International Booksellers, Book Reviews and Library Catalogs
Please direct all comments or requests for information to
Claudia Alcalá-Iñiguez,Germanic Languages Librarian (333-2654)
ialcala@uiuc.edu
WWW = Free on World Wide Web
UIUC = UIUC affiliates only
International Booksellers
Online magazine of the German book trade.
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.
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 They do not publish a catalog of their stock either in print or on-line, but provide links to Verzeichnis lieferbarer Bücher and catalogs of distributors and publishers in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.
Verzeichnis Lieferbarer Bücher
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.
Book Reviews
International
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.
Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe UIUC
Lexis-Nexis is an invaluable source for reviews of foreign-language books, particularly for recently published books.
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.
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.
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.
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
MDX: 830.905 AR
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
MDX: 430.5 GERN1
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
MDX: 430.5 GERA
index: Bibliographie Linguistique, A.400 P42B - MDX
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
MDX: 830.5 LIE
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.
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.
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.)
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.
German gateway to a number of online catalogs of major German consortia, several of which are not members of the Germeinsamer Bibliotheksverbund.
Österreichischer Bibliothekenverbund
Online catalog of the Austrian Library Consortium which includes many university libraries.
Selected individual libraries
Deutsche Bibliothek, Frankfurt am Main
Online catalog of the German National Library, Frankfurt am Main.
Online catalog of the Bavarian State Library.
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek
Online catalog of the Austrian National Library.
Gateway sites
Part of the Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE, Libweb has a geographically arranged list of links to libraries throughout the U.S. and in over 70 countries world-wide.
The European Library web service is a portal which offers access to the combined resources of the 43 national libraries of Europe. It offers free searching and delivers digital objects (some are free, some are for a fee).
