Oxford German Dictionary by St. Paul Public Library has more than 42,000 ebooks and 300 audiobooks that you can check out online, including an extensive fiction collection.
As a Macalester College student, you can use the college's address to sign up for an E-card to allow you to use online resources from the St. Paul Public Library at https://sppl.org/ecard. Once you've registered, you can borrow and download ebooks and audiobooks to view on an e-reader, computer, or mobile device.
Because the classes and research projects in German Studies follow a variety of pathways, you'll see here a range of databases with particular specializations. Choose appropriate databases based on your individual project. Not sure where to start? That's a good time to set up an appointment with your librarian.
PRO TIP: When searching specialized, subject-specific databases like MLA International Bibliography, starting with fewer terms or phrases can be helpful. You'll need to use more targeted language when searching interdisciplinary databases like Google Scholar or Academic Search Premier.
This link opens in a new windowSearch across a wide range of scholarly literature from around the world. This custom link for Google Scholar includes the Macalester Library code and will display a "MACLINKS FULL TEXT" link next to resources available from Macalester Library. You will also see MACLINKS if you are logged in to the on-campus network. If you are off campus and don't use the above custom link, you can configure Google Scholar to display MACLINKS by customizing your library links settings.
International and German Language News Sources
| German History (Located on the 4th floor of the library) |
German Literature (Located on the 3rd floor of the library) |
|---|---|
| DD1-(905) History of Germany DD1-21 General DD21.5-43 Description and travel DD51-78 Antiquities. Social life and customs. Ethnography DD84-257.4 History DD84-96 General DD99-120 Military, naval, and political history. Foreign relations DD121-257.4 By period DD121-124 Earliest to 481 DD125-174.6 Early and medieval to 1519 DD126-155 Medieval Empire, 481-1273 DD127-135 481-918. Merovingians. Carolingians DD136-144 919-1125. Houses of Saxony and Franconia DD145-155 1125-1273. Hohenstaufen period DD156-174.6 1273-1519. Houses of Habsburg and Luxemburg DD175-257.4 Modern, 1519 DD176-189 1519-1648. Reformation and Counter-reformation DD181-183 Peasants’ War, 1524-1525 DD184-184.7 Schmalkaldic League and War, 1530-1547 DD189 Period of Thirty Years’ War, 1618-1648 DD190-199 1648-1815. 18th century. French Revolutionary and Napoleonic period DD201-257.4 19th-20th centuries DD206-216 1815-1871 DD217-231 New Empire, 1871-1918 DD228.8 Period of World War I, 1914-1918 DD233-257.4 Revolution and Republic, 1918 DD253-256.8 Hitler, 1933-1945. National socialism DD(256) Period of World War II, 1939-1945 DD257-257.4 Period of Allied occupation, 1945 DD258-262 West Germany DD280-289.5 East Germany DD301-454 Prussia DD301-312 General DD314-320 Description and travel DD325-339 Antiquities. Social life and customs. Ethnography DD341-454 History DD701-901 Local history and description DD701-788 North and Central, Northeast, etc. Germany DD801 States, provinces, regions, etc., A-Z DD851-900 Berlin DD900.2-900.76 Bonn DD901 Other cities, towns, etc., A-Z |
PT1-4897 German literature PT1-80 Literary history and criticism PT83-(873) History of German literature PT175-230 Medieval PT236-405 Modern PT500-597 Poetry PT605-709 Drama PT711-871 Prose PT(881)-(951) Folk literature PT923-937 Faust legend PT1100-1479 Collections PT1100-1141 General PT1151-1241 Poetry PT1251-1299 Drama PT1301-1360 Prose PT1371-(1374) Early to 1950. Old and Middle High German PT1375-1479 Middle High German PT1501-2688 Individual authors or works PT1501-1695 Middle High German, ca. 1050-1450/1500 PT1701-1797 1500-ca. 1700 PT1799-2592 1700-ca. 1860/70 PT1891-2239 Goethe PT1891-2017 Works PT2026-(2039) Translations PT(2044)-2239 Biography and criticism PT2600-2653 1860/70-1960 PT2660-2688 1961-2000 PT2700-2728 2001- PT3701-3971 Provincial, local, colonial, etc. PT3701-3746 East Germany PT4801-4897 Low German literature |
A handful of links to local resources and organizations in the Twin Cities to kick-start your research process.
