Research Guides: German Literature & Language

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Journals/Magazines

Compact Memory: Internetarchiv jüdischer Periodika Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
A portal for Jewish studies in German, includes 100 Jewish periodicals, published between 1806 and 1938.

Digi Zeitschriften Unrestricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images
Images of periodicals in Economics, English Languages, Geology, Germanic Languages, History, Law, Librarianship, Philology, Romance Languages, the Sciences, and Sociology.

Zeitschriften Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
Links to digitized pre-1930 German periodicals.

Literature Online (LION) with MLA Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only ArticleLinker enabled Some full text available
English and American poetry, drama and prose plus other world literatures (French, Spanish, German, etc.); full-text literature journals, criticism, plays, and reference resources.
Note: Cross-search MLA under Criticism & Reference

JSTOR Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only ArticleLinker enabled Some full text available Resource contains images
Complete backfiles of core scholarly journals, searchable by journal (1 or more), keywords, author, title etc. Files do not include the latest 3-5 years. The content is delivered as page images.  Results from image searches can be dragged from the website to your desktop and then used in a paper or presentation (for educational use only).

Academic Search Premier Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only ArticleLinker enabled Some full text available
Multi-disciplinary database which includes a large collection of peer-reviewed journals in many areas of academic study including: archaeology, area studies, astronomy, biology, chemistry, ethnic & multicultural studies, law, mathematics, music, physics, psychology, religion & theology, women's studies, and other fields.  Coverage varies, but begins in the 1990s for most journals.

General OneFile Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only ArticleLinker enabled Some full text available
Current journal and news information in humanities, education, business, science, art, politics, economics, social sciences, law, health care, computers, technology and environmental issues. Formerly InfoTrac OneFile.
Note: Formerly known as InfoTrac OneFile

ProQuest Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only ArticleLinker enabled Some full text available
Business, humanities, general information, social life, law etc. ABI/INFORM databases, ProQuest Newspapers, Research Library and several others.
Note: Scroll down to pick and choose your own combination of databases to search.

ERIC (Ebsco interface) Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only ArticleLinker enabled Some full text available
Bibliographic citations, abstracts, and some full-text for journal articles, research and technical reports, conference papers and proceedings, program descriptions, teaching guides, and lesson plans covering  all areas and levels of education.

Web Sites

German Internet Project = Deutsche Internet Projekte Unrestricted Resource
Website with links to German-language Internet & educational sites.

Voice of the Shuttle: Literatures other than English Unrestricted Resource
Gateway to Web sites & text collections -- African languages through the Welsh language

Language Center : Ithaca College Dept. of Modern Languages & Literatures Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only
Description of Center services, catalog by language of resources for language study, schedule of language tutoring services.

Atlases

CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
Theory and research in international affairs; working and occasional papers, research projects, conference proceedings, books, journals and policy briefs. 1991-

Bibliographies

Literature Online (LION) with MLA Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only ArticleLinker enabled Some full text available
English and American poetry, drama and prose plus other world literatures (French, Spanish, German, etc.); full-text literature journals, criticism, plays, and reference resources.
Note: Cross-search MLA under Criticism & Reference

WorldCat (via FirstSearch) Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only
WorldCat (via FirstSearch) provides bibliographic information for over 41 million books and multimedia owned by libraries worldwide.

Biographical Information

ADB/NDB: Allgemeine deutsche Biographie, Neue deutsche Biographie Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
Biographical database of 90,000 Germanic individuals, from the Middle Ages to the present, in all sectors of the public, scientific, economic and cultural life. ADB contains the digitized print edition (55 volumes and index, 1875-1912, Fraktur typeface). NDB contains citations only, no full text, for its 23 volumes, 1953-present.

Dictionaries

Beolingus Unrestricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images Resource contains video Resource contains audio
More than 900,000 translations with examples and hints, explanations, synonyms, sayings, aphorisms, and quotations in English and German. Browse lists for special topics. Listen to German and English pronunciations spoken by native speakers.

Wahrig's Deutsches Wörterbuch Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
Search Wahrig's Deutsches Wörterbuch online through this online German portal.

Deutsches Wörterbuch / Gerhard Wahrig
Call Number: REF PF3625 .W137 2000
Unrestricted Resource
German-German standard dictionary for contemporary usage.

The Friendly German-English dictionary
Call Number: REF PF3640 .B85 1996
Unrestricted Resource
German-English dictionary of colloquial German usage & slang

German<->English Dictionary / TU Chemnitz Unrestricted Resource
German-English, English-German online dictionary

Klett's modern German and English dictionary Unrestricted Resource
German-English, English-German dictionary with brief grammar

Langenscheidts enzyklopädisches Wörterbuch
Call Number: REF PF3640.L258
Unrestricted Resource
Major German-English, English-German dictionary

Oxford Duden German dictionary
Call Number: REF PF3640 .O94 1997
Unrestricted Resource
German-English, English-German contemporary dictionary.

