Subject Guide History

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Databases

• historicum.net
  Portal on general and European history. The meta search engine of the Bavarian State Library at Munich provides comfortable research in databases and collections of BSB and cooperating institutions
• Clio-online
  Special database on historical sciences, which has been developed at Humboldt University, Berlin. Provides internet resources and institutions of history, libraries, archives and museums
• Historical Abstracts
• ITER Renaissance Bibliography (restricted access)
• DBIS: History
  Freely accessible databases and electronic full texts on history (including National licenses and "pay per use" resources)

Bibliographies

• Jahresberichte für deutsche Geschichte
  Bibliography of German history from the beginnings to the present. Report period: from 1985 on; with links to Zeitschriftendatenbank (ZDB), Karlsruhe Virtual Catalogue (KVK) and online reviews
• Neuerwerbungsdienst für das Sondersammelgebiet Geschichte
  Database of new additions of the Special subject collection on history, monthly current contents services available

Literary Remains, Manuscripts

• Gesamtkatalog deutschsprachiger Leichenpredigten (GESA)
  Catalogue of funeral sermons of the early modern era, recorded in libraries and archives, accessible at Forschungsstelle für Personalschriften
• Kalliope
  Online issue of Zentralkartei der Autographen (ZKA). Approx. 1.2 million records with biographical data on 350,000 persons
• Zentrale Datenbank Nachlässe
  Comprehensive database of the German Federal Archives. Provides locations and records of literary remains in German speaking countries

Journal Articles

• Online Contents SSG History
  This database, updated weekly, contains bibliographic records of about 960 journals on history and related disciplines, usually beginning with articles published in 1993. Currently it contains approximately 815,000 records of articles and reviews
• Online Contents SSG Contemporary History
  This database, updated weekly, contains bibliographic records of about 250 journals, containing approx. 229,000 articles and reviews on contemporary history from 1993 on, partly from 1945 on
• Online Contents SSG History of Technology
  The database, updated daily, contains bibliographic records of approx. 78 journals with 72,000 articles and reviews on the history of technology, technical sciences, transportation science, natural sciences and medical technology

Regional Topics

• Nordrhein-Westfälische Bibliographie from 1982 on
• Kulturatlas Westfalen
• Internet-Portal Westfälische Geschichte
  Information portal on the regional and local history of Westphalia (Institute of Regional History, Münster)

Electronic Full Texts

• Lexikon des Mittelalters   - Info zum Lexikon des Mittelalters
• Comintern Electronic Archives
  Accessible throughout Germany: Information on Comintern Electronic Archives
• Digital National Security Archive - Documents that made U.S. Policy
  Accessible throughout Germany: Information on Digital National Security Archive. - "The Digital National Security Archive contains the most comprehensive set of declassified government documents available. The resource now includes 34 collections consisting of over 80,000 meticulously indexed documents"
• The Making of the Modern World - Accessible throughout Germany: Information on The Making of the Modern World
• North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories - Accessible throughout Germany: Information on North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories
• Testaments to the Holocaust - Accessible throughout Germany: Information on Testaments to the Holocaust
• Monumenta Germaniae Historica - Information on Monumenta Germaniae Historica
  Click "Enter databases" and choose "Monumenta Germaniae Historica"
• Orbis Latinus / Graesse, Johann Georg Theodor
  Dictionary of the most important Latin names of places and countries. OL is a supplement to every Latin or geographical dictionary (Columbia University, New York)
• Grotefend - Zeitrechnung des deutschen Mittelalters und der Neuzeit
  Online version of Taschenbuch der Zeitrechnung by Hermann Grotefend (1891)
• IEG-Maps - Server für digitale historische Karten
  Comprehensive database with digitized maps on German history since 1812, built up by Institute of European History, Mainz, with support from the DFG
• Wochenschau-Archiv
  German newsreel archives. Research amongst the newsreel films free of charge

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Links

• Geschichte im Internet
  Link collection of the Historical Institute at TU Dortmund - the oldest link catalogue on historical sciences in German speaking countries
• Historicum.net - Geschichte und Kunstwissenschaften im Internet
  Interdisciplinary portal on history and art, University of Cologne
• Informations-Weiser Geschichte
  Subject guide on internet resources in historical sciences
• Propylaeum - Virtuelle Fachbibliothek Altertumswissenschaften
  Internet portal which provides information on all fields of classical and ancient studies, at present on Egyptology, ancient history, classical archaeology, classical philology and Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology
• Virtual Library Geschichte
  German part of the Virtual Library History. Central list of online resources in historical sciences. The complete range is divided into themes and epochs which are supervised by experts

Organisations and Institutions

• Verband der Historiker und Historikerinnen Deutschlands (VHHD)
  The most important and largest association of historians in German speaking countries
• Konferenz für Geschichtsdidaktik
  Association on historical didactics in German speaking countries
• Comité International des Sciences Historiques
  Umbrella association of national and international organisations in historical sciences
• Arbeitsgemeinschaft ausseruniversitärer historischer Forschungseinrichtungen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (AHF), Munich
  AHF supports historical research in non-university institutions
• Stiftung "Deutsche Geisteswissenschaftliche Institute im Ausland"
  The foundation supports nine German research institutes (Deutsche Historische Institute in Washington DC, Warschau, Moskau, London, Paris, Rom; Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte, Paris; Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien, Tokyo; Orient-Institut, Beirut/Istanbul)

Mailing Lists and Newsgroups

• H-Net
  Head of all h-net lists in the humanities at Michigan State University, East Lansing. The site also provides databases on job offers and reviews (H-net Job Guide, H-net Review Guide)
• H-Soz-u-Kult
  Mailing list on social and cultural history (Humboldt University, Berlin). The site also contains reviews, an event calendar as well as a lot of specific informations on historical sciences
• Nachrichtendienst für Historiker
  Existing since 1995, this news service contains a multilingual review as well as the recent TV and broadcast programmes with "historical" topics

Special Subject collection

• Bavarian State Library, Munich

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