The British Columbia Digital Library

Digital Library Collections By Subject: German Texts

Includes medieval illuminated manuscripts.

See also under Literature: General Works, and literature time periods.

• Alexander von Humboldt Digital Library. Offenburg, Germany: University of Applied Sciences. " A research project in cooperation with American and German partners." Summary (Text archive > Online text research): " This is a pilot prototype of a multimedia online digital archive on Alexander von Humboldt as a digital network." Date accessed: 2004-09-08. Date added: 2004-09-08.
• Austrian Newspapers Online: Historische österreichische Zeitungen und Zeitschriften Online. Wien, Österreich: Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, 2004-. " In Kooperation mit: Parlamentsbibliothek [und] Universitätsbibliothek Innsbruck." Newspapers from the Habsburg Monarchy and Austria dating from the 1780s to 1938. Non-searchable, click-through access is by date or by newspaper title. Date accessed: 2004-03-30. Date added: 2004-03-30.
Deutsches RechtsWörterbuch (DRW). Hosted by the University of Heidelberg, Germany. An online  German legal dictionary, which includes searchable, digitized texts. Date accessed: 2004-08-27. Date added: 2004-08-27.
• Deutschsprachige Autorinnen und Autoren: Eine Navigationshilfe zu Fundstellen im World Wide Web. Hong Kong, China: Goethe-Institut Hong Kong. Descriptive subject gateway in German to Internet resources by, including full-text (volltexte) resources,  and about  important historic and contemporary German-speaking authors. Date accessed: 2004-08-26. Date added: 2004-08-26.
• DigiZeitschriften: das deutsche Zeitschriften Archiv. Göttingen, Germany: DigiZeitschriften e.V. Digital archive of German periodicals. DigiZeitschriften is headquartered at the Göttingen State and University Library (Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, or SUB Göttingen). Date accessed: 2004-03-06. Date added: 2004-03-06.
• Exile Collections (Die Deutsche Bibliotek, Germany). The library acquires and selectively digitizes " printed and non-printed documents of German-speaking emigrants and exiles during the period from 1933 to 1945."
• Foto Marburg (Kunstgeschichtlichen Institut, Philipps-Universität, Germany). Includes digitized medieval manuscripts, electronic dissertations and online art and photographs.
• German Online Resources (Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library). Searchable/browsable collection of electronic versions of German language works (chiefly literature). Some works are restricted works.
• Heinrich-Heine-Portal, ein integriertes Informationssystem. Düsseldorf, Germany: Heinrich-Heine-Instituts, 2003. Site devoted to the  German poet Heinrich Heine (1797-1856).
• Max-Planck-Institut für europäische Rechtsgeschichte (Max Planck Institute for European Legal History), Digitale Bibliothek. Contains three digital collections for the study of European legal history:   19th century legal sources from German, Austrian and Swiss materials, academic dissertations on legal subjects from the 16th to the 18th centuries, and 19th century legal publications. Date accessed: 2004-08-27. Date added: 2004-08-27.
• Meyers Konversations-Lexikon. Temmenhausen, Germany: Christian Aschoff. Digital facsimile of the 14th edition (1888-1889) of a 16-volume encyclopedia published in Leipzig, Germany. The encyclopedia can be browsed or keyword searched, and the encyclopedia can be viewed as either  HTML pages or in black and white digital facsimile. Date accessed: 2004-03-27. Date added: 2004-03-27.
• OASE (Open Access to Scientific Literature Online): Karlsruher Virtueller Volltextkatalog. Karlsruhe, Germany: Universitätsbibliothek, Universität Karlsruhe. Bilingual (German and English) full-text search service to scientific publications available in various institutional repositories in  Germany and elsewhere. Date accessed: 2004-03-06. Date added: 2004-03-06.
• Preußische Rechtsquellen Digital.Berlin, Germany: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. Digital facsimiles of Prussian laws published between the 1700s and 1800s. Date accessed: 2004-08-27. Date added: 2004-08-27.
• Retrospektive Digitalisierung wissenschaftlicher Rezensionsorgane und Literaturzeitschriften des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts aus dem deutschen Sprachraum. Biefeld, Germany: Bibliothek, Universität Biefeld. Full-text searchable or browsable collection of German language science and literary magazines. Several  of these magazines reported on global events from a German perspective. Date added: 2002-09-04. Date updated: 2004-03-06.

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