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Journals/Magazines

Proquest Arts: Journals & Dissertations Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Some full text available
Includes these databases: American Periodicals; British Periodicals; CBCA Complete: The Arts; Ethnic NewsWatch; Index Islamicus; International Index to Music Periodicals; MLA International Bibliography; ProQuest Career and Technical Education: The Arts; ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: The Arts; ProQuest Research Library: The Arts

Bibliographie der Deutschen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft Unrestricted Resource
The major bibliography for German language and literature. It goes beyond journal articles and covers books, chapters in books, etc. Use the Print & E-journals A-Z to find links to full-text or hard copy journals in our library. Search books in MIDCAT. Currently the years 1985-2005 are available in the web version

CIAO - Columbia International Affairs Online Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Some full text available Resource contains images
A selection of full-text books, conference reports, and working papers on international affairs.

Compact Memory: Internetarchiv jüdischer Periodika Unrestricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images
A portal for Jewish studies in German, includes 100 jewish periodicals, published between 1806 and 1938.

Digi Zeitschriften Unrestricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images
Created by the Verein zur Digitalisierung von wissenschaftlichen Zeitschriften, DigiZeitschriften provides images of periodicals in Economics, English Languages, Geology, Germanic Languages, History, Law, Librarianship, Philology, Romance Languages, the Sciences, and Sociology. Providing access to the back issues of German titles, DigiZeitschriften complements JSTOR

Directory of Open Access Journals Unrestricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images
This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages. There are now 3303 journals in the directory. Currently 1076 journals are searchable at article level. As of today 175523 articles are included in the DOAJ service.

EconLit with Full Text Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Link to Article Some full text available
Index for over 600 journals (400+ full-text), books, documents, and working papers in the field of economics. 1969 - present. Go shortcut = go/econlit. 
Note: Note: Summon searches Econlit citations, but it does not search the full-text. To search within full-text journals, select All Text from Econlit's search box Select a Field menu.

ERIC Database Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) is the world's largest source of education information, containing more than 1 million abstracts of education-related documents and journal articles.

Historical Abstracts Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Link to Article Some full text available
Major index to over 2,000 international journals, book reviews, and dissertations on the history of the world, except United States and Canada. Covers topics from 1450 (i.e. the Renaissance) to the present. Indexes publications published from 1955 to current.

JSTOR Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Link to Article Some full text available
Full-text archive of over 1000 scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. For off-campus access, enter your Middlebury username and password when prompted. Shortcuts: go/jstor (on campus), http://go.middlebury.edu/jstor (off campus). All Middlebury alumni can access our JSTOR archived journals, dating up to five years ago. To access JSTOR for Middlebury alumni visit http://go.middlebury.edu/jstoralum.

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Some full text available
Academic Universe provides access to the full text of national and international newspapers, magazines, wire services, and more. It also includes business, financial, and legal information, including laws, regulations, cases, and EU law. The non-English language news link includes news in French, German, Italian, and Spanish. Go shortcut = go/lexis (on campus), http://go.middlebury.edu/lexis (off campus).

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA ProQuest) Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Link to Article
Covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics.  The documents indexed include journal articles, book reviews, books, book chapters, dissertations and working papers, 1960-present.  Now on the ProQuest platform.

MLA International Bibliography (ProQuest) Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Link to Article
The major modern language index for literary criticism, linguistics, film and folklore. 1926-current. This is a subscription resource; for off-campus access, enter your Middlebury username and password when prompted. (Now on the ProQuest platform.)

PAIS International (ProQuest) Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Link to Article
Indexes journals, books, and documents covering global public policy and social issues in all disciplines. 1972 - current. For 1915 -1976, switch to PAIS Archive (click on Specific Database link to choose PAIS Archive). Go shortcut = go/pais

Periodicals Archive Online (PAO) Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Some full text available Resource contains images
Searchable archive of hundreds of digitized journals published in the arts, humanities and social sciences from 1665 - 2000. PAO is searchable with the British Periodicals I & ll collection. Also see Periodicals Index Online for indexing to additional journals titles.

Project Muse Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Link to Article Some full text available
Offers full-text of over 100 scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics from the 1990s to present. This is a subscription resource; for off-campus access, enter your Middlebury username and password when prompted.  Shortcuts: go/muse (on campus), http://go.middlebury.edu/muse (off-campus).

Books: other Catalogs

European Library Unrestricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images
 Online portal to 48 national libraries in Europe.

