German Studies
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Finding Articles or Translations (major sources for each category are shaded)
Online indexes, databases
Academic Onefile
Academic OneFile includes a high percentage of peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, this database indexes over 8000 titles and includes full text for over 5000 titles
Academic Search Complete
Multidisciplinary database that includes some full-text articles. Offers fulltext coverage for 1,000 journals and indexing for 3,000 journals. (Fulltext: 1992 to present) (Indexing: 1980 to present)
Academic Universe (Lexis Nexis)
Includes general topic news, as well as company, industry, market, government and political news. Gives fulltext coverage for many German newspapers and business information sources. These include: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Lebensmittel Zeitung, Taz, die tageszeitung, and Wirtschaftswoche.
Arts and Humanities Citation Index
Multidisciplinary database. Allows for general searches (for articles), and for citation searches (to see how many times a given article/book/author has been cited, and by whom). An extremely powerful resource. Coverage 1990 to date. No fulltext. For earlier coverage see the print version in Main Reference, Call Number Z5937 A788.
Bibliographie der deutschen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft
This database (the Bibliography of German literature and literary studies) indexes books, book chapters and articles on German language, literature and linguistics from 1985-present. An excellent resource! Previously only available on CD and in print [1945-1985 - Main Ref. Z2231 B5]. No fulltext.
Global Newsbank
Online access to international news in translations, including news from Germany and other German speaking countries. Includes Reuters, Deutche Press-Agentur, and the BBC, among dozens of other sources. Fulltext coverage back to 1993.
Historical Abstracts
Indexes hundreds of journals dealing with non-North American subjects. No fulltext. Coverage back to 1955.
Humanities International Complete
Bibliographic coverage of humanities literature.
InfoTRAC Onefile
An interdisciplinary index to journals in humanities, social sciences and natural sciences. Indexes 9,000 journals, magazines of interest plus the New York Times, 5,000 of which are available with at least some fulltext. Coverage: varies by title. A significant amount in fulltext. Replaces Expanded Academic ASAP
Internationale Bibliographie der Rezensionen Wissenschaftlicher Literatur = International Bibliography of Book Reviews of Scholarly Literature
An important source for West European scholarly reviews of books. Also in availalbe in print in Main Ref. AI9 I61
Internationale Bibliographie der Zeitschriftenliteratur = International Bibliography of Periodical Literature
An important source for citation information for West European scholarly articles. Also in availalbe in print in Main Ref. (with older volumes in the stacks) AI9 B7
Literature Resource Center
A database containing much of Gale's Contemporary Authors, and Literary Criticism series as well as many others. Provides good, basic biographic, bibliographic, and critical information and resources on authors and works from nearly all cultures and periods. Many critical works, even those published contemporaneously with the literary works from the 19th and early 20th centuries are available fulltext.
MLA Bibliography
Database of articles on literature, literary criticism, and linguistics. Coverage: 1963 to date. No fulltext. Note: The print version of this index for 1970-1975 at
Call Number P1 M64 [Main Ref] contain abstracts of the articles for those years which are not included in the online database.
Social Sciences Citation Index
Multidisciplinary database. Allows for general searches (for articles), and for citation searches (to see how many times a given article/book/author has been cited, and by whom). An extremely powerful resource. Coverage 1990 to date. No fulltext. For earlier coverage see the print version in Main Reference Z7161 S673
Gender Studies Database
Index with some links to full text which combines Women's Studies International, Men's Studies and sexual diversity studies. Source documents include professional journals, conference papers, books, book chapters, government reports, discussion and working papers and theses and dissertations.
Select print indexes, bibliographies
Bibliographie der deutschen Zeitschriften-literatur. -AI9 .B5
Index to Book Reviews in the Humanities - Z1035 A1 I63 Main Ref.
A source for book reviews, covering the years 1960-1990.
Index to Social Sciences and Humanities Proceedings. - Z7161 .I58 Main Ref.
Indexes proceedings in the social sciences and humanities. A valuable resource, as proceedings, congresses, conference papers, etc. are often not indexed in other sources.
