German Studies
Getting Started
If you are not sure what your topic is about, try one or more of the following:
Cambridge Companion to Modern German Culture (online)
Encyclopedia of Contemporary German Culture (online)
The Regions of Germany: A Reference Guide to History and Culture (online)
Oxford Companion to German Literature (online)
Cambridge History of German Literature (online)
Historical Dictionary of German Literature to 1945 (online)
Historical Dictionary of Postwar German Literature (online)
Historical Dictionary of Contemporary Germany (online)
Cassell's Dictionary of Modern German History
Books on German studies will be found on the Library shelves at various call numbers, for example:
DD84 - 454 History
HC281 - 290 Economics
HN441 - 460 Social conditions
JN3201 - 4944 Politics and administration
PF3001 - 5999 Language
PT1 - 2688 Literature
You can also use the Library Catalogue keyword search to find books on your topic. Some books are available online (e-books).
Oxford German Dictionary (online)
German Business Dictionary (online)
For other German-to-English dictionaries held by the Library, see this link.
For other English-to-German dictionaries held by the Library, see this link.
Journal Articles
For recent information, journal articles are often the best sources. Looking through individual journals in the hope of finding relevant material is time-consuming. It is better to use the databases to find articles on your topic.
MLA International
Bibliography
This database lists journal articles and books on German language and
literature.
Linguistics and Language
Behavior Abstracts
This database lists journal articles and books on German linguistics.
Historical
Abstracts
This database lists journal articles and books on German history from 1450 to
the present.
Bibliographie der
deutschen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft
This annual printed bibliography is the most thorough guide to new publications
on German literature.
Worldwide Political
Science Abstracts
This database lists journal articles on German politics and government.
Newspapers
Die Zeit (online from 1946 onwards)
Translated newspaper articles and radio broadcasts from the period 1941 to 1996 are included in the Foreign Broadcast Information Service daily reports.
From the 1990s onwards, many German newspapers are available online via the
Factiva database.
Specialised Resources
Deutsches
Literatur-Lexikon: biographisch-bibliographisches Handbuch
A multi-volume reference work on German authors, with bibliographies.
German Anti-Semitic
Propaganda, 1909-1941 (online)
A digital archive of about 170 books and pamphlets, in German, mostly from the
1920s and 1930s.
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