International Booksellers, Book Reviews and Library Catalogs
International Booksellers
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Amazon Deutschland
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Börsenblatt
Online magazine of the German book trade.
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Harrassowitz New Monographs Database
A listing of new academic books selected by the German library agent Otto Harrassowitz,
Wiesbaden, Germany. Searches can be done on authors and titles or, in the expert search mode, on
subjects, type of publication, ISBN, or Library of Congress class and delimited to price and dates
of publication.
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International Book Import Service (IBIS)
An United States based importer of German titles, which offers knowledgeable and reliable
service and claims to be able to acquire any German title in print. They do not publish a catalog
of their stock either in print or on-line, but provide links to Verzeichnis lieferbarer Bücher and
catalogs of distributors and publishers in Germany.
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Buchhandel.de
The German equivalent of Books in Print provides a simple search option (keyword and broad
subject area) and an advanced search, which adds the author, publisher, year, ISBN, and price to
the fields you may search.
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Book Reviews
International
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H-Net Online Book Reviews
H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences is an online scholarly review resource.
H-Net Reviews bring a new dimension to the world of academic publishing. Our reviews are published
online via discussion networks and the H-Net web site. This permits our reviews to reach scholars
with a speed unmatched in any other medium. It also makes a new kind of interactivity possible, as
reviewers, authors and readers engage in discussions of the reviews online. Through the power of
e-mail and the web H-Net has helped pioneer online scholarly reviewing.
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Lexis-Nexis
Academic Universe UIUC
Lexis-Nexis is an invaluable source for reviews of foreign-language books, particularly for
recently published books.
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Choice Reviews Online UIUC
Choice offers quick and easy access for nearly any individual looking for reviews of
monographs of scholarly research. Beyond the standard "Editorial," "Bibliographic Essay," and
"Feature" articles, each issue contains reviews organized by four broad subject divisions. The
division for the Humanities includes a sub-section for "Language and Literature," which includes
subdivisions for scholarship on "Germanic," and "Romance," as well as on other languages. The
reviews are generally one paragraph in length and summarize and evaluate the works. They usually
include a broad audience recommendation. Each issue includes "Author," "Title," and "Topic"
indexes.
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World
Literature Today UIUC
University of Oklahoma,
1927-, quarterly
MDX: 028.505 BO1
index:
* IBR, see above
* LLBA
* Current Contents
While the first part of each quarterly issue is devoted to feature articles, often on a theme
(such as "The Baltic Literatures in the 1990s"), the review section, "World Literature in Review,"
constitutes the major part of this journal. It is unique in attempting to cover literature in all
languages--first the Romance languages, then the Germanic languages (including English), then
Slavic, Finno-Ugrian, and Baltic, other European and American languages, Africa and the West
Indies, the Pacific and Asia (including the Middle East, South Asia, and East Asia). The reviews
are written by specialists at American universities.
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Informationsmittel
für Bibliotheken : IFB
Edited by Dr. Klaus Schreiber of the Württembergische Landesbibliothek in Stuttgart, Germany,
this online source of reviews of scholarly books on all areas of the humanities and social sciences
has come to be one of the best book selection sources on the Internet for academic librarians. All
issues are archived by date of issue. Within a given issue reviews are located under major subject
headings. Although most of the titles reviewed are in the German language, increasingly works in
other languages are also being reviewed in this source.
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The
Medieval Review (formerly Bryn Mawr Medieval Review)
Since 1993, The Medieval Review (TMR; formerly the Bryn Mawr Medieval Review) has been
publishing reviews of current work in all areas of Medieval Studies, a field it interprets as
broadly as possible. The electronic medium allows for very rapid publication of reviews, and
provides a computer searchable archive of past reviews, both of which are of great utility to
scholars and students around the world.
German
Arbitrium: Zeitschrift für Rezensionen zur germanistischen
Literaturwissenschaft
Max Niemeyer Verlag
1983-, 3/year
830.905 AR (Mod. Lang. & Ling.)
index:
* IBR, see above
A journal containing reviews of Germanic and German literary scholarship (but no current
works of literature). The reviews cover works on general topics and all periods of German
literature and are generally long and thorough.
Germanic Notes and Reviews
Dept.of Modern and Classical Languages, Bemidji State University (MN).
1970-, quarterly
430.5 GERN1 (Mod. Lang. & Ling.)
index:
Current Contents
Arts and Humanities Citation Index
Very lengthy, critical reviews of scholarly works of criticism on Germanic literature,
language, folklore, and history. The focus seems to be on works pertaining to the medieval and
early-modern periods.
Germanistik: Internationales Referatenorgan mit bibliographischen
Hinweisen
Max Niemeyer Verlag
1960-, quarterly
430.5 GERA (Mod. Lang. & Ling.)
index: Bibliographie Linguistique, A.400 P42B (Mod. Lang. & Ling.)
This is the premier single source of scholarly book reviews on works of literary criticism in
German literary and language studies. Its Inhalt (table of contents) provides a quick glimpse of
the vast areas of coverage ranging from books and articles on Germanic antiquity to Middle High
German to current phonological theory. Literary topics from the earliest Germanic manuscripts to
20th century literature are also covered. Under each major subject heading are listed prominent
journal articles, articles in monographs, and monographic titles. These works are reviews on a
selective basis, i.e., each cited work is not necessarily reviewed.
Literatur & Kritik: Österreichische Monatsschrift
Otto Müller Verlag
1966-, 5/year
830.5 LIE (Mod. Lang. & Ling.)
index:
* Current Contents
An Austrian literary journal which includes about ten reviews of current books by Austrian
authors in each issue. An occasional special feature is "Kontroverse," two reviews of the same book
from different points of view.
Literaturkritik.de: A monthly online review source
which began in February 1999. The website includes links to the latest edition as well as to
previous editions. The reviews cover all areas of Literaturwissenschaft and include reviews of
recently published belletristic works. A list of books reviewed is arranged alphabetically under
the first letter of the author's last name, but unfortunately not in strict order by subsequent
letters (e.g. Bronnen precedes Bloom). The site is entirely in German.
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Library Catalogs
Selected consortia
(Gateways to the online catalogs of a number of libraries for a particular
geographical region. Typically you can search one catalog or multiple catalogs simultaneously.)
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Gemeinsamer Bibliotheksverbund: Online catalog of the
largest German consortium, the 'Common Library Consortium', the catalog on which one may search
individual library catalogs or across all of the catalogs. Areas included are: Bremen, Hamburg, and
the states of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Niedersachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein, and
Thüringen.
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Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog: German
gateway to a number of online catalogs of major German consortia, several of which are not members
of the Germeinsamer Bibliotheksverbund.
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Österreichischer Bibliothekenverbund: Online catalog of
the Austrian Library Consortium which includes many university libraries.
Selected individual libraries
Gateway sites
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The European
Library: This portal enables users to search digital and bibliographic resources from
dozens of European national libraries.
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UNESCO Libraries
Portal: UNESCO Libraries Portal gives access to websites of library institutions around
the world.
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Please direct all comments or requests for information to Janice
Pilch
Germanic Languages & Literature Librarian
(244-9399) •
pilch@illinois.edu
University Library