Bibliographies

• ArticleFirst - Database with table of contents pages of individual issues of over 12.000 journals. The reporting period is 1990 to the present (accessible only through computers in the GHI network)
• BASE - BASE is a multi-disciplinary search engine for academically relevant web resources which was created and developed by Bielefeld University Library
  
• Virtuelle Deutsche Landesbibliographie - Meta-Catalog for regional studies works in Germany

Compendiums

• Datenbank Info-System der Universitätsbibliothek Regensburg - Information about databases provided by the University of Regensburg Library

• Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters / (English site) - German archive for research on the middle ages

Online Access

• Ebsco: Academic Search Premier (accessible only through computers in the GHI network)
• The British Newspaper Archive (to access please ask a librarian)
  
• Das Deutsche Digitale Zeitschriftenarchiv - German journals digital archive (accessible only through computers in the GHI network)
• Historical Abstracts (accessible only through computers in the GHI network)
• IBZ Internationale Bibliographie der geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Zeitschriftenliteratur (International bibliography of periodical literature)
• JSTOR (accessible only through computers in the GHI network)
• Newspapers Online
• ProQuest: Dissertation and Thesis (accessible only through computers in the GHI network)
• ProQuest: Historical Newspapers (accessible only through computers in the GHI network)
• Newspaper Archive (accessible only through computers in the GHI network)
  

Compendiums

• ArticleFinder - Database of scientific, technical, medical, and other scholarly materials
• Die Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek - Access to scholarly journals on the internet
• IngentaConnect
• Wikisource Zeitschriften - List of open source digitized journals and magazines
• Zeitschriftenfreihandmagazin / Magazine Stack - Tables of contents of historical journals, monographic series and occasional volumes
• Zeitschriftenschau Geschichte / Review of historical journals - Up-to-date database of tables of contents of about 100 history journals (since 1999)

Retro-digitized journals

• Allgemeine Deutsche Bibliothek - Digitized magazine reviews and literary journals from the 18th and 19th centuries published in the German-speaking countries
• Zentrales Verzeichnis digitalisierter Drucke (ZVDD) / (English site) - Portal to digitized imprints

Bibliographies

• Aufsatzdatenbank Frühe Neuzeit - Database on early modern history
• Dandelon / Dandelon (English site) - Search engine for scholarly literature
• Jahresberichte für deutsche Geschichte - Bibliography in German history, from reporting year 1984 forward

• Worldcat - Meta-Catalog for literature in American and European libraries
• Deutsche Nationalbibliothek - German National Library (Frankfurt and Leipzig)
• Digitale Bibliothek - (DigiBib) / Digital Library (English site) - Provides access to several resources in a single search interface
• Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog (KVK) / (English site) - The Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog KVK is a meta search interface which allows you to access library and book trade catalogs via WWW
• Virtuelle Deutsche Landesbibliografie - Meta-Catalog for regional studies works in Germany
• Zeitschriften-Datenbank (ZDB) / (English site) - The ZDB is the world’s largest specialized database for serial titles (journals, annuals, newspapers etc., incl. e-journals)

World

• EuroDocs - Primary historical documents from Western Europe
• Virtual Library Geschichte

Germany

• Bibliothek für Bildungsgeschichtliche Forschung - The database contains digitized journals and reports from the late 18th century to 1945
• Clio-online - Clio-online is a central Internet gateway for historical research
  
• Forschungsportal Net / Research portal (English site) - Search engine for scholarly publications and research funding in Germany
• Historicum.net - Historical scholarship on the Web
• InformationsWeiser Geschichte / History Guide (English site) - The History Guide is a subject gateway dealing with relevant history websites
• H-Soz-u-Kult / (English site) - Communication and information services for historians
• Kartographie - Collection of online maps
• The Online Books Page
• Vascoda - Interdisciplinary portal
• Virtual Library of Anglo-American culture / (English site)

• Qualitative Social Research - FQS is a peer-reviewed multilingual online journal for research in the social sciences, established in 1999
• Historische Rezensionen online / (English site) - Meta search engine for reviews accessible on sites such as Sehepunkte, H-Soz-u-Kult, Perlentaucher etc.
• H-Soz-u-Kult Reviews / (English site)
• Perlentaucher
• Sehepunkte - E-Journal for historical reviews
• The medieval review - Publishes reviews of current work in all areas of medieval studies
• Reviews in History - E-Journal since 1996

Historical encyclopedias

• Allgemeine Enzyklopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste / Universal Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts (English site) - A scholarly encyclopedia published by Johann Samul Ersch and Johann Gottfried Gruber between 1818 and 1889. It is regarded as the most comprehensive encyclopedia ever published in the West
• Classic Encyclopedia - The Crystal Reference Encyclopedia und the Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th edition
• Johann Georg Krünitz' Oekonomische Encyklopädie oder allgemeines System der Staats-, Stadt-, Haus- und Landwirthschaft -One of the most comprehensive encyclopedias published in the German-speaking countries, published between 1773 and 1858 and an important source for on the early industrial era
• Retro-Bib – German encyclopedias from the early 20th century, including Meyers and Brockhaus Konservationslexika

Historical dictionaries

• Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob Grimm und Wilhelm Grimm - Historical dictionary of High German, with usage examples from the mid-sixteenth century on. Also access point to several other historic German dictionaries
• Digitaler Verbund von Dialektwörterbüchern - Four digitized dictionaries of German dialects and idioms
• Goethe-Wörterbuch - Goethe Dictionary
• Johann Christoph Adelungs Grammatisch-kritisches Wörterbuch - Dictionary of the German language with descriptions of the origin, the meaning, and the usage of German words and vocabulary in the 18th century
• Das Wörterbuchnetz - Access point to several German historical dictionaries

Early modern history

• Aufsatzdatenbank Frühe Neuzeit - Bibliographical database for the early modern history
• Historicum.net
• Virtual Library Frühe Neuzeit

19th and 20th centuries

• Deutsche Exilzeitschriften 1933-1945 - Fulltext to the German press in exile
• International history project 'Détente and Ostpolitik 1966-1975'
• Virtual Library Zeitgeschichte (English site) - Covers German history 1890-1949
• wiedervereinigung.de - Online bibliography of the German renunification
• Zeitgeschichte-online - Portal on contemporary history

Worldwide

• Archivschule Marburg - International bibliography of archives
• Europäische Union / European Union (English site) - Historical archives service of the European Commission
• UNESCO Archives Portal - The UNESCO Archives Portal gives access to websites of archival institutions around the world. It is also a gateway to resources related to records and archives management and to international co-operation in this area

Germany

• Archivschule Marburg - List of German archives on the internet

Worldwide

• Ancestry
• Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• Ellis Island Records
• Rootsweb
• GenWiki - Genealogy in the German-speaking areas of the world

Germany

• Deutscher Genealogieserver / German Genealogy Internet Portal (English site)
• Deutsches Genealogisches Webverzeichnis - Catalog of German Genealogy
• Forschungsstelle deutsche Auswanderer in den USA / Research Center German Emigrants in the USA (English site)
• Forschungsstelle Personalschriften - Early Modern German Eulogies
• Institut deutsche Adelsforschung

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