This guide is an in-depth listing of German language & literature resources available to students and faculty at the University of Minnesota.
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- Austrian Literature Online (ALO)Digital library of over 15,000 books, journals, newspapers, manuscripts, theses,and scientific essays covering the 11th century to the present. Texts available as images or PDFs.
- Book Sales Catalogues OnlineBook Sales Catalogues Online (BSCO) offers a comprehensive bibliography of book sales catalogues printed in the Dutch Republic before 1801. A sophisticated search menu provides access to some 3,750 digital facsimiles from ca. 50 libraries across Europe.
- DigiZeitschriftenSearch back issues of German-language scholarly journals.
- Early European Books : printed sources to 1700Early European Books traces the history of printing in Europe from its origins through the close of the seventeenth century. The resource represents a diverse array of printed sources and opens the door to some of the Europe's most significant collections of early printed books.
- EEBO: Early English Books Online (Page Images)Over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), and the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661).
- Eighteenth Century Collections OnlineSearch books from the Enlightenment period in Great Britain between 1701 and 1800 with over 180,000 English-language titles and editions printed in the United Kingdom and the Americas. It includes books, pamphlets, essays, broadsides and more.
- EuroDocs: Online Sources for European HistoryPortal to open access primary historical documents for European countries that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated. Texts, video, sound files, maps, photographs and other imagery, databases, and other documentation are also available. Coverage is from Prehistoric Europe to present day.
- EuropeanaSingle access point to millions of artworks, artefacts, books, films and music from European museums, galleries, libraries and archives.
- GEI-Digital: the Digital Textbook LibraryFrom the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research (GEI) , a historical digital collection of German textbooks for a variety of school subjects from about 1600 to 1918.
- German History in Documents and Images/Deutsche Geschichte in Dokumenten und BildernPrimary source materials documenting Germany's political, social, and cultural history from 1500 to the present. It comprises original German texts with new English translations, and a wide range of visual imagery.
- German Studies CollaboratoryVirtual hub of open education resources for those interested in German language, art, culture, and history. Includes links to digital resources in a variety of formats.
- Google BooksGoogle Books searches the full text of thousands of books, so it can help you find out if a certain word or phrase is in a book. It will only show you snippets of the book's text, though, so you'll need to find the books in the Library or request them through Interlibrary Loan.
- HathiTrust Digital Library This link opens in a new windowHathiTrust provides access to millions of books and other materials. Full text searching of most books is available and books in the public domain (generally older books) can be freely viewed and/or downloaded. Books still in copyright have more limited access. Users with print-reading disabilities can apply for special access to digitized works by emailing wilsref@umn.edu.
- Münchener Digitalisierungszentrum Digitale Bibliothek (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek)Full text books, journals, newspapers, manuscripts, maps, and more.
- Nineteenth Century Collections OnlineSearch primary source collections of the nineteenth century (1800s) with books, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, statistics, and more. Topics include British politics, theater and music; European literature, Asian exploration, photography, and more.
- Olms Online: MesskatalogeDigitized versions of the Frankfurt and Leipzig book fair catalogs, which offer an overview of German book production over a period of nearly 300 years (1594-1860)
- Olms Online: Reprints400 volumes of German literature/literary studies, philosophy, and other subjects in the Humanities from the 16th-20th centuries reprinted by the publisher Georg Olms Verlag with additional information.
- Periodicals Archive OnlineMajor archive of historical volumes of scholarly journals in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Spans more than two centuries of content, 37 key subject areas, and multiple languages.
- Sophie: Digital Library of Works by German-Speaking WomenThe Sophie Digital Library is an open-access, full-text-searchable source of literature written by German-speaking women from medieval times through the early 20th century. The collection covers a broad spectrum of genres and is designed to showcase literary works that have been not widely available.
- VD16 (Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachbereich erschienenen Drucke des 16. Jahrhunderts )National bibliography of German-language imprints in the 16th century. For some items, links to digitized copies are included
- VD17 (Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachraum erschienenen Drucke des 17. Jahrhunderts)National bibliography for 1601 to 1700 of all German-language imprints and publications in other languages published in German-speaking countries. For some items, links to digitized copies are provided.
- VD18 (Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachraum erschienenen Drucke des 18. Jahrhunderts)National bibliography for 1701 to 1800 of all German-language imprints and publications in other languages published in German-speaking countries. Links to full text are provided.
- Zentrales Verzeichnis Digitalisierter DruckePortal to searching digital collections from Germany for publications from the 15th century to the present
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