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Contact Information:
Lars Meyer
German Studies Librarian
404 727-2437
lars.meyer@emory.edu
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Locating Materials at Emory and Elsewhere
Locating Materials at Emory and Elsewhere

To find book, sound recordings, movies, etc. located at any of Emory's libraries, search EUCLID, Emory's online library catalog. Many online resources are also searchable in EUCLID.

The contents of books and articles are not searchable in EUCLID. Read Finding a Journal Article in the Woodruff Library.

A sample list of LC subject headings for German language and literature follows:

German Language
German Language Dictionaries
German Literature [Early Modern 1500-1700; 18th-century; Jewish Authors; etc.]
German Literature [Biography; Drama; Criticism and Interpretation; Translations into English, etc.]
German Literature [Austria; East Germany; etc.]

 
Resources At Emory

Dictionaries

A. Language

LEO English-German Dictionary
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Brockhaus Wahrig: deutsches Wörterbuch in sechs Bänden
General Reference PF3625 .B7

Duden: Das Grosse Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache in 6 Bänden
General Reference PF3625 .G75

DTV-Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
General PF3625 .D7

Illustriertes Lexikon der deutschen Umgangssprache: in 8 Bänden
General Reference PF3815 .K87

Collins German/English, English/German dictionary, unabridged.
Reference PF3640 .C68 2004

The Oxford-Duden German dictionary: German-English, English-German.
General Reference PF3640 .O94 1999

A practical dictionary of German usage. K.B. Beaton
General Reference PF3460 .B35 1996

B. Historical

Deutsches Wörterbuch. von Jacob Grimm und Wilhelm Grimm; hrsg. von der Deutschen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin in Zusammenarbeit mit der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen.
General Reference PF3625 .G7 1966

German lexicography in the European context: a descriptive bibliography of printed dictionaries and word lists containing German language (1600-1700). William Jervis Jones.
General Z2235 .D6 J66 2000

Frühneuhochdeutsches Glossar. Alfred Götze.
General PF4591 .G6

C. Etymological

Zur Wortwahl in der frühneuhochdeutschen Schriftsprache. Karl von Bahder.
German language--Early modern, 1500-1700--Etymology.
General PF3585 .B34

Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache. Friedrich Kluge.
General Reference PF3580 .K48 1989

Also search EUCLID for:

German language Etymology Dictionaries or German language Etymology, for a more general search

 

Bibliographies

A. National

Deutsche Nationalbibliographie [CD-ROM]. (1986-1992) Herausgeber, die Deutsche Bibliothek. Contains records of all imprints listed in the printed volumes of the Deutsche Nationalbibliographie from 1986-
General Reference CD-ROM 130 Guide; Reference CD-ROM 130

Deutsche Bibliothek Database, available via Eureka, the Research Libraries Group union catalog. Follow link under "Other Eureka Databases."

Verzeichnis lieferbarer Bücher. (German books in print 1971-present) Verlag der Buchhändler-Vereinigung.
General Z2221 .V4

Oesterreichische Bibliographie. Reihe A, Verzeichnis der österreichischen Neuerscheinungen. Publication info: Wien : Hauptverband der osterreichischen Buchhandels (1987-present)
Currently semimonthly with annual cumulations and indices. Includes university and other non-trade publications.
Online at http://www.onb.ac.at and http://bibliographie.onb.ac.at/biblio/
Older, print volumes are shelved in General Z2105 .O3

Schweizer Bücherverzeichnis : Katalog der Schweizerischen Landesbibliothek = Répertoire du livre suisse : Catalogue de la bibliothèque nationale suisse = Elenco del libro svizzero: Catalogo della biblioteca nazionale svizzera. (1948-1975)
Continues, in a changed form: Schweizerische Landesbibliothek. Katalog der Schweizerischen Landesbibliothek, Bern.
General Z949 .B56

Internationale Bibliographie der geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Zeitschriftenliteratur : IBZ = International bibliography of periodical literature on the humanities and social sciences = Bibliographie internationale de la littérature périodique dans les domaines des sciences humaines et sociales.
Formed by the union of Bibliographie der deutschen Zeitschriftenliteratur, and Bibliographie der fremdsprachigen Zeitschriftenliteratur
. (1965-present)
General AI9 .I6