MDZ - Münchener Digitalisierungszentrum Unrestricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images
Digital collection of the Munich Library.

WorldCat Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Link to Article
Use this union catalog of over 40 million books, documents, reports, and media from libraries worldwide to identify books to request via InterLibrary Loan. If we don't own the book and you want to borrow it from another library, click on the ILL icon from the record. (OCLC)

International Geographic Resources

Columbia Gazetteer of the World Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Some full text available
A database of names, descriptions, and characteristics of over 165,000 places in the world.

Library of Congress Country Studies Unrestricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images
The Country Studies Series presents a description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of countries throughout the world.

Web Sites

Europeana Unrestricted Resource Resource contains images
Multi-lingual online collection of digitized items from European museums, libraries, archives and multi-media collections.

IPL Nachschlagebestand Unrestricted Resource
Internet Portal for German ready Reference

WESSWEB Unrestricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images Resource contains video Resource contains audio
Web pages selected and maintained by the Western European Studies Section of ACRL.

Yamada Language Guides Unrestricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images
Web Portal for numerous language related sites

Government Information

Governments on the WWW Unrestricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images Resource contains video Resource contains audio
Comprehensive database of governmental institutions on the World Wide Web: parliaments, ministries, offices, law courts, embassies, city councils, public broadcasting corporations, central banks, multi-governmental institutions etc. Includes also political parties. Online since June 1995. Contains more than 17000 entries from more than 220 countries and territories as of June 2002.

Almanacs and Yearbooks

Der Fischer Weltalmanach Unrestricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images
World Almanac in German

Audio Files

Project Gutenberg - audiobooks Unrestricted Resource Resource contains audio
 Computer read audiobooks in many languages.

Music Online Listening Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Resource contains audio
Music Online is the broadest and most comprehensive online music resource that cross-searches all of your library's Alexander Street Press music databases. (Alexander Street Press streaming music databases.)

Biographical Information

ADB/NDB: Allgemeine deutsche Biographie, Neue deutsche Biographie Unrestricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images
Searchable biographical database of 90,000 Germanic individuals, from the Middle Ages to the present, in all sectors of the public, scientific, economic and cultural life. ADB contains the digitized print edition (55 volumes and index, 1875-1912, Fraktur typeface). NDB contains citations only, no full text, for its 23 volumes, 1953-present.

Biographie-Portal Unrestricted Resource Some full text available

Das „Biographie-Portal“ beruht auf einer Kooperation zwischen der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek, der Historischen Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Stiftung Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz. Es erschliesst über ein gemeinsames Register zunächst:

  • Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB)
  • Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB)
  • Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815-1950 (ÖBL)
  • Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz (HLS),

Literature Resource Center Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Link to Article Some full text available
The Gale Literature Resource Center provides basic information about an author or a playwright as well as literary criticism from journals.  When you do a search on the author's name, the first tab of results will be a link to a biographical profile of his/her life and works, while the second tab will give links to literary criticism and other articles. Other tabs will lead to additional resources.

Citation and Style Guides

RefWorks On-campus use only Link to Article
RefWorks will automatically generate bibliographies and format your research papers in any of hundreds of styles including MLA, APA, Chicago, and Turabian. For more information, see the Middlebury-specific RefWorks Guide located at  http://go.middlebury.edu/refworks?midd.

Dictionaries

Larousse dictionaries Unrestricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images
 Includes a number of  free dictionaries

Beolingus Unrestricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images Resource contains video Resource contains audio
Search in more than 900,000 translations with examples and hints, explanations, synonyms, sayings, aphorisms, and quotations in English and German. Browse lists for special topics. Listen to German and English pronunciations spoken by native speakers.

Leo Unrestricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images Resource contains video Resource contains audio
Online German-English, German-French, German-Spanish dictionary. Includes links to verb and noun declination, and audio for pronunciation.

MIDCAT List - Duden Dictionaries Unrestricted Resource
Links to the MIDCAT search for Duden German dictionaries in either the reference section or the stacks of the main library.
Note: Active catalog search

MIDCAT List - German Dictionaries Unrestricted Resource
Active Catalog search
Note: Print resources

Oxford Reference Online Premium Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Some full text available Resource contains images
General reference resources, including encyclopedias, bilingual dictionaries, chronologies, and maps and illustrations.

WordReference.com Unrestricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images Resource contains video Resource contains audio
Language dictionaries

Your Dictionary Unrestricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images Resource contains video Resource contains audio
Portal site for online language dictionaries and grammars.

