German: Subject Guide

Search for books and articles

• BDSL Online
  Bibliographie der deutschen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft (BDSL). Free version that gives access to bibliographic information about sources 1985-2007.

• Dalarna University Library catalogue
  Search for printed books, printed journals, e-books and other types of material in the university library catalogue.

• Dart Europe
  Full-text dissertations from a number of European universities.

• Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek
  Free access to books, pictures, audio recordings, etc.

• Education database
  Full-text databasse for  literature on education.

• ERIC
  ERIC (The Education Resources Information Center) äis the world's largest database of literature on education.

• Google Scholar
  Search engine for scholarly literature (NB: does not only retrieve scholarly sources though).

• Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek (DNB)  
  Search for sources in the German National Library catalogue. (Useful source for finding German books and dissertations).

• LIBRIS 
  National search service providing information on titles held at Swedish university and research libraries, as well as a few public libraries.

• Linguistics Collection
  Database collection for literature on linguistics and language-related related disciplines. The collection searches simultaneously in the databases Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) and Linguistics Database.

• MLA International Bibliography
  Database for literature on linguistics and literary research.

• Project Gutenberg
  Freely available books in full text.

Encyclopedias and dictionaries

• Britannica Academic
  Consists of Encyclopaedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, among other things.

• The Pocket Oxford German Dictionary: English-German

• The Pocket Oxford German Dictionary: German-English

• Brockhaus: Die Enzyklopädie.   Flerbandsverk som finns i tryckt version i biblioteket - hylla Ba.

• Kindlers neues Literaturlexikon.   Flerbandsverk som finns i tryckt version i biblioteket - hylla G(x).

More dictionaries can be found on shelf Ff(x) in the library.

Student theses

• DiVA
  Find full-text theses and other scholarly works submitted at Högskolan Dalarna.

• Essays.se
  Search for full-text theses submitted at Swedish universities.



Other resources 

• Amazon.de
  German Internet bookshop. 

• Buch.de
  German Internet bookshop.

• German Studies Web 

• Goethe-Institut