Guides and Catalogues to Materials at the University of Chicago with Local Call Numbers
Meta-Sites for German Studies
- German Studies Web (WESSWeb): an award-winning website providing access to an organized and annotated array of free online scholarly resources in German Studies, including all German-speaking countries. The site is a collaborative project of German Studies bibliographers nationwide.
Multi-Library Catalogs
- Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog: The best starting point for searching German library catalogs, the KVK is a powerful "meta-catalog" that allows simultaneous searching of multiple library catalogs, among them those of Die Deutsche Bibliothek and the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, the regional union catalogs, Austrian and Swiss libraries, and other national catalogs.
- WorldCat: Now including the records from the RLG Union Catalog, contains over 62 million records for books and other materials in over 10,000 libraries worldwide. Updated daily. The
option can be used to locate the item at U of C or to send interlibrary loan orders to the Interlibrary Loan Office for items that the Library does not own. (UofC only)
Bibliographic Resources (indexes, abstracts)
- MLA Bibliography (Modern Language Association Bibliography) (1926-): The primary resource for literary research; indexes over 6,000 journals in the fields of literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore. Coverage begins with 1926 and the database is updated 9 times per year; for coverage from 1921 on consult print at Z7006.M67 Gen. The option can be used to locate the item at U of C or online or to send interlibrary loan orders to the Interlibrary Loan Office for items that the Library does not own. (UofC only)
- Bibliographie der deutschen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft (1985- ): an international bibliography indexing materials on German literature and literary studies, including books and journals, but for the most part excluding book reviews. For earlier coverage consult print at Z2231.B6 Gen (1945-1968) and Z2231.B601 RR3 (1969- ). (UofC only)
- FRANCIS: International
Humanities and Social Sciences (1984- ): Strong in religion,
the history of art, psychology, and literature, with particular
emphasis on current trends in European and world literature. Indexes
a range of multilingual sources including journal articles, books, book chapters, conference papers, French dissertations, and exhibition catalogs. The option can be used to locate the item at U of C or online or to send interlibrary loan orders to the Interlibrary Loan Office for items that the Library does not own. (UofC only)
- IBZ: Internationale Bibliographie der Zeitschriftenliteratur (1983- ): Also known as "Der Dietrich," indexes over 11,000 English and European periodicals, books, and dissertations. Corresponds to the print Internationale Bibliographie der Zeitschriftenliteratur dating from 1896 available at AI9.B5 (Regenstein Reference). Note: IBZ online document ordering system unavailable; if appropriate please request items directly from University of Chicago Interlibrary Loan instead. (UofC only)
- Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) (1973-): Covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics, as well as descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics. The option can be used to locate the item at U of C or online or to send interlibrary loan orders to the Interlibrary Loan Office for items that the Library does not own. (UofC only)
- Book Review Index Online (1965-): a comprehensive online guide to book reviews with over five million review citations from thousands of publications. The option can be used to locate the item at U of C or online or to send interlibrary loan orders to the Interlibrary Loan Office for items that the Library does not own. (UofC only)
- IBR: International Bibliography of Book Reviews (1985- ): Multilingual interdisciplinary index to book reviews, chiefly in the arts, humanities and social sciences. For 1971-1981 consult the print Internationale Bibliographie der Rezensionen at AI9.I58 (Regenstein Reference). Note: IBR online document ordering system unavailable; if appropriate please request items directly from University of Chicago Interlibrary Loan instead. (UofC only)
Dissertations
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses: Includes citations for dissertations accepted at accredited universities from 1861 to the present. Those published from 1980 forward also include 350-word abstracts written by the author. Abstracts for earlier dissertations are available in Dissertation Abstracts (Z5055.U49M6; Regenstein Reference). Citations for master's theses from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. The full text of dissertations since 1997 is available for free downloading. (UofC only)
- Sammlung Digitaler Dissertationen in Deutschland: A gateway to online dissertation sites of many German universities.
- Foreign Doctoral Dissertations Database from the Center for Research Libraries in Chicago. CRL has more than 750,000 uncataloged foreign dissertations, of which approximately 20,000 are included in this database. CRL also maintains a list of universities from which it receives printed dissertations on exchange or deposit and the date when this began. Request items via University of Chicago Interlibrary Loan.
On-Line Journals and Newspapers
- Electronic Journals Database: Links to all journals to which the University of Chicago Library subscribes in online form.
- Journals for Modern Literatures (Online) with links to titles to which the Library subscribes.
- JSTOR: Online archive of major scholarly journals. Contains complete runs from their first volumes through approximately five years ago. (UofC only)
- Compact Memory: Retrospektive Digitalisierung jüdischer Periodika im deutschsprachigen Raum: A major digitization project for over 80 Jewish German periodicals (mainly 19th and early 20th century).
- DigiZeitschriften -- Das deutsche digitale Zeitschriftenarchiv: A project currently building digital files of backruns of over 50 German scholarly journals. Author and title searching are possible; full-text searching is not at this time. (UofC only)
- German-Language Online Newspapers and Other News Sources (WESSWeb)
- Paperball: Search recent German newspapers by keyword.
Electronic Full-Text Resources (EFTS)
Provides links to primary sources such as Digitale Bibliothek Deutscher Klassiker, the works of
Goethe,
Schiller,
Kafka, and information on CDs.
Reference (Electronic)
- xipolis: Over 20 well-known German-language dictionaries, lexicons and encyclopedias, such as Duden, the Brockhaus Enzyklopädie, the Gesundheits-Brockhaus and the Roche Lexikon der Medizin, searchable collectively or individually. (UofC only)
- Concise Oxford-Duden German Dictionary (German-English), (Oxford, 2005) from Oxford Reference Online (UofC only)
- Concise Oxford-Duden German Dictionary (English-German), (Oxford, 2005) from Oxford Reference Online (UofC only)
- Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms (UofC only)
- Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, a searchable digital version of Grimms Wörterbuch produced by the University of Trier.
- World Biographical Information System: Comprehensive database providing biographical information on 4 million persons. Digital facsimile articles from more than 3,700 reference works are also included for 2.3 million individuals. Online version of the K.G. Saur Biographical Archives. Formerly World Biographical Index. (UofC only)
Programs at the University of Chicago
- Department of Germanic Studies
- Department of Comparative Literature
- Franke Institute for the Humanities
- Graduate Workshops in the Humanities
- Language Laboratories and Archives
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