B. Linguistic and Literary Bibliographies

The Germanic languages. R. C. Alston
General Reference Z2015 .A2 A4

Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft. Koehler & Volckmar, Fachbibliographien
General Z7001 .K7

Allgemeine Bücherkunde zur neueren deutschen Literaturgeschichte. Robert Franz Arnold
General Z2231 .A75 1966

Bibliographie der deutschen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft
General Reference Z2231 .B5

Internationale Bibliographie zur Geschichte der deutschen Literatur von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart, erarbeitet von deutschen, sowjetischen, bulgarischen, jugoslawischen, polnischen, rumänischen, tschechoslowakischen und ungarischen Wissenschaftlern. Günter Albrecht und Günther
General Reference Z2231 .A58 volumes 1-3

Germanistik. 1960-present
A quarterly international bibliography of critical materials on German literature.
General Z2221 .G46

A chronology and practical bibliography of modern German literature. John Scholte Nollen.
General Z2231 .N75

German literature: an annotated reference guide. Uwe K. Faulhaber, Penrith B. Goff
General Reference Z2231 .F38

A critical bibliography of German literature in English translation, 1481-1927, with supplement embracing the years 1928-1935.(2nd edition, 1938) Bayard Quincy Morgan
General Reference Z2234 .T7 M6

Periodical Indexes

Index deutschsprachiger Zeitschriften 1750-1815
MICFICHE 1372

Index zu deutschen Zeitschriften der Jahre 1773-1830
Z6956 .G3 H63 ABT. 1

Zeitungs-Index, 1974-1978,v.7 1980,1986,v.14- 1987-{1999}
General AI9 .Z44

 

Subject Encyclopedias, Dictionaries and Guides

A. Literature

Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature. (1980)
General Reference PN771 .C575 1985
Covers the period from the end of the 19th century to the 1970's. Survey articles discuss authors, genres, and literary movements in each of the European national literatures while most of the studies focus on individual authors. A select bibliography concludes each article.

The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. (1993)
Reference Desk PN1021 .N39 1993
This reference work covers the history, theory, technique and criticism of poetry. It is universal in scope.

Encyclopedia of German literature. Edited by Matthias Konzett
General Reference PT91 .E53 2000 volumes 1-2

Kindlers neues Literatur Lexikon. Herausgegeben von Walter Jens.
General Reference PN44 .K54 1988

The Oxford companion to German literature. (3rd edition, 1997) Henry and Mary Garland.
General Reference PT41 .G3 1997

The Cambridge history of German literature. Edited by Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly
General PT91 .C36 1997

A Concise history of German literature to 1900. Edited by Kim Vivian
General PT91 .C66 1992

Einführung in die Bücherkunde zur deutschen Literaturwissenschaft. (10th edition, 1984)Paul Raabe
General Z2221 .A1 R3 1984

Deutsche Literaturgeschichte. Deutscher Taschenbach Verlag
General PT85 .D368 1991

Geschichte der deutschen Literatur. Steffen Arndal; herausgegeben von Bengt Algot Sørensen
General PT85 .G47 1997 volumes 1-2

Geschichte der deutschen Literatur: Epochen, Autoren, Werke. Hans Gerd Rötzer.
General PT85 .R68 1992

Geschichte der deutschen Literatur: von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart. Lerke von Saalfeld, Dietrich Kreidt, Friedrich Rothe
General PT85 .S2243 L989

History of German literature: from the beginnings to the present day. Wolfgang Beutin; Translated by Clare Krojzl
General PT85 .D369 1993

The German classics from the fourth to the nineteenth century. With biographical notices, translations into modern German, and notes, by F. Max Müller (revised edition)
General PT1105 .M85

German literature: a critical survey. Edited by Bruno Boesch. Trans. Ronald Taylor
General PT85 .B6313

