International Bibliography of Periodical Literature (IBZ: Internationale Bibliographie der Zeitschriftenliteratur) covers the academic journal

Academic journal

An academic journal is a peer-reviewed periodical in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as forums for the introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research, and the critique of existing research...

 literature in the humanities

Humanities

The humanities are academic disciplines that study the human condition, using methods that are primarily analytical, critical, or speculative, as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural sciences....

, social sciences

Social sciences

Social science is the field of study concerned with society. "Social science" is commonly used as an umbrella term to refer to a plurality of fields outside of the natural sciences usually exclusive of the administrative or managerial sciences...

, and related disciplines. It is an interdisciplinary reference source that is international in scope. Academic journal coverage includes 40 countries and more than 40 languages. Standards are based on the standards set by the German National Library

German National Library

The German National Library is the central archival library and national bibliographic centre for the Federal Republic of Germany...

in German and English. The file size is over 3.2 million records from over 11,000 journals, with 120, 000 records added annually..

Analysis

An analysis of Internationale Bibliographie der Zeitschriftenliteratur: first, a description of the historical development of this database (IBZ). This is followed by a description of the methods employed for journal selection (for coverage). Strengths and weakenesses are analyzed and evaluated. IBZ is compared to other indexing databases throughout the discussion.