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Research Services
University Library
1970 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL 60208
847-467-6328
Encyclopedias
- Encyclopedia of German LiteratureDesigned to provide English readers of German literature the opportunity to familiarize themselves with both the established canon and newly emerging literatures that reflect the concerns of women and ethnic minorities, the Encyclopedia of German Literature includes a large number of entries on writers, individual works, and topics essential to an understanding of this rich literary tradition.
Biographical Information
- Gale Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new windowProvides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analayses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Covers more than 120,000 novelists, essayist, poets, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors. Includes links to: Dictionary of literary biography, Contemporary authors, Contemporary literary criticism, and more.
- World Biographical Information System WBIS This link opens in a new windowOver 3.6 million short biographical entries for individuals who lived across the world from ancient times to the present. Includes full text images of the original sources, usually older biographical dictionaries. Especially valuable for locating information on hard-to-find individuals from the past.
Other useful resources
- Gale Literature Criticism This link opens in a new windowAn extensive compilation of literary commentary available representing a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras, and genre.
- Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism This link opens in a new windowIncludes more than 240 entries on critics and theorists, critical schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods.
Images
- Artstor This link opens in a new windowNew interface available at JSTOR Artstor.
Artstor is a digital image library that provides over 1.6 million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences from around the globe and across time periods. Included are images from international museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists' estates. Register for free with the site to access its full range of services.
- Arounder Vienna360-degree Quicktime panoramic views of monuments in Vienna. Also available for many other European cities.
- Cities and buildings databaseFrom the University of Washington. Enter Vienna in the search box.
- DigiBaeck | Leo Baeck InstituteDigiBaeck is your gateway to LBI's digital collections, a growing treasury of artifacts that document the rich heritage of German-speaking Jewry in the modern era. Materials range from rare 16th century Renaissance books to memoirs that document the experience of German-Jewish émigrés across the world in the 20th century.