Research Guides: German Studies: Books

Books & E-Books

Books and e-books can be found through UC Library's OneSearch, which you can access from the library homepage or in the search box below. After you've clicked the Search box, your OneSearch results will appear. You can log in with your UC info to get more custom results and limit your results under the Tweak Your Results panel on the left.

Other catalogs and book-related sites

Annual Bibliography of the Special Contemporary German Literature Collection
The annual bibliography for Washington University’s Contemporary German Literature Collection, which includes novels, poetry, short story collections, essays, autobiographical works, and literary and cultural periodicals from Germany, Austria, Switzerland, other German-speaking regions of Europe.
Austrian Literature Online
ALO is a digital library with more than 15.000 documents from the 11. Century up to the present. Books, journals, newspapers, manuscripts, theses and scientific essays are available in digitized form or as PDF.
The European Library
This online portal offers quick and easy access to the collections of the 48 National Libraries of Europe and leading European Research Libraries.
HELVETICAT
The online Catalog of the Swiss National Library that mainly collects documents regarding Switzerland written by Swiss authors or documents published in the country itself.
Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke (the Union Catalogue of Incunabula) - catalog record for the print edition
The Union Catalogue of Incunabula (GW) lists all 15th century prints in alphabetical order. The print edition of the catalog has been published since 1925 by the Hiersemann publishing house. There are currently eleven volumes, detailing all incunabula from ‘Abbey of the Holy Ghost’ to ‘Hord, Jobst.’
Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke (the Union Catalogue of Incunabula) Database
This database appears in conjunction with the print edition of the ‘Union Catalog of Incunabula’ (GW) which lists all 15th century prints in alphabetical order. The 36,000 descriptions of incunabula, distributed over at least 3,900 articles, are at varying stages of scientific analysis.

Mike Lützeler Contemporary German Literature Collection - see Annual Bibliography of the Special Contemporary German Literature Collection

Literature - Goethe-Institut
Information or new books, authors, literary awards and festivals, etc.
Österreichische Bibliografie
The Austrian National Bibliography published by the National Library.
Projekt Gutenberg-DE
ZDB (Zeitschriftendatndank)
A portal to magazines, newspapers, and databanks in German and Austrian libraries.