Last revised: August 2008
Germanic Studies
Scope:This is a guide to the resources available to faculty and students at the UM Libraries for research in the Germanic languages, literatures, and culture. Email the subject area specialist at pedersol@umd.edu or call 301-405-9116 for more information.
- Deutsche Bibliothek
- Österreichische Nationalbibliotheken Digitaler Lesesaal
- Library of Congress
- WESSWEB - German Studies Library catalogs list
- Aladin - The Washington Research Libraries Consortium Catalog
American University, The Catholic University of America, Gallaudet University, George Mason University, The George Washington University, Marymount University, Trinity College, and the University of the District of Columbia. - George
The Georgetown University Lauinger Library and Blommer Science Library catalog. - Johns Hopkins University Libraries Catalog
- Libweb
- The European Library. Search the catalogs of European national libraries.
Table of contents
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UM Libraries Catalog
Other Libraries Catalogs
Union Catalogs
Databases
Online news sources
Monographs -- Print Resources
Cultural Institutions
Style Manuals
UM Libraries Catalog
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Catalog
The Catalog provides information on the holdings of all libraries in the University System of Maryland. Books owned by other libraries in the system can be ordered online for delivery to College Park (or elsewhere); click on REQUEST
Other Library Catalogs
Union Catalogs
- WorldCat
Locate books and other library materials. Links to Interlibrary Loan to order materials the Libraries do not own.
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RLG Union Catalog (RLIN)
A union catalog with coverage across subjects and material types in almost 400 languages. Includes 42 million titles—43% for non-English materials, three million items published before 1900, and two million in microform format.
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Center for Research Libraries
CRL is a consortium of North American academic and independent research libraries that acquires and preserves newspapers, journals, documents, archives, and other traditional and digital resources for research and teaching and makes them available to member institutions through Interlibrary Loan. CRL holds over four million newspapers, journals, dissertations, archives. Holdings include such diverse materials as 800,000 doctoral dissertations. The Center for Research Libraries is also home to Global Resources Network and GNARP -- The German-North American Resources Partnership.
Provides abstracts and indexing for over 7,000 journals. Full text of articles for over 4,000 scholarly publications, including more than 3,100 peer-reviewed publications.
Coverage: Multidisciplinary subjects including: social sciences, humanities, education, language & linquistics, arts & literature, medicine, ethnic studies. Use the link to "Choose Databases" and choose MLA Bibliography to search both databases combined.
The most important database for research in literature, it indexes journals, books, essay collections, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies published worldwide in the areas of literary criticism, language, linguistics, rhetoric, and folklore of all countries.
Database also includes the MLA Directory of Periodicals.
Time span: Indexing back to 1920s.
BDSL Online wird von der Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main als Schwerpunktbibliothek für Germanistik erstellt. Sie ist die wichtigste bibliographische Informationsquelle für Germanisten mit dem Schwerpunkt Literaturwissenschaft.
Electronic archive of core journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Includes complete runs of journals with full-text of all articles published prior to the most current five years.
Full-text database of author biographies and bibliographies; criticism and reviews of authors' works. Included is material from many of the publisher's print reference publications including, among others, Contemporary Authors and Dictionary of Literary Biography.
Coverage: Literary criticism and biographies of figures from all time periods writing in such genres as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, and journalism.
Access to 4,500 arts/humanities & social science journals published since the 19th-century in 40 languages, on 37 key subjects, e.g., architecture, archaeology, area studies, business, law, & linguistics, containing a full-text archive to over 300 periodical titles and direct linking to JSTOR. Coverage: Humanities and social sciences
Citations to journal articles, books, bibliographies, and book reviews about the period 400 - 1700. A growing database. To date, full runs of 632 scholarly journals have been indexed from as far back as 1842. Coverage: Useful for research on the Middle Ages and Renaissance, including literature and history.
Time span: Covers the period 400-1700.
Indexes articles, conference proceedings, and Festschriften on all aspects of medieval studies in the period of 450 to 1500 for Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa.
This Index covers journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages. Books written by a single author are not indexed in Feminae. The project began in 1996, however some coverage goes back to 1992.
Web resources useful for the study of women in early modern Europe and the Americas. Materials range from bibliographic databases to full-text resources, images, and sound recordings. Most of the resources linked are free, but some require a license for access.
Time span: Medieval period - 19th century.
An overview of major digitization projects of interest to scholars and students in German Studies. It focuses on retrospective digitization of older materials. For digital versions of modern reference books etc. consult, for example, the Reference Shelf.
For other bibliographies use the following subject search in Catalog:Databases
LOCATION: UMCP McKeldin Library STACKS
Call Number: PT171 .E54 1959
LOCATION: UMCP McKeldin Library STACKS
Call Number: PT175 .G46 1990
LOCATION: UMCP McKeldin Library STACKS
CALL NUMBER: PT191 .K3 1990
LOCATION UMCP McKeldin Library REFERENCE Stacks
CALL NUMBER: AI9 .I5
LOCATION: UMCP McKeldin Library REFERENCE CDROM
CALL NUMBER: Z2221.D48
Current data available on RLG - RLIN see above under Union Catalogs.
LOCATION: UMCP McKeldin Library REFERENCE Stacks
CALL NUMBER: Z1007 .I521
LOCATION: UMCP McKeldin Library REFERENCE STACKS
CALL NUMBER: Z2235.G4
LOCATION: UMCP McKeldin Library REFERENCE
CALL NUMBER: Z2231 .B5
LOCATION: UMCP McKeldin Library REFERENCE STACKS
CALL NUMBER: Z2231.A4 1969-
LOCATION: UMCP McKeldin Library Reference Stacks
CALL NUMBER: PT401 .K7
LOCATION: UMCP McKeldin Library REFERENCE STACKS
CALL NUMBER: PT167.W65 1989
LOCATION: McKeldin Library Stacks
CALL NUMBER: PT41.A4 1967
German literature - bibliography
German literature history & criticism - bibliography
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- Goethe Institut Homepage. Deutschland im Internet.
- Goethe Institut Washington
- German Embassy
- German Historical Institute
Consult the Guide:
- Citation Systems and Style Manuals
For help creating an annotated bibliography consult
- Preparing an Annotated Bibliography
