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by Brian Vetruba, Subject Librarian
Issue: Winter 2006
The scope of this quarterly newsletter is limited to resources and services relevant to Germanic Languages and Literatures. For general changes, see WU Libraries' What's New. Each issue will highlight new resources and provide research tips. Suggestions are most welcomed: bvetruba@wustl.edu
Newsletter contents:
What's new at Olin
Spotlight on Resources
New E-resources
New Print Resources
New Videos and DVDs
Searching Tips
What's new at Olin
Full access to BDSL-Online
WU Libraries are strongly considering obtaining full access to the online version of
the Bibliographie der Deutschen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft (BDSL), a major bibliography for German language and literature.
Currently, we subscribe to the print verion, a CD-ROM and limited online access
(1985-1995); see also
the catalog records. Watch for an e-mail update.
IBZ database trial until end of Feb. 2006
We are considering subscribing to the online version of the
Internationale Bibliographie der geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Zeitschriftenliteratur, a bibliography of academic periodical literature from the Humanities, Social Sciences and Arts.
The Libraries have set up a trial and we are asking for faculty and student feedback on the online version.
The trial expires Feb. 28, 2006. For the login URL, more information or to submit comments, contact (bvetruba@wustl.edu);
phone: 935-4824).Print edition: Catalog record & Location.
Finding dissertations online
Access to online dissertations has changed to Dissertations & Theses (ProQuest). One added
feature is the ability to view 24-page previews of many theses and disseratations. Allows keyword seaching and broad subject browsing.
To search and access dissertations completed at Washington University, connect to Dissertations & Theses @ Washington University in St. Louis.
Note, you cannot request
full-text of dissertations or theses via Illiad from within Dissertations & Theses (Proquest),
you need log in to ILLiad, click on "Request a Thesis", and fill out the form. More info.
European News Sources webpage
A selected list of major online European news sources and portals. Countries highlighted include Austria, Germany, Sweden, and Switzerland.
Includes links to periodicals, broadcasters, and meta-search websites.
Revised course webpage for Business German (Ger 408)
List of print and online resources, including Business German dictionaries, business and economics handbooks in German, business periodicals in German, and country handbooks.
Upcoming Research Help session
Do you have questions about searching databases, using Find It!, or about ILL and MOBIUS? Brian will be holding an informal research help session
later this term. Watch your e-mail for more details.
Spotlight on resources
Gerritsen Collection-Women's History Online, 1543-1945
A full-text online database of Women's History and the feminist movement(s) from 1543-1945 in Europe, the US, and in other countries.
Contains PDF files of books and periodicals in 15 European languages, including 930 monographs and 59 periodicals in German. Includes almost every issue of the
influential German feminist publication Neue Bahnen, 1866-1899. German-language resources span all the centuries, although most are from the 19th century.
For more information and downloadable handouts for using the collection, go to Gerritsen and click on "About the Collection".
- Searching/Browsing in Gerritsen: Keyword searching by title, author, subject, and publisher. You can also limit by language and year of publication. Subject and title browsing also available.
Kritisches Lexikon zur deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur Online (KLG Online)
KLG Online is a biographical and bibliographical database for contemporary (1945-) German-speaking authors. Each author entry provides a biographical sketch, a critical essay, and bibliographies of both primary
and secondary literature. Entries are regularly updated. For more
information, click on "Über das Lexikon" from the login page.
- Access: Limited to WU faculty, staff, and students. Available via URL both on or off campus. Password protected; contact Brian ((bvetruba@wustl.edu); phone: 935-4824) or other library staff for passwords. Login URL: http://www.klgonline.de/
- Searching/Browsing: To browse by author name, click on "Inhalt" from the login page. Keyword searching with UND, ODER, NICHT, NAHE is also available; click on "Recherche". Note, searching is free but points from our pre-paid account will be deducted each time an entry is accessed.
- Documentary Delivery of Secondary Literature: KLG offers a document delivery service via fax or mail for articles listed in secondary literature bibliographies. To order an article, click on the hyperlinked number in the bibliography which will place it in our "Warenkorb". Click on KLG "TEXTDIENST" and then "Bestellung". Follow instructions for sending the form by mail or fax. Note, for each order, a number of points are deducted from our account. For assistance or questions, contact Brian ((bvetruba@wustl.edu); phone: 935-4824)
- Print edition: Catalog record & Location.
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Middle High German dictionaries
Online access to the two standard dictionaries of Middle High German, Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch by Benecke, Müller, and Zarncke (BMZ); and Das Mittelhochdeutsche Handwörterbuch by Lexer. Also includes Das Findebuch zum mittelhochdeutschen Wortschatz (Findebuch). -
Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jakob und Wilhelm Grimm
Searchable version of the 32-volume DWB (1838-1960), the German equivalent of the OED. Also includes historical information about the dictionary and bibliographical references. Print edition: Catalog record & Location. - Other online dictionaries
- Finding dictionaries in the Catalog
New E-resources
Connections: European studies annual. Online access to vol. 1 (2005)-
Electronic journal.
Paperball: die Newssuche
News portal that allows searching German-language newspapers.
Swiss Book: the Swiss National Bibliography. Online access to 2001-
Bibliographical database of all Swiss publications and publications by Swiss authors. Keyword searching by title, author, and publisher. More info (in German).
Zeitschrift für deutsches Alterthum. Online access to Bd.2-12 (1842-1865); n.F., Bd. 1-6 (1867-1875)
Through DigiZeitschriften, a digitization initiative of scholarly journals in German, we have access to this journal and others. For a complete listing of accessible journals: DigiZeitschriften Open Access journals
Zeitschrift für interkulturellen Fremdsprachenunterricht. Online access to Jahrg. 1 (1996-)
Electronic journal from the University of Alberta about the teaching of German.
