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University of Virginia Library
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The most comprehensive listing of books and articles about German literature and language. See Find Articles for older information and for bibliographies in paper format.
Lists books plus articles and essays from journals and books on literature, linguistics, and folklore. Before 1956 covered only scholarship published in North America. Also searchable through Literature Resource Center.
Search for articles and book reviews in over 5000 international humanities and social sciences journals, including many in German, published from 1665 to the 1990s. Includes titles in Periodicals Archive Online and JSTOR.
Finds reviews of films and articles on theory, preservation and restoration, writing, production, cinematography, and technical aspects of both film and television in the US and internationally.
Provides plot summaries and full cast and crew lists for films plus selected articles and books about them.
Summaries of Feuilleton pages and book reviews from major newspapers. Searchable index of and links to book reviews from major German newspapers. For more search options, choose "Suche" on the menu bar.
Select "News pages" then Austria, Germany, or Switzerland from the pull-down menu to browse daily issues of recent newspapers; use "Search" to find older articles. Logout at the end of a session to avoid problems connecting the next time.
Links to all types of news sources from German-speaking Europe.
Includes the MLA International Bibliography, the lengthy critical essays with bibliographies from the Dictionary of Literary Biography, biographical/bibliographical data from Contemporary Authors, and other information.
Internet research tools for German studies. Other useful Web guides with different approaches include Germanistik im Internet and Germanistische Fachinformationen im WWW. Mediaevum.de offers a wide range of links and bibliographies for medieval studies.
German version of the encyclopedia produced by volunteers. Often very useful, but information, especially on controversial topics, should be verified before it's used.
Online catalog of books and other materials in thousands of libraries in North America and some other countries.
Search many German and other European library catalogs.
Search some larger German collections such as zeno.org, Projekt Gutenberg and ALO-Austrian Literature Online:
Google Book Search (full text search not effective for books in Fraktur):
For sites devoted to specific authors see FU-Berlin. For a list of book collections see Erlangen. Though far from complete, the Zentrales Verzeichnis digitalisierter Drucke is also useful for individual titles.
Full text (PDF) of most North American dissertations accepted from 1997 on, some earlier works and some master's theses. Also lists dissertations and theses accepted from 1861 on in the US and at some Canadian, British, and other European universities. Abstracts included after July, 1980.
German dissertations are available to UVa through InterLibrary Loan from the Center for Research Libraries.
