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Department
of Modern Languages: German
Departmental Research Guide
This research guide relays some basic information on library
and information resources pertaining to the concerns of this
department, as provided by University Libraries and/or sites
on the World Wide Web.
1.
LC Call Nos. - - - 2.
Finding Articles - - - 3.
Reference Collection - - - 4.
German Faculty - - - 5.
Professional Societies - - - 6.
Web Sites
1. To Shelf-Browse for Books (using main Library
of Congress Subject Divisions)
Books
on subjects associated with this field are shelved under
the call number ranges listed below. Use TOPCAT
to search for specific items in the collection, or more
narrowly-defined subjects.
General
history of Germany, DD1-21 ------- Description
and travel, DD21.5-43 ------- Antiquities, social life
and customs, ethnography, DD51-78
Germanic languages PD1-7159: Germanic
languages (General), PD1-777 ------- Old Germanic dialects,
PD1001-1350 ------- Gothic, PD1101-1211 -------
North Germanic, PD1501-7159
German languages PF3001-5999: Old
High German, PF3801-3991 ------- Old Saxon, PF3992-4010
------- Middle High German, PF4043-4350 ------- Early
Modern German, PF4501-4596 ------- Dialects. Provincialism,
etc., PF5000-5950 ------- Slang. Argot, etc., PF5971-5999
German
literature PT1-4897: Literary history
and criticism, PT1-80 ------- History of German literature,
PT83-873 ------- Folk literature, PT881-951
------- Collections, PT1100-1479 ------- Individual
authors or works, PT1501-2688
------- Provincial, local, colonial, etc., PT3701-3971
------- Low German literature, PT4801-4897
2. To Find Journal and Magazine Articles
(using indexing/abstracting/full-text services)
The
following services are recommended for use by first-year students
and non-majors:
- Academic
Search Premier, MasterFILE, MAS FullTEXT Ultra:
These all-subject EBSCOhost-based services feature
indexing and abstracting of many journals and magazines
WKU Libraries receives in hardcopy, plus a large selection
of articles in full-text.
- Reader's
Guide to Periodicals Literature (Ref. Per. Ind. A13
.R48): Paper index covering articles on all subjects in
magazines since 1904.
- Lexis-Nexis
Academic: Full-text articles from local, national,
and international newspapers.
- MLA
(The Modern Language Association): This FirstSearch
database is an index for Literature, Language, Folklore,
Linguistics, and various other humanities fields.
- ArticleFirst:
This all-subject FirstSearch-based
database indexes almost 13000 journals and magazines from
1990 onward, including some ninety percent of the ones University
Libraries carries in hardcopy.
The
following services are recommended for use by advanced students
and researchers:
- JSTOR:
Provides the full text/full image web access of the complete
archival collections of journals, up to the most recent
three to five years.
- Project
Muse: "Provides online, worldwide, institutional
subscription access to the full text of over 100 scholarly
journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences and
mathematics."
- PerAbs:
Periodical abstracts from general and academic journals,
with many articles in full-text (a FirstSearch database
available to faculty and graduate students and to undergraduates
by special permission).
- WilsonSelectPlus:
Full-text articles in science, humanities, education and
business (a
FirstSearch database available to faculty and graduate
students and to undergraduates by special permission).
Special
resource: TDNet
Electronic Journal Finder [use to access Libraries'
electronic journals, magazines, and newspapers, as well as
some indexes and databases containing full-text articles;
includes a comprehensive A-Z listing of titles]
3.
Monographic Reference Works in Helm Library
The following are recommended for use:
- Encyclopedia
of German Literature PT91 .E53 2000
- Encyclopedia
of contemporary German culture DD290.26 .E53 1999
- A companion
to twentieth-century German literature Z2230 .C65 1997
- Cassell's
German-English, English-German dictionary PF3640 .B453
1980x
- Reallexikon
der deutschen Literaturgeschichte PT41 .R43 1997
- Cambridge-Eichborn
German dictionary H45 .E36 1983
- German grammar
and usage PF3111 .H3x 1983
- German-American
history and life: a guide to information sources Z1361
.G37 K47
- German literature
in English translation: a select bibliography Z2234
.T7 O5x 1981
4.
Department of Modern Languages Home Page
WKU Modern Languages
(German) Department homepage http://www.wku.edu/modernlanguages/
5.
Related Professional Societies (for professional news,
careers/jobs, memberships, etc.)
6.
Web Sites Recommended by German Faculty
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