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ELECTRONIC REFERENCE RESOURCES

MLA INTERNATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
Indexes scholarly books, critical articles and essays in journals, and books on post-classical literature, language, linguistics, and folklore.  Coverage:  1963 to date.  Updated ten times per year.

HUMANITIES ABSTRACTS
Citations to more than 400 periodicals on archaeology, art, classics, film, folklore, journalism, linguistics, music, the performing arts, philosophy, religion, world history, and world literature. Abstracts are available from March 1994 to date. Coverage:  February 1984 to date.  Updated monthly.

ACADEMIC SEARCH ELITE
Find references to more than 3,000 periodicals in a wide range of subject areas, with many dating back to 1984.  Also provides full-text data for over 1,200 journals, with many dating back to 1990.  Updated as information received.

ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center)
Good source for references to journal articles and documents on teaching languages.  References to thousands of educational topics. Coverage: 1966 to date.  Updated monthly.

LIBRARY PRESS DISPLAY
Provides same day, front to back coverage from over 300 newspapers in the U.S. and around the world. It is just like reading the familiar print edition, viewers can browse articles and other key content, such as pictures, advertisements, classifieds, and notices while enjoying 60-day back issues access. Updated daily.

NEWSPAPERS (ProQuest Newspapers)
U.S. and international news sources.  Includes coverage of 150+ major U.S. and international newspapers such as The New York Times and the Times of London, plus hundreds of other news sources and new wires. Many articles are full text.  Updated daily.

DISSERTATION ABSTRACTS
Doctoral dissertations and masters theses from over 1,000 North American and European universities.  Coverage:  1861 to date.   Updated monthly.

PROJECT MUSE
Provides full-text electronic versions of more than 40 scholarly journals published by Johns Hopkins University Press.  Updated monthly.

HISTORICAL ABSTRACTS
Provides an index for searching modern world history. Indexes over 2000 scholarly journals, books, book reviews, and Ph.D. dissertations covering world history (exclusive of the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present. Coverage: late 1950s to date.

JSTOR
A continuously growing electronic archive of core scholarly journal literature in full text, with the aim of digitizing the complete backfiles of selected journals in these major subject areas: African-American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, ecology, economics, education, finance, history, literature, mathematics, philosophy, political science, population/demography, sociology, and statistics. Coverage: not a current file. Most current issues of the JSTOR journals are two to five years old.

LEXIS NEXIS ACADEMIC
Good source for full-text of newspapers in French, German, Italian, and Spanish.  Also contains text of many journals, legal digests and reports, and other publications covering economic, business, medical, social science and popular culture issues. Coverage:  most files started between 1970 and 1985 and run to the present.  Some legal materials (laws, court reporters, law digests) go back to 1799.

INGENTA 
Ingenta is a multidisciplinary database indexing topics ranging from science, technology, and medicine to the humanities and social sciences.  Updated daily.  

ELECTRONIC JOURNALS AND NEWSPAPERS

FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE
Online version of the newspaper in English or German.
http://www.faz.de/

MERKUR ONLINE
Online version of the review.
http://www.merkur-online.de/

NEUE ZURCHER ZEITUNG (NZZ)
Major Swiss daily newspaper.
http://www.nzz.ch/online/index.htm/

DIE PRESSE
Selected articles from one of Vienna's newspapers.
http://www.diepresse.at/

DER SPIEGEL ONLINE
Online version of the magazine.
http://www.spiegel.de/

STERN Online
Online version of the magazine.
http://stern.de/

DIE WELT Online
Online version of the magazine.
http://www.welt.de/

DIE ZEIT
Online version of the paper.
http://www.zeit.de/

ALL THE WORLD'S NEWSPAPERS
A collection of addresses for world newspapers on the internet.
http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/

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INTERNET SITES

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF TEACHERS OF GERMAN
The AATG is for teachers of German at all levels of instruction and for all interested in the teaching of German.
http://www.aatg.org/