German mysticism from Hildegard of Bingen to Ludwig Wittgenstein: a literary and intellectual history.
Andrew Weeks
Theology BV5077 .G3 W36 1993

Der Romanführer. (1950-present) Wilhelm Olbrich
Provides brief summaries of hundreds of well-known novels in German, including plot outlines and references to major characters.
General PN3326 .R6

Der Schauspielführer. (1953-1989) Joseph Gregor.
Chronologically arranged guide to German drama from the earliest period to the mid-twentieth century. Includes author and title indices as well as listings by dates of publication.
General Reference PN6114.5 .G7

B. Literary Dictionaries

A German-English guidebook to literary terms. Rose M. Bachem Alent
General PN44.5 .A5

A glossary of German literary terms. (2nd edition) Edited by E.W. Herd, August Obermayer.
General Reference PN44.5 .G56 1992

A History of German literary criticism, 1730-1980. Edited by Peter Uwe Hohendahl
General PT47 .G4713 1988

A history of histories of German literature, 1835-1914. Michael S. Batts
General PT47 .B384 1993

Revision des literarischen Kanons. Stefan Neuhaus
General PT85 .N494 2002

Intertextuality : German literature and visual art from the Renaissance to the twentieth century. Edited by Ingeborg Hoesterey and Ulrich Weisstein
General PT112 .I58 1993

Gendering German studies: new perspectives on German literature and culture. Edited by Margaret Littler.
General PT111 .G463 1997

Queering the canon: defying sights in German literature and culture. Edited by Christoph Lorey and John L. Plews
General PT71 .Q44 1998

C. Philosophical Dictionaries

German dictionary of philosophical terms. Wörterbuch philosophischer Fachbegriffe Englisch. Elmar Waibl, Philip Herdina. 2 volumes
General Reference B43 .W35 1997

Philosophy and German literature, 1700-1990. Edited by Nicholas Saul
General PT111 .P56 2002

Biographical Sources

Literaturlexikon: Autoren und Werke deutscher Sprache. Herausgegeben von Walther Killy. in 15 volumes
General Reference PT41 .L5 1988

Die deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters: Verfasserlexikon. Stammler, Wolfgang. Die Gruyter, 1933 [i.e. 1931-33]-55. The most comprehensive biographical source on German literature of the Middle Ages, including authors who wrote in Latin.
General Reference Z2230 .S8

Literature Resource Center Provides access to biographies, bibliographies and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Includes articles from Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and much more.

Dictionary of Literary Biography.
The following volumes are dedicated to authors writing in the German language:

  • 56: German fiction writers, 1914-1945 -- PT772 .G39 1987 Reference
  • 66: German fiction writers, 1885-1913 -- PT771 .G47 Reference
  • 69: Contemporary German fiction writers -- PT772 .C59 1988 Reference
  • 75: Contemporary German fiction writers, second series -- PT772 .C593 1988 Reference
  • 81: Austrian fiction writers, 1875-1913 -- PT3814 .A97 1989 Reference
  • 85: Austrian fiction writers after 1914 -- PT3814 .A98 1989 Reference
  • 90: German writers in the age of Goethe, 1789-1832 -- PT311 .G47 1989 Reference
  • 94: German writers in the age of Goethe: Sturm und Drang to classicism -- PT311 .G48 1990 Reference
  • 97: German writers from the Enlightenment to Sturm und Drang, 1720-1764 -- PT293 .G47 1990 Reference
  • 118: Twentieth-century German dramatists, 1889-1918 -- PT666 .T86 1992 Reference
  • 124: Twentieth-century German dramatists, 1919-1992 -- PT666 .T87 1992 Reference
  • 129: Nineteenth-century German writers, 1841-1900 -- PT341 .N56 1993 Reference

Finding Primary and Secondary Sources Using Databases


Starter Databases
for Primary and Secondary Sources

 
Academic Search Premier [EBSCOhost] (1984 to present)
Indexes scholarly journals in the social sciences, business, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, and education as well as major daily newspapers such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and The Christian Science Monitor. Full-text is available from 1990. Spanish version also available.
Research Library [ProQuest] (1986 to present)
Formerly known as Periodical Abstracts. Covers publications from academic journals and popular magazines in the humanities, social sciences, general sciences, and business. Full-text available starting in 1991.

