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.

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 and MasterFILE Premier: These two all-subject WWW-based services (they are part of the EBSCOhost system) feature indexing and abstracting of many journals and magazines WKU Libraries receives in hardcopy, plus a large selection of articles in full-text. Also available in German.
• 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 (Modern Language Association): A WWW-based database available through Literature Online which exhaustively indexes all literature of the field of Literature, Languages, Linguistics, and Folklore.
• Literature Online: Contains full text of over 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, along with literature journals and other key criticism and reference resources. Also Indexes scholarly books and articles on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. Includes a combined search with the MLA International Bibliography.
• Google Scholar: A free Web-based Google service that restricts searches to the scholarly literature. Now features linking to full-text of articles held by WKU.

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."
• Art and Humanities Citation Index (AHSearch): FirstSearch database available to faculty and graduate students (and to undergraduate students by special permission). Indexes over 1,300 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, 1980 to present.
• ArticleFirst: FirstSearch database available to faculty and graduate students (and to undergraduate students by special permission). Indexes almost 13,000 journals and magazines from 1990 onward, including some ninety percent of the ones University Libraries carries in hardcopy.
• 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]
Special resource:  KenCat [A searchable catalog of the collections at the Kentucky Library & Museum. KenCat includes manuscripts, letters, sheet music, photographs, museum exhibits, images, journals, and books.]

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.)

• American Association of Teachers of German http://www.aatg.org/
• Modern Language Association http://www.mla.org

6. Web Sites Recommended by German Faculty

• Foreign Language and Culture http://www.speakeasy.org/~dbrick/Hot/foreign.html
• German Resources http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de/Outerspace/VirtualLibrary/
• German Studies Web http://www.dartmouth.edu/~wess/
• Germany (3:5 Governments) http://www.politicalresources.net/germany3.htm
• The Human-Languages Page http://www.ilovelanguages.com/
• MetaGer [German meta-search engine] http://www.metager.de/