details about training courses offered by the Public Employment Service (AMS), employment, the state of the job market and apprenticeships, as well as statistics regarding international unemployment rates and demographic data.
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The labour market and employment portal (German)
Data.gv.at
Open data portals ensure the accessibility of public sector data and information compiled or acquired by authorities as well as the free reusability of public sector data by the general public. The data and information provided have been created or paid for and collected by public bodies and are freely available for general reuse.
Data.gv.at is the Austrian metadata catalogue based on a cooperation agreement between the Federal State, cities, federal states and municipalities. This portal is the single point of contact to the European data portal and provides access to numerous open datasets, services and applications of the Austrian administration.
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Open Data Austria – data.gv.at
IMF eLibrary
The International Monetary Fund's eLibrary gives users direct access to the Fund's publications and statistical databases. The library includes a selection of eBooks as well as macroeconomic analysis and reports, including the World Economic Outlook Report, the Global Financial Stability Report, and Regional Economic Outlook reports. Useful information on how to use the database can be found within the help section of the IMF Data Knowledge Base.
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Klimadashboard
This database shows facts and figures about Austria's climate. The data covers four areas: emissions per capita, production-based emissions, consumption-based emissions, and historical emissions since 1850. Detailed information is only available in German.
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Library of Congress (LOC)
The Library of Congress provides free public access to universal collections. Its World Digital Library includes manuscripts, rare books, maps, photographs and other important cultural records from every country and culture in the world.
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The Austrian Historical Bibliography – Österreichische historische Bibliografie (ÖHB)
This bibliography records historical research published in Austria since 1945. It provides a bibliographical index of monographs; articles from commemorative publications, journals, conference volumes; collections of essays; serials, theses, dissertations and postdoctoral theses.
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Austrian Historical Bibliography – ÖHB (German)
The Austrian Biographical Dictionary – Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon (OeBL)
The Austrian Biographical Dictionary, published by the Austrian Academy of Sciences, covers well-known individuals who were born, lived or worked in Austria or the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and who died between 1815 and 1950. The online edition has been published since 2011, and incorporates all the biographies in their print edition as well as all supplements, corrections and additions, and individuals who died before 2010.
The editors of the bibliography have also made a deliberate decision to include individuals who are perhaps less well known among the general public, but who are highly respected in their specialist fields.
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Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon (Austrian Biographical Dictionary) – OeBL (German)
The Legal Information System of the Republic of Austria (RIS)
The Legal Information System of the Republic of Austria (known by the German acronym RIS) is designed to publish legal provisions promulgated in the Federal Law Gazette (Bundesgesetzblatt) and the legal gazettes of Austria's federal states. It also includes official announcements by the social security body (Amtliche Verlautbarungen der Sozialversicherung) and official veterinary notices (Amtliche Veterinärnachrichten).
In addition, RIS provides users with access to case law, selected legal standards applicable at municipal level, selected decrees issued by Federal Ministries, and other official notices.
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The Legal Information System of the Republic of Austria (RIS)
STATCube
Users can access the statistical database of Statistics Austria (Statistik Austria) to retrieve and analyse data on a wide range of subjects. The statistical database STATCube is publicly available and may be used, in a restricted scope, free of charge ("guest access"). The Data available is restricted with respect to structural depth and volume and the size of query tables is limited.
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WIFO economic data
The Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO) provides access to current economic indicators for Austria and the world economy that users can download free of charge. The datasets are taken from the WIFO Data System (WDS), which is continuously updated.
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The World Bank data catalogue
The World Bank's Open Data initiative gives the general public access to a comprehensive range of materials. Its data catalogue includes over 2,000 statistical indicators covering development, the environment, education, health, gender, finance and the economy.
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