UNM GENERAL LIBRARY GERMAN		Librarian  Elizabeth Steinhagen ens1@unm.edu 277-5176

LIBROS

is the online catalog of the UNM General Library. It provides access to books and journals owned by the UNM Libraries and New Mexico member institutions. Parts of the library's collection must still be accessed using the traditional card catalog. For materials not located in LIBROS contact InterLibrary Loan.

SPECIALIZED DATABASES:

Arts & Humanities Citation Index  UNM only

indexes journals in the arts and humanities providing citations and some full text articles.

Historical Abstracts

Index and abstracting service of historical journals covering world history except North America from 1450-the present. Coverage extends from 1969-.

Humanities Abstracts UNM only

indexes journal articles and reviews of books, plays, and radio & TV programs.

LLBA -- Linguistics & Languages Abstracts UNM only

abstracts articles from 2000 serials published worldwide covering linguistics and all languages. Also includes coverage of recent books, enhanced dissertation listings, and bibliographic citations for book reviews.

MLA Bibliography  UNM only

provides extensive coverage of journals on literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore.

Biography and Genealogy Master Index

indexes biographical information in biographical dictionaries on general and specific subjects.

FirstSearch

a collection of over sixty databases indexing articles, theses, disserations, books, in the fine & applied arts, humanities, social sciences, science, and technology.

EBSCOHost-Academic Search FULLTEXT Elite

abstracts and indexes over 3,500 journals and features full text articles for over 1,200 journals since1990.

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe

provides full text sources in categories of News, Business, Legal, Medical and Reference.

Project Muse

contains full text index to selected humanities and social science journals.

ProQuest

indexes over 2,200 multi-disciplinary sources, of which 1,400 are full text. Funded by the New Mexico State Library.

SocSciAbs  (Social Sciences Abstracts)

indexes numerous periodicals and is an excellent resource for cultural interaction topics.

Social SciSearch

indexes 1700 worldwide journals in a broad range of social science disciplines. Coverage is from 1990 to the present.

UnCover

indexes approximately 17,000 multidisciplinary magazines and journals published since the fall of 1988.

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• Central European History from Ebscohost and Wilson Select in FirstSearch
• Deutsche Welle
• European Review of History from Ebscohost
• Historian: a Journal of History from Proquest
• History from FirstSearch -- ECO 
• Journal of Women's History from Proquest and Contemporary Women's Issues from FirstSearch and Project Muse .
• Journal of World History from Proquest and Project Muse .
• Modern Fiction Studies from Project Muse .
• MLN from Project Muse .
• Modern Language Quarterly: A journal of literary history from Project Muse .
• Der Spiegel
• Der Stern
• Studies in Second Language Acquisition from  Cambridge University Press.
• Die Tageszeitung
• Die Welt
• Die Zeit

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• Austrian Collection
• Colonel Craig's WWW Links for German   Focus emphasizes Goethe; however, many useful links to other German related web sites are available.
• The Goethe Institute
• Facts about Germany
• German Links and Resources
• German Literature on the Internet
• German Teachers -- Net Links of Interest
• H-Net. Online resource for scholars, teachers and students in the Humanities and social sciences.
• Other Web Resources for German Studies
• Ritz's German CollectionCreative collection of German related web sites, email lists, and chat rooms.
• Teachers of German -- Links of Interest
• UND's GermanWeb
• WWW Virtual Library -- German Subjects

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European & World History

• European Studies - Regional and Historical Resources   The Western European Specialists Section of the American Libraries Association's Association of College and Research Libraries have developed comprehensive links to internet resources that include:
French Studies
German Studies
Medieval and Renaissance Web
Social Sciences and History (Includes links such as Migration Studies, Gypsies, Women's Studies, etc.)
• Fordham University--Internet History Sourcebooks Project.
• Hyperhistory.  3,000 years of world history with a combination of colorful graphics, lifelines, timelines, and maps.
• Internet Modern History Sourcebook
• History   Institute of Historical Research - London University links for Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Europe and the world.
• Labyrinth: A World Wide Web Server for Medieval Studies   A clearinghouse for materials from around the Internet. Includes electronic texts, bibliographies, lectures, and professional information. Source materials in Latin, French, Italian, and Middle English.
• Yahoo History Page.

Directory of Scholarly and Professional E-Conferences

A subject-arranged and keyword-searchable text file with descriptions of groups and instructions for subscribing.

Directory listing for German.

H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online

"H-Net is an interdisciplinary organization of scholars dedicated to developing the enormous educational potential of the Internet and the World Wide Web". Includes listings for Discussion Networks and a Job Guide.

H-Net book reviews

The major listserver for research in history; includes book reviews.

• German-English/English-German Dictionaries
• The German Language Page
  Provides online tutorials for learning German, vocabulary definitions, and software for learning German.
• Internet Handbook of German Grammar
• LEO English/German Dictionary

• Biographical Dictionary
• Biography: A Biographical Dictionary
• Distinguished Women: Past and Present
• World Biographical Index

• UNM General Library Electronic Reference Shelf

• Linguistics Research
• Literature Research
• MLA International Bibliography -- search strategies
• Professional Writing Resources

• UNM German Program
• German Summer School - Taos 2000
• Other Academic German Programs
• DAAD  (German Academic Exchange Service)
• German Program at the University of North Dakota
• German Programs in the U.S.
• Study Abroad

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• American Association of Teachers of German (AATG)
• American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)
• American Translators Association (ATA)
• Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO)
• Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES)
• Gesellschaft fur Deutsche Sprache
• Resources of Scholarly Societies - Language & Linguistics
• Southwest Conference on Language Teaching (SWCOLT)

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Library of Congress Call Numbers for German Literatures & Languages encompass a number of call number areas. The following is a sampling of the more specific call numbers related to German literature and linguistics.

P 1-37	Philology and linguistics -- Relation to Psychology.
P 40	Linguistics -- Relation to Sociology.
P 121-149	Science of Language
P 201-299	Comparative grammar - Including origin of the alphabet, phonetics, parts of speech, syntax.
P 301	Style. Composition. Rhetoric.
P 306-310	Translating and interpreting
P 327-365	Lexicography
PD	Germanic Philology and Languages
PD 31	Encyclopedias. Dictionaries.
PD 73-777	Grammar. Etymology. Dialects.
PD 1031-1059	Old Germanic dialects
PD 1501-1541	North Germanic. Scandinavian (General)
PT 1-67	German Literature
PT 69-80	Criticism
PT 83-149	History of German Literature. Special Topics, Subjects, Countries.
PT 170-873	Literature by Period. Special Forms.
PT 881-941	Folk Literature
PT 1100-1374	Collections of German Literature
PT 1375-1695	Middle High German Literature
PT 1701-2688	Individual Authors 1500-20th Century
PT 3701-3971	Provincial, local, colonial German literature
PT 4801-4897	Low German Literature

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