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German Language & Literature
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Subject Specific Databases
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Bibliographie der deutschen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft [CD-ROM]
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An international index of German literature and literary studies. On CD-Rom since 1985.
- Location: Humanities/Social Sciences Reference, 2nd Floor Shields Library, Workstation "BERLIN"
- Access: Library Use Only
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Germanistik: Internationales Referatenorgan mit bibliographischen Hinweisen.
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Quarterly, partially annotated bibliography. Systematically organized. To be used in conjuction with the MLA Bibliography and Bibliographie der deutschen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft, covering recent publications. Contains name and subject index. Print publication is from 1960 forwards, CD-ROM version covers 1998 - 2001.
- Coverage: 1960-present.
- Location: Z2235.A2 G4 Humanities/Social Sciences Reference
- Access: Library Use Only
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MLA International Bibliography [via CSA Illumina] (http://www.csa.com/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=davis&access=davis856&db=mla-set-c&adv=1) VPN
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The Modern Language Association International Bibliography (MLAIB) covers international scholarly materials on all languages, literatures, linguistics, and folklore from around the world. It includes citations to items from journals, series, books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies. MLAIB does not index book reviews.
- Coverage: 1926-present
- Access: http://www.csa.com/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=davis&access=davis856&db=mla-set-c&adv=1 (http://www.csa.com/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=davis&access=davis856&db=mla-set-c&adv=1) VPN
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Periodicals Index Online (PIO) (http://uclibs.org/PID/6848) VPN
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Periodicals Index Online is a retrospective database (1665-1995); over 300 philosophy titles are included. It also provides access to a smaller set of titles in fulltext electronic form.
- Coverage: 1665-1995
- Access: http://uclibs.org/PID/6848 (http://uclibs.org/PID/6848) VPN
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- To search only the full text digitized content of this resource (1802-1995), you can also use Periodicals Archive Online: http://uclibs.org/PID/9284
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Retrospektive Digitalisierung wissenschaftlicher Rezensionsorgane und Literaturzeitschriften des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts aus dem deutschen Sprachraum (http://www.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/diglib/aufklaerung/index.htm)
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Open access site with fulltext of 45 German language periodicals from the Enlightenment.
- Coverage: 18th and 19th century
- Access: http://www.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/diglib/aufklaerung/index.htm (http://www.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/diglib/aufklaerung/index.htm)
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Monumenta Germaniae Historica [CD-ROM]
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CD-ROM resource contains only samples of texts; See "Full-text Resources" entry below for description of newer, comprehensive, web version.
- Location: This CD-ROM is mounted on the computer named "BERLIN" on the 2nd Floor of Shields Library.
- Access: Library Use Only
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Lexikon des Mittelalters [CD-ROM]
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An encyclopedia of the Middle Ages (in German).
- Location: Humanities/Social Sciences Reference, 2nd Floor Shields Library, Workstation "BERLIN"
- Access: Library Use Only
General Databases
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Dissertation Abstracts International / Dissertations & Theses [via ProQuest] (http://uclibs.org/PID/11984) VPN
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Online access to citations and abstracts for every title in the UMI Dissertation Abstracts database; since 1997, provides full-text access to dissertations. Access is free to UC Campus dissertations.
- Coverage: 1861-present
- Access: http://uclibs.org/PID/11984 (http://uclibs.org/PID/11984) VPN
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- Current Research @ University of California, Davis (searches all University of California, Davis dissertations published in the Dissertation Abstracts database). http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucdavis/main
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Hochschulschriften [CD-ROM]
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An index to German dissertations, 1945-1997
- Coverage: 1945-1997
- Location: Humanities/Social Sciences Reference, 2nd Floor Shields Library, Workstation "BERLIN". Tip: To exit, hit Shift F1.
- Access: Library Use Only
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- Note: The OPAC of the Deutsche Bibliothek Frankfurt am Main lists virtually all postwar German dissertations and Habilitationsschriften. Enter your search term followed by "diss" e.g. Goethe diss. http://d-nb.de/eng/sammlungen/index.htm
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International Medieval Bibliography (http://www.brepolis.net) VPN
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Provides the most comprehensive, current bibliography of international scholarly literature in Medieval Studies available.
[updated quarterly]
- Coverage: 1967-present
- Location: print equivalent is in the Humanities/Social Sciences Reference Collection
- Access: http://www.brepolis.net (http://www.brepolis.net) VPN
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- You may need to download a special font for the diacritical marks in records to display properly. Follow instructions at the databases main page.