Kritisches Lexikon zur deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur (KLG) - PT155 .K757 1978 Main Ref.
A multi-volume set covering authors from German-speaking countries from 1945 to the present. Entries consist of biographies and critical overviews of the works.
The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies - PB1 .Y45 Main Ref (Earlier issues in Main stacks)
Indexes a surprising number of periodicals in and about German, often with excellent, brief abstracts. Publication tends to run several years behind, but well worth the wait.
Strategies for finding print bibliographies
Union Lists
Gesamtverzeichnis des deutschsprachigen Schrifttums : (GV), 1911-1965. -Z2221 .G48
Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog
Offers a simultaneous search of as many as 75 millions books and serials in library and book trade catalogs worldwide, including the Library of Congress, the National Library of France, half a dozen major libraries in Germany and Austria, and the British Union Catalog, among others.
WorldCat
A union catalog for more than 2000 libraries around the world, including all major research libraries and many public libraries in the US and Canada. Provides a very detailed search interface for focused searches. Updated daily.
Finding translations
A bibliography of German literature in English translation P25 .W6 no.16
A critical bibliography of German literature in English translation, 1481-1927, with supplement embracing the years 1928-1935, Z2234.T7 M8 1938
German literature in English translation : a select bibliography Z2234.T7 O53
Index Translationum. - Z6514.T7 I4 Main Ref
An international index of translations, providing citation information for translations of works from and into most major languages and many less common languages. Unfortunately, the latest copy issue is from 1986. A valuable resource all the same. Earlier volumes are at Z6514. T7 I4. Online at http://www.unesco.org/culture/xtrans/
A selected bibliography of German literature in English translation, 1956-1960, Z2234.T7 S6
Other sources for translated German works
Electronic newspapers and journals online
JSTOR
On-line access to back files of journal articles, some dating well into the 19th century. The full content of the database (every word on every page) is fulltext searchable. Includes, Eighteenth Century Studies (1967-1995), ELH (1934-1994), The Journal of Modern History (1929-1999), MLN (1962-1994), and Modern Language Notes (1886-1961), among dozens of others.
Kluwer
Online access to the fulltext of numerous journals, relevant to German Studies. These include: Central European History, Continuun, Critical Quarterly, Debatte, International Journal of Cultural Studies, Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics, Neophilologus, Orbis Litterarum, and Studies in East European Thought.
Project Muse (Online journals in the Humanities)
Offers access to a large number of fulltext journals in the humanities, especially cultural studies, and multidisciplinary studies. Titles include: Boundary2, Cinema Journal, Camera Obscura, Comparative Literature Studies, Criticism, Cultural Critique, Diacritics, Discourse, Differences, Eighteenth Century Life, Eighteenth Century Studies, Journal of Modern Literature, Language, The Lion and the Unicorn, MLN, MLQ, Modern Fiction Studies, Modernism/Modernity, New Literary History [NLH], Poetics Today, Postmodern Culture, Public Culture, Wide Angle, World Politics, and Yale Journal of Criticism.
Electronic texts
Brechts Werke im WWW
Fulltext of Bertold Brechts Werke (selected works in six volumes).
Die Deutsche Lyrik im WWW
Fulltext german poetry, criticism, and biography, 17th-20th centuries.
Goethes Werke im WWW
The complete text of the 143 volumes of the Weimar Edition of Goethe's collected works, published 1887-1919.
Kafkas Werke im WWW
Fulltext of the critical edition of Kafka's complete works, Franz Kafka, Kritische Ausgabe Schriften und Tagebücher, of which the first volume was published in 1982.
LitLinks
This site links to the fulltext of works by German writers from all literary periods. Very comprehensive. Worth a look!
Past Masters Fulltext Humanities Databases
Provides fulltext databases and electronic scholarly editions in Philosphy, Politics, and Humanties. Many German authors (both in English translation and in the vernacular) are included.
Schillers Werke im WWW
Fulltext of Schiller's complete works.