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German Language & Literature

Librarian Subject Specialist

Michael Winter
mfwinter@ucdavis.edu — (530) 752‑3058 — Humanities, Social Sciences, and Government Information Services (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hss/)
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Subject Specific Databases

Germanistik: Internationales Referatenorgan mit bibliographischen Hinweisen.
Quarterly, partially annotated bibliography. Systematically organized. To be used in conjuction with the MLA Bibliography and Bibliographie der deutschen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft, covering recent publications. Contains name and subject index. Print publication is from 1960 forwards, CD-ROM version covers 1998 - 2001.
Coverage: 1960-present.
Location: H/SS/GIS Reference Z2235 A2 G4
MLA International Bibliography [via Proquest] (http://search.proquest.com/mlaib/advanced) [Restricted] VPN
The Modern Language Association International Bibliography (MLAIB) covers international scholarly materials on all languages, literatures, linguistics, and folklore from around the world. It includes citations to items from journals, series, books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies. MLAIB does not index book reviews.
Coverage: 1926-present
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Periodicals Index Online (PIO) (http://uclibs.org/PID/6848) [Restricted] VPN
Periodicals Index Online is a retrospective database (1665-1995); over 300 philosophy titles are included. It also provides access to a smaller set of titles in fulltext electronic form.
Coverage: 1665-1995
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Retrospektive Digitalisierung wissenschaftlicher Rezensionsorgane und Literaturzeitschriften des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts aus dem deutschen Sprachraum (http://www.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/diglib/aufklaerung/index.htm)
Open access site with fulltext of 45 German language periodicals from the Enlightenment.
Coverage: 18th and 19th century
Lexikon des Mittelalters [CD-ROM]
An encyclopedia of the Middle Ages (in German).
Location: Humanities/Social Sciences Reference, 2nd Floor Shields Library, Workstation "BERLIN"

General Databases

Dissertation Abstracts International / Dissertations & Theses [via ProQuest] (http://uclibs.org/PID/11984) [Restricted] VPN
Online access to citations and abstracts for every title in the UMI Dissertation Abstracts database; since 1997, provides full-text access to dissertations. Access is free to UC Campus dissertations.
Coverage: 1861-present
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Europeana: Europe's Digital Library (http://www.europeana.eu)

Direct access to several million digital objects: film,photos, paintings, sound recordings, maps, manuscripts, books,newspapers and archival papers.

Selected from already digitized resources available in Europe's museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual collections. French and German cultural institutions are particularly well-represented.

Hochschulschriften [CD-ROM]

An index to German dissertations, 1945-1997

(Tip: To exit, hit Shift F1.)

Coverage: 1945-1997
Location: H/SS/GIS Reference Workstation "BERLIN"
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  • OPAC of the Deutsche Bibliothek Frankfurt am Main (http://d-nb.de/eng/sammlungen/index.htm)
    Note: The OPAC of the Deutsche Bibliothek Frankfurt am Main lists virtually all postwar German dissertations and Habilitationsschriften. Enter your search term followed by "diss" e.g. Goethe diss.
International Medieval Bibliography (http://www.brepolis.net) [Restricted] VPN
Provides the most comprehensive, current bibliography of international scholarly literature in Medieval Studies available.
Coverage: 1967-present
Date: updated quarterly
Location: print equivalent is in the Humanities/Social Sciences Reference Collection
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Full-Text Resources

Das Historische Lexikon Bayerns (http://www.historisches-lexikon-bayerns.de/base/start)
A continuously-updated online encyclopedia of Bavarian history. Aimed at a scholarly audience. A collaborative venture of the Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek and numerous scholars affiliated with the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften.
Coverage: Focus is on 19th and 20th century
Digitale Bibliothek Deutscher Klassiker im WWW (http://klassiker.chadwyck.com/) [Restricted] VPN
Access to a canonical collection of literature in German spanning eleven centuries. Covers the work of more than thirty authors, including early texts such as Lancelot and Ginover and Wolfram von Eschenbach, editions of important authors such as Herder, Kleist, and Büchner, and the works of philosophers such as Kant, Schleiermacher, and Fichte. Collections of historical, philosophical, theological, political and art history texts add context and background material.
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  • Help (http://klassiker.chadwyck.com/english/help/hlp_index.htm)
Monumenta Germaniae Historica (MGH) (http://www.dmgh.de/)
Critically-edited (Latin and premodern German language) primary sources for the study of German and central European history from late antiquity to 1500 CE.
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  • Hard copy volumes are located on the Lower Level of Shields at DD3 M8 P6.
  • In German.
Digital version of Aufbau: 1951-2004 [periodical] (http://archive.org/details/aufbau)

