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FirstSearch
Electronic access to dozens of databases and more than 10 million full-text and full-image articles.
(Please ask the librarian for the password)

OAIster
Union catalog of digital resources with more than 14 mio. records from more than 900 contributors

German History in Documents and Images

Reference Works

World biographical Index (CD-Rom)

Bibliographies

ArticleFirst
Database with table of contents pages of individual issues of over 12.000 journals. The reporting period is 1990 to the present.
(Please ask the librarian for the password)

OASE / OASE (English site)
OASE provides bibliographical data for the most important document servers in Germany and abroad

Virtuelle Deutsche Landesbibliographie
Meta-Catalog for regional studies works in Germany

Compendiums

Datenbank Info-System der Universitätsbibliothek Regensburg
Information about databases provided by the University of Regensburg Library

Journals and E-Journals

Online Access

Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters / (English site)
German archive for research on the middle ages

Newspapers Online

ProQuest Historical Newspapers
(accessible only through computers in the GHI network)

Compendiums

ArticleFinder
Database of scientific, technical, medical, and other scholarly materials

Die Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek
Access to scholarly journals on the internet

IngentaConnect

Wikisource Zeitschriften
List of open source digitized journals and magazines

Zeitschriftenfreihandmagazin / Magazine Stack (English site)
Tables of contents of historical journals, monographic series and occasional volumes

Retro-digitized journals

Allgemeine Deutsche Bibliothek
Digitized magazine reviews and literary journals from the 18th and 19th centuries published in the German-speaking countries

Zentrales Verzeichnis digitalisierter Drucke (ZVDD) / (English site)
Portal to digitized imprints

Bibliographies

Aufsatzdatenbank Frühe Neuzeit
Database on early modern history

Dandelon / Dandelon (English site)
Search engine for scholarly literature

Jahresberichte für deutsche Geschichte
Bibliography in German history, from reporting year 1984 forward

Zeitschriftenschau Geschichte / Review of historical journals (English site)
Up-to-date database of tables of contents of about 100 history journals (since 1999)

Library catalogs

Worldcat
Meta-Catalog for literature in american and european libraries

Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
German National Library (Frankfurt and Leipzig)

Digitale Bibliothek - (DigiBib) / Digital Library (English site)
Provides access to several resources in a single search interface

Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog (KVK) / (English site)
The Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog KVK is a meta search interface which allows you to access library and book trade catalogs via WWW

Virtuelle Deutsche Landesbibliografie
Meta-Catalog for regional studies works in Germany

Zeitschriften-Datenbank (ZDB) / (English site)
The ZDB is the world’s largest specialized database for serial titles (journals, annuals, newspapers etc., incl. e-journals)

Internet sources

World

EuroDocs
Primary historical documents from Western Europe

Virtual Library Geschichte

Germany

Bibliothek für Bildungsgeschichtliche Forschung
The database contains digitized journals and reports from the late 18th century to 1945

Clio-online
Clio-online is a central Internet gateway for historical

Forschungsportal Net / Research portal (English site)
Search engine for scholarly publications and research funding in Germany

Historicum.net
Historical scholarship on the Web

InformationsWeiser Geschichte / History Guide (English site)
The History Guide is a subject gateway dealing with relevant history websites

H-Soz-u-Kult / (English site)
Communication and information services for historians

Kartographie
Collection of online maps

The Online Books Page

Vascoda
Interdisciplinary portal

Virtual Library of Anglo-American culture / (English site)

Reviews

Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Qualitative Social Research (English site)
FQS is a peer-reviewed multilingual online journal for research in the social sciences, established in 1999

Historische Rezensionen online / (English site)
Meta search engine for reviews accessible on sites such as Sehepunkte, H-Soz-u-Kult, Perlentaucher etc.

H-Soz-u-Kult Reviews / (English site)

Perlentaucher

Sehepunkte
E-Journal for historical reviews

The medieval review
Publishes reviews of current work in all areas of medieval studies

Reviews in History
E-Journal since 1996

Reference works

Historical encyclopedias

Allgemeine Enzyklopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste / Universal Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts (English site)
A scholarly encyclopedia published by Johann Samul Ersch and Johann Gottfried Gruber between 1818 and 1889. It is regarded as the most comprehensive encyclopedia ever published in the West

Classic Encyclopedia
The Crystal Reference Encyclopedia und the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

Johann Georg Krünitz' Oekonomische Encyklopädie oder allgemeines System der Staats-, Stadt-, Haus- und Landwirthschaft
One of the most comprehensive encyclopedias published in the German-speaking countries, published between 1773 and 1858 and an important source for on the early industrial era

Meyers Konversationslexikon of 1888
Well known German encyclopedia

Historical dictionaries

Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob Grimm und Wilhelm Grimm
Historical dictionary of High German, with usage examples from the mid-sixteenth century on. Also access point to several other historic German dictionaries

Digitaler Verbund von Dialektwörterbüchern
Four digitized dictionaries of German dialects and idioms

Goethe-Wörterbuch
Goethe Dictionary

Johann Christoph Adelungs Grammatisch-kritisches Wörterbuch
Dictionary of the German language with descriptions of the origin, the meaning, and the usage of German words and vocabulary in the 18th century

Das Wörterbuchnetz
Access point to several German historical dictionaries

Early modern history

Aufsatzdatenbank Frühe Neuzeit
Bibliographical database for the early modern history

Historicum.net

Virtual Library Frühe Neuzeit

19th and 20th centuries

Deutsche Exilzeitschriften 1933-1945
Fulltext to the German press in exile

International history project 'Détente and Ostpolitik 1966-1975'

Virtual Library Zeitgeschichte (English site)
Covers German history 1890-1949

wiedervereinigung.de
Online bibliography of the German renunification

Zeitgeschichte-online
Portal on contemporary history

Archives

Worldwide

Archivschule Marburg
International bibliography of archives

Europäische Union / European Union (English site)
Historical archives service of the European Commission

UNESCO Archives Portal
The UNESCO Archives Portal gives access to websites of archival institutions around the world. It is also a gateway to resources related to records and archives management and to international co-operation in this area

Germany

Archivschule Marburg
List of German archives on the internet

Genealogy

Worldwide

Ancestry

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Ellis Island Records

Rootsweb

GenWiki
Genealogy in the German-speaking areas of the world

Germany

Deutscher Genealogieserver / German Genealogy Internet Portal (English site)

Deutsches Genealogisches Webverzeichnis
Catalog of German Genealogy

Forschungsstelle deutsche Auswanderer in den USA / Research Center German Emigrants in the USA (English site)

Forschungsstelle Personalschriften
Early Modern German Eulogies

Institut deutsche Adelsforschung
Research on German Nobility

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