Hekman Library: German: Find Articles and Databases

Core Research Databases

Dictionary of Literary Biography
Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online provides authoritative information about authors from all time periods and from all parts of the world while placing them in the larger perspective of literary history.
Historical Abstracts (EBSCO)
Find journal articles on the history, culture and politics of Germany.
JSTOR
A database consisting of full-text articles from scholarly, peer-reviewed journals from nearly every discipline taught at Calvin. Relevant subjects for German are Linguistics, Language & Literature.
MLA International Bibliography (EBSCO)
This is THE database for researching German literature, linguistics, film, and performing arts.
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
The most respected full-text scholarly journals in many fields, including Germanic studies.

Deutschland.de
The latest political, economic, cultural and social news from Germany.
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.
German News (In English)
The Local's goal is to explain Germany to readers, by telling the big news stories, reporting on the important changes readers need to be aware of, and giving readers up to date information about major events in Germany which impact their lives, from strikes to disasters and from traffic jams to extreme weather.

Here's a reminder of how to get started searching for journal articles using Hekman's Primo search.