Directories

Digitale Sammlung Unrestricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images Resource contains video Resource contains audio
A wiki in German, with a collection of links to digital resources from around the world with an emphasis on those in German.

Dissertations

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Full text Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only
Search for millions of full text dissertations and theses from around the world from 1861 to present. Contains full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997. To obtain a copy of a dissertation or thesis unavailable as full text, use Inter Library Loan or request a Library purchase.

Encyclopedias

MIDCAT List - Encyclopedias, German Unrestricted Resource
Active catalog search
Note: Print resources

Journals/Magazines of the Period

GDR Bulletin Unrestricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images
Articles and reviews on the literature and culture of the German Democratic Republic, published 1975-1999.

Newspapers of the Period

Aufbau, 1934-1950 Unrestricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images
 Newspaper for and by German-Jewish immgrants and refugees. In German

Aufbau, 1951-2004 Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
   Newspaper for and by German-Jewish immgrants and refugees. In German

Aufbau, Indexing Unrestricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images
 An index to personal names that appeared in Aufbau between 1941 and 2003.

Dr. Friedrich Teßmann Library Unrestricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images

The digital newspaper archive of the Dr. Friedrich Teßmann Library offers the possibility to skim and scan digitized newspapers and periodicals published in the Alpine area.

Vorhandene Digitalisate für Zeitungen Unrestricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images
Digital newspapers from the Newspaper Department of the Staatsbibliothek in Berlin.

ZEFYS Unrestricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images
Collection of links to historical German newspapers.

Newspapers--International

EUfeeds Unrestricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images Resource contains video Resource contains audio
News feeds from 300 European newspapers, organized by country

Foreign Language News and Magazines Unrestricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images Resource contains video Resource contains audio
Links to electronic newspapers, journals, and magazines from around the world. Compiled by MIT Libraries.

Imooty Unrestricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images Resource contains video Resource contains audio
European news navigator

Kidon Media Link Unrestricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images Resource contains video Resource contains audio
Links to 18,776 newspapers and other news sources from almost every country and territory in the world.

Library PressDisplay Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Some full text available Resource contains images
45-day archive of full-color, full-page, scanned images of over 700 newspapers from 76 countries in 38 languages.

Newspapers24 Unrestricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images Resource contains video
12,000 newspapers, 24 hours news

Primary Sources

CRL: Center for Research Libraries Catalog Unrestricted Resource
Online catalog of the holdings of the Center for Research Libraries (CRL), which includes over 5 million items including U.S. and international newspapers; foreign journals and dissertations; government documents, and a wide range of other primary source material.

Note: Middlebury's membership in CRL allows us unlimited borrowing of CRL material via Interlibrary Loan (put a note in your request if the item is available from CRL).

19th-Century German Stories Unrestricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images
Web editions for language learning and literary study

Heidelberg Digital Library Unrestricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images Resource contains video Resource contains audio
Portal site for digital resources from the University of Heidelberg

Projekt Gutenberg Unrestricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images Resource contains audio
Digital version of public domain works in German

Radio Stations

Radio-Locator Unrestricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images Resource contains video Resource contains audio
Find radio stations by country

Statistics/Data

CIA - The World Factbook Unrestricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images
Produced by the CIA, country information including basic statistics.

TV Stations

List of German Language TV Stations Unrestricted Resource
From Wikipedia

International TV Unrestricted Resource Resource contains video Resource contains audio
Portal site to TV stations from around the world

Video/DVD

Fokus Deutsch Unrestricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images Resource contains video Resource contains audio
A video instructional series in German for college and high school classrooms and adult learners; 48 fifteen-minute video programs, audio CDs, and coordinated books

eBooks

EBL eBook Library Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Some full text available Resource contains images Resource contains audio
Tens of thousands of full-text ebooks primarily from academic publishers. Browse the collection (go/ebl) or read a step-by-step guide on reading and downloading ebooks. Use the advanced search option to browse books in languages other than English.

Archives

BAM: Portal zu Bibliotheken, Archiven, Museen Unrestricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images
The BAM Portal enables the search in the Collections of the participating Libraries, Archives, Museums and Other sources in Germany. The most information in the data are only accessable in German language but it is not necessary to use the German umlaut an special character (ä, ö, ü, ß) to get a hit.

fotoerbe.de Unrestricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images
German historical photograph site.



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Subject Specialist
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Joy Pile
Reference & Instruction Librarian for Foreign Languages & Music
Office: Lib 210
(802) 443- 5140
pile@middlebury.edu


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