BACKGROUND NOTES
Information about countries of the world from the U.S.A. Department of State web site.
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/

DIE DEUTSCHE BIBLIOTHEK
National Library of Germany.
http://www.ddb.de/

EURODOCS
Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe -- Selected transcriptions, facsimiles and translations.
http://library.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/germany.html

GABRIEL : THE GATEWAY TO EUROPE'S NATIONAL LIBRARIES
http://www.bl.uk.gabriel/en/top_en.html

GERMANY ONLINE
Provides access to Germany Online -- German Embassy -- German Information Center.  Also connects to pages where one can find locations of German Consulates in the U.S. and information about the permanent mission of Germany to the United Nations.
http://www.germany-info.org/f_index.html

iLOVE LANGUAGES 
Catalog of language-related internet resources.
http://www.ilovelanguages.com/

LANGUAGE LINKS
Materials for use by teachers and learners of languages.
http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/lss/lang/langlink.html

VERBIX: ON-LINE CONJUGATOR
Choose your language, then either one of the top 10 verbs or type in the infinitive of another verb; also has translation of verbs from and to other languages.
http://www.verbix.com/webverbix/

VOICE OF THE SHUTTLE
A collection of resources for humanities research.  Includes links to information on general humanities resources, and to other disciplines among which one may find links to anthropology, archaeology, architecture, area and regional studies, art and art history, classical studies, history, linguistics, literature, music and dance, philosophy, religious studies, and women's studies, for example.
http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2719#id1226

WWW RESOURCES FOR LANGUAGE TEACHERS
Sites gathered for foreign language teachers and sponsored by the Foreign Language Teaching Forum.  Has links for specific languages.
http://www.cortland.edu/www/flteach/flteach-res.html

WESS Web
Focuses on information useful to Western European Specialists.  The German Studies Web provides annotated links to scholarly web resources.
http://lib.virginia.edu/wess/

WORLD FACTBOOK
Online information about contries of the world from the U.S.A. Central Intelligence Agency.
http://www.cia.gov/cia/pubications/factbook/

World History Subject Page
http://www.csulb.edu/library/subj/worldhist.html

PRINTED RESOURCES

ALLGEMEINE DEUTSCHE BIOGRAPHIE
CT1053 .A52

BROCKHAUS ENZYKLOPAEDIE
AE27 .G672

THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF GERMAN LITERATURE / EDITED BY HELEN WATANABE-O'KELLY 
PT91 .C36 1997

DEUTSCHE LITERATUR VON FRAUEN / HERAUSGEGEBEN VON GISELA BRINKER-GABLER
PT167 .D48 1988

EUROPA WORLD YEAR BOOK 
AG105 .E85 1989-   (Current year in REFerence)

THE FEMINIST ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GERMAN LITERATURE / EDITED BY FRIEDERIKE EIGLER AND SUSANNE KORD
REF PT41 .F46 1997

DIE GROSSEN DEUTSCHEN, DEUTSCHE BIOGRAPHIE
CT1054 G72 1960

A HISTORY OF WOMEN'S WRITING IN GERMANY, AUSTRIA, AND SWITZERLAND / EDITED BY JO CATLING 
PT167 .H57 2000

INTRODUCTION TO LIBRARY RESEARCH IN GERMAN STUDIES : LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, AND CIVILIZATION. 
PF3062 .R534 1984

KRITISCHES LEXIKON ZUR DEUTSCHSPRACHIGEN GEGENWARTSLITERATUR 
PT41 .K88

NEUE DEUTSCHE BIOGRAPHIE
CT1053 .N4

THE OXFORD COMPANION TO GERMAN LITERATURE
REF PT41 .G3 1997

STATESMAN'S YEAR-BOOK
REF JA51 .S7 1925-   (Current year in REFerence)

 Also see volumes of the series, DICTIONARY OF LITERARY BIOGRAPHY, pertaining to German and Austrian writers.
Do a keyword search in COAST for "dictionary literary biography german" to find these titles.

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