Using Catalogs: Use the WSU
online
catalog to find location and availability of books and other media
in Stewart Library. Books on German literature are generally located
within the call number
PT and books on German language are
found beginning under the call number
PF3000 in the General
Collection on the middle level.
| Examples of Library of
Congress Subject Headings |
German poetry--History and criticism,
Short stories--German,
Romanticism--Germany,
German language--Grammar--Textbooks,
German literature--20th century--Bibliography,
Austrian prose literature--19th century,
German drama--18th century,
German language--Dialects--Switzerland, etc. |
Electronic Books and
Texts:
- The German
Literature on the Internet: Text Collections - A very good
gateway to numerous German text collections on the Web from
the Western European Studies Section of the Association of College
and Research Libraries
- EuroDocs:
Primary Historical Documents From Western Europe --
Selected Transcriptions, Facsimiles and Translations
- Library of Congress/US Department of Army Country Studies:
Austria
(1993), East
Germany (1987), Germany
(1995) These are out of date, but historical information is useful
From Bookstores:
Order books online from Amazon Books,
Barnes and Noble or Yahoo Books
Page. Also use Books
in Print sources as needed.
Interlibrary Loan:
If we do not own a particular book or article you need, we will
borrow it for you from another library through Interlibrary
Loan.
Reference resources include encyclopedias, dictionaries and
other materials you use to "refer" to. Use these resources
for background information on a topic.
For
home or off campus access please use your WSU Login.
ONLINE REFERENCE RESOURCES
- Yahoo:
German Dictionaries
- Altavista Translate Anything
- Artcyclopedia - online
directory of museum art on the Web. Search by artist name to retrieve
a list of links to the artists works at museums worldwide
- Literature
Resource Center - Available on campus and off campus
via the Remote Access Service. This is
an excellent resource providing long critical essays on each author
as well as information on genre, personal information, career,
awards/honors, full list of writings and biographical/critical
sources
- Grove
Art Online- Start your research here with 41,000 articles,
720,000 index entries and 10,000 links to color images.
SELECTED PRINT
REFERENCE RESOURCES
- Cassell's Deutch English - English Deutch Dictionary
Reference PF640.c375 1977
- English-German Dictionary of Idioms :
Reference - PF3460.S343 1997
- Oxford Companion to German Literature
(Reference PT41.G3 1997)
ARTICLE DATABASES
To find articles on
your topic you need to use article databases, also known as periodical
indexes. Each database usually covers a group of subject related
journals. Search by subject or keyword in these indexes. For
home or off campus access please use your WSU Login.
- MLA
- MLA International Bibliography is usually the best index for
researching literature and literary criticism topics. MLA provides
article reference for articles in literature, languages,
linguistics, and folklore back to 1963. Updated ten times per
year.
- Arts
& Humanities Search - Citations from many of the world's
leading arts and humanities journals. 1980 - present, updates
weekly.
- Academic
Search Premier - Provides some full text articles in over
a thousand magazines and journals
- Lexis/Nexis Academic
- Full-text coverage of many
newspapers from across the US and around the world.
- ERIC
(EbscoHost) - For articles and other types
of information on teaching literature and literary criticism.
- IIPA
-- International Index to Performing Arts - Citations, abstracts
and some full-text articles on all aspects of the performing arts
including plays and playwrights.
- JSTOR -
A group of full-text scholarly journals in many subjects, including
language and literature. Dates of coverage vary.
- Masterplots - 12,000 entries covering world literature,
ancient to
modern day. Plot summaries, character profiles and author biographies.
In Stewart Library use Ref Station #33. Ask for CD at Reference
Desk.
BROWSING CURRENT PERIODICALS
Current magazines and
journals can be browsed in the Current Periodicals Area, in the
P section on the Middle level. Bound volumes of older issues are
found upstairs in the periodicals stacks. Selected titles are
listed below:
- The German Quarterly - PF1.G373
- The Germanic Review - PD1. G374
ELECTRONIC JOURNALS
The library subscribes
to many electronic journals in literature
including MLN
MEDIA
Here are
some WWW sites to get you started. Most of these will take you to
many other links, so explore!