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Germanic Collections
Search engines in German or devoted largely to German
www-sites:
- Yahoo
Deutschland
- Clean interface and fast response time. Well-designed, but
selective in its choice of indexed sites.
- DINO
- Combines a Yahoo-like thematic index and a search engine, both
devoted to German-language web pages. Sponsored by
Siemens-Nixdorf.
- Lycos
Deutschland
- More comprehensive in its approach to indexing than Yahoo, but
busier interface and sluggish response time are obstacles.
- Fireball
- A new search engine specifically for searching in Germany and
in German.
- MetaGer
- "Meta-Suchmaschine über deutschsprachige Suchmaschinen".
Searches a group of German search engines, usually yielding large
search results.
- Kolibri
- An extensive, virtually comprehensive Suchmaschine for German
web pages.
Guides to German Studies:
- German
Studies Web
- "The German Studies Web is designed to provide access
to scholarly resources in German Studies, including all
German-speaking countries. The resources organized here have
undergone a selection and evaluation process. If needed,
annotations have been provided augmenting the research value of
these resources to scholars." Sponsored by the Western European
Specialists Section of the Association of College and Research
Libraries.
- German
Studies Trails on the Internet
- Edited by Andreas Lixl-Purcell, Professor of German at the
University of North Carolina at Greensboro (USA). "Listed here are
some of the most useful interdisciplinary German resources on the
World Wide Web. These "Literatur" and "Landeskunde" Trails are
designed for everyone who likes to explore the Internet as a
virtual language laboratory or engage in research projects. You
can connect to German Internet exercises for all levels of
proficiency, find multimedia teaching tools on the net, and visit
our Multimedia Language Center for laboratory links and
resources."
- Internet
Resources for Germanists
- An excellent guide to information of interest to "academic"
German Studies, currently edited by Alan Ng of the Department of
German Studies, Univ. of Wisconsin. Includes coverage of German
Studies, German Literature, German Linguistics and Philology, and
"Netherlandic" Studies. Good source for information on people,
academic departments, institutions and conferences, as well as
research materials and guides.
- Historische
Informationsressourcen im Internet
- provides links to many historical resources, including digital
libraries, electronic text collections, databases, local projects
discussion groups, organizations and "Internet tools" for
historians.
- Austria
Culture Net
- Sponsored by the Austrian Cultural Institute (New York) and
Communication House, Int., Ltd. Focus on Austria.
Information Sources in German Studies:
- Literature Headlines
- Offers current information of news on literary events in Austria. It is
sponsored by the Literaturhaus in Vienna.
- Börsenblatt.net
- is the web publication of the Börsenblatt für den deutschen
Buchhandel. It includes current news of the German publishing industry
and excepts from the Börsenblatt (both past and current issues),
as well as special features, such as bestsellers' lists, news releases, and
links to the related websites and databases.
- Online Rezensionen
Last modified:
June 27, 2005
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