GIL
http://gil.uga.edu

The University of Georgia online catalog. Records for almost all the Libraries' holdings are now included in GIL.

GALILEO
http://www.galileo.usg.edu
Instructions for getting the off-campus password for GALILEO

The GALILEO system links the 34 University system libraries and 7 off- campus residential centers into a single on-line network, thus making a vast array of information sources available to institutions of learning throughout the state of Georgia. GALILEO resources include numerous databases providing citations to articles in journals, newspapers, monographs, etc. (some of them full text) in all fields of study. In addition to providing access to numerous databases, GALILEO serves as a link to various Internet Resources, including Newspapers, Education resources, Government servers, other Library networks, and points of access to the World Wide Web. Finally, GALILEO enables the user to browse any of the library catalogs of University System institutions.

Databases of interest to German literature students available through GALILEO:

Academic Search Premier: Citations to articles in over 1,600 periodicals from 1986 to the present in many academic subject areas, including Humanities. Full text for some articles is provided after 1991. Predominately English-language journals are indexed. Updated weekly.

Article First: Citations to key words in journal table of contents in a number of fields including Humanities. Indexes roughly 13,000 periodicals in English as well as in other European languages. 1990 to the present, with some titles beginning in 1992. Updated daily.

Arts and Humanities Citation Index (Select Web of Science): Indexes over 5,000 periodicals in English and other European languages. 1980 to the present; updated weekly.

ATLA Religion Database

Biography Reference Bank: Contains full-text biographies from selected reference books, plus citations to biographical materials in journals and monographs for persons throughout history.

Dissertation Abstracts: Covers doctoral dissertations from U.S. institutions since 1861, with selective coverage of Masters' theses and Canadian, British, and European dissertations. Abstracts are provided for dissertations from July 1980 onward and for Masters' theses from Spring, 1988 onward. References to the print version of DAI are given for dissertations and theses completed prior to these dates. Updated monthly.

Goethes' Werke im WWW: Weimarer Ausgabe of Goethe's "Werks" plus "Goethes Gespräche" and "Nachträge zur Weimarer Ausgabe", ed. by Paul Raabe, Munich, 1990.

Humanities Index: Provides citations with abstracts to articles and book reviews in approximately 400 English-language journals in the Humanities areas. Updated monthly.

Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism: Includes material on selected German literature topics, e.g., Sturm und Drang.

Literature Resource Center: Biographical and critical information for authors, selected German authors included.

MLA Bibliography: for annotation, see above. The on-line version contains the complete file from 1963 to the present; updated 10 times per year.

Oxford English Dictionary

PCI Web (Periodicals Contents Index): includes contents of numerous German language journals

Philosopher's Index

WorldCat (OCLC Online Union Catalog): Catalog records for books and other materials in U.S. libraries and other libraries worldwide. (Check here to verify information for Interlibrary loan requests.)

 

German Studies on the Web

An excellent source of internet scholarly resources for Germanists is the German Studies Web maintained by German area studies librarians affiliated with the Association for College and Research Libraries. The url is: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~wess/wesslit.html. The site contains the following subsections:

• Library catalogs and library information: Libraries in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
  
• Reference shelf: dictionaries, guides and directories.
  
• German language newspapers and other news sources: full text editions, some free, others fee-based.
  
• Selected German subject resources: Art & architecture; Book trade, publishers, etc., including web-searchable Verzeichnis lieferbarer Bücher and the catalog of Koch, Neff & Oettinger); Business, economy, finance; History; Information technology & librarianship; Politics & government; Literature (including electronic journals and online text collections); Theater, film, performing arts.
  
• Other German studies homepages.

Another web source for information on literature is the Kunst-Literatur page on DINO, the German search engine. Here one can find links to sites on literary topics in general and German literature in particular. A sampling of subjects follows: Kurzgeschichten, Literaturgeschichte, Lyrik, Medien, Online-Bücher, Schriftsteller, Sprachwissenschaften, Wörterbücher, Zeitschriften zur Literatur. Web address: http://www.dino-online.de/seiten/go05l.htm. Finally, the Universitätsbibliothek der Freien Universität Berlin has an excellent web site for German studies, "Fachinformationen Germanistik". Especially noteworthy is a section called "Biographische Kurzinformationen", links to various sources of biographical information on over 100 authors writing in German. Links are also provided to other web pages, as well as to various reference sources. Web address: http://www.ub.fu-berlin.de/internetquellen/fachinformation/germanistik/