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German language and literature are represented in the University Libraries of Notre Dame by books, serials, microforms, audio-visual materials and electronic resources. The focus of collecting is the literature of German-speaking Europe, its history and criticism, and resources focusing on the German language. The E. H. and Suzanne Arnold Family Endowment for Germanic Studies and The Merrill B. Frick Family Endowment for German Studies generously provide supplemental support for the development of these collections.

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Recommended Resources (All Resources: 66 databases | 29 e-journals )

• Bibliographie der deutschen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft

  
  
  The BDSL provides free access to citations from 1985 to ten years prior to the current reporting year. On the average, 15,000 entries are annually added from monographs, omnibus volumes, journals, newspapers and reviews of primary literature. For current citations, consult the paper holdings in Hesburgh Library at PT 85 .B53.

• Electronic Journals for German Language and Literature

  
  
  Full-text electronic journals for German literature and German philology. Many of these are also held in paper format in the Hesburgh Library. Check the online catalog for call numbers and holdings.

• German Studies Conferences and Job Openings

  
  
  Current listing of conferences related to German Studies, and links to job opening lists and sites

• German Studies Web

  
  
  A wealth of reference and research resources for German Studies, recommended by librarians under the auspices of the Association of College and Research Libraries, Western European Studies Section

• German-English/English-German Online Dictionary

  
  
  LEO (Link Everything Online) is a German-English and English-German online dictionary with over 400,000 entries.

• Literature resource center

  
  
  Provides biographical, bibliographical, and critical content on literary figures from all time periods; draws on Gale Group's Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, and Dictionary of Literary Biography; selected full text from Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism; includes full text of numerous literary journals and periodicals.

• MagillOnLiterature

  
  
  Includes the complete contents of 31 sets of reference books, including nearly 20 Masterplots and Masterplots II titles, the Cyclopedia of world authors, the Cyclopedia of literary characters, as well as 10 years of Magill's literary annual and Magill book reviews.

• MLA international bibliography

  
  

  Coverage:

  1926-
  The MLA International Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literatures provides citations of journal articles, books, and dissertations published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. Coverage is international and subjects include literature, language and linguistics, literary theory, dramatic arts, folklore, and film since 1926.

• Oxford language dictionaries online

  
  

• PCI full text (see Periodicals archive online) - Full text searchable collection of 350+ journals

  
  

• Periodicals Archive Online (formerly: PCI Full Text)

  
  

  Coverage:

  Beginning thru 1995.
  Full text searchable journal collection of 350+ periodicals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences (a subset of Periodicals index online). See Periodicals index online for more extensive indexing and links to selected full text articles.

• Periodicals index online

  
  

  Coverage:

  Beginning thru 1995
  Index to millions of articles in over 4,500 periodicals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences published beginning 1770 or subsequently; scope is worldwide, covering major Western languages. Complete PCI Index, including links to selected full text articles. Only the index is searchable.

• Recent Acquisitions in German Language and Literature

  
  
  Titles cataloged in the last 30 days. Does not include German-language publications in disciplines outside German literature and language studies.

• Verzeichnis lieferbarer Bücher (German books in print)

  
  
  Detailed information on all in-print titles from the German-speaking countries

Other Language and Literature, German Resources

General and local information: Calculators, converters and currency

Organizations: Associations, societies and institutes · Publishers and booksellers

Formats: Dissertations and theses · Electronic books and texts · Electronic journals · Manuscripts · Maps and GIS · Printed books

Research tools: Bibliographies · Biographies · Catalogs · Citation tools · Dictionaries · Directories · Encyclopedias · Guides and finding aids · Indexes and abstracts · Reviews (book, film, etc.) · Tutorials

E-Journal Collections: Blackwell Synergy · Cambridge University Press · Duke University Press · HighWire Press · IngentaConnect · Johns Hopkins Univ. Press · JSTOR · OUP (Oxford Univ. Press) · Periodicals Archive Online (formerly: PCI Full Text) · Project Muse · Taylor & Francis

Genres: Drama · Fiction · Poetry