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New Print Resources
For a complete listing of what has been added in the last month for Germanic Literatures (PT), go to Featured lists. Click on "next" to get to "PT". This list is updated monthly and is organized by call number.
A selected list of recently added print resources with links to the catalog records:
Ammon, Frieder von. Ungastliche Gaben : die "Xenien" Goethes und Schillers und ihre literarische Rezeption von
1796 bis in die Gegenwart. Untersuchungen zur deutschen Literaturgeschichte, Bd. 123. Tübingen : Niemeyer, 2005.
Catalog record & Location
Bell, Matthew, Dr. The German tradition of psychology in literature and thought, 1700-1840. Cambridge studies in German. New York :
Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Catalog record & Location
Eaglestone, Robert. The Holocaust and the postmodern. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Catalog record & Location
Füssel, Stephan. Schiller und seine Verleger. 1. Aufl. Frankfurt am Main : Insel, 2005.
Catalog record & Location
Garloff, Katja. Words from abroad : trauma and displacement in postwar German Jewish writers. Kritik (Detroit, Mich.).
Detroit, Mich. : Wayne State University Press, 2005.
Catalog record & Location
Grave, Jaap, Peter Sprengel, and Hans Vandevoorde, eds. Anarchismus und Utopie in der Literatur um 1900 : Deutschland,
Flandern und die Niederlande. Würzburg : Königshausen & Neumann, 2005.
Catalog record & Location
Hecken, Thomas. Witz als Metapher : der Witz-Begriff in der Poetik und Literaturkritik des 18. Jahrhunderts. Tübingen :
Francke, 2005.
Catalog record & Location
Keppler, Karl J. Das Lachen der Frauen : das Dämonische im Weiblichen : Goethe, Wagner, Thomas Mann. Würzburg : Königshausen & Neumann, 2005.
Catalog record & Location
Kudszus, Winfried. Terrors of childhood in Grimms' fairy tales. Berkeley insights in linguistics and semiotics, v. 53.
New York: P. Lang, 2005.
Catalog record & Location
Mühlbach, L.(Luise). Napoleon in Deutschland, 2-4 Abt. Berlin : O. Janke, 1858-1859. Includes three works:
Napoleon und Blücher; Napoleon und Königin Louise; Napoleon und der Wiener Congress.
Catalog records & Location
Peterson, Brent Orlyn. History, fiction, and Germany : writing the nineteenth-century nation. Kritik (Detroit, Mich.). Detroit :
Wayne State University Press, 2005.
Catalog record & Location
Stewart, Janet and Simon Ward, eds. Blueprints for no-man's land : connections in contemporary
Austrian culture. Britische und irische Studien zur deutschen Sprache und Literatur, no. 37. Oxford : P. Lang, 2005.
Catalog record & Location
New Videos and DVDs
For a complete listing of what has been added in the last month for foreign language videos and DVDs, go to Featured lists. Click on "Foreign language videorecordings". This list is updated monthly and is organized by call number.
A selected list of videos and DVDs in Germanic languages added to the collection in the last few months:
Title: Das war die DDR (English title: That was the GDR).
Videocassettes; in German with English voiceovers
Catalog record & Location
Title: The Edukators.
DVD; in German
Catalog record & Location
Title: Persona.
DVD; in Swedish and English
Catalog record & Location
Title: Salmer fra kjøkkenet (English title: Kitchen stories).
DVD; in Norwegian and Swedish
Catalog record & Location
Title: Solino.
DVD-region 2; in German and Italian
Catalog record & Location
Title: Todesspiel.
Videocassettes; in German
Catalog record & Location
Searching tips
Finding dictionaries in the catalog: One of the most effective ways is to browse or search by subject headings. For example:
- German language -- Dictionaries (Subject Browse)
- German language -- Dictionaries -- English
- German language -- Middle High German, 1050-1500 -- Dictionaries
- German language -- Middle High German, 1050-1500 -- Dictionaries -- English
- German language -- Old High German, 750-1050 -- Dictionaries.
- German language -- Old High German, 750-1050 -- Dictionaries -- German.
Finding articles from a citation
When you have a citation (or a partial one) and need to find the full journal article, try Citatation Linker.
If the WU Libraries subscribe to the full text of that article online,
you'll be linked to it. If we don't, you'll be given other options for acquiring it.
- Titles beginning with "An": When searching for a title that begins with the German preposition "an", type it twice (e.g. "an an die berlinerin" will bring up the work: An die Berlinerin). This is because our catalog system automatically disregards the English articles "the", "an", and "a". This is also the case for the preposition "a" in Romance languages.
- Finding titles via keyword: If you can't find a title by perfoming a title search, ALWAYS do a KEYWORD search. We may actually have the title your're looking for as part of a larger work. And a KEYWORD search will often retrieve such titles.
- ß and umlauts in the WU Catalog, MOBIUS catalog, and WorldCat: The character ß is changed to double-s in the catalog, so always use double-s when searching (e.g. "muß" becomes "muss"). Umlauts and other diacritics appear in these catalogs but you don't need to input them when searching (e.g. "uber" and "über" will both retrieve über).
- What does IN PROCESS or IN TRANSIT mean in the WU Catalog and what do I do? To answer these questions and others about status messages, take a look at WU Libraries Catalog Status Messages.
If you're having trouble finding what you need, consult Brian by e-mail or phone (935-4824), or library staff at the Help Desk.
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