Additional Databases
useful for locating secondary sources

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Historical Abstracts (1955- )
The international index to history journals and a key means of identifying periodical articles.

International Medieval Bibliography (1967- )
The International Medieval Bibliography (IMB) is an interdisciplinary bibliography of the European Middle Ages, covering Europe, the Middle East and North Africa in the period 400-1500.


EconLit (1969– )
This is an international index to economic journals.

Arts & Humanities Citation Index Information Gateway WEB (1975– )
The Arts & Humanities Citation Index(A&HCI) is a multidisciplinary database. Because the information stored about each article includes the article's cited reference list (often called its bibliography), you can also search the databases for articles that cite a known author or work. Subjects include: Archaeology, Linguistics, Architecture, Literary Reviews, Art, Literature, Asian Studies, Music, Classics, Philosophy, Dance, Poetry, Film, History, Religion, Language, and Theater. AHCI is included as a part of Web of Science.


Humanities Abstracts (1984– )
A bibliographic database that cites articles from English-language periodicals. Periodical coverage includes some of the best-known scholarly journals and numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines.

Humanities & Social Sciences Abstracts
This index covers scholarly journals in both history and many other subjects. The main advantage to using these titles is that they go back so far in time.

MLA International Bibliography (1963– )
This is the Modern Language Association's bibliography of studies on literature, language and folklore. A good place to look for criticism of a particular work, author or literary genre.

FIAF International Film Archive Database
(1972– )
This database is useful for film criticism as well as articles on film genres. For other sources of articles on film see the Film Studies Research Guide.


Social Sciences Abstracts
A bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles of at least one column in length from English-language periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere. Coverage includes a wide range of interdisciplinary fields covered in a broad array of social sciences journals.

Project MUSE
A database providing the full text of articles from 160 journals covering history, literature and criticism, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, and gender studies.


JSTOR
Some titles go back to the late 19th Century. JSTOR (Journal Storage Project) contains the complete text of every issue of over 300 prominent scholarly journals in history, economics, political science and other fields. Not only is the text of all articles available but every word of every article is searchable. Coverage is usually from the first issue of a journal up to five years prior to the current year.


Art Abstracts
(1984– ) and Art Index Retrospective (1929-1983)
These are indexes to art journals and magazines. They include topics such as painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, city planning and urban design.


Bibliography of the History of Art (1973– )
A comprehensive index to the literature of Western European and North American art. It was preceded by Répertoire d'art et d'archéologie covering 1915-1989 at Z5937 .R4.

International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (1981 to present)
Includes indexing of journals in Political Science, Economics, Anthropology and Sociology.

LexisNexis Academic Universe
(ca. 1970 to present; coverage varies)
Offers complete text of a large number of U.S. and foreign newspapers, trade magazines, wire services and television news transcripts. Coverage varies from title to title. This database does not cover academic journals. Always use the "Guided News Search" instead of the "Quick News Search." For French language titles, select Non-English Language News and set the lower box to French News.

Women's Studies International (1972 to present)
Indexes articles from a variety of disciplines on a variety of subjects relating to women.

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Other databases that index books, journals, etc. in the humanities, religion, social sciences, literature, film, etc. by using the Database Locator. Search the Database @ Emory by subject, category, or keyword. The database locator provides a brief note about the scope of each database.

Also use print indexes, such as:

International Index
(1907-1965)
Social Sciences and Humanities Index (1966-1974)
Reference AI3 .I51
This series of indexes covers scholarly journals in both history and economics.

 

Additional Resources

WESSWeb German Studies Web
Provides links to online resources for research in history, language, culture, geography, etc.

Identifying and Locating Maps

Comparative Politics/Foreign Government Research Guide

Film Studies Research Guide

Other research tools, see especially "library quick guides"

Library Research Tutorial — Help with research.

At the Woodruff Reference Desk or by email

Citing your sources and plagiarism

 


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