Subject Guide: German Language and
Literature
INDEXES | REFERENCE WORKS | WEB LINKS | PERIODICALS
This page is intended to introduce a few select resources,
both on the Weband in the Smith Library Center print
collection, that are particularlyuseful for the study
of German language, literature, and culture.
INDEXES
NOTE: Students researching in languages
other than English should allow enough
time (usually about 10 working days)
for interlibrary
loan of any foreign language articles
from journals to which the library
does not subscribe.
Multiple Languages, including German
Most of the online indexes listed below
are predominantly English-language,
butthey all include some materials
in German.
ArtAbstracts
Arts & Humanities
Search
ATLA
Religion Database with ATLASerials
Humanities
Abstracts
International Index to
the Performing Arts (IIPA)
JSTOR
MLA
International Bibliography
The Philosopher's
Index
Project MUSE
Women's
Studies International
WorldCat
Literary Sources
For information on authors who write
in other languages, try the sources
below, and look at the library's guides
to Literary Criticism, Author Biography,
Book Reviews, or Literature (use the navigation
buttons on the left of this page).
Gale Literary
Index
For author research, begin with this index. You can
search by author'sname, title of a work, or author's
nationality. Your results list willgive you citations
to works in English the library may own. Please checkyour
citations in the library catalog.
Literature
Resource Center
Biographical, bibliographical, and contextual information
in English onauthors and their works, including authors
of fiction, non-fiction,poetry, drama, history, and
journalism. Access to many of Gale's literarysources,
including; Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of LiteraryBiography,
and Contemporary Literary Criticism Select.
Voice
of theShuttle: Literatures Other
Than English: German
Sites concerned with literature written in German.
REFERENCE WORKS
To find printed reference material
relevant to your topic start with the library's Voyager
catalog. Do a Reference Materials
search using keywords to describe your
topic.
Below are a few titles to get you
started. To double-check call numberand
location information, search the Voyager catalog.
Autorenlexikon deutschsprachiger
Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts
REFERENCE, 1st floor 830.9 Au82
Collins German-English, English-German
dictionary, 4th ed.
REFERENCE, 1st floor 433.21 C693 2003
Deutsche biographische Enzyklopîdie
(DBE). English. Dictionary of German
biography (DGB)
REFERENCE, 1st floor 920.043 D489
Deutsches Worterbuch : mit einem "Lexikon
der Deutschen Sprachlehre"
REFERENCE, 1st floor 433 W129d
WEB LINKS
German
GermanicResources
Links to sites for German media, literature and language, country/citytours, and more. From University of Wisconsin-Madison.
DeutschsprachigeSuchmachinen
Search engines and directories dedicated
to one or more German speakingcountries.
WESSWeb: German
Studies Web
Varied resources for German Studies. Links to newspapers,
primary resources, journals, book reviews,online
text collections, etc. Maintained by the Western
EuropeanSpecialists Section of the Association of
College and ResearchLibraries.
Yahoo! Deutschland
Yahoo! for Germany; in German.
Multiple Languages, including German
ComFM's LiveRadio
on the Internet
Access to homepages of radio stations from around
the world, and whenpossible, to live Internet broadcasts.
ComFM's LiveTV on
the Internet
Access to homepages of tv stations from around the
world, and whenpossible, to live Internet broadcasts.
Linguist
List--Web Resource Listings--Dictionaries=
Multi-language dictionaries, with links to other
language-related sites. Site maintained by Eastern
Michigan University and Wayne State University.
Ethnologue
World language research, maps, and
more. Catalogs over6,700 languages
spoken in 228 countries.
iLoveLanguages
Language-learning resources arranged
by topic.
Online
Newspapers
Electronic editions of newspapers from around the
world, by country.
PERIODICALS
To find holdings and location information
for specific periodicaltitles (both
print and online), search the Voyager catalog.
To find citations or online full-text
for articles in periodicals onyour
topic, try the resources listed above
under Indexes. |
