Library Guides/ German Language & Culture

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This guide covers a set of high-quality sources of information for German language & culture that can be a good starting point for your research.

Bibliographie der deutschen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft This link opens in a new window
Bibliography of German linguistics and literary studies, with references to books, journal articles and reviews. Period: 1985-present
Deutsche Historische Bibliographie This link opens in a new window
Bibliography of German history.
Succession of the Jahresberichte zur deutschen Geschichte (discontinued in 2015)
Jahresberichte für deutsche Geschichte This link opens in a new window
Bibliography of German history (publications from 1949 to 2015)
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) This link opens in a new window
Bibliography containing references and abstracts on language and linguistics
MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association) This link opens in a new window
Literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. Online bibliography on language and literature.
Linguistic Bibliography Online This link opens in a new window
Bibliography for linguistics focusing on the lesser known and extinct languages
Communication & Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new window
Bibliographical and full-text database on communication and mass media

Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
Multidisciplinary bibliographic and full-text database
Scopus This link opens in a new window
Covers a large part of the English-language literature in science, medicine and parts of the social sciences and arts and humanities.
Web of Science core collection This link opens in a new window
Search the world’s leading scholarly journals, books, and proceedings in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities and navigate the full citation network

KLG: Kritisches Lexikon zur deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur This link opens in a new window
Bi(bli)ographical information on modern German authors
Ethnologue : Languages of the world This link opens in a new window
Resource on the more than 7100 languages spoken in the world.

Tatsachen über Deutschland/Facts about Germany
Introduction to Germany made in cooperation with the Federal Foreign Office, Berlin

Duden online This link opens in a new window
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Rechtschreibung, Grammatik und Bedeutung.
Van Dale Dictionaries This link opens in a new window
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Bilingual dictionaries from and into Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish, and the 'Dikke Van Dale' (Dutch dictionary).

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