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Dictionary of Literary Biography
Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete gives comprehensive author info worldwide.
Historical Abstracts (EBSCO)
Historical Abstracts indexes world history literature excluding U.S. and Canada.
JSTOR
JSTOR offers scholarly, peer-reviewed journals across numerous disciplines.
MLA International Bibliography (EBSCO)
Definitive index for modern language, literature, linguistics, rhetoric, and film studies.

In addition to its research coverage, the MLA database also includes two important scholarly search tools: the MLA Directory of Periodicals and the MLA Thesaurus, a proprietary, searchable collection of thousands of subject terms and personal names used in indexing the bibliography. Learn more about the MLA International Bibliography database, its features and tools, and advanced searching options in these video tutorials.
Project Muse
600+ scholarly journals in humanities and social sciences; Calvin Alumni access.

BBC Country Profiles
From the BBC, "full profiles... to history, politics and economic background of countries and territories, and background on key institutions." Also, some audio and video from the BBC archives
CIA World Factbook
Provides information on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.

Deutschland.de
The latest political, economic, cultural and social news from Germany.
The Local (German news stories in English)
The Local's goal is to explain Germany to readers, by telling the big news stories ...
Tagesschau
Tagesschau (literally "Day's Show", or loosely "(Re)view of the Day"; is both the oldest and the most watched news program on German television.
Die Welt
Die Welt is a German national daily newspaper, published as a broadsheet by Axel Springer SE.
Die Zeit
A German national weekly newspaper published in Hamburg in north Germany.

Goethe Institute
The Goethe Institute is the cultural institute of global German-speaking peoples.
Perlentaucher.de - Das Kulturmagazin
An online culture magazine for German-speaking Europe
Germanistik im Netz
An portal for German studies including literary texts.
literaturkritik.de
Current book reviews and literary criticism.
Sophie
A digital library of works by German-speaking women.
ALO - Austrian Literature Online
Over 16,000 digital books - many relating to Austria - free in PDF format.

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