German Language Humanities : Help!

A guide to research materials in the areas of Germanic languages and literature

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Center for Research Libraries

The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) is an international consortium of university, college, and independent research libraries that supports advanced research and teaching in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences. CRL acquires and preserves newspapers, journals, documents, archives, dissertations, and other traditional and digital resources from a global network of sources and makes them available through interlibrary loan and electronic delivery.

Graduate Support Series Workshops

The Graduate Support Series is a special set of free workshops offered by the UW-Madison Libraries in conjunction with the Graduate School's Professional Development opportunities. The library workshops in the Graduate Support Series are specially tailored to those engaged with graduate study, and cover pertinent topics such as:

Finding external funding for graduate study
Organizing your research materials with citation managers (EndNote, EndNote Web, Mendeley, and Zotero)
Researching the literature in different subject areas, from life sciences to the arts and humanities

List-servs

H-German
Primarily historical discussion and views on German Studies. Includes calls for proposal, new publication announcements, reviews of recent books.
H-Germanistik
Discussion forum for German literature and philology. Includes calls for proposal, new publication announcements, reviews of recent books.
H-Net
Covers all areas of the arts, humanities and social sciences. Discipline and topical networks.
H-TGS
H-Transnational German Studies provides a moderated interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of topics relevant to the study of the German diaspora and intercultural transfer between German and non-German societies from the 17th century to the present. H-TGS was formerly H-GAGCS (German-American and German-Canadian Studies).
WIG (Women in German)
Devoted to the feminist study of German culture. The organization's twice-yearly referred journal Feminist German Studies (formerly Women in German Yearbook) can be accessed online through the Library Catalog.

Finding German Literature in the Library

Books of German-language literature and translations into English, as well as criticism, analysis, etc. of German literature, are all located in the same general area, in the call numbers PT1 - PT4897. Unless the materials are Reference, Microform, or Oversize, you will find this collection on 4M South of Memorial Library.

PT1 - PT80 - Literary History and Criticism
PT83 - PT871 - History of German Literature

PT175 - PT230 - Medieval
PT236 - PT405 - Modern
PT500 - PT597 - Poetry
PT605 - PT709 - Drama
PT711 - PT871 - Prose

PT1100 - PT1479 - Collections of German Literature
PT1501 - PT2728 - Individual authors or works

PT1501 - PT1695 - Authors and works, Middle High German, ca. 1050
PT1701 - PT1797 - Authors and works, 1500 - ca. 1700
PT1799 - PT2592 - Authors and works, 1700 - ca. 1860/1870
PT2600 - PT2653 - Authors and works, 1860/1870 - 1960
PT2660 - PT2688 - Authors and works, 1961 - 2000
PT2700 - PT2728 - Authors and works, 2001-

PT3701 - PT3971 - German Literature: Provincial, Local, Colonial, Etc.

PT3701 - PT3746 - East Germany

PT4801 - PT4897 - Low German Literature

Related areas of interest include:

PT5001 - PT5980 - Dutch Literature
PT6000 - PT6467.36 - Flemish Literature since 1830

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Keeping Current

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An app for iPads and Android tablets, lets you browse, read, and monitor scholarly journals in your subject areas on your tablet device. Best of all, the Libraries have picked up the cost!

Keeping Current in the Literature
A research guide related to the Graduate Support Series workshop of the same name to help you stay up-to-date with new publications in your field.

JournalTOCs: Largest searchable collection of scholarly journal Tables of Contents (TOCs) -- contains articles' metadata of TOCs for over 18,380 journals directly collected from over 1025 publishers. Find and follow journals in your subject area!

Literature and Book Market in Germany: Selected Links (via the Goethe Institut)

Neuerscheinungen (Germanistik-im-Netz, weekly updates)

ZEIT ONLINE: Neues aus der Literatur

Current Events Web Sites

Special Collections and Microforms

Our Special Collections contain a wealth of rare books, pamphlets, and documents, most of which can be identified through the Library Catalog

Learn more about using UW-Madison's Special Collections here -- examine collection strengths here

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Many significant collections of primary research materials may be found in non-print formats such as microfilm or microfiche.
The former Microforms Media Center (MMC) reader/viewing/printing equipment will be relocated to its new home in Memorial Room 262D/E (2nd Floor near the current Reference Desk).

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Memorial Library Stack Guide

Copy and paste call number from catalog record. Be sure to note any location information, such as General Size Shelving, Reference Stacks, Oversize, etc.