Select Websites
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German Language and Literature Databases
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Many of these sites have extensive links to additional resources
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Deutsches Literaturarchiv
Marbach (DLA)
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The holdings of the DLA are among the most important
in literature and of the history of ideas worldwide. The collections
document German language literature and culture from 1750 to the present.
The DLA's core holdings consist of the archives and papers of literary
figures, scholars, and publishing houses, which is supplemented by
Germany 's largest research collection in literature.
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| German Literature
Database (part of the ARFTL Project)
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A collection of publically available German langauge texts and resources
through the University of Chicago.
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| Modern
Language Association International Bibliography
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A PC resource. 1963-present, Indexes critical materials
on modern language, literature, linguistics, and folklore. Covering
literary and language scholarship from 1963 to the present, it provides
access to over 3,000 journals and series published worldwide, monographs,
working papers and proceedings, and bibliographies. |
Online Dictionaires
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Die Deutsche Rechtschreibung
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A helpful site by Duden that summarizes the new rules
determining German spelling.
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LEO
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In conjunction with the Technische Universität
München, LEO provides an extensive and easy to use English/German
dictionary.
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| Goethe-Wörterbuch
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Edited by the Deutschen Akademie der Wissenschaften
zu Berlin, the Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen and the
Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften; under the direction of Wolfgang
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Wortschatz-Portal
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Offered by the Universität Leipzig, the Wortschatz-Portal provides
a corpus of 17 monolingual dictionaries in Gemanic Languages, including
German, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Icelandic, Norwegian, and Swedish. The
site also provides an extensive German/English dictionary, with over
100,000 entries. |
Encyclopedias
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WESSWEB: German Studies
Web
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Developed by the Western Europe Studies Section (WESS) of the Association
of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), and hosted by Dartmouth College,
this website provides well organized links to scholarly resources in
German Studies, including all German-speaking countries.
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Deutsche Nationalbibliographie
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Deutsche Nationalbibliografie online (Katalogdatenbank ILTIS)
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Histories of the Literature
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Corpora
(Mannheim)
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Institute for the German Language. The Foundation
aims to facilitate the German language in its current usage, and to
explore and to scientificallydocument its recent history. It fosters
cooperation with other domestic and foreign institutions similar aims
and also provides scientific services. |
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Deutsche
Literatur im Internet
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A short cut to searching for German langauge books
on the Internet through the WESSWEB: German Studies Web site. |
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Mateo
(Mannheimer Texte online)
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Hosted by the University
Library Mannheim, MATEO is a cooperative effort of members of
Mannheim University that publishes online original research work
and databases, a series of rare books and manuscripts of the early
modern period originating from old Mannheim libraries, and digitizied
images of Latin poetry by 50 major German writers of the early-modern
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19th-Century
German Stories
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This site offers a growing selection of short narrative
works in German from the late 18th to the end of the 19th centuries,
featuring verified texts from documented editions and, whenever possible,
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| Projekt
Wittenberg
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Projekt Wittenberg is home to works by and about Martin Luther and
other Lutherans. Here you will find all manner of texts from short quotations
to commentaries, hymns to statements of faith, theological treatises
to biographies, and links to other places where words and images from
the history of Lutheranism live. |
Sites Containing Visual Resources
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Bildbestand
der Deutschen Kolonialgesellschaft
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The photographic archives of the German Colonial
Society, one of the main driving forces behind Germany 's colonial
expansion, provides a keyword searchable database of colonial photographs
dating from 1822 to 1936. The photographs document colonial life in
Namibia, Tanzania, Cameroon, Togo, Ruanda, Burundi, China, Papua New
Guinea, Palau, the Marshall Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands,
Nauru, West-Samoa, and the Federated States of Micronesia. The database
is searchable by Place, Subject, Person, Photographer, and Ethnic Group. |
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HGIS Germany
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HGIS Germany is a multimedia historical-geographical
information system of the states of Germany and Central Europe since
1815. It is produced by the Institut für Europäische Geschichte
Mainz (IEG)and the Institut für Raumbezogene Informations- und
Messtechnik (i3mainz) der Fachhochschule Mainz , in conjunction with
the Deutsche Historische Museum (DHM) in Berlin. The site permits to
view the development of the members states of the Deutschen Bund (Norddeutschen
Bundes/Deutschen Reiches) between 1820 and 1914.
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| Marburger Index
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Published since 1977, the Marburg Index is both
a reference work and guide to art in Germany. The photographic material
is organized by location of the respective object; photographs of individual
locations are classified by city, ecclesiastical building, secular
building, and collection. |
Other Sites of Interest
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PERSEE
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Contains scientific journals in social and human
sciences, established by the Ministry of State Education, Higher Education
and Research. Launched on the initiative of the research community,
the PERSEE website has as its mission the digitization and online distribution
of back collections of a vast corpus of periodicals. Wider availability
of this rich scientific heritage will benefit French research by making
it freely and publicly accessible.
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Die Deutsche Internetbibliothek
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The German Internet library is a supraregional information
portal, which registers German-language Websites in all subject areas.
Sites are selected by librarians from Germany , Austria , and Switzerland
for their quality.
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Elektronische
Zeitschriftenbibliothek (EZB)
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From the Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek
Göttingen, this site provides free access to many German-language
journal titles. |
Associations and Libraries
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| Bundesarchiv
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The site of the German National Archives permits
you to search its vast holdings and access digital content online.
The Bundesarchiv has placed a large number of finding aids online and
provides searchable catalogs for select collections, such as the Zentrale
Datenbank Nachlässe (see below).
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| Klassik Stiftung Weimar
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The Stiftung Klassik Stiftung Weimar is one of
the largest and most significant cultural institutions in Germany .
The foundation oversees 25 museums, exhibitions, palaces and historical
houses, including the Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek, with holdings
of about one million volumes; the Goethe and Schiller Archive, the
oldest literature archive in Germany ; and the parks in and around
Weimar . The Foundation's building ensembles is recognized as a UNESCO
World Cultural Heritage. The Foundation and Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek
provide access to several full
text online databases and online catalogs.
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| Zeitgeschichtliches Archiv
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The Zeitgeschichtliches Archiv (Contemporary History
Archive), consists of the newspaper-clippings archive of the publisher
of the official newspaper of the GDR, "Neues Deutschland." Covering
the years 1946-1992, it developed to be a kind of press archive of
the GDR, dealing with virtually all subjects from both eastern and
western newspapers.
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| Zentrale Datenbank Nachlässe
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The German federal archives' central database to personal papers and
archival materials. Based upon an updated and revised version of Wolfgang
Mommsen's Die Nachlässe in den deutschen Archiven , the ZDN provides
short descriptions of holdings with location, in addition to short biographies
of depositaries. The database currently holds about 25,000 entries.
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Government and Country Information
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| World
Factbook |
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency |
| Country
Reports
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U.S. Department of State |
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