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Europeana: Europe's Digital Library (http://www.europeana.eu)
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Direct access to some 2 million digital objects (and counting): film,photos, paintings, sounds, maps, manuscripts, books,newspapers and archival papers.
Selected from already digitised resources available in Europes museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual collections.
[Note: there is heavy demand for this site so access is sometimes limited to prevent overload.]
- Access: http://www.europeana.eu (http://www.europeana.eu)
Full-text Resources
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Das Historische Lexikon Bayerns (http://www.historisches-lexikon-bayerns.de/base/start)
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A continuously-updated online encyclopedia of Bavarian history. Aimed at a scholarly audience. A collaborative venture of the Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek and numerous scholars affiliated with the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften.
- Coverage: Focus is on 19th and 20th century
- Access: http://www.historisches-lexikon-bayerns.de/base/start (http://www.historisches-lexikon-bayerns.de/base/start)
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Digitale Bibliothek Deutscher Klassiker im WWW (http://klassiker.chadwyck.com/) VPN
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Access to a canonical collection of literature in German spanning eleven centuries. Covers the work of more than thirty authors, including early texts such as Lancelot and Ginover and Wolfram von Eschenbach, editions of important authors such as Herder, Kleist, and Büchner, and the works of philosophers such as Kant, Schleiermacher, and Fichte. Collections of historical, philosophical, theological, political and art history texts add context and background material.
- Access: http://klassiker.chadwyck.com/ (http://klassiker.chadwyck.com/) VPN
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Monumenta Germaniae Historica (MGH) (http://www.dmgh.de/)
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Critically-edited (Latin and premodern German language) primary sources for the study of German and central European history from late antiquity to 1500 CE.
- Access: http://www.dmgh.de/ (http://www.dmgh.de/)
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- CD-ROM version of the database, the Electronic Monumenta Germaniae Historica, in Humanities/Social Sciences Reference, Shields Library, DD3.M8 E44 CD-ROM. Hardcopy volumes are located on the Lower Level of Shields at DD3 M8 P6.
- In German.
Encyclopedias & Dictionaries
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Dictionary of the History of Ideas [Digital Version] (http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/DicHist/dict.html)
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The Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas(DHI),in five volumes and edited by Philip P. Wiener, was published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, in 1973-74 (Shields Library CB5 .D52) This e-version is made available through the University of Virginia's Electronic Text Center.
- Access: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/DicHist/dict.html (http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/DicHist/dict.html)
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LEO: German-English, English-German, German-French, and French-German Online Dictionary (http://dict.leo.org)
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A free service of the Technical University of Munich. At somewhere near 500,000 entries LEO is the online dictionary of choice for users of the above-named languages(substantial one volume hardcopy dictionaries contain between 120,000 and 150,000 entries, so a source like this is comparable to significantly larger multivolume dictionaries). Currently expanding its coverage to include Spanish, Italian, and Chinese, making it even more valuable to comparativists.
- Access: http://dict.leo.org (http://dict.leo.org)
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InterActive Terminology for Europe (http://iate.europa.eu)
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Translate from and/or to any of 24 currently spoken European Union(EU)languages. "My Preferences" feature enables user to select most-frequently used source and target languages. Although the site is useful for limited general use, its special focus is EU-specific terminology.
- Coverage: Current
- Access: http://iate.europa.eu (http://iate.europa.eu)
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Other Resources
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Gale Literature Resource Center (http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/ucdavis?db=LitRC) VPN
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Full-text biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Combines core literary resources such as Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, and the Dictionary of Literary Biography
- Access: http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/ucdavis?db=LitRC (http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/ucdavis?db=LitRC) VPN
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Internet Movie Database (http://www.imdb.com)
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Freely available site that indexes film and television information, including characters, settings, and actors. Also provides links to some external reviews.
- Access: http://www.imdb.com (http://www.imdb.com)
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Reference Reviews Europe Online (http://rre.casalini.it/) VPN
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C.300 English-language reviews of some 500 European reference titles. Much of the content consists of abstracts in English of reviews that originally appeared in the German journal Informationsmittel:IFB, edited by Klaus Schreiber of the Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart. German-language publications predominate, but titles in French, Icelandic, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, and Spanish are also covered. The "Special Reports" feature offers reviews surveying reference works in a particular topic area.
- Coverage: 1994--present
- Access: http://rre.casalini.it/ (http://rre.casalini.it/) VPN
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