Research Resources:
Subject Research Guides:
German Language and Literature:
Finding Books in Print, Microform, and Online
Start with
IRIS, but many collections include texts
that you cannot find by an author or title search there.
Databases for Finding Books
IRIS: The Rutgers University Libraries Online Catalog
Interlibrary Loan, Reserve, renewals, and requests are all initiated from IRIS. Note that up
to one-fourth of Alexander Library's German literature books are not in IRIS, but can be found
in the Alexander card catalog.
- RLIN: The RLG Union Catalog (Rutgers Restricted)
- WorldCat: The OCLC Union Catalog (Rutgers Restricted)
- Deutsche Bibliothek Database: DBD (Rutgers Restricted)
- - RLIN and WorldCat are multi-library American library catalogs in which Rutgers participates.
- - Use them to complete your bibliography, plan a research trip, or identify materials to request via Interlibrary Loan. RLIN is the most convenient way to identify holdings in our region's research libraries, while WorldCat includes many smaller libraries and is somewhat larger. The DBD has excellent holdings for German publications in this century.
Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog (KVK)
KVK is a gateway facilitating simultaneous searching in many German library networks and in other libraries with good holdings of German books.
German Books in Print (VLB)
The search engine is located in the upper left corner of this page.
Text Collections in Print
Many individual titles in the Rutgers collection are part of large sets. The largest of these sets is Deutsche
National-Litteratur [ALEXANDER PT1104.D4], 163 volumes plus an index volume. In addition, we have substantial works editions of the
following writers: Brecht, Broch, Döblin, Droste-Hülshoff, Eichendorff, Fontane, Goethe, Gottsched, Grillparzer,
Hauptmann, Hebbel, Hoffmann, Hoffmannsthal, Klopstock, Lessing, Mann, Schiller, Sealsfield, and Tieck.
Text Collections in Microform
Bibliothek der deutschen Literatur : Bibliographie und Register : Mikrofiche-Gesamtausgabe nach Angaben des Taschengoedeke. Bearbeitet unter der Leitung von Axel Frey.
München : K.G. Saur, 1995.
The collection is at M/FICHE 457 in the Alexander Periodicals Room. It contains facsimiles of 15,000 German
imprints, both original German books and German translations, published 1650-1890, selected from Taschengoedeke.
Bibliographie deutscher Erstausgaben. If you suspect a book is in the BdL, search for it in the
Northwestern University Library catalog (use
"guided search" and combine the book's title and the title "bibliothek
der deutschen literatur") and, if it is, the catalog will give you a
fiche number that you can use to find it in our set.
ALEXANDER REF PT85.A12B5 1995 Guide to the microfiche collection.
Text Collections Online
Digitale Bibliothek Deutscher Klassiker [Rutgers Restricted]
The works of more than 100
German authors from the Middle Ages to the early twentieth century in the form of prose, poetry,
drama, diaries, and letters. These are scholarly editions of the
authoritative Bibliothek
deutscher Klassiker series published by
Deutscher Klassiker Verlag Frankfurt am Main.
German Studies Web, Digital Projects, WESSWEB
LiTLiSkS : Links zu Online-Texten der deutschen und ins Deutsche übersetzten Literatur, Helmut Schulze
Digitale Texte, Erlanger Liste, Universität Nürnberg-Erlangen
These links give you an overview of digital projects accessible through the Internet:
Projekt Gutenberg-DE
It contains not only more than 400 texts from the German classics,
but also texts from about 80 modern writers.
19th Century German Stories, Virginia Commonwealth University
Texts of Wilhelm Busch, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Joseph von
Eichendorff, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Friedrich Schiller, Novalis etc.
Textkorpora des Instituts für Deutsche Sprache
Large database of several million book pages, searchable but not browsable, for a fee.
Zeno.org
Launched in 2007, claims to be "die größte Online-Bibliothek im deutschen Sprachraum."