Diccionarios.com online / Editorial Spes Unrestricted Resource
Free contemporary dictionaries - Spanish-Spanish, Catalan-Spanish, Spanish-English, English-Spanish, French & German to Spanish, Spanish to French & German.

German-English dictionary of idioms
Call Number: REF PF3460 .S345 1995
Unrestricted Resource
German idiomatic vocabulary.

Oxford Reference: Bilingual Dictionaries Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only
Bilingual dictionaries, including specialized vocabularies, for: French, German, Italian, Spanish, Irish, Welsh

Patterson's German-English Dictionary for Chemists
Call Number: QD5 .P3 1992
Unrestricted Resource
Specialized German-English dictionary

Routledge German dictionary of business, commerce and finance
Call Number: REF HF1002 .R685 1997
Unrestricted Resource
German-English dictionary of economics & business

Routledge German technical dictionary
Call Number: REF T10 .R683 1996
Unrestricted Resource
German-English, English-German dictionary for scientific & technical terms

Lexicool.com Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
Directory of online bilingual and multilingual dictionaries and glossaries freely available on the Internet. Intended for translators, linguists, language students and all those interested in foreign languages.

Directories

MLA Directory of Publications Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
Incl. 7,100+ titles; of these, 4,400+ are currently indexed. The entries list editorial addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers, e-mail addresses, frequency of publication, descriptions of the periodicals' scopes, circulation figures, subscription prices and addresses, advertising information, and submission guidelines. The directory also provides statistics on how many articles and book reviews the periodicals publish each year, as well as how many are submitted.

E-books

Vorleser Unrestricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains audio
German language audiobooks in mp3, from around 150 authors. Mostly German and European literature, with text links often included. For download at CD quality.

Encyclopedias

Encyclopedia of contemporary German culture
Call Number: REF DD290.26.E53 1999
Unrestricted Resource
Encylopedic entries on 20th century German art, literature, popular culture, etc.

Encyclopedia of German literature
Call Number: REF PT41.E63 2000
Unrestricted Resource
Encyclopedia entries on German writers, literary movements, etc.

Historical dictionary of Judaism / Norman Solomon
Call Number: REF BM50 .S65 1998
Unrestricted Resource
Brief historical information on Jewish history.

Oxford companion to German literature
Call Number: REF PT41.G37
Unrestricted Resource
Encyclopedia-style entries on German writers, literary movements, literary topics, etc.

Handbooks & Guides

MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers
Call Number: REF LB2369 .G53 2003
Unrestricted Resource
The Modern Language Association guide to writing research papers in the Humanities, covering grammar & punctuation, formatting, and citation.

MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing
Call Number: REF PN147 .G444 1998
Unrestricted Resource
The Modern Language Association guide to the basics of scholarly writing, the preparation of dissertations, and the publication of journal articles and books.

Twayne's Authors Series Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
Full-text biographies and literary criticism of authors (ancient to modern); discussion of literary genres and literary movements.

Images

fotoerbe.de Unrestricted Resource Resource contains images
German historical photograph site.

ARTstor Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available Resource contains images
Database of more than 1,000,000 digital images representing visual and material culture across cultures and time periods. Documents the fields of architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design, as well as many other forms of visual culture. ARTstor tools enable the ability to save groups of images online for personal and classroom use. IC's Visual Resources Collection (VRC) of over 20,000 images is now available. Look for the Ithaca College-Visual Resouces Collection link in the lower middle section of the page.

Newspapers--International

Der Spiegel Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
Noted German weekly; online daily news free


Call Number: PER AP30 .S66
Unrestricted Resource

LexisNexis Academic Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
Full-text access to continuously updated news; German language sources in "Deutsche Presse". Use link in "Tips" (to right of screen)

Eufeeds Unrestricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images Resource contains video Resource contains audio
News feeds from 300 European newspapers, organized by country

Kidon Media Link Unrestricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images Resource contains video Resource contains audio
Links to 18,776 newspapers and other news sources from almost every country and territory in the world.

Foreign Language News and Magazines Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
Links to electronic newspapers, journals, and magazines from around the world. Compiled by MIT Libraries.

Imooty Unrestricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images Resource contains video Resource contains audio
European news navigator

Organizations

American Association of Teachers of German Unrestricted Resource
Information on Association activities, teaching resources, & jobs for teachers of German.

Primary Sources

The Online Books Page Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
25,000 e-texts, search by Title, Author, or Subject; browse by LC Call Number.

The Online Medieval & Classical Library Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
Berkeley Digital Library e-texts of important literary works of medieval and classical civilization.

Project Gutenberg Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
Full text books. 13,000+ e-books.

Video

Europa Film Treasures Unrestricted Resource Resource contains video
A film initiative from the Treasures of European Archives project that provides free streaming films. The films date from 1895 to the present and are representative of film efforts in Europe and the Americas.