German Language and Literature Subject Guide

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Indexes

   General

Wilson Web OmniFile A multidisciplinary database providing abstracts and some full-text. Use SearchPlus to limit to a specific Subject Area or to filter results for peer-reviewed journals only.

Academic Search Complete Academic Search Complete is a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 9,810 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. Full text coverage of information in: archaeology, area studies, astronomy, biology, chemistry, ethnic & multicultural studies, general science, geography, law, mathematics, music, physics, psychology, religion & theology, women's studies, and other fields. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for nearly 1,000 journals.

Britannica Online Full-text of the Encyclopedia Britannica including photos, drawings, flags, biographies, and geographical articles. Also includes the Merriam-Webster Dictionary.

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   Subject

Essay and General Literature Index cites essays and articles contained in collections of essays and miscellaneous works published in the U.S., Great Britain, and Canada.

MLA International Bibliography, a database of citations to materials in literature, linguistics and languages.

NOTE: To locate Periodicals in Abell Library, search using the "Periodical Title" field in the online catalog. Check the record(s) to determine Location.

E-Sources

   Journals

Project Muse Index of periodicals published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Most are available in full-text.

   Reference Works

GaleNet Databases includes Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, Dictionary of Literary Biography.

Literature Resource Center includes contains information on both classical and contemporary authors and their works. Obtain over 130,000 biographies of authors, bibliographies of all they have written, over 40,000 critical essays and more than 6000 work overviews, plot summaries, and explications. Search by the author's name, the title of the work, or even by the title of the periodical or journal that is part of the database

   Books

netLibrarycollection of full-text electronic books (ebooks) includes a wide variety of subject content from both popular and scholarly texts. Users can search across the entire eBook collection for authors, titles, or keywords, and they can search within books for keywords and phrases. Users may read or browse through ebooks for an unlimited amount of time. A title may be unavailable temporarily when all NetLibrary copies are in use by other patrons.

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About the Catalog

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Some subject headings used for this discipline are listed below. For additional headings, refer to the Library of Congress Subject Headings volumes located behind the Reference Desk.

• German drama
• German fiction
• German language--Dictionaries
• German literature--20th century

Internet Sites

• 19th-Century German Stories Features works with illustrations and translations of Wilhelm Busch, the Brothers Grimm, and Heinrich Hoffman.

• Der Spiegel the weekly German news magazine covering politics, business, science and industry, culture and sports, and the media - in German.

• WESSWEB - German Studies Page, a selective group of scholarly resources covering history, literature, politics, and performing arts.

• YourDictionary.com - German   Links to a variety of German and German-English dictionaries.

About the Department

   German Department

   Citing Sources

Refer to the following book on Reserve:

• MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 6th edition (LB2369 .G53 2003)

or click on Style Manuals to locate guidelines for using correct MLA citation format.