The Aufbau was a journal for German-speaking Jews around the globe. It was founded in 1934 by the German-Jewish Club, which was later renamed the New World Club. It was published in New York until April 2004. Contributors to the Aufbau included many of the most prominent German literary, political, and scientific figures in exile, including Jews and non-Jews, such as Hannah Arendt, Albert Einstein, Stefan Zweig, Thomas Mann, Fritz von Unruh, Carl Zuckmayer, Franz Werfel, and Lion Feuchtwanger.  Later contributors included prominent Germans such as Ralph Giordano, Jens Reich, and Stefan Heym.

The original purpose of the journal was as a monthly newsletter for the German-Jewish club, which included information and helpful facts for Jewish refugees. The Aufbau became one of the leading anti-Nazi publications of the German press in exile. From September 1, 1944 through September 27, 1946, the Aufbau printed numerous lists of Jewish Holocaust survivors located in Europe, as well as a few lists of victims.

Date: 1951-2004
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  • The Aufbau Indexing Project (http://www.calzareth.com/aufbau/index.html)
    Database containing about 57,000 names that can be used as index terms to search the Aufbau file mentioned above. The goal of the project is to "index all the announcements of birth, engagement, marriage, death and other special occasions that appeared in the pages of Aufbau..."
Regesta Imperii. Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz (http://www.regesta-imperii.de/materialien.html)
Author: Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz

The Regesta Imperii are a fundamental collection of primary sources for the study of European history, and an inventory of all archival and historiographic sources of the monarchs of the Holy Roman Empire ,from the Carolingian Age (9th century CE)to the time of Maximilian I(d. 1519). They include, as well, key records for the study of the papacy in the early and high middle ages. For a detailed table of contents and other information on using the resource, see http://www.regesta-imperii.de/sitemap.html.

Die Regesta Imperii sind ein Quellenwerk zur europäischen Geschichte.Sie sind das Inventar aller urkundlichen und historiographischen Quellen der römisch-deutschen Könige von den Karolingern bis zu Maximilian I. sowie der Päpste des frühen und hohen Mittelalters.

Date: 9th CE century to 1519 CE

Encyclopedias & Dictionaries

Dictionary of the History of Ideas [Digital Version] (http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/DicHist/dict.html)
The Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas(DHI),in five volumes and edited by Philip P. Wiener, was published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, in 1973-74 (Shields Library CB5 .D52) This e-version is made available through the University of Virginia's Electronic Text Center.
LEO: German-English, English-German, German-French, and French-German Online Dictionary (http://dict.leo.org)
A free service of the Technical University of Munich. At somewhere near 500,000 entries LEO is the online dictionary of choice for users of the above-named languages(substantial one volume hardcopy dictionaries contain between 120,000 and 150,000 entries, so a source like this is comparable to significantly larger multivolume dictionaries). Currently expanding its coverage to include Spanish, Italian, and Chinese, making it even more valuable to comparativists.

Other Resources

Gale Literature Resource Center (http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/ucdavis?db=LitRC) [Restricted] Proxy Server
Full-text biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Combines core literary resources such as Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, and the Dictionary of Literary Biography
Internet Movie Database (http://www.imdb.com)
Freely available site that indexes film and television information, including characters, settings, and actors. Also provides links to some external reviews.
Reference Reviews Europe Online (http://rre.casalini.it/) [Restricted] VPN
C.300 English-language reviews of some 500 European reference titles. Much of the content consists of abstracts in English of reviews that originally appeared in the German journal Informationsmittel:IFB, edited by Klaus Schreiber of the Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart. German-language publications predominate, but titles in French, Icelandic, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, and Spanish are also covered. The "Special Reports" feature offers reviews surveying reference works in a particular topic area.
Coverage: 1994--present
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