Spiegel Wissen
Spiegel's free online archive back to 1947 includes all content except for the two most recent issues. A separate section exists for Spiegel Dossiers. Searches also bring up results from Wikipedia and from the Lexikon, which includes a Bertelsmann encyclopedia, Wahrig's Rechtschreibung, and Bertelsmann's Deutsches Wörterbuch.
Österreichische Historische Bibliographie
The ÖHB (Austrian Historical Bibliography) is a bibliography of historical literature published in Austrian books, periodicals, festschriften and dissertations since 1945 and relating primarily to Austrian history.
Periodicals Archive Online
PAO is ann archive of hundreds of digitized journals published in the arts, humanities and social sciences. It provides researchers with e-access to more than 200 years of scholarship, spread across a wide variety of subject areas. CU
Literature Compass
Literature Compass features a new kind of core content: survey articles foreground important trends while viewpoint articles challenge the received wisdom. It gives access to the driving ideas, current issues and controversies that enliven the discipline and fuel literary research, providing an ideal entry point for the non-specialist. See also Philosophy Compass. CU
JSTOR Arts & Sciences IV
The online Arts & Sciences IV Collection from JSTOR contains over one hundred titles. Law, psychology, and public policy and administration are the new areas introduced with this collection. The collection also includes business and education titles as well as a diverse general and interdisciplinary subjects.
Columbia Granger's World of Poetry
Includes 13,000 poems in full text, and 25,000 poetry citations for poems in anthologies. It also includes selective commentaries, biographies, bibliographies, notes on form, and a glossary of terms. It is possible to search by: Author, Author Category, Subject, Title, First Line, Last Line, Words in Poem, or a combination of searches. It provides simple and advanced searching. CU
Dictionary of Literary Biography
A contemporary 300+ volume literary encyclopedia with substantive 2 to 5 page biographical introductions, critical evaluations, and bibliographic essays on authors, critics, journalists, screenwriters, publishers and scholars, a majority of whom have published in the 20th century. The database, which will continue to grow, includes a large number of international literary figures. This is one of the better beginning overview resources for research on individuals within literary movements, diverse cultures, and literary formats. CU
Bibliographie der deutschen Sprach-und Literaturwissenschaft
BDSL Online covers all aspects of secondary literature in the areas of German language, linguistics, and literary studies. BDSL is the continuation of the Eppelsheimer/Köttelwesch bibliography. Coverage: 1985-present. CU
Factiva
A Dow Jones & Reuters Company, Factiva provides global content, including Dow Jones and Reuters newswires. Factiva offers a single content solution with multiple language interfaces and multilingual content covering nearly 9,000 sources from 152 countries in 22 languages, including more than 120 continuously updated newswires. More than 900 of these sources are available on or before the date of publication. CU
Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog (KVK)
Best starting point for searching German library catalogs. The KVK is an extremely useful metacatalog that allows simultaneous searching of several German library catalogs (including union catalogs for Bavaria, North Rhine-Westphalia, and Southwest Germany, Die Deutsche Bibliothek, and the Verzeichnis der in deutschen Sprachraum erschienenen Drucke des 17. Jahrhunderts), national library catalogs in Europe and beyond (including those for Austria and Switzerland), as well as several German booksellers' web sites (including amazon.de and the Zentrales Verzeichnis Antiquarischer Bücher).
