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Databases and Indexes for German Culture and History

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Database Names	# Users	Access Restrictions
America: History and Life (EBSCOhost)		On & Off Campus
BGMI - Biography and Genealogy Master Index ‡	1	Special
eHRAF World Cultures		On & Off Campus
Historical Abstracts (EBSCOhost)		On & Off Campus
Humanities and Social Sciences Retrospective (WilsonWeb)	4	On & Off Campus
Humanities International Index (EBSCOhost)		On & Off Campus
MLA International Bibliography (EBSCOhost)		On & Off Campus
Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection		On & Off Campus

Databases and Indexes for German Language Materials

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Info	Database Names		# Users	Access Restrictions
	EBSCOhost Deutsch Interface is in German articles in English			On & Off Campus
	LexisNexis Academic (LexisNexis) Use the News tab to narrow to ‘Deutsche Presse’			On & Off Campus
	Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection See "Bilingual Dictionaries"			On & Off Campus

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Reference Books

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The following are selected resources for research on German language, literature, and culture. For more books on these topics, please use the Library Catalog.

To find books in other libraries, try using WorldCat, a collective catalog for thousands of libraries in the United States, Canada, and around the world. This catalog should not be used as a substitute for this library's catalog, but as another avenue of searching for books.

Contemporary German Culture

Encyclopedia of Contemporary German Culture (Reference Collection: DD 290.26 E 53 1999): This encyclopedia contains articles on architecture, politics, music, education, film, literature, language, religion, society, and more, as they pertain to Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Indexed.

Dictionaries

Etymologisches Wörterbuch der Deutschen Sprache (Reference Collection: PF 3580. K5 1989): This dictionary not only defines German words, but it also explains their origins and evolutions in the German language. This book is in German.

The Oxford-Duden German Dictionary: German-English, English-German (Reference Collection: PF 3640. O 94 1999): In addition to defining thousands of German words, this dictionary also provides notes on grammar and usage.

Literature

Encyclopedia of German Literature (Reference Collection: PT 91. E 53 2000): This two volume encyclopedia contains articles on German-language writers, their works, and important topics in the study of German literature. A comprehensive index can be found in the second volume.

Oxford Companion to German Literature (Reference Collection: PT 41.G 3 1997): This companion contains articles on German-language writers, their works, and important issues in the study of German literature.

Web Sites

German Language Resources: Maintained by Arts and Sciences staff at Harvard University, this streamlined site contains links to Web sites on German language and Literature.

German Resources: Created and maintained by staff at the Universität Karlsruhe (University of Karlsruhe), this index contains links to hundreds of sites on German language, history, culture, literature, and more. Many of the Web sites linked here are available only in German or default to German.

Internet Resources for German Language and Literature: This subject guide was created by the University of Delaware library and lists a number of Web sites about German language, literature, news, culture, and more.

WESSWEB: German Studies Web: Created by staff at Dartmouth University, this sites indexes a number of useful German and German studies Web sites.

Language Learning Aids

German Exercises Interactive written quizzes on everything from conjugation to declension

German Word of the Day

Super German Websites Indexes sites on the web for learning German.

Librarians

Reference Librarians for German		Bibliographer & Reference Librarian for Foreign Languages
Jenny Semenza Head of Reference Services (208) 282-2581 semejenn@isu.edu	Cheryl Sebold Library Assistant III Collection Development (208) 282-3246 sebocher@isu.edu	Sandra Shropshire AUL Collections & Technical Services (208) 282-2671 shrosand@